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Applications / Re: PROCESSES config.sys statement - XWorkplace
« on: November 14, 2018, 06:32:25 pm »
Read the help. Says the process statement was introduced with fixpak #13. Also says to start up all the programs you usually use and then add 50% and use that value. Yours looks really low.

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Setup & Installation / Re: REQ: full list of OS components
« on: November 12, 2018, 03:40:20 am »
Yes, I left out the RPMs that are installed by default. They may be on a different partition then the boot one. I think zip is installed as an RPM and 7z is left to the user to install.
Later, if I remember, I'll get the list of packages on a new install.

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Utilities / Re: Soft keymap utility
« on: November 11, 2018, 02:14:16 am »
Yes, all the debuggers here seem to vary a lot, with the OpenWatcom closest to your preferences.
I'm not an expert but assume you'd just have to replace KBDCALLS.DLL, perhaps renaming KBDCALLS and forwarding to it after translating your keystrokes.
Or perhaps capture the PM input queue, examples with source are hookkbs.zip and by the same author, mkhkb2.zip. These seem designed to add hotkeys, to open programs or such, but might be a good starting point.

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Utilities / Re: Soft keymap utility
« on: November 10, 2018, 09:04:09 pm »
There'll be programs such as the Mozilla apps that use both the common accelerators as well as the Apple ones.
Simpler just to learn the proper keys as they work most everywhere accepting possibly Apples. Even Linux mostly recognizes CTRL-INS, SHIFT-INS and SHIFT-DEL for copying and pasting.

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Applications / Re: The Java drama and the OS/2 Community.
« on: November 10, 2018, 08:23:05 pm »
I'm more concerned about the fact that Java 11 is only 64bit as far as I did see at the moment. And we are still on half of that. I don't know if a 64bit source can be compiled for a 32bit OS.
So far my view, but I might be wrong.

A well written program should compile as 32 bit or 64 bit. Unluckily there may still be assumptions that demand more address space then a 32 bit program has. Garbage collection for example is probably a lot easier to implement with a huge address space and may not scale down.
Unluckily the future is a 64bit world with more and more stuff requiring the large address space and also taking advantage of resources that are only available on 64bit processors. This will eventually put more nails in OS/2's coffin.

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Setup & Installation / Re: VirtualBox Easy OS/2 Setup
« on: November 10, 2018, 12:17:04 am »

The VirtualBox Guest Addition installation instructions require a few steps:

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1) Only works if the existing video driver is GRADD
2) Create c:\os2additions\ folder
3) Copy [cd_drive]:\os2\*.* to c:\os2additions\
4) Edit config.sys, REM out the line with the existing MOUSE.SYS driver
5) Add two new lines to config.sys
6) Edit startup.cmd and insert a new command to run
7) Make a backup of the GRADD dll
8) Copy the new VB Guest Additions GRADD dll where that one was
9) Copy the libc06*.* files to the same place the GRADD dll was
10) Reboot

I think that's all.  Will DDINSTAL handle doing those things?

Don't update the libc06*.* files as they're now taken care of by YUM/RPM and installed into @UNIXROOT\usr\lib.  Probably have to unlock GRADD.DLL as well
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unlock gradd.dll

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Setup & Installation / Re: VirtualBox Easy OS/2 Setup
« on: November 09, 2018, 05:12:16 pm »
You could try the Netlabs IRC channel. Start here, http://www.netlabs.org/site/community.xml

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Setup & Installation / Re: REQ: full list of OS components
« on: November 09, 2018, 04:50:24 pm »
Rather then \ecs, ArcaOS uses \sys. Output of a fairly fresh install of 5.0.3.3 attached. There's also a program directory with
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ANRDC
ArcTool
DVDTools
firefox
Lucide
MOZ_PLUG
NDFS
OpenJDK
PMDCalcP
PMVNC
seamonkey
thunderbird
VNCView

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Applications / Re: Virtualaddresslimit and Disk Free space, Questions
« on: November 07, 2018, 05:05:04 pm »
Virtualaddresslimit is the amount of virtual address space available to a program out of the 4GBs that our processors support. Some of the address space is used by the kernel and devices such as video memory, which is why the max is 3072 and is lower on some systems (to be stable). This is different from the amount of ram you have installed as it is virtual and can exist in your swap file or even as unallocated memory. As well different processes use the same virtual addresses in some cases.
eg you could have only 512 MBs of ram and have 2 programs using 1 GB of memory. Lots of swapping but the programs would each see that they have access to a GB.

There are different ways to measure disk space (and ram etc), some use a MB to mean 1,000,000 bytes as this makes a hard disk look bigger and some use a MB to mean 1,048,576 bytes. Now some (Dfsee) use MiB to mean 1,048,576 bytes and MB to mean 1,000,000 bytes.
Basically the marketers have changed the original meaning of MB as 1,048,576 to 1,000,000 to inflate sizes of HDs etc.

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Internet / Re: Seamonkey UserAgent String
« on: November 07, 2018, 04:31:53 pm »

I also use that same Add-on, however looking at this profile it would seem that the Add-on itself stores the user selected agent in that very place...so I'm not quite following the instruction to delete? Unless the assumption is that something has gone wrong, deleting it establishes a re-start point, which the UserAgent then picks up from and re-builds the profile value again.

That's probably the reason.
Since Rich brought this up, I've watched here and the user agent does reset periodically. Not on every restart but often enough that it is irritating.

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Utilities / Re: Stability Zip3 & Unzip6
« on: November 07, 2018, 01:32:01 am »
Yes, the symlinks are supported at the LIBC level (and in Linux on HPFS) and it is possible you have some. Using -y shouldn't hurt and if you do have some symlinks, they'll be backed up.

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Utilities / Re: XDF disk extractor
« on: November 06, 2018, 02:56:29 am »
I'd suggest rereading http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xdf-diskette-format/ in particular how there is a disk image hidden in the second FAT that gets loaded if no driver and how the missing 3 sectors are really missing but marked as bad. At least if I'm following along correctly. Michal is pretty good with this stuff.

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Setup & Installation / Re: LIBVPX?.DLL
« on: November 05, 2018, 04:44:36 pm »
The Mozilla apps.

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Utilities / Re: XDF disk extractor
« on: November 05, 2018, 05:14:38 am »
2Valery, https://efbe.musca.uberspace.de/ is Franks build machine, he builds from the official sources and targets OS/2 and is where I was pointed to by the OW developers, mostly Frank, a couple of years ago. Steven also works on the official tree and periodically applies OS/2 fixes and has done some work to support high memory amongst other stuff IIRC. I have no idea about the source on Netlabs or where it originated but Franks server is the go to place for semi-official OS/2 builds based on the daily snapshots

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