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Messages - Dariusz Piatkowski

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Hi Alex,

You can use the "Generic Postscript (Enhanced)" driver in PSPRINT.DRV (if you have it).  That supports up to 2400 dpi resolutions.

Awesome...will give it a go next. Thanks...and sorry for the late response, was away on business this week.

-Dariusz

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking to upgrade my ePDF printing to support a higher dpi colour output. I have been using my Brother HL-5470DW printer as the device driver for my ePDF printer object. This, for those of you who might not know, allows you to do an easy PDF print. Basically, from any application which does not support native PDF creation you simply send the print job to your ePDF printer, which in turn passes it through the PSMON service and onto the ePDFutility.

This has been working here very well, but recently I needed to preserve the colour on a couple of image to PDF conversions and since my Brother printer is a black&white laser this driver simply won't do. I installed the recommended "Apple Color Laserwriter 12/600PS" (from the PostScript package) driver, as per the ePDF readme, however that maxes out at 600 dpi. Subsequently the PDF output quality suffers a bit.

Therefore, I'm curious what other printer devices, that exist in the standard IBM PostScript driver pack, are capable of 1200 dpi in colour?

I know the ePDF folks released a test ePDF driver, available as an updated IBM driver pack. My only problem with installing it is that it would overwrite my Brother HL-5470 DW driver which I had manually adjusted to take advantage of printer features that were not supported in the out-of-the-box IBM drivers. Since that is my primary printer I am hesitant to make any changes here.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-Dariusz

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Programming / Re: Templates
« on: March 31, 2019, 07:58:12 pm »
I have been using the same approach Joop has detailed for some time now. Very easy to change the path to the JRE EXE, most other things remain the same...so it's a quick drag'n'drop to build an object which requires a specific JRE version.

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I think Doug made a couple of excellent points. True, this forum does not get regular updates from the AN folks...however, the information does trickle in through those who participate in the testing activities.

Regarding the commercial over personal use focus by AN team...hmm, I am actually of quite the opposite opinion. To be very frank, it has been nothing but impressive to have multiple reported issues acknowledged and worked on, with resolutions being provided to nearly all of them...and yet here i am, a lowly "individual" right?

Thw weakness I see today is the seemingly very steep hill one needs to climb in order to join the development efforts. I know this may seem a bit like beating a dead horse, but I have tried this on my own and while many folks have pointed me "here and there", the fact remains that nowhere is there a single and CURRENT solution (a full build environment) available that we can pick up, set up, start producing things and stay in-sync with the toolsets and libraries the main parties (BWW and AN) are using.

If that is too hard to overcome we could always focus on converting whatever software is currently out there into RPM packages. This might go a long way towards standardizing the distribution stream and possibly might allow us to avoid some of the "it works here but fails there" type of situations. Standardization in this way would bring consistency.

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Hey Paul,

Hey there, I'd be interested in some Samba logs from this, just to see if there's something unusual happening within the Netdrive plugin - I'm assuming this is with the Samba 4.x plugin?

Yeah, this is with the latest 4.9.5 drop, I haven't tried with the test 4.10.0 release yet, however given that the difference is seen between different PDF viewers I'm thinking it may not be Samba client related? For what it's worth the behaviour is the same regardless of whether I'm reading the file from the NAS or the Win7Pro box.

Anyways, toss some instructions at me to grab some logs, unless the standard log from the NetDrive interface will suffice? I'm thinking the one which get started by tossing ndpsmb.dbg into the root of the boot drive...

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I second Martin's comments and concur that it is exciting to see the level of concerted effort to keep things not just alive, but improving on our platform.

At the same time I do not want to overlook the contributions that have been made over the years by other projects & contributors, without them I am not sure that AN could have ever been "born".

Keeping my fingers crossed, and contributing here and there with some testing, feedback and monetary contributions. I do genuinely wish there was an easier way for inviduals like myself to contribute more meaningfully though.

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So I've been toying with the idea of moving all of my local (OS/2) docs to the LAN NAS. The NAS has about 8TB space, gets backed up every night while the OS/2 box has a live nightly backup but only to an internal HD. Yes, I know I could probably use the rsync job to push stuff from the OS/2 box to the NAS/Backup but given that I want these docs to be accessible from all the other home devices it just seems like NAS is the ideal storage place.

Anyways, my "Documents" folder is about 2 Gig of data, some 12k files. I executed a copy to the NAS, WPS copy failed, but Larsen Commander came through - I suspect the EAs were a problem for WPS since my NAS does not support them, just a guess, I haven't debugged it further.

Once on the NAS I proceeded to test access, basicaly standard "find the file, open through WPS associations", etc, etc.

All good until I hit my PDFs. So I've got three PDF readers installed here: Lucide, GSView 5.0, and QPDFView. Both Lucide and QPDFView exhibit this weird behaviour: all PDF loading is extremely slow, I can actualy see chunks of 64K being received and sent over my TCP/IP monitor, this continues until the 1st page is rendered and repeats when succeeding pages are loaded. GSView on the other hand just chomps away magnitudes faster, so any big PDFs just show up as a big spike on the monitor. On the LAN it is very quick.

Sometimes the Lucide/QPDFView "load chunks" get larger, it seems to depend on how big of a PDF I'm actually openning. The bigger file - 38M in size - caused the chunks to increase to about 700K on the receive and a matching 200k on the send.

So here is the thing, Lucide is my default viewer. Given that both it and QPDFView exhibit the same behaviour I'm thinking it is something with poppler?

Therefore, I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar?

What could I do to try to debug this further?

Right now it is just about the only thing preventing me from moving to the NAS.

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Networking / Re: Samba 4.9.0 based client
« on: March 25, 2019, 11:10:07 pm »
Hi Paul,

Hi Dariusz,

Thanks for the always great work, but I've got to ask this question (well, a couple of them anyways):

1) How do your releases compare to the official RPM packages (because I was originally using your ZIP stuff, then moved over to RPM, which I was under the impression you were doing, or at least helping out with???) I have samba-client.i686 (4.9.4-4.oc00) currently installed.

2) In this last post you show the 4.9.5 and 4.10.0, is there a particular version we should pursue?

3) NetDrive plug-in, is this to be used ONLY with the 4.10.0 client judging by the fact that you have lumped with the 4.10.0 release?

1) For ArcaOS - Lewis will end up packaging 4.9.5 as a rpm. I mainly provided these links for non-ArcaOS users, who people who like to live on the cutting edge :P

2) 4.9.5 is a bug fix for the 4.9.x series, 4.10.0 is the next feature update for Samba. I'd consider 4.9.x more mature, but would welcome feedback on 4.10.x

3) Currently, ndpsmb.dll releases are paired with a specific samba support DLL, so it's important to use them as a matched pair.

Hope this helps,

Paul

I installed the stuff Lewis released, so far so good, no hiccups. Will do a bit more of file/folder creation testing later on and will report back.

Once I have this stable I will take a stab at the 4.10.0 stuff...

Thanks, as always!
-Dariusz

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Networking / Re: Samba 4.9.0 based client
« on: March 24, 2019, 02:51:44 pm »
Paul,

Thanks for the always great work, but I've got to ask this question (well, a couple of them anyways):

1) How do your releases compare to the official RPM packages (because I was originally using your ZIP stuff, then moved over to RPM, which I was under the impression you were doing, or at least helping out with???) I have samba-client.i686 (4.9.4-4.oc00) currently installed.

2) In this last post you show the 4.9.5 and 4.10.0, is there a particular version we should pursue?

3) NetDrive plug-in, is this to be used ONLY with the 4.10.0 client judging by the fact that you have lumped with the 4.10.0 release?

-Dariusz

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Programming / Re: Which GCC to run with?
« on: March 23, 2019, 11:00:14 pm »
Alright, thanks you guys.

This is very similar to the approach I have taken in setting up my default GCC environment. In my case I use VisualSlickEdit to define 'Project' templates which include everything needed to Compile/Build/Re-Build projects. So even for a default system-wide 4.9.2 installation I do end up setting up all the environments and commands to properly run stuff. That way if I kick off any of the steps from within VSE it knows precisely what to do.

In this case once I install 8.1.0 I will build a matching VSE GCC-810 project definition.

Thank you again!

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Applications / Re: How to make FireFox appear as a windows browser?
« on: March 23, 2019, 02:09:42 am »
David,

As Dave noted, the media stuff may be a dead-end, but in other instances you can use an add-on like 'User Agent Switcher' that will setup the browser ID tags to make it appear as if your OS/2 based FF is actually a Winx, Linux, MAC, whatever you want.

I occasionally use this approach with sites that insist I need a specific level of FF and clearly that is not available on our platform.

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Programming / Re: Which GCC to run with?
« on: March 20, 2019, 03:03:52 am »
Bringing this one back from the 'dead', can anyone suggest on how to configure our install to support multiple GCC versions?

Specifically, I am getting myself re-acquainted with C/C++ and wanted to focus on the latest 8.10 release that Paul built last year...but looking at his release I see '/usr/local810/bin/...' which doesn't seem to follow the often encountered on-line references to doing things like:

1) default (4.9.2) GCC /usr/bin/gcc
2) optional versions (8.1.0) /usr/bin/gcc/810
3) additional versions (7.3.0) /usr/bin/gcc/730

I do have the RPM/YUM GCC stuff installed right now, that being the 4.92 version. This works fine.

I assume that the only way to invoke one or the other GCC version on our platform is by playing around with the various GCC & PATH env variables so that only that particular version of GCC is visible.

In my searches I found that update-alternatives is oftentimes used on the Linux platforms to accomplish this type of a switch, however that (if I understand it correctly) relies on symbolic links, which I am not sure our ported stuff supports (I think it does, but not at all sure how to check this). Either way, even with the support being there that package would need to be ported first, I am currently looking at the C code. So maybe that's a longer term strategy?

But, from an immediate perspective, how have you guys gone about this?

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Networking / Re: Which NIC to buy?
« on: March 17, 2019, 04:11:42 pm »
Hi guzzi,

I posted my NIC hardware info in a response to another thread, but for what it's worth I have an older MSI motherboard here with a built-in Realtek chipset, works fine with the original MultiMac drivers as well as the later MMRE, although the MMRE do cause a trap under very high loads.

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Vendor 10ECh Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
 Device 8168h RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
 Command 0107h (I/O Access, Memory Access, BusMaster, System Errors)
 Status 0010h (Has Capabilities List, Fast Timing)
 Revision 03h, Header Type 00h, Bus Latency Timer 00h
 Self test 00h (Self test not supported)
 Cache line size 64 Bytes (16 DWords)
 PCI Class Network, type Ethernet
 Subsystem ID 75761462h Onboard RTL8111b on MSI P965 Platinum Mainboard (Guess Only!)

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Applications / Re: OS/4 (technical details only)
« on: March 06, 2019, 12:29:44 am »
David,

OS2user, I am not that savvy with programs like this.  I installed it, but don't know how to set it up or what I would use it for.

That is a RDP (Remote DeskTop) client, which allows you to connect to a remote Desktop / PC somewhere over the network. Typically that might be a WINx machine that you need to connect to in order to do some action/work on that remote box.

I am using this client on my LAN to ease the maintenance of all the PCs in the house. I occasionally use the remote WINx boxes to do stuff that my local OS/2 box does not allow me to do (lack of apps with specific support, etc.).

Do you have a WINx box on your LAN/network that you could try connecting to?

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Programming / Re: Can an application be started and run in monoprocessor?
« on: February 24, 2019, 09:21:55 pm »
Is this about running everything in the process on a single (assigned) CPU, or is it about just starting on a single core?

Here is why I ask, for some time now I've had this particular problem: certain apps when started on my multi-core configuration will freeze WPS, occasionally I may recover, but most of the time I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL the machine and even with 'CAD-Pupup' in place I may not have a smooth way to shut the machine off. Of all apps ANPM is a perfect example of this, start this in SMP mode and guaratneed lock results.

Now, strange enough if I force all the cores but one into OFF state before starting ANPM this is not a problem. I can successfuly start the app and then turn on all the other cores aftewards, no problem there.

I previously tried the suggested approaches of markexe as well as execmode, neither one helps, so I suspect that the symptom I am seeing maybe the result of a particualr DLL load/execution problem. This is why I ask if it's just about starting in a single core mode, or a full exec in a single core mode?

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