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General Discussion / Re: Binary decompilation of OS2KRNL and other DLLs
« on: October 31, 2018, 05:02:14 am »
You are using the correct doscall1.dll?

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General Discussion / Re: Binary decompilation of OS2KRNL and other DLLs
« on: October 31, 2018, 03:49:25 am »
You can update the 4.52_w4 to SMP. One way is the package smp20050811.zip which should be where you found 104a. Basically the kernel (which can be changed from the included 105 to 104a_smp) the os2ldr and doscall1.dll. To actually use more then one cpu, you also need a PSD, usually ACPI.PSD from eCS or better Arca Noae, which also comes with some other files that have been patched to be SMP safe.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Captcha doesn't like old browsers
« on: October 30, 2018, 04:42:32 pm »
Check out the user agent switcher extension. It fixes some sites, others, our browsers are too old for or too buggy for.

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Related queries = "calcium perchlorate" --- ????

People planning on running OS/2 on Mars? :)

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Internet / Re: Seamonkey UserAgent String
« on: October 30, 2018, 03:45:55 pm »
Seems to stick here, at least testing at https://www.whoishostingthis.com/tools/user-agent/. I currently have Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.
The user agent switcher faq does mention that there are more ways to get the user agent (Javascript?) that user agent switcher doesn't affect. Also suggests deleting the pref,
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general.useragent.overrideor creating and setting to false the pref
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useragentswitcher.reset.onclosewith a warning about it being unsupported.
Otherwise cruft in your profile?

Yes some of these scripts brings SM to its knees, had one the other day that took maybe 15 minutes for the browser (and desktop) to recover and not long after SM crashed at the int 3 here,
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Trap  ->  8843B65E   XUL       0001:033FB65E  between mozalloc_abort + 2E and m
ozalloc_handle_oom - 52  (both in Unified_cpp_memory_mozalloc0.cpp)

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Captcha doesn't like old browsers
« on: October 29, 2018, 05:50:46 am »
HI Pete. Generally the JavaScript compatibility has improved a lot between browsers with, I believe, Safari being the worst. The problem is JavaScript keeps evolving, so slowly old browsers will break. Really pages should test for capabilities rather then having a list but people are lazy or just don't know better.
Then there are sites like Github that seem to stop working for no good reason, except I guess being a Microsoft property now. In the case of Github, I just changed to the next ESR version, FF52, SM 2.49 and it started working though I guess there might be subtle breaks.
Until we get a newer browser, it is worth trying different user agents to see if it works.
Edit
OTOH, just tried FF38.8 as FF52 and still no captcha here so actually needs a newer browser

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Captcha doesn't like old browsers
« on: October 29, 2018, 05:43:48 am »
Thanks Martin. Just tested with 45.9 and it seems to work, at least it showed images before I cancelled.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Captcha doesn't like old browsers
« on: October 28, 2018, 10:55:09 pm »
Had a report about someone trying to create an account here using FF 38ESR, probably the one that ships with ArcaOS, and can't get past the captcha due to too old a browser.
I take it the captcha is outsourced to Google. I told him to try changing user agent or contact Martin. Still something that will need fixing.
While on the subject, more sites seem to not work with our old browsers, yet changing the user agent makes them work, sites such as github.

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General Discussion / Re: ES/2, the open source OS/2
« on: October 25, 2018, 01:19:42 am »
little by little replace DOSCALL1.DLL...
With reference to the doscall1.dll it occurs to me that it could be interesting simply and without modifying anything, recompiling it in a mono processor computer and see if it works better than the current one or not. It would not be a lot of work and the difference could be considerable, or a waste of time.
I have many sys3170, from doscall1.dll in my popuplog.os2, when the browser is closed without warning.
saludos

There are 2 versions of doscall1.dll, an SMP one and a UNI one. See x:\os2\install\smp and x:\os2\install\W4. These need to match the type of kernel installed, hopefully you haven't got the wrong one installed :)  I don't seem to have any sys3170's in DOSCALL1 caused by the browser.

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Applications / Re: Seamonkey versions
« on: October 24, 2018, 01:28:36 am »
We are talking about 2.42.9ESR right? There is no xpcom.dll any longer and hasn't been for a while. It is now part of xul.dll. There is old code that refers to it when it can not find something, not very informative. I've never heard of Mozrmi36.dll and it is not a dependency on any version of SeaMonkey that I know of.

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Programming / Re: Rexx -> IBM C
« on: October 23, 2018, 05:38:50 pm »
3. Can you, for testing purposes, change the codepages in CONFIG.SYS without braking anything? I guess you can, but perhaps there's smart OS software which then decides to delete a MANUAL.UK and keeps the MANUAL.RUS.

One thing that can break is file names on disk, especially with HPFS.

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Applications / Re: Seamonkey versions
« on: October 22, 2018, 03:04:15 am »
As I said, not finding xpcom is a generic error, we don't even have an xpcom dll any more.
Did you use yum or ANPM to install the libraries? You could get pmdll from hobbes and use it to check that all the DLLs are loaded and that there aren't any wrong ones on your LIBPATH. Load xul.dll to check.

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Applications / Re: Seamonkey versions
« on: October 22, 2018, 12:39:35 am »
Did you read the README.OS2? In particular the installation section? The newer SeaMonkey etc need a lot more supporting libs, namely
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libstdc++6 nspr nss libicu pixman cairo pango fontconfig freetype libkai
libvpx libjpeg-turbo libpng zlib bzip2 hunspell libcx

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Setup & Installation / Re: Triple OS setup?
« on: October 21, 2018, 05:54:22 am »
Should work. Make sure you do all partitioning with OS/2 tools and use Airboot to boot.
Linux grub needs to be installed in /boot or / rather then the MBR. No experience with Haiku but I believe it was designed to co-exist with other OSes. Once again best not to let it touch the MBR if possible.
The important things are cylinder alignment that OS/2 is picky about and not losing the LVM info that OS/2 writes in MBR and its partitions.

edit: Let us know how it goes and ask if having problems or need more info.

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Applications / Re: Seamonkey versions
« on: October 21, 2018, 01:30:49 am »
What means: Could not load XPCOM? I have this problem with ecomstation 2.2 en beta.

seamonkey-2.42.9esr.en-US.os2
seamonkey-2.42.9esr_r3.en-US.os2

I installed all necessary libs and files.


Micky

It's not finding part of its runtime or supporting DLLs. Are you sure you don't have duplicates hiding somewhere? Are you sure you got the latest versions? Though that would likely give you a sys2070.
How did you install all the needed libs?

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