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Communication / Zoc and Transfers
« on: September 09, 2025, 12:08:25 am »
Trying to use Zoc with AOS 5.1

Everytime I try to transfer a file, Zoc just closes.

I've tried with two different types of USB > RS232 cables.

I tested Send and Receive by typing on the keyboard.

What other terminal program should I try?

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General Discussion / What do you use for screen captures?
« on: August 16, 2025, 03:25:23 am »
Under Windows, I usually just WINDOWS-Shift-S - cut the section of screen I want and past it in to apps like email or wordpad.

What's my best bet for similar use in OS/2 / AOS?

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Hardware / SNAP Driver Source
« on: August 13, 2025, 01:45:03 am »
 ** This question is not meant in a negative way towards Arca Noae **

I noticed this article:
https://www.arcanoae.com/arca-noae-licenses-snap-graphics-os2-code/
 from 2015

It do not remember seeing, a lot of use of this source code to expand the drivers to newer chips sets, instead more of a focus on vesa as a write once, run anywhere solution. 

Just curious as to what happened/how that works, as I remember the early days of graphics chips having 100's of pages of manual explaining how to program them, then came CGA/Hercules - again with lots of, even bigger manuals explaining how to program them, then EGA - with even bigger books, then finally, I don't own a copy, but one really thick book on programming the 'VGA' chip.

Now, I don't know how programmers learn about the capabilities of various graphics chips, which continue to develop at a breakneck pace, both Nvidia, Intel and AMD.


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Storage / USB Floppy Drive Setup.
« on: August 12, 2025, 12:21:39 am »
I have a new (to me) demo disk.

Can someone that has a working USB Floppy Disk, share their config.sys mojo with me?
AOS 5.1.1.

Thanks,
Dan







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Applications / Calculator options.
« on: August 09, 2025, 12:45:31 pm »
I have been using the "Useful Calculator" by Alexander Taylor.

I'm a bit of an odd duck, and have always had an HP bias, do I have any RPN options, that run natively on Presentation Manager?

A couple of quick search, haven't brought up anything - grok said use a web based calculator, maybe find one the runs under windows 3.1 or consider custom development.


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Both in a virtual container and real hardware AOS 5.1.1

Boot, about 3-5% CPU utilization.

Start IBM works 5-8% utilization.

Start Firefox, 89%+ Utilization.

Is that normal expected behavior?

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General Discussion / https://www.arcanoae.com/
« on: August 08, 2025, 02:16:40 pm »
Having trouble accessing this website, the last couple of days.

Will this site being down, negatively impact ANPM?

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Utilities / Snap Shot / Save System State.
« on: August 08, 2025, 11:42:39 am »
Mostly I use a VM to test with, that way, I can snapshot to my hearts content, before trying something, like an install, that might change multiple files, in multiple locations.

What is my best bet for doing that on real iron? Wasn't one of the selling points of JFS snapshots?

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Utilities / Job Scheduling
« on: August 08, 2025, 01:22:12 am »
Last week I installed locate.

Today, I went in to use it was warned - the database was more than 8 days old.

I use crontab on linux, and at on windows.

What's the preferred method of job scheduling on ArcaOS?

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Storage / defrag c: drive jfs
« on: August 08, 2025, 12:45:34 am »
Is there a tool to defrag your c: drive running jfs?

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Setup & Installation / SDHC Card Support
« on: August 01, 2025, 06:25:12 pm »
Using a Thinkpad T530 - it has an SD Card slot, collecting dust.

Should I be able to pop-in an SDHC
card and use minilvm to format it?

Would the recommendation be FAT32 or JFS?

Is the backend for this the usbmsd?

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Hardware / Smart Hard Drive Monitoring on AOS 5.1.1
« on: July 30, 2025, 03:50:19 pm »
I've looked into the various threads here, and it seems smartmon monitoring can be done with,
   smartahci, pmsmartctrl and smartmonutils.

 My first go-to is always ANPM.

 Searching ANPM for SMART or SMART* doesn't return anything.

 What is my best bet in 2025 on AOS 5.1.1 to read the smart values stored on a standard SSD?

 I appreciate any feedback.

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General Discussion / https://trac.netlabs.org
« on: July 30, 2025, 01:10:10 am »

 Trying to finish rounding out some installs on the new laptop,
     https://trac.netlabs.org  - from two different isp's and locations, getting: This site can not be reached.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/trac.netlabs.org?proto=https say's it's not just me.

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Programming / Powerbasic for OS/2
« on: July 29, 2025, 11:30:12 pm »
Grok said it was a thing, and I did a bit of Turbo and Power Basic programming in the day.

Does anyone know where I can get a copy.

Thanks in Advance.

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Programming / OS/2 WARP Programming for Dummies by Blake Watson
« on: July 24, 2025, 12:11:22 am »
Does someone have or know where I can download the code?
Thanks!

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