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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with fresh yum install
« on: December 30, 2015, 05:50:32 am »
It's not a real error, just a cosmetic bug in yum.  You can safely ignore it.

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Applications / Re: LVM.DLL and IVM.DLL
« on: November 21, 2015, 02:56:03 pm »
Thanks Andy.

It will be interesting if someone knows the story of what fixed the LVM.DLL against the original IVM.DLL so it can be documented.

It bypasses a couple of checks so that Bootable JFS and Air-BOOT can work seamlessly.

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Events / Re: OS/2 - eCS - Blue Lion - Wishlist 2015
« on: November 21, 2015, 02:43:35 pm »
Full version of XWorkplace with latest fixes backported from eWP! (Cropped eWorkplace -- suxx!)  ;)

There's no need to 'backport' anything, all eWorkplace features are in the main XWorkplace source tree.  They're built from the same sources.

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Networking / Re: Codepage problem with NAS
« on: November 02, 2015, 06:11:19 am »
It's not the server codepage that determines how the characters are displayed, it's the local codepage. 

Assuming your system codepage is 850, the plugin has to translate the UTF-8 string into codepage 850 in order to display it. However, the typographic apostrophe (a.k.a. right single quote), which is evidently what is being used here, doesn't exist under codepage 850. Hence it's getting replaced by a substitution marker.

If you were to change your PM codepage to, say, 1004, I suspect the string would appear correctly.

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Events / Re: New OS/2 distribution
« on: October 26, 2015, 04:33:26 pm »
FWIW, I never had any trouble running my registered copy of HOBlink X11 on any version of eCS.  The regular version shouldn't have any version checks in it AFAIK.

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Utilities / Re: Diff Tool
« on: September 09, 2015, 04:46:08 am »
Do you want graphical or command line?

GFC (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=os2gfc&pushbutton=Search) is a nice graphical tool which I often use.  (Be aware that it can't really process lines longer than about 500 characters, but for source code that shouldn't be an issue.)

As for command line, GNU diff is basically the standard.  Using the -u switch generally gives much more usable results than the default output.

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Programming / Re: Desktop Weather
« on: September 09, 2015, 04:42:51 am »
Actually SmartGuides comes from Warp 4, it was also called 'WarpGuides'.

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General Discussion / Re: Windows 10 and privacy
« on: August 03, 2015, 02:47:18 pm »
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it will no longer work in 2.2 because some required components with long filenames are now installed on the boot drive

Alex, are you saying that there is now a move away from the idea of a small boot partition that can be easily imaged and restored should a problem arise to the windows idea of 'put everything on the boot partition and hope'?

No, I'm not.

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General Discussion / Re: Windows 10 and privacy
« on: August 03, 2015, 05:35:27 am »
FAT installation of eCS was not officially supported (except possibly in version 1.1).  However, it does work, at least as recently as (IIRC) version 2.0.  I'm not sure about 2.1; ISTR it will no longer work in 2.2 because some required components with long filenames are now installed on the boot drive.

(FWIW, I wrote the relevant parts of the eCS installer and I put considerable care into making sure that FAT installation was still possible up until the last version or two; it just got too hard to do eventually.)

The eCS installer will not let you format the boot volume as FAT. However, if it's already formatted as FAT then it will still let you install to it (at least pre 2.2).

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Applications / Re: Problems with ArcView...
« on: July 30, 2015, 03:02:56 am »
Actually ArcView uses 7z by preference instead of rpm2cpio, but it falls back to the latter if the former can't be found on the path.

FWIW, the precise command it uses is:
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7z x -so -bd -y whatever.rpm 2>NUL | cpio -d -i -v -u --no-absolute-filenames --quiet [file_to_extract] 2>&1
If the necessary programs are missing it will tell you.


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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: July 19, 2015, 05:47:08 pm »
So it appears that the USB keyboard problem is what I mentioned earlier, a lack of communication between USBKBD.SYS and KEYBOARD.DCP because the Chinese keyboard need a special translate table for which there is no provision.  Sounds as if your team are in for a serious re-write of all that area, just make sure all the changes are tested against non Chinese installs before you release them.

IIRC, each DBCS version has its own unique KEYBOARD.DCP anyway (and its own unique KBDBASE.SYS).

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General Discussion / Re: XEU.com and eComStation
« on: July 16, 2015, 11:11:23 am »
I have a program called timewait, I don't recall now where I found the source but I compiled it to give a 5 second delay.

I wrote that, assuming it's the same one. I use it to insert a delay between HELPERW and NETBIND to avoid GenMAC initialization problems.

FWIW I don't think that's the issue with the USB problem on Chinese. DBCS is rather more complicated than SBCS when it comes to everything that has to happen at bootup, and I've found there's more scope for things to go wrong. (I remember I never could get full-screen CMD sessions working while booted from CD on DBCS, for some weird reason.)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Samsung ML-2165W Printer
« on: July 13, 2015, 02:31:50 am »
This seems to be an entry-level raster printer using a proprietary interface language (SPL). There is a chance it might work with SpLIX (although it's not listed as supported), but I'd say it's probable that it wouldn't work under OS/2 at all.

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General Discussion / Re: News from the front line
« on: July 10, 2015, 04:54:30 am »
14.106 is certainly an official IBM release. Several people have told me that it came with XR_C006. However, I seem to recall that the XR_C006 that was leaked publicly was a beta version. Perhaps the final, official version of XR_C006(which AFAIK was only available to IBM customers and presumably OEM partners like Mensys) contained 14.106.

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Hardware / Re: H.P. 2025 need help Per!
« on: July 04, 2015, 09:23:53 am »
Also, Alex recommended I try using "Generic Postscript (enhanced), which I also can't find, is that possibly in the hplip drivers? And is that also where to find the "Simplified" version you mentioned?

The driver I referred to is NOT part of CUPS, it is in the PSPRINT driver for your desktop printer object.  See the attached screenshots.  You will probably have to install the driver (the second picture shows where to find it if you're using my PM Printer Manager, but the corresponding window in the standard OS/2 printer setup dialogs looks almost identical).
  • If you have PM Printer Manager (printman.exe) then go to the Drivers page and select 'Install'.
  • If you use the standard OS/2 dialogs only, go to the Printer Driver page as seen in the first screenshot, right-click on any driver icon and choose 'Install (new driver)".
In either case, enter the directory where you unpacked the PSPRINT driver files and in the 'other printer driver' selection. Then look for 'Generic Postscript (Enhanced)' (this is NOT the same as 'Generic Postscript Printer').  Alternatively, if James's report is to be believed, you could look for 'HP Color LaserJet 9500 PS' and try that one instead.

Note:
From everything you've described, your CUPS settings do not need to be changed, the CUPS component is working correctly as it is. Don't try to mess with them for the time being. The problem is almost certainly in the OS/2 printer object.

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