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Applications / OpenOffice Spreadsheet charts
« on: January 17, 2021, 06:01:02 pm »
Starting with version 4.1.8, charts seem to vanish in the following scenario.

1. Edit the chart
2. Save the spreadsheet in .ODS format
3. Close Open Office
4. Open the spreadsheet; the chart is gone

A potential workaround is to save in .XLS format instead

I opened a bug report as described in the readme. Thanks to all who helped me get an account to report this.

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128427

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Applications / Lotus WordPro document alignment
« on: December 09, 2020, 03:56:02 pm »
I have a lot of Lotus WordPro documents to run the business. The computers in the business run a mix of MCP 2, eCS and ArcaOS.

On some computers, the Lotus WordPro documents are out of alignment. Text that used to fit on a line wraps to a new line.

I think I've tracked this down to a difference in printer drivers. If the driver is LASERJET.HP Laserjet 4, then the document is formatted correctly. If the driver is anything else, for example PSPRINT.HP Color Laserjet Pro M252, or LASERJET.HP Color Laserjet, then some text will be wrapped.

I've attached the Lotus WordPro file to this message. I had to rename the file to .DOC because OS/2 World does not permit .LWP attachments and erases the message if you try.

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Applications / ArcaOS kernel 202 and Firefox
« on: November 21, 2020, 09:19:46 pm »
Arca Noae has released a new kernel, probably to support the new web browser.

Is it possible that the new kernel fix makes it unnecessary to run FFTurbo, because memory is now released on exit?

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Setup & Installation / How to install Firefox
« on: November 16, 2020, 02:19:09 am »
Is there a web page that explains how to install Firefox on ArcaOS? I know someone who would like to install it, but needs something fairly user-friendly.

35
Networking / WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 10, 2020, 02:09:15 am »
I installed some Win16 networking application, and I realized that it won't work without some kind of WinSock support.

 https://mochasoft.dk/win311x.htm

Apparently I've forgotten how to add WinSock support. Anyone remember this one?


36
General Discussion / Print Screen in ArcaOS
« on: August 05, 2020, 11:39:56 pm »
Can you disable printscreen in ArcaOS? You can in OS/2, but I don't see the same dialog in ArcaOS.

Code: [Select]
Use the Print Screen page of System - Properties to allow the system to print the full screen or an open window in an OS/2 session.

To print a full screen:

1.Select the Enable radio button.
2.Close the notebook.
3.Place the pointer on the Desktop away from any open windows.
4.Press Print Screen.

To print an open window:

1.Select the Enable radio button.
2.Close the notebook.
3.Place the pointer in any open window.
4.Press Print Screen.

For a detailed explanation of each field, select from the list below:

Enable
Disable

37
Setup & Installation / klibc user manager
« on: July 27, 2020, 04:46:51 pm »
I installed ArcaOS 5.0.5, but something is odd with klibc user manager. I don't see icons for it anywhere. If I re-install using ANPM, I get icons, but I can't edit users. They list just fine, but when I edit, nothing can be changed.

in \etc\master.passwd, root has an *, which I guess means no password.

SAMBA users and group, which relies on this, also does not work.

Searching for bug reports, I get a lot of hits on "I really ought to write some documentation".

38
Applications / Lotus 123 DOS version
« on: July 21, 2020, 02:56:00 am »
Does anyone run this? I know it does NOT run on a recent machine running ArcaOS, but how old does the machine have to be before Lotus 123 DOS will run?

This issue is DOS support. I know there is a project at Arca Noae for refreshed DOS support, but it isn't ready today.

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General Advertisements / ArcaOS DVD and bootable USB stick available
« on: June 07, 2020, 02:52:57 pm »
ArcaOS 5.0.5 is included with your valid ArcaOS Support & Maintenance subscription at no additional charge. To download your fresh ISO, simply visit your Arca Noae customer portal page, select the Orders & Subscriptions link on the navigation panel to the left, then click on the order for your ArcaOS license. Once there, click the download link to request a fresh ISO, and wait for your notification email.

If your ArcaOS Support & Maintenance subscription has already expired, and you missed your window of opportunity to renew at regular rates, you may still renew at less than the cost of a new ArcaOS license.

Arca Noae sells only digital versions of ArcaOS. If you want a DVD or USB stick version, you can make your own. Instructions are provided with ArcaOS.

If you would rather buy the DVD or USB stick, Blonde Guy has plenty of them on hand. See the following link to shop for ArcaOS on DVD or USB stick. International shipping is now available.

http://www.blondeguy.com/computer/BlueLion.html

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Applications / OpenOffice 4.1.7 gives error on startup
« on: May 04, 2020, 04:07:20 am »
With WarpIN now working, I've got OpenOffice installed. Yum has installed all prerequisites. Yet, I'm seeing the attached error message.

The DLL mentioned, G:\OpenOffice417\program\deploy.dll exists on disk, 576k, date 1/27/20.

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Applications / WarpIN: Exception on Main thread
« on: April 27, 2020, 11:45:13 pm »
On a remote system, I get a message when I run WarpIN (see attachment)

The log contains nothing special. The WarpIN directory is on the PATH and LIBPATH which is normal on an eCS 1.2r system. All the files seem to be from version 1.0.22.

Removing the database files didn't help. This copy of WarpIN successfully installed OpenOffice 4.1.3 a few years ago. According to the log, nothing has happened since then.


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Hardware / ArcaOS freezes on IBM Thinkpad T43
« on: April 20, 2020, 04:54:23 am »
I am perplexed how I might track this down. The T43 is actually supported under MCP. So I installed ArcaOS without any options and used APM instead of ACPI.

The machine freezes when the mouse hovers over a PM widget. Not every time, but I use a lot of PM programs, most of which are almost entirely made of PM widgets. I can type on command line all day it seems.

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Web applications / Firefox creates PLUGIN-CONTAINER.EXE processes
« on: March 27, 2020, 12:15:41 am »
I have a customer's screen print of TOP, and it shows six separate processes for PLUGIN-CONTAINER.EXE They all take a bunch of resources. What's the best way to stop this from happening?

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Storage / How to make a disk drive for a distant computer
« on: March 20, 2020, 05:18:22 pm »
I want to make a disk drive and mail it to another computer user 3000 miles away. In the past, I have tried this, but the computer will not boot from the drive. BIOS sees the drive, but the OS/2 boot blob never shows.

I sent a DFSee partition image to the remote site, and they restored it using DFSee for Windows. But when it installs, there is no joy. I made the image on a very much newer computer. There must be a better way to send a disk or partition image.

How can I be sure the remote computer will boot from that hard drive?

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Setup & Installation / Network support on ArcaOS installation DVD
« on: February 19, 2020, 03:26:01 am »
If I boot a computer from the ArcaOS installation DVD, it will support a limited number of network cards. Here is the list:

   Title = "Broadcom BCM4401 MAC driver"
   Title = "ADMtek Comet/Centaur Another MAC driver"
   Title = "Intel 2104x/2114x 10/100 mbps Ethernet Controller"
   Title = "NSC DP83815 Another MAC driver"
   Title = "NSC DP83820 Another MAC driver"
   Title = Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
   Title = "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver (MultiMac32-E1000B) for OS/2"
   Title = "Intel PRO/1000 PCIe Driver (Multimac16-E1000E) for OS/2"
   Title = Intel(R) PRO/1000 Chipset 8086 107C
   Title = Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
   Title = "3Com Fast EtherLink/EtherLink XL Family OS/2"
   Title = "3Com EtherLink III PC Card OS/2"
   Title = "3Com EtherLink III LAN+Modem PC Card for OS2 v1.5 - Card Services"
   Title = IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Adapter
   Title = "IBM PCI Ethernet Adapter Driver [IBMEANDI.OS2]"
   Title = "IBM EtherJet PC Card Ethernet Adapter (IBMEXNDI.OS2)"
   Title = "IBM FDDI-FI Adapter Device Driver"
   Title = IBM 10/100 EtherJet PCI Adapter (OS/2)
   Title = IBM 1000BaseT Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (OS/2)
   Title = IBM 1000BaseSX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (OS/2)
   Title = IBM Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (OS/2)
   Title = "IBM Auto LANStreamer PCI Adapter (IBMMPC.OS2)"
   Title =  IBM miniPCI PRISM 2.5 Wireless Card
   Title = "IBM T-R Shared RAM Family (UP/SMP, IBMTOK.OS2)"
   Title = "IBM Compatible Token-Ring Network Adapter (IBMTOK.OS)"
   Title = "IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card (IBMTOKCS.OS2)"
   Title = "IBM T-R Busmaster Server Adapter (IBMTRBM.OS2)"
   Title = "IBM PCI and CardBus Token-Ring Adapters (IBMTRP.OS2)"
   Title =  IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card-128
   Title = "Intel TokenExpress(TM) Network Server Adapter"
   Title = "Kingston TokenRx 16/4 Token-Ring Adapter (IBMTOK.OS2)"
   Title = "Kingston EtheRx PCI Ethernet Network Adapter"
   Title = "Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Adapter (APIC)"
   Title = Madge Token-Ring Adapter
   Title = "Attansic Technology Corp, L2 FastEthernet NIC driver (MultiMac32-MMAE) for OS/2"
   Title = "Atheros AR813x/AR815x PCIe Ethernet NIC driver (MultiMac32-MMALC) for OS/2"
   Title = "Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet NIC driver (MultiMac32-MMALE) for OS/2"
   Title = "Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet driver (MultiMac32-MMBFE) for OS/2"
   Title = "Broadcom BCM57xx(x)/BCM590x NetXtreme and NetLink family Ethernet driver (MultiMac32-MMBGE) for OS/2"
   Title = "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Driver (MultiMac32-MMIGB) for OS/2"
   Title = "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Driver (MultiMac32-MMLEM) for OS/2"
   Title = "Marvell Yukon II Ethernet controller driver (MultiMac32-MMMSK) for OS/2"
   Title = "RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S/8168/8111/8101E PCI driver (MultiMac32-MMRE) for OS/2"
   Title = " No Network Adapter"
   Title = "IBM NULL MAC Driver"
   Title = "NVIDIA MAC Driver (MultiMac16-NVETH) for OS/2"
   Title = "Olicom Token-Ring PCMCIA Card"
   Title = "IBM Credit Card Adapter for Ethernet with NDIS support (PCMNICCS.OS2)"
   Title = "AMD PCNet Ethernet Family Adapter"
   Title = "Realtek Gigabit 8111/8168/8169 driver (MultiMac32-R8169) for OS/2"
   Title = "Realtek 8019 ISA Plug and Play Ethernet Adapter"
   Title = "RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Adapter"
   Title = "Realtek 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter"
   Title = "Realtek 8139/8130/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter"
   Title = "Racore 16/4 Token-Ring Adapter"
   Title = "SiS900 Another MAC driver"
   Title = "SysKonnect SK-9E21D and SK-9521 v2.0 Adapter"
   Title = "SMC TokenCard Elite Master32 for OS/2 (SMC8332.OS2)"
   Title = "Tamarack tmi TC9021 MAC Adapter"
   Title = "Thomas-Conrad Tropic Token-Ring Network Adapter (IBMTOK.OS2)"
   Title = "3Com 3C3X9 PCI Token Ring Adapter"
   Title = "3Com TokenLink III Network Adapters (IBMTOK.OS2)"
   Title = "3Com TokenLink III PC Card Adapter - OS/2"
   Title = "SMC TokenCard Elite for OS/2 (SMC 8115)"
   Title = "USB ETHeRnet Adapter"
   Title = "VIA VT86C100A Rhine Another MAC driver"
   Title = "VIA VT6102 Rhine2 Another MAC driver"
   Title = "VIA VT6105 Rhine3 Another MAC driver"
   Title = "VIA VT612x Velocity MAC driver"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 10/100/1000 [8086:101E]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 2100 Wlan [8086:1043]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 10/100/1000 [8086:1076]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 10/100 [8086:1229]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 2200 Wlan [8086:4220]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 3945 a/b/g [8086:4222]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 2915 a/b/g [8086:4223]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 2915 a/b/g [8086:4224]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 3945 a/b/g [8086:4227]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 4965 a/g/n [8086:4229]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Intel 4965 a/g/n [8086:4230]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell 802.11 b/g [11AB:1FA6]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell 802.11 b/g [11AB:1FA7]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8001 [11AB:4320]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8052 [11AB:4360]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8050 [11AB:4361]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8053 [11AB:4362]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8055 [11AB:4363]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Marvell Yukon 88E8056 [11AB:4364]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper ASUS Wlan RT2400 [1814:0101]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0301]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0302]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0401]"
   Title =  "GenMac Wrapper Rtl 8180 Wlan [10EC:8180]"

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