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Programming / Re: Animated Mouse Pointer - Need Development Help
« on: April 30, 2014, 01:30:45 am »
I was also unclear that the license was not GPL, which is only allowed to be linked to system libraries.

While the eco-runtime was not part of OS/2, it was distributed I believe with at least one version of eCS so it can be argued it is a system library so whether LGPL (which I consider a free as in speech license) or GPL (free as in beer license) it would meet the requirements.  Apache license is good (free speech license).

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Programming / Re: Multimac - chipsets requiring support
« on: January 18, 2014, 02:32:35 am »
* Intel 5100 AGN   - Not supported
Not supported but does work on some systems with genmac... Does not on Alex's machine but does mine for instance.  It has a tendency to drop the connection so I would like the multimac driver for it too.

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Programming / Re: Multimac - chipsets requiring support
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:44:11 pm »
Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
Device 4237h PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

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Programming / Re: OS/4 kernel and extended KEE
« on: January 02, 2014, 10:53:36 pm »
I'll have to look at giving this a shot... I had suggested somewhere to use the memory above 4G as a RAM disk so I like the idea :)
Those trying this and having heat/battery concerns, you might try the hlt driver:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/hltdriver.zip
It does not require acpi to run... it will make the cpu monitor show 100% CPU usage (at least the single thread version... the others have hung systems with more than 2 CPUs) but the CPU "usage" is akin to the System Idle of the Windows task manager but unlike in windows where the System Idle is not factored into the CPU usage it is with our CPU monitors as there was no reason to remove it when they were created. 

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Utilities / Re: Changing OS/2's REXX
« on: December 13, 2013, 05:09:11 pm »
Linux uses GCC, hence my choice of compiler... I do not know which for Windows but I think probably an MS compiler.

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Utilities / Re: Changing OS/2's REXX
« on: December 11, 2013, 11:34:14 pm »
There is Object Open Rexx (Open source - Common Public License Version 1.0), but sadly it have not been ported/released to OS/2.
There have been at least three people look at porting this:
Two were concurrently working on it separately, one with VisualAge and one with OpenWatcom, and from their reports both got pretty far along but eventually ran out of steam for the project.  I have tried building it with GCC but haven't gotten very far at all.

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Utilities / Re: Changing OS/2's REXX
« on: December 10, 2013, 04:34:24 pm »
Regina REXX does not have an Object REXX.  I don't know if there are any issues in Classic REXX... I don't know if it integrates like IBM's does via the rexx.dll or not.

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Utilities / Re: Update eCS beta ISO
« on: December 04, 2013, 05:03:26 pm »
If (and I know this is less and less common by the day) you have a floppy drive (I have a USB floppy I kept for this purpose) you can use a floppy to have newer drivers on that will be pulled in during the initial boot process.  I can't find the instructions right now, I thought they were on the root of the DVD but I don't find them.

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Setup & Installation / Re: eCS 2.2 transforming into Warp 4
« on: December 02, 2013, 04:35:39 pm »
eCS 2.2 added Split Views to eworkplace.

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Article Discussions / Re: WPS Classes Clone
« on: November 21, 2013, 12:15:39 am »
There is also an Open Source sc.exe and SOM implementation available that Martin reported some time ago:
SOMFree.  There is not currently an OS/2 port of it but there are Linux, MAC, BSD, and Windows so it is doable.  What I would like to see though is a WPS clone built off of it for at least Linux and Windows so that I could have a common solid dekstop across platforms.

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General Discussion / Re: The Mascot
« on: October 18, 2013, 11:30:44 pm »
An extinct elephant as the mascot might lead to comparisons to the OS with someone saying it was apropos.

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Networking / Re: SAMBA Printing
« on: October 14, 2013, 09:26:14 pm »
Doug, that version of SMB.PDR is very old and lacks some important fixes.

The latest version is 1.03 and is included in the most recent test ISOs of eCS 2.2.  The source is in SVN on Netlabs as well, but I actually don't know if it's been uploaded publicly somewhere.
This is the bldlevel from on netlabs:
[e:\svncode\samba\branches\smbpdr-1.0]bldlevel smb.pdr
Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001
Signature:       @#netlabs.org:1.03#@##1## 10 Oct 2013 15:56:01     AGARADZO::::
::@@Samba client port driver for SMB printing
Vendor:          netlabs.org
Revision:        1.03.03
Date/Time:       10 Oct 2013 15:56:01
Build Machine:   AGARADZO
File Version:    1.3
Description:     Samba client port driver for SMB printing

However, it is not working properly for me but I haven't had a chance to see if it is something I did wrong in building/installing it or if it is the current state of the code.

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Applications / Re: vlc 2.1.0 won't start
« on: October 12, 2013, 10:35:14 pm »
Delete the vlc folder under usr\local\lib and then unzip the application again.  I had a similar problem and it turned out to be that there were DLLs that were in the plugin directory that was not replaced.

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Applications / Re: Java applications
« on: September 22, 2013, 01:45:25 am »
OK, I downloaded greenfoot (because it was a small download). 

The generic jar file is an installer which works without any apparent problems.  It creates a shell script (it appears to assume that our system is linux because we are using openjdk6) which I now have to interpret for OS/2 to use.

The script is below if anyone would like to venture an interpretation it would be helpful.

#!/bin/sh
APPBASE="f:\java-apps\greenfoot"
JAVAPATH="F:\openjdk6-sdk-ga5"
CP="$APPBASE/lib/bluej.jar:$JAVAPATH/lib/tools.jar"
"$JAVAPATH/bin/java" -cp "$CP" bluej.Boot -greenfoot=true -bluej.compiler.showunchecked=false "$@"
f:\openjdk6-sdk-ga5\bin\java -cp f:\java-apps\greenfoot\lib\bluej.jar;f:\openjdk6-sdk-ga5\lib\tools.jar bluej.Boot -greenfoot=true -bluej.compiler.showunchecked=false "$@"
Not fully certain what the $@ is... it may be picking up a command line argument (which a quick search seems to confirm).

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Hardware / Re: Webcam Support for OS/2 and eCS!!
« on: September 13, 2013, 05:49:44 am »
Wow, that's great news!  Big thanks to both you guys!

It says the 10.195 USB drivers from Lars are required.  What about the similar but separately maintained 11.0x USB drivers from David (which are what will be going into eCS 2.2)?  The latest release of the latter appears to be from August.
10.195 contain updates from Wim Brul that have not made their way into the stable branch yet.

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