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Messages - Andreas Schnellbacher

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Programming / Re: Closed source parts of eComStation
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:00:06 pm »
The problem is that the hardware cycle is really too short for that to work.

The turnaround time for a particular system model is AFAIK on the order of 3-6 months.  That's just not enough time to develop the driver support, QA it and release before the system is obsoleted by the next model.

Alex, I think you're misinterpreting the proposal. The idea is to pick at least one model and develop all the essential drivers for it. It has nothing to do with the life cycle of that hardware. We all use really outdated hardware and know where to buy it, so that won't change then.

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At first it looks great, but that one is apparently quite outdated. I get the impression that it describes the situation around the millenium.

More of interest in that matter would be to list the currently active developers. Even if you count contributors or people who still use it but have contributed more than 10 years ago, you'll have problems to even fill the first Wiki page.

But overall - impressive.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Tweaking eCS for low memory system
« on: January 15, 2014, 08:52:06 pm »
Some more ideas:
  • Remove DOS stuff from CONFIG.SYS.
  • Remove multimedia, esp. the WPS classes.
  • Remove printing from CONFIG.SYS.
  • Remove TTF support from CONFIG.SYS.
  • Lower the number of installed fonts and use only bitmap fonts.
  • Disable folder backgrounds.
  • Clean inis, also remove icons with Rich's tool.
Of course uninstalling XWP would probably have the greatest effect. ;-)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Tweaking eCS for low memory system
« on: January 15, 2014, 08:33:57 pm »
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"Die OS/2-Akten"
All links I found points to http://www.os2world.com/os2files/ which seems to not exist anymore  :(

Shit. Use http://archive.org/web/ But now I doubt that it contains hints about to set it up for low mem.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Tweaking eCS for low memory system
« on: January 02, 2014, 11:19:14 pm »
As low memory is no problem with standard hardware for eCS since years I forgot how to tweak OS/2 - eCS for such situations. I've searched a while but did not get very much information except the obvious ones - cache sizes.

Usually the main problem is Shared Memory. Even when I can't explain it in theory, advancing the FS Caches led sooner to critical situations, up to non-booting systems.

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What I want to do is to tune eCS for a Pentium like system with 266MHz and 64MB memory.

OK, probably you don't have a HD from the times when such amount of RAM was standard. Don't use the deafult values and lower the FS cache. Read "Die OS/2-Akten" from Christian or maybe ConfigTool has also some info on that.

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Basically what I need is - WPS,

Warp 3 probably used less mem.

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and network.

Then it seems like Warp 4.5x is recommended.

Sorry, no other info from here.

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General Discussion / Re: Big thanks to Martin
« on: December 18, 2013, 11:12:09 pm »
Andreas, check out this link: http://www.os2world.com/images/ArticlesImages/files/
both are the same file, see if you can get them.

Sure, I see 2 files, the second with underscores.

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General Discussion / Re: Big thanks to Martin
« on: December 18, 2013, 08:50:13 pm »
The same from me. Extremely good work and much interesting stuff to read.

Martin, could you please rename or re-upload the file in order to get spaces changed to underscores? Our Mozilla ports don't convert %20 into a space automatically. To open the downloaded file, one has to rename it first before opening it via doubleclick.

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General Discussion / Re: hobbes.nmsu.edu information
« on: December 10, 2013, 07:36:56 pm »
Hi Andreas

I think your statement regarding case is wrong.

To test I suggest you search for USBcfg which gives 3 results here.

Strange. I thought I'd seen the case conversion on moving from incoming to the
destination dir several times, but apparently I'm wrong. Thanks.

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Setup & Installation / Re: eCS demo CD beta 5
« on: December 08, 2013, 07:41:44 pm »
none of my hard drives can be read, but maybe that is by design?

Yes, that was already the case with the first demo CD.

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General Discussion / Re: hobbes.nmsu.edu information
« on: December 07, 2013, 03:18:14 pm »
Must the extension be zip or can we use also Rar or Tar or Lz or Xz or 7z ?

I just know that also WPI is allowed since several years. The upload policy
document was written before that. I don't know how other archive formats
will be handled. Just ask the Hobbes archiver. IMO all the archive formats
you've mentioned make problems for people, so developers shouldn't use
them.

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General Discussion / Re: hobbes.nmsu.edu information
« on: December 07, 2013, 03:12:40 pm »
Quote from: Ian Manners link=topic=260.msg2085#msg2085
date=1386392956
For those that upload files to hobbes.nmsu.edu , the system used
 at hobbes is CASE sensitive.

Ian, thank you.

Even more: Every file will be converted to lowercase. That means: If
someone uploaded a file in e.g. mixed case, a search for the mixed
case filename won't be successful.

The only way to handle this is to follow the Hobbes upload policy and
upload files only in lowercase.

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General Discussion / Re: Backgroud celebrating 25 years old of OS/2 Warp
« on: October 09, 2013, 06:47:06 pm »
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So, the zip.zip file will be automatically deleted, hope.
You will need to e-mail the archiver to get it deleted.

In the meantime, it was deleted. People, please just read and follow the upload policy:

   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/uploadpolicy.html

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If a file needs to be re-uploaded

There are a variety of reasons for a file needing to be re-uploaded; for example, an upload may have failed, or a .txt file may not have produced the correct results. If this is the case, you will have to rename the old file (most FTP clients, including the ones which come with OS/2, let you do this) to filename.delete and then reupload the file under its original name. For example, if abc123.zip fails on upload, rename the old one to abc123.zip.delete and then reupload abc123.zip. If the upload fails a second time, you can rename the file to any variation of filename.delete, such as abc123.zip.delete2. The same goes for textfiles.

That text is a bit outdated. Since a longer time even WPI is accepted as archive format.

One request to all who upload something: Please always use lower-case filenames. Hobbes is case-sensitive and the files were automatically renamed to lower-case on moving to the proposed directory. Therefore people often don't find mixed-case files (and announced as such) after they were already processed.

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Setup & Installation / Re: eCenter Window list widget
« on: September 03, 2013, 11:41:18 pm »
OK. Next thing I would try is:

o  Move the mouse pointer over one of the 4 edges of the eCenter.

o  Click mouse button 2 to open the popup menu.

o  Execute menu item 'Create another'.

That should create a new eCenter bar with default values. You could
place one of both on the top, the other on the bottom. After that, you
should be able to D'n'D widgets between them to recreate the wanted
widget within your main eCenter object.

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Setup & Installation / Re: eCenter Window list widget
« on: September 02, 2013, 09:39:37 pm »
Just remove that widget and recreate it.

There are a few other options to try else, but this is the easiest one.

Andreas

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Programming / Re: Rexx?
« on: June 28, 2013, 05:01:04 pm »
Nothing special Robert, I spoke of the exercises and examples given in the manual of the vx-rexx demo that I'm reading, as Alex Taylor spoke of rexx2exe some post ago in this thread (and in fact on hobbes is not the only program like that) I thought it was possible.

More background details: Every REXX dialog IDE must use its own tools to create an executable from the source. There exist no other (maybe license-free) tools to do that.

Andreas

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