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Setup & Installation / Re: using yum
« on: April 07, 2016, 05:19:10 pm »
There is an issue on the yum/rpm wiki regarding Platform selection.

I need to use platform selection in order to install Firefox 38. One library, pango, is only available built for 686. So I need to use platform selection to get pango. However, then the rest of my system is inconsistent and I get quite a few errors from yum about that.

The errors persist until I issue a yum reinstall * command. If this is how it's supposed to operate, then a note to reinstall everything after platform selection would be good.

Of course my original error still appears, and yum reports failure for all operations, even though they appear to work.

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Hardware / Re: print won't go to default tray
« on: April 06, 2016, 03:51:25 pm »
Thanks, but printing in the latest Firefox/Thunderbird won't solve this situation entirely.

The use case is in printing envelopes from Lotus SmartSuite where the IBM Laserjet4 PCL driver does work, but the PostScript driver with my best-guess PPD does not work.

Firefox/Thunderbird will crash if they use this driver. I made another thread some time ago for that crash, which is a known problem with IBM graphics, and Firefox development will eventually work around it. I guess what would really fix this is if Firefox/Thunderbird did not crash while using the laserjet4 PCL driver.

If separate printer objects are provided, one per driver, then I suppose everything prints, but then in Thunderbird, the alternate printer driver has to be selected or it will crash. If Thunderbird could be set to print from the alternate printer, while all other programs continue to use the default printer, then that would be a slick solution.

Is there any way to force Thunderbird to default to an alternate (non-default) printer?

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Hardware / Re: print won't go to default tray
« on: April 06, 2016, 02:47:21 am »
Here is the link for Thunderbird. The others are similarly named. These were from last July. Newer versions don't print at all.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/thunderbird-31.8.0.en-US.os2.zip

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Hardware / Re: print won't go to default tray
« on: April 05, 2016, 03:36:30 pm »
Well, HP Laserjet 4 works for old programs like Lotus SmartSuite, but no printing possible for Firefox or Thunderbird. I have the 31 builds for those installed, so printing should be possible, but they crash instead.

Is there some way to have a printer driver work for both cases?

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Hardware / print won't go to default tray
« on: April 04, 2016, 11:01:45 pm »
I've seen this on a few printers. I'm using the PSPRINT postscript drivers in one case and the eCups postscript driver in another case. After installation, printing works normally, but then, after a while, the printer demands to have paper from the other tray.

I'm also curious if anyone has seen support for an IBM Infoprint 1352 printer.  Thanks!

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Point your web browser to 192.168.0.1. I hope the admin password is included in the router documentation.

You should get the control panel for the D-Link 506L.

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What happens if you ping the D-Link 506L?

If the D-Link has given the ThinkCentre an IP address, open the DHCP monitor to see what it is, or type on command line:

ifconfig lan0


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General Discussion / Re: Exodus OS/3
« on: April 03, 2016, 04:16:20 pm »
I want to recommend  The Design of OS/2 by Deitel and Kogan. The book will give you a general idea of how OS/2 works. It will also give you insight on how existing OS/2 programs can transcend their limitations in RAM and disk size.

https://archive.org/details/DesignOfOS2


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Setup & Installation / Re: using yum
« on: April 03, 2016, 03:50:03 pm »
Following up, I see no fix for this, but bug number #117 is open for the issue.

http://trac.netlabs.org/rpm/ticket/117

The Arca Noae Package manager suffers from the same error. At the very least, you cannot rely on the return code from yum to judge the success of any operation.

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Setup & Installation / using yum
« on: March 27, 2016, 04:01:12 pm »
I'm using yum, mostly from command line, but sometimes checking my work with ANPM. While installing prerequisites for Mozilla, OpenOffice and a few others, yum does something and all invocations that do any work end with an error condition

Code: [Select]
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
  Installing : libc-0.6.6-26.oc00.i386



Rpmdb checksum is invalid: dCDPT(pkg checksums)

This is harmless, except for the non-zero return code from yum. I want to call yum and check the return code, so a wrong return code is less convenient. Is there a way to fix the Rpmdb or get yum to ignore the error?

rpm --repairdb does not appear to make the error go away.

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 38.6.0
« on: March 27, 2016, 03:20:21 pm »
I have activated the calendar, yet I'm able to reopen Thunderbird the next day. My Calendar is synchronized with iCloud. I'm on eCS 2.2 b2, and my machine is always on. I reboot pretty frequently, but this morning has been up for over 2 days.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS
« on: March 23, 2016, 02:42:21 pm »
Thinking about this thread, I headed over to the Lenovo website. The x250 is already gone. The x260 eliminates VGA support.

I had hoped that the pace of new introductions would slow with the decline of the PC market.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS
« on: March 10, 2016, 01:52:12 am »
The X250 has a VGA port. Does that work for an external monitor?

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: March 07, 2016, 05:09:49 am »
Has anyone gotten  firefox 38.2.1 to work?

I downloaded it and got it working before the repository went bad. Suntan Special users are stuck because of the repository issue. Sorry about that. In the future, I'll provide support outside of rpm/yum. This is not the first time the repository is down.

By the way, I use iCloud, and it works a whole lot better in Firefox 38.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: March 03, 2016, 11:15:44 pm »
I'm hoping Font Face is the same as Title in the Font Folder. The TTF fonts I removed had the same Title. On one machine, I still have one case of damaged text. Arial comes on OS/2  both as a Type 1 font, in \psfonts and a TrueType font, in \os2\mdos\winos2\system.

I'm going to try removing the WinOS2 TTF font, to see if it will help.

I didn't try the IBM PSCRIPT driver. I don't know why the printer makes any difference to Lotus, but perhaps it's trying to display on screen just as it would be on the printer, in some WYSIWYG sense.

I have what I believe is the same set of drivers and fonts on another machine, and Lotus Word Pro is fine.

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