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Messages - Andi B.

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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: November 30, 2023, 07:13:48 pm »
I've upload a new version here - https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcmd-git/files/

Mind this is a new project page at sourceforge as I'm using git instead svn now.

This is a lxlite stripped down debug version with the debug information in the *.dbg file. In case of an exception exceptq should be able to create a nice report. At least when the lcmd build in exception handlers will not catch it before (ToDo for future releases). Although debug symbols are compiled in, pmprintf.dll should not be needed for this build.

Changes from last release are -
- Fine tuning for dynamic copy buffer size adoption
- Reduce logging while copying huge amount of files (reduces memory needs and log file size)
- Disable playing priority games in hope of better overall system response
- Adding ExceptQ handler (not working yet as own exception is still active)
- Fixed some cppcheck warnings (thanks Andy Willis for that)
- Add some comments for using highmem in some places (currently not used)
- Add writing to PmPrintf queue in parallel to log file when #ifdef __DEBUG_TRACE__
- Use HighMem for copy buffer

Especially the tuning of the copy buffer algorithm makes a big difference in copy speed in so some cases. At least with my rather fast HDDs and SSDs and big files. But also with Samba shares or other source/targets differences can be observed. All my measurements gave good results. I think this is near to the maximum copy speed we can reach with an PM OS/2 application with progress bar. If you think copy speed now is slower than with any previous version please share your experience here with clear instructions to reproduce. I really tested a lot scenarios with different targets and think the current implementation is better then everything before. Mind 'copy' from command line is most of the time still a bit faster as it does not have the overhead of a graphical progress bar and no checks for interruption during copying a file.

Get ride of gl16os2.dll is still on the ToDo list though.

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Utilities / Re: touch?
« on: November 28, 2023, 02:14:20 pm »
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In linux I would just say touch newfile, then I could nano and edit it.
With OS/2 I would simlply say 'e filename' or on my systems where I'm used to med.exe 'med filename' or 'vs filename' or 'edit filename'. This opens the editor with the file filename even without the touch before. Guess nano would do the same without touch, does it?

You may see there are a lot of ways to do what you want. A simple 'dir >filename' creates a file too beside the other options already mentioned. But I know sometimes it's handy to have a touch.exe especially when porting software from nix. For that I often use OpenWatcoms wtouch.exe.

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Based a presentation from Warpstock 2021, I imagine they are in the AN labs. If you have a WiFi driver without the ability to connect to an access point, I'm not sure what use it would be. I don't see AN releasing a network driver that can't find a network.

I also think that XWLan was going to be the starting point for writing that software. I don't know if there has been any progress in the past two years. In a way, I'd prefer that GL.iNet was the starting point, but either one is a big project.

XWLAN was/is the software which handles the connection to wireless access points and handles secure connections to them via wpa_supplicant. A network/wifi driver needs an interface the way XWLAN can handle it. Usually this is what genmac does/did.

There's no sense in playing with XWLAN anymore as long as there is no progress in wifi drivers. So I stopped doing that a few years ago. I also stopped porting new versions of wpa_supplicant because of that. I don't have any information nor have seen any test wifi driver.

XWLAN works pretty well with wifi drivers it knows. Although the user interface is not designed the way current/new users expect it to be. It is more likely ThinkVantage Access Connections was 20 years ago. And for that time it was a good thing. But current users expect other/simpler setups. So basically XWLAN provides all you need to handle a secured connection with wpa_supplicant up to WPA2 (not WPA3) with a network driver which offers an interface XWLAN understands.

But it's UI is outdated. There's also the possibility that the interface to the wifi driver may be not sufficient for current needs. But it a hen and egg problem. Until no one offers a wifi driver no one will look into that. Moreover as time passes by it may be useless to look at it anyway cause the UI also is not what users expect today. So maybe David came to the conclusion it's not useful to implement a XWLAN compatible interface into his driver. Or maybe he only don't understand or don't like to compile XWLAN, I don't know. The thing is you need more than a wpa_supplicant and more than a driver and more than an UI which saves some connection details. You also need some logic which switches TCP/IP interfaces and acquires new IP addresses and handles the network switch over. This is what XWLAN does with the help of ISCs dhclient (which I also worked on cause the OS/2 integrated DHCP client is so buggy). And this is all together which makes things so complicated.

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Programming / Re: Resources, dialogs, etc - what tools for what jobs?
« on: November 20, 2023, 12:55:53 pm »
URE/IRE - IIRC the version of URE on hobbes is the latest (and hopefully best) version. Even the VACPP4.0 included IRE is older I think. At least that's what I remember and so I use URE. But I don't know what's the difference between the IRE.exe versions included IBMCPP/VACPP4 and URE. Only 'think' URE is the latest greatest we have.

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I decided to avoid what seemed like a much bigger undertaking migrating the existing source tree into a new VACPP 4.0 project. Instead I have been using the OS/2 Toolkit & IBMCPP setups and relying on makefile driven builds.
Good decision I think. I think it doesn't matter very much if you use IRE or URE in this setup. Maybe it's only a habit from me sticking with URE and never really tested the IRE versions.

Btw. I usually prefer RC5.0xx. But sometimes RC4.0xx gives other/better error messages. So when I'm in trouble I try both on the same file(s).

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Programming / Re: Resources, dialogs, etc - what tools for what jobs?
« on: November 19, 2023, 10:20:08 am »
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I had used very lightly the Prominare URE (Resource Editor). ...
I always thought URE (or the IBMs version IRE which is included with IBMs compilers) is the only tool which should be used for creating and editing such stuff. At least in the last 2 or 3 decades. Even URE/IRE does sometimes delete necessary properties. But most of the time it preserves all stuff it doesn't know about.

If you're in the position to create new stuff probably QT Creator is our most modern tool.

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Hardware / Re: Using a UPS to save SSDs
« on: November 06, 2023, 10:23:11 am »
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I routinely add end-of-session backups onto Kingston 32/64GB USB MSD sticks.  Mind, given what I hear about SSDs, let's make that "2x backups".
No clue if I understand you correctly. But if you think USB sticks are as similar reliable as SSDs, then you're wrong. Suggestion, backup on external SSDs or conventional HDDs from well known manufactures. Don't save very important data to sticks.

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: October 23, 2023, 09:13:11 am »
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... on the c't, which seems to have been a magazine.
c't is still a valuable computer magazine. Homepage - https://www.heise.de/ct.

I've trashed all these old copies long ago. I fear at this time there was no annual CD too as it was in the 200x years. But if there is really an urgent need for some old article, changes are good that you can still get/buy it. Have to look at my old CD collection first.

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....Or maybe a solution would be to scan dates/times of RAM Disk files at intervals and save to (eg) SSD any that become more than a certain amount newer than a reference date/time.  (Hope that makes sense.) ...
I don't think so. Write speed to our RAM drive is slower than to one of my SSDs. Even when formated with JFS. YMMV.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS Sluggishness
« on: October 13, 2023, 12:27:43 pm »
I gave up using HPFS(386) years ago. Reasons -
- long chkdsk times
- no >2GB files possible
- shared memory used by HPFS(386) can be used for better purposes

I see no advantage in using HPFS(386) anymore.

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Setup & Installation / Re: 5.1 and Samba/can't make it work!
« on: October 12, 2023, 09:38:51 am »
If you mean your Samba setup does not work anymore putting ArcaOS5.1 into your network then it maybe because NTLM1 is no longer allowed per default. There are security reasons for that. I'm pretty sure I found something about on AN wiki pages.

From memory I think I had to add minprotocol = NTLM1 and client minprotocol = NTLM1 in smb.conf to see my old machines from my ArcaOS5.1 installation. If you don't find exact information with this info I'll look into my smb.conf when I'm back home. But can take days... Guess there must be some information on the newly installed system too. But at least I didn't find it.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding system components on existing installing
« on: September 24, 2023, 03:49:56 pm »
You can select it from the installer when you start from scratch. Be aware you can't run IBM Peer/LanMan over TCP/IP at the same time with Samba. But you can add in NAPS Netbios only (and not Netbios over TCP/IP). Then it should work side by side with Samba (server and client/ArcaMapper). You also have to take care that \ibmlan\netprog does not come before your unixroot in path. Or rename \ibmlan\netprog\net.exe to f.i. neti.exe.




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General Discussion / Re: arca 5.0.8 can-t bring up internet
« on: September 20, 2023, 09:57:13 am »
\mptn\bin\setup.cmd and \ibmcom\lantran.log may be of interest.

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Hardware / Re: Touch Screen and Pen support on ArcaOS 5.1.0
« on: September 12, 2023, 12:17:04 pm »
So perhaps all recent machines that have a serial port have PCI ones.
This is true for Notebooks, but not for desktop boards. Don't know how much are available but if you look for a standard COM port, they still exist one some motherboards. Sometimes there's only the header on the board and you need to buy a matching cable to get it to the back side of your PC.

I guess what the Intel management engine includes (sometimes it reports itself as Com42:) is something you can't use for anything else then let Intel manage your system. But I'm not an expert here. I only switch IME off on all my systems as much as possible.

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Applications / Re: Installing VisualAge C++ 3.0 on ArcaOS 5.1.0
« on: September 06, 2023, 08:53:38 pm »
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I seem to remember that the VAC 3.6.5 package is lacking a source code debugger
My 3.6.5 does have idebug included. It identifies itself as beeing Version 3.6.5 Fixpak 2.

I'm not sure if 3.0.8 includes the multithreaded libraries. Back then I need to compile XWP and my widget with 3.6.5 instead 3.0.8 to get a multi-threaded widget working.

See here - http://buchinger.bplaced.net/Download/priv/getstrt/concepts/cgchnges.htm
(Tried to attach the full change list. But html is not allowed. So renamed to txt.)

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS 5.1 - First Impressions
« on: September 05, 2023, 09:13:40 am »
Installed 5.1.  First impressions are that it boots up faster than the previous versions. ....
Why do you think it boots faster? Did you measure a difference? Do you have any idea what's changed to make it faster?

I cant think of anything else except accidentally waiting on IP address (dhcpstart with wrong parameter) in config.sys which can make booting other ArcaOS installation slower. Puzzling.....

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