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Messages - Neil Waldhauer

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Storage / Re: How to discover the newly assigned USB drive letter?
« on: May 14, 2025, 03:25:31 pm »
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x = SysDriveMap()
externalDiskLetter = ''
do while x <> ''
   parse var x this x
   i = SysDriveInfo(this)
   parse var i letter free total label
   if strip(label) = 'Blue 2TB' | strip(label) = 'Red 2TB' then do
      externalDiskLetter = strip(letter)
   end
end

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Setup & Installation / Re: Troubleshooting process trap/dump...how?
« on: May 05, 2025, 03:24:05 pm »
Rsync would crash here, too. I was doing a pretty large network rsync, but reliability improved greatly when I removed a lot of EA from my files. I used eaclean to remove the unnecessary UID, GID, MODE, INO, RDEV, GEN, FLAGS EAs. A side benefit was that my rsync ran several times quicker.

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I can't seem to do it here, either. I thought I had done it earlier.

I did find the neat command to enumerate my changes:

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vboxmanage getextradata $YOUR_VM_NAME enumerate
The administrators guide to VirtualBox says you can set the resolution of the host to be up to the resolution of the host, but it isn't working here.

I did try this
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VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution any
Edit: I changed from
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VBoxManage.exe setextradata "ArcaOS RC" "CustomVideoMode3" "3840 x 2160 x 32"to
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VBoxManage.exe setextradata "ArcaOS RC" "CustomVideoMode3" "3840x2160x32"
and it does come up. However, one time I got VirtualBoxVM.exe application error: A breakpoint has been reached.
Another time, it boots at requested resolution, but it isn't working very well. The mouse gets confused, going from host to guest, and screen looks funny when I shut down.

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I appreciate what you are doing to make a Warpstock presentation.

OK, picture I am on Linux or Windows, and I'm running ArcaOS inside a VirtualBox session. I'm also running a web browser on the host platform. Inside that web browser, I have dozens or even hundreds of tabs open. Those tabs are running diverse web applications, such as office suites, email clients and database front ends.

From time to time, the web browser is going to call a native app. I want it to be possible to configure that native app to be an OS/2 app running in the ArcaOS session. I also want the OS/2 WPURL object to open a web page on the host in a reasonable way. These two capabilities shouldn't be difficult, but do require some specific OS/2 customization.

This should have been easy with DSOM. I'm sorry DSOM went away or we would already have these capabilities.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: April 25, 2025, 05:05:37 am »
Thanks! I downloaded and followed Martin's instructions and I have dooble-QT6 running.

Interesting observation: I wondered if I was missing some depenencies, so I ran PMDLL Qt6WebEn.dll

PMDLL does not do anything useful after that. Maybe it was never intended to work on such a complex DLL.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: April 24, 2025, 01:24:20 am »
When I try to download https://smedley.id.au/tmp/qt6weben-6.2.6-20250124.zip I get a 404.

I'm trying to follow Martin's guide to installing Qt6 and Dooble on page 1.

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Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: April 21, 2025, 04:38:08 am »
NOTES: this code taken from Dr. Dialog

#define IDDLG_DIRECTORY             5500

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Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: April 19, 2025, 04:09:04 pm »
In the FILEDLG structure, set the usDlgId member to IDDLG_DIRECTORY to get a dialog that can select directories.

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Marketplace / Re: ebay Stuff
« on: April 17, 2025, 03:24:44 pm »
Hello

I think this is nice for collectors. OS/2 EE 1.3 made in Australia.
- https://www.ebay.com/itm/356553094328

Regards

Sure high shipping.

I once had to ship a laptop to Argentina. $750 minimum from UPS. Others were more. Now, with policy changes in the USA, shipping is getting more complicated.

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General Discussion / Re: EDM/2 Wiki Issue
« on: April 08, 2025, 03:42:36 pm »
That is a lot of work. I hope AI is helping.

I thought I could export an INF file to IPF using New View Tools->Save as IPF, but that does not work as well as I'd hope. It seems to start saving the document, but then finishes early skipping most of the content of the document.

Gpi functions are split into four INF files, GPI1.INF to GPI2.INF. You need to view GPI2.INF for the functions. If you then Save as IPF, you get GPI2.IPF that looks correct. This is an SGML file that can be parsed. Many tools on Hobbes have been written to manipulate IPF.

Maybe AI can convert the IPF to Wiki format directly?

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General Discussion / Re: EDM/2 Wiki Issue
« on: April 08, 2025, 03:09:49 am »
It looks like you used the INF file from the OS/2 toolkit (GPI Guide and Reference) as the source material. But some links are missed, and they are just plain text.

For example, in GpiSetCharBox, there is an item Graphic Elements and Orders. In that page, there is a link to "Set Character Cell", but in the EDM/2 Wiki web page, this link is changed to plain text.

There are many Gpi functions -- it looks like you did a lot of work.

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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« on: March 25, 2025, 02:28:23 pm »
Neil: Interesting, and you get anything else if you run the OS/2 commands (HOST, NETSTAT, PING and ARP) by hand?
Or should the script be adjusted to use some other parameter with the above commands?

It seems that ping is returning only a few machines on the subnet. The printer, the thermostat, the lighting controllers do not respond. Only one phone and one tablet respond. I imagine if the others don't respond, there is not much you can do.

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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« on: March 23, 2025, 02:29:19 pm »
Here is does not find all computers in the local subnet, and seems to mostly be a reminder to clean out my hosts file.
It does find my router, which is not in the hosts file.

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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 20, 2025, 02:16:14 pm »
I wonder if you can uninstall them with WarpIN? They were only there for users who don't have rpm/yum.

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Web applications / Re: OS2World URL Redirect
« on: March 18, 2025, 02:19:32 pm »
https://os2world.com is working from dooble. It redirected to https://www.os2world.com

Thanks!

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