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Messages - Silvan Scherrer

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no need the hassle. I might create a new rpm within some days

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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« on: March 20, 2025, 03:39:47 pm »
As long as we can't fix the memory issues (4GB border), everything else is more or less useless. And I doubt we ever get this one fixed.

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Hardware / Re: Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS
« on: February 14, 2025, 03:01:26 pm »
Hi Andreas

I'm posting what I was able to uncompress from the RPM on my side, that may be useful. Please remember that I have no idea how CUPS internals works, we need help from someone with more CUPS experience to let us know if the pdd works or not, for this case.

Weird: they called ARCAOS an "open source system". Maybe I asked the wrong person there...
ArcaOS is not an open source system. It is close source system because of all the IBM binaries and closed drivers, with a mix of open source software (like CUPS, xWPS, RPM, WarpIn etc) on the top.

Regards
I don't see how it will work att all w/o the source for the cups filter. As ion the PPD it clear states:
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoufr2"
Which means this filter is doing most of the work. Sure we could eventually build this filter, but iirc the source is closed source from canon.

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Programming / Re: [GCC] Unable to define getMemorySize()
« on: September 26, 2024, 05:40:24 pm »
Looks like you will have to write an OS/2 get_avail_mem_size.

Oh, that may be actual fun :) guess I'll give it a go asap.
Mentore
libc has that implemented since long. see https://github.com/bitwiseworks/libc/commit/1ee2ad15bb9db8f0a327ec6a3cf6c216d2004b8c

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Applications / Re: ANPM database error
« on: August 05, 2024, 05:24:12 pm »
Hello all, I "regularly" check for updates with ANPM, but today it does not want to display me anything (see screenshot as attachment).

I tried the options to clean and to redo the rpm database, to no available. I could find some old web mention of that error on os2.org (dating from 2019 IIRC) but without definitive solution (I tried what was suggested there).

Anyone has an idea on how to fix that problem?

Thanks for any idea !

it seems the database file on the netlabs server is broken. I contacted Adrian already. Lets hope he can fix it soon

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Yum install libtiff-legacy-tools looks like it would install tiff2pdf, version 3.9.5-2. Might have to install after upgrading
Seems that an issue should be raised at Bitwise about the missing tools.
No need to raise an issue. Just read http://www.libtiff.org/releases/v4.6.0.html
Quote from upstream version:

At libtiff v4.6.0, the source code for most TIFF tools (except tiffinfo, tiffdump, tiffcp and tiffset) has been moved to archive/ directory and was not built. tiff2ps and tiff2pdf source code has been moved in a unsupported category, no longer built by default, but were still part of the the source distribution.

With libtiff v4.7.0 those tools were restored.

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Yum install libtiff-legacy-tools looks like it would install tiff2pdf, version 3.9.5-2. Might have to install after upgrading
Seems that an issue should be raised at Bitwise about the missing tools.
No need to raise an issue. Just read http://www.libtiff.org/releases/v4.6.0.html

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Hardware / Re: OpenWatcom Discussion
« on: February 02, 2024, 09:47:38 am »
The lack of an issues tracker was an oversight, which has been corrected. Silvan is the first to mention it.
perfect thanks. makes life easier.

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Hardware / Re: OpenWatcom Discussion
« on: February 01, 2024, 04:10:59 pm »
FWIW, I understand from Steven that his repository should be considered the "current" one.
hmm official w/o bugtracker is a bit....
As sending bugs via email is last century. And all those get forgotten anyway. just my opinion.

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Can someone please remind me where I find the ignore user setting? My KI / KNI / AI / NAI / useless non-related nonsense detector get triggered regularly.
In your profile. See screenshot

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General Discussion / Re: Why doesn't Bitwise answer my email?
« on: July 31, 2023, 05:38:50 pm »
David and all, There is no bounce notice or email from Bitwiseworks in the web based email. Nor have I gotten a response from Bitwiseworks via outlook. I will try gmail.
I answered yesterday to your Outlook Mail. No idea where it is when you cant see it.

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General Discussion / Re: Why doesn't Bitwise answer my email?
« on: July 28, 2023, 04:52:50 pm »
because you mail always bounces. all mails to comcast bounce here. Why I have no idea.

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Programming / Re: Building Qt5
« on: November 24, 2022, 08:12:16 pm »
Dear builders Qt5 please turn off the AVX (and AVX2) code. Due to its presence, the browser does not display the pages. And it is impossible to use libraries. I don’t understand why this code is included if it does not work on OS/2 correctly?

Please open a ticket for this at Github for this issue on the BWW page.

And on which websites does happen so it can be reproduced ?

Thanks,

Roderick Klein
OS/2 VOICE
no need to open a ticket, as we build with -mno-avx since about 15 month. so nothing which is newer should face the issue.

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Applications / Re: Test build of dooble with qt5
« on: May 04, 2022, 12:09:59 pm »
How to do to have it running without crash ?
Very awfull compared to firefox which works far more better than this one but too limited due to new codes uses by many web sites
(I do not use virtual machine)

When will the official working browser be available ?   
I'm tied to switch between ArcaOS and windows many times per day.     

As well Thunderbird is out of use at end of this month for gmail account due to missing secured authorization process (except using application password but not sure it will accept it) , any new one ?

Why was this dooble browser put into normal repository ?
(it should be left into the experimental repository until it is fully tested and not crashing)

 ::) :-\
did you open a issue at github with the trp file? as without it we can't help. sorry

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Programming / Re: Compiling a PM sample with GCC
« on: April 12, 2022, 06:23:38 pm »
3) use wlink instead of ilink. there is a wlink and wrc rpm.

Hi

I would prefer to use wlink since (I guess) it is open source. But I have no idea if how to call it, since on the makefile I'm not making a direct link to "Ilink", I don't know if gcc is the one calling it.

Any suggestion what to change on the makefile to call wlink and give it a try with these samples?

Regards
if you install it via rpm all gets set up for you. gcc then finds the right linker.

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