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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 29, 2016, 03:12:49 pm »
Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.

1. About the printer driver. I'd like to find one printer driver that works with all applications. These machines have been using the IBM Laserjet drivers, and when I switch back, I get a correctly formatted document. The corruption is only with the PSPRINT driver. The IBM laserjet driver crashes instantly (in PMMERGE.DLL) on Thunderbird and Firefox. PSPRINT doesn't crash.

2. Thanks for the advice about fonts. I removed the Times TTF  and Arial TTF fonts. The document now renders properly, even with the PSPRINT driver. You mention conflicting versions. What is the key for a printer driver? Is it the name (Times New Roman)? I'd like to remove all the conflicts.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 27, 2016, 04:28:11 pm »
The image shows the situation on one machine. Other machines render this OK.


I'm also attaching a screen shot of part of the Fonts folder.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 27, 2016, 02:39:10 am »
I already have one machine where it works. I'll publish a screen shot of what it looks like on a machine where it does not work.

I imagine not many people on OS/2 World use Lotus.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 26, 2016, 04:56:21 pm »
I attached a copy of one document that fails. On my default eCS machine, this works perfectly, but on most others, it fails with all the characters much too close together.

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Applications / Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 25, 2016, 07:08:26 pm »
I'm seeing a font problem in Lotus Word Pro. On one machine, it can render almost any fonts except Ariel and Times New Roman. Unfortunately, these are commonly used fonts.

I see that in older documents I have not used these fonts, even though they are the default fonts for SmartSuite. Does anyone know about this issue, or how to fix it?

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Internet / Re: New Thunderbird build
« on: February 06, 2016, 05:02:13 pm »
I'm troubleshooting a crash in thunderbird when printing an e-mail. I'm attaching a trap dump from one crash event. It says it's crashing in PMMERGE. This is eCS 2.2 b2.

The crash is on the July release, not the new thunderbird build.

I can print from thunderbird without problems on other systems, but this one not so.

Any ideas?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS
« on: February 06, 2016, 04:32:34 pm »
On the X200, did you use GenMU to get WiFi support for the Intel 5100?

Pity about no network on the X250. Kind of makes it ornamental to me.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives
« on: February 02, 2016, 05:52:28 pm »
Look for files like this in \OS2\BOOT

Code: [Select]
3-22-15   5:20          10,623      0  CONFIG.1
11-22-14  10:56          10,621      0  CONFIG.2
 8-11-14  21:29           8,751      0  CONFIG.3
 6-11-14  19:51           5,991      0  CONFIG.M
 6-11-14  19:52           6,309      0  CONFIG.X

The seven archives machine has 7 + 2 of these, too.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives
« on: February 02, 2016, 05:13:12 am »
Has someone documented the ARCHBASE.$$$? Because I checked using HexEdit, and there is no instance of the number 7 in the file. So how does it keep making 7 backups?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives
« on: February 01, 2016, 06:02:22 pm »
Yes, it's actively rotating through all 7. Desktop is set to keep 3 copies. I'd have liked it to delete the other 4 automatically. Did the original IBM properties provide for a number of copies?

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Setup & Installation / Setting the number of Desktop archives
« on: February 01, 2016, 12:03:16 am »
In the Desktop properties of eComStation, you can set the number of archives that the system keeps.

But if you set the system to keep 7 archives, then later set it back to 3, it will continue keeping 7 archives.

The number you set seems to be kept in ARCHBASE.$$$, byte 216. I do not know where the number OS/2 uses is kept.

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General Advertisements / Suntan Special v0.64 released
« on: January 20, 2016, 01:51:48 am »
The newest release of Suntan Special, version 0.64 is available. Suntan Special is a system configuration tool that installs and maintains a collection of useful software to OS/2 or eComStation systems.

  http://www.blondeguy.com/suntan6.html

Current Suntan Special users are entitled to a free upgrade to 0.64. The upgrade may be downloaded by using the update feature of Suntan Special.

The price of Suntan Special is $24.95 ($39.95 outside the USA) including media, an instruction booklet and shipping.

Version 0.64 is a bug fix and applications refresh. Thanks to current users whose many suggestions have been incorporated in the new version of Suntan Special.

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Hardware / Re: Which buy a new laptop? for 2016
« on: January 17, 2016, 06:07:07 am »
Hi

I just updated the OS2World Wiki with the information on this thread:
http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Laptop_Computers

Please remember that everybody can access and edit the wiki (and is also welcome to help) with the same userid and password that is used on OS2world.

Regards

You got a lot of stuff wrong about the computer, but you misspelled my name too. Fortunately, you are right that we can all edit.

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Hardware / Re: Which buy a new laptop? for 2016
« on: January 14, 2016, 03:06:42 pm »
I want to give a different kind of answer, and not totally what the original poster asked.

This is OS/2 World, and so I'm interested in running some kind of OS/2 on a laptop. I am not interested in running Windows, or Mac, or I'd be on a different website. So I'm not really going to install Windows at all.

So, WiFi has to work. These are the newest computers that can run WiFi on OS/2. USB has to work. USB 3.0 is not available, so the computer must have USB 2.0 ports. If you don't want WiFi, then you can use a newer computer.

Here are two computers I use, with commentary on how to buy and install OS/2 on them. I'm an OS/2 consultant, so you can also buy them from me.

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

Hobopeep, a Lenovo W500, is difficult to buy on  eBay. There are four distinct models of W500, and you want the one that has an Intel 5100 WiFi. eBay sellers do not know what chip is in the machine, so you have to buy carefully.

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

Arbopeep, a Lenovo X200, is easy to buy. All X200 have the Intel 5100, and will run WiFi on OS/2.

Once Arca Noae releases a WiFi driver for current laptops, running on a newer machine will be possible. Today, all new Lenovo laptops run the same WiFi chip. This is the chip that Arca Noae is targeting. But, talking to AN, I expect a new driver is a long way off, possibly not in 2016.

I will say from experience that an OS/2 laptop is not 100% great in the real world. WiFi works in airports and cafes for the most part. But WiFi in corporate environments often does not. Corporate WiFi is often a hack job, and works because IT controls all the parts of the solution. Commercial WiFi works because they have to accommodate a wide range of customers.

Tethering works on my tablet, but not on my phone. A fully supported WiFi will improve things a lot.

I'm using eCS 2.2 b 2 and Arca Noae software on both laptops. I do my professional work using the X200 under eCS.

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Hardware / Re: HP CLP M277n
« on: January 07, 2016, 03:40:18 pm »
I recently purchased HP Color Laserjet Pro M252dw, which works with the latest eCups. This does network and color duplex printing on OS/2.

See thread on this printer.

http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,889.0.html

best regards,
Neil

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