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Messages - Dariusz Piatkowski

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Web applications / Re: QT5 simplebrowser
« on: November 13, 2020, 11:08:24 pm »
Hello Dimitriy,

...The new highmem fixes some nasty bug in DosRead on JFS which hangs the system if an app tries to load a few hundred megabytes in one go. It's available in the exp repo as RPM now BTW. And you should NOT mark LIBCN0.DLL or LIBCX0.DLL for loading high — it will break virtually everything on your system...

Current 1.0.0 release is available in highmem-1.0.1-1.oc00.pentium4, will you continue with those updates as well, or will highmem.exe transition to the RPM package...OR...did you mean to say that the new highmem.exe is available as highmem-1.0.x-1.oc00.pentium4 RPM package on the EXP repo?

Sorry, may seem silly, but better to clarify as opposed to assuming anything. I suspect you meant the updated highmem RPM package as opposed to rolling it into the base RPM RPM package.

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Programming / Re: ODBC VX-Rexx/DBExpert
« on: November 13, 2020, 10:57:28 pm »
...You mentioned that your odbcadm.exe does nothing. Doesn't it even bring up the dialog window where you can define databases etc.?

Well, I have nothing populated in the window and when I select 'Drivers' button that 'Installed ODBC Drivers' pop-up is empty as well, and there is no ability to add anything there. Further on, none of the other buttons work, so selecting HELP does not actually bring up any help screen. Therefore, I suspect that my install is only paritially correctly installed. Quite honestly I have no idea how it got here in the first place...lol

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Programming / Re: ODBC VX-Rexx/DBExpert
« on: November 13, 2020, 06:06:33 pm »
Hi Per,

...Does anyone know where I can obtain fully working ODBC drivers ?

This probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but G:\OS2\APPS\BIN\ODBCADM.EXE appears to be an ODBC Administration utility. On my machine it does nothing, simply because no such connections are defined. Beyond this though, I wonder if some of the database packaged may in fact contain such drivers?

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Networking / Re: patched AFINETK.SYS: anyone willing to test ?
« on: November 10, 2020, 08:04:53 pm »
Lars!

...Seems like if you restrict your system to one core that then the traps in AFINETK.SYS go away. At least that is what someone reported to me.

OK, I'll test this later tonight, although the TRAPs I did see weren't always immediate, so the full test-cycle might take a few days.

In the meantime, given the above reference and what you documented in the patch itself, what is being changed in the driver:

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replace call to _indcomplete16 with _indcomplete
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What I'm wondering is as follows: is the patch attempting to serialize the processing and thus potentially avoid any sort of SMP problems from creeping up?

Thanks!

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Networking / Re: patched AFINETK.SYS: anyone willing to test ?
« on: November 09, 2020, 06:13:24 pm »
Hey Lars,

Sent you a PM.

Yeah, I'd like to take a stab at this. I used to run the MMRE drivers for my RealTek NIC, but once I moved to fibre I discovered that they would trap and the trap always was in the AFINETK.SYS driver. So while the R8169 driver appears to work fine, it is good for only this particular hardware combination I have at the moment.

thanks,
-Dariusz

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Programming / Re: REXX - how to kill a process?
« on: November 05, 2020, 02:12:21 am »
Hi Doug,

Try PKILL.EXE. It seems to be included in ArcaOS, and only needs the program name, not a PID.

Yup, I got this one on my machine already, but I really wanted to do this through REXX (if anything, it's a bit a learning experience). I'll pursue Remy's suggestion.

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Programming / REXX - how to kill a process?
« on: November 04, 2020, 05:15:20 pm »
So I need to kill a process given a particular flag being set.

I figured this would be easy in REXX, and most likley would rely on a suitable API call or a built-in function. However, no such thing has been found (REXX newbie here, so take it easy... ;))

But, I did start looking at RXU library, indeed, I can see that I could use:

dosrc = RxQProcStatus(stemname [,flags])

to get the equivalent of PSTAT result.

From there I could fish out the matching record for a particular module (an EXE in my case) and once I have the PID I could call:

killrc = RxKillProcess(pid [, action])

But all this still seems a little convoluted, I mean is there no simpler way to kill a process than having to point to it by a PID? Yes, I understand the reason for this, but if I have a single instantiation of a particular EXE I know that killing it by module name is just fine.

Any suggestions where to look next?

Oh, sure, I could call one of the utilities that do this, but I was hoping to push my REXX "boundaries" a tad and see how this could be implemented, any suggestions?

Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Yahoo Groups - Shutting Down
« on: November 03, 2020, 09:48:18 pm »
I like Andi's approach here...while the emails are coming in fine, and yes you can certainly setup a filter (it does become a "yet another filter" thing), I honestly would prefer a newsgroup approach to this as emails tend to become too distracting.

I'll dig into this a bit, not sure if that feature is available, but worth a try.

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Mail-News / Thunderbird and CHAT feature...
« on: October 30, 2020, 04:07:07 am »
Alright, so I figured since the TB email client is here to say I might as well give the CHAT feature a whirl.

Setup went OK, the IDs and accounts are recognized. All appears to work (test msgs are fine), "Typing..." indicators are fine, etc. However, none of the message history appears to be retained.

Basically, once I shut TB down and re-start any previous messages are lost. The history still shows a day of the week that prior messages ocurred on, I can click on these at which point in time i would expect the actual msg window to show the chat history. That does not happen.

Has anyone seen this?

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Mail-News / Re: Thunderbird and Contact import...what works?
« on: October 26, 2020, 12:39:35 am »
Hi Dave,

This might be newer, also calendar timezones.

Thanks for the attachment.

The 'Provider for Google Calendar' version I have already installed is 3.3, so I had not installed the version you sent (that being 2.6). Given my last post I spent a few more hours investigating this to finally discover that TB has the option to "fake" being Firefox. OK, I'm over-simplifying, but point being with something like Google log-in functionality that actually allows TB to work properly.

So, specifically setting general.useragent.compatMode.firefox to TRUE (FALSE is default) now actually allowed the 'Provider for Google Calendar' v3.3 to work successfully. Not only did it get to my Google Calendars, but it successfully imported my own, as well as all the other calendars that are visible to me.

As such, as best as I can tell it would appear that I can get all my Google/Android scheduling/contact/email handling done in TB, which is an awesome setup!

Of course I now need to do some addtional testing, such as: adding new contacts in TB, setting up new calendar events and/or tasks in TB, etc., but so far, so good. Thank you again Dave for reminding me of this.

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Mail-News / Re: Thunderbird and Contact import...what works?
« on: October 25, 2020, 10:06:44 pm »
Good news guys, downlevelling to gcontactsync-2.0.13-sm+tb.xpi solved the problem for me. I was able to bring all of my Google Contacts and Groups into TB. Much happier!

But, to Dave's point, this issue is apparently hitting the newer versions of TB.

In the meantime, I went looking for the option to sync up the Google Calendar in TB as well. Found 'Provider for Google Calendar', fished out the 48.x TB compatible version and installed.

Umm....no-go!

But, at least the reason seems a little more obvious, the Error Log shows failure to validate using the OAuthorization method, error shows:

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Timestamp: 10/25/20 04:47:39 pm
Error: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIHttpChannel.responseStatus]
Source File: resource://gdata-provider/modules/OAuth2.jsm
Line: 171
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But at least this is consistent with the TB Gmail IMAP account setup steps which require us to use 'Normal' authentication instead, if I'm guessing correctly here and putting the two pieces together.

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Mail-News / Thunderbird and Contact import...what works?
« on: October 25, 2020, 05:05:15 pm »
Just recently I deployed Dave's release of the Thunderbird email client. So far so good, connected to my Gmail IMAP server fine, pulled a whole wack of emails down (didn't have to do that, but heck, storage is cheap these days so at least the local stuff allows me to do some extensive searching if need be and it's synchronized automatically anyways).

OK, so that's all good stuff.

But to ease the use of TB I figured I should import my Google Contacts next. Did a bit of research (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail) and discovered a fairly well recommended add-on, that being: gContactSync (https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gcontactsync/).

Since the latest official release is way past our 45.8 TB release, I went fishing to find a matching older release, which happens to be 2.1.13:

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Version 2.1.13 Released May 31, 2019 330.7 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.14 - 2.56, Thunderbird 17.0 - 60.*

Installed it, that went fine. My problem is that attempting to import anything from Google just flat out appears to go nowhere, as in: nothing seems to happen. Strange thing is that even turning on the debug log (for the add-on) does not produce anything.

Therefore, I'm curious if anyone has encountered this before?

Most likely I'll keep on down-levelling until I find a release that works. I want this to be a one-time sync, and well, if that fails I know there are more tedious approaches such as a manual export/import through a CVS setups, etc.

Thanks everyone,
-Dariusz

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General Discussion / Re: Thunderbird e-mail client
« on: October 24, 2020, 04:01:27 pm »
Hi Dave,

Use tbturbo. I routinely run SM and TB and sometimes FF using their respective turbo programs, with DLLs marked high and get lots of up time. The DLLs not in the program directory are loaded once for all while there are 3 sets of xul.dll etc...

Oh? So use two separate xxturbo setups than? One for FF and a separate one for TB?

OK, I did not think to do that, instead I made the assumption that the DLLs loaded by the FFTurbo would be equally applicable for TB usage, since they are the same DLLs:

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G:\UTIL\MISC\FFTURBO.EXE   0043       1A     
                               G:\USR\LIB\LIBCN0.DLL
                                  G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL
                                     G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                                     G:\OS2\DLL\SESMGR.DLL
                                        G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                                  G:\OS2\DLL\KBDCALLS.DLL
                                     G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                                  G:\OS2\DLL\VIOCALLS.DLL
                                     G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                                  G:\OS2\DLL\NLS.DLL
                                     G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                               G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*
                               G:\USR\LIB\GCC1.DLL
                                  G:\USR\LIB\LIBCN0.DLL*
                                  G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL*

...but maybe that's not a safe assumption then?

...Don't have too small of a VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT as well, at least 2560...

All good there, I've been running the max 3072 for a long time now.

...I've been accessing Gmail through POP3 for years with TB. IMAP on SM also works fine and allows access to the junk folder to catch the odd misplaced message.

Hmm, interesting. I actually liked the idea of TB being able to connect to IMAP b/c at least that way all the email is sitting in that single spot (mail server) and I can readily hop across multiple devices and maintain the same access. What was your reason for running POP3 instead?

Alright, I'll take a look at the TBTURBO as you pointed out and deploy that to see what impact that has.

I did run into a separate issue, that deals with importing my Google Contacts through an add-on, but that really warrants a separate thread which I'll get started in the specific forum.

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General Discussion / Re: Thunderbird e-mail client
« on: October 24, 2020, 04:57:06 am »
I took Dave's advice from a separate thread into consideration (well, decided to finally do the install of Thunderbird and see how I can configure and use it to access my Gmail as opposed to the browser based approach).

All in all, given the suggestions listed in this thread I was able to get this up and running. Pretty smooth so far, no complaints, but it's only been a couple of hours so far...LOL!

However, I have a question on strategy you guys are using to balance the system use (memory really) between Thunderbird and Firefox.

Specifically, I have the FFTurboLoad deployed, which works well for FF. I see that Thunderbird uses very similar, sometimes the same DLLs (name wise), so it would make sense to maximize that use.

I took a quick snapshot of the runtime loaded DLLs for both (PSTAT):

1) FF
G:\USR\LIB\LIBC066.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\NSPR4.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\LIBC066.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\LIBCX0.DLL
G:\OS2\DLL\SESMGR.DLL

2) THUNDERBIRD
G:\USR\LIB\GCC1.DLL
G:\OS2\DLL\SESMGR.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\STDCPP6.DLL

3) COMMON TO BOTH
G:\USR\LIB\LIBCN0.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\LIBCX0.DLL
G:\USR\LIB\GCC1.DLL
G:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.DLL
G:\OS2\DLL\PMWIN.DLL
G:\MPTN\DLL\TCPIP32.DLL

Further on, I see that Thunderbird directory has several DLLs showing, which I'm going to mark HIGH and see how that works out.

Since both apps run concurrenty, I am not using the LIBPATHSTRICT, which I think is good news.

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