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(...) That may be down to the use of CHECKINI.  (Talking of which, has Henk also been kind enough to update his other Regularly Useful util, CLEANINI?)

checkini is from Henk Kelder, but cleanini is from Carsten Arnold.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Broken AOS-5.1 Trash Can
« on: January 13, 2024, 11:33:12 pm »
The system should be doing automatic archives of the desktop, config.sys etc. Boot and when the white blob appears at the beginning of the boot, press F1, gotta be quick. You will get a menu including a list of archives you can restore. Usually 3 plus the original install one.

You mean Alt + F1 ?

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes Retirement
« on: January 11, 2024, 11:43:58 pm »
It seems another group is also working on a way to save the content of Hobbes: the Classic Computing cctalk Mailing List.
Web interface: https://classiccmp.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/cctalk@classiccmp.org/thread/YIGLWOEQHX2UUWASNE2QFRUOATRCTBUX/

I already informed Roderick about this.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing
« on: December 27, 2023, 02:25:03 am »
I guess it is here: https://smedley.id.au/tmp/fmpeg-chromium-6.3.2-20230516.zip but it is dead link now. ยด

No it is not, because your URL is missing one 'f' at the start of the file name ;)
If you add that, the link works.

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I see no auctions on eBay for 2.11, but several on Amazon. And a search for the ISBN in a search machine gives even more sellers. Search for  0672305631.
Best option appears to be at abebooks.co.uk marketplace: brand new copy (so including the companion diskette) for 35.51 GBP. See https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/ShopBasketPL?ac=a&ik=31732596141

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Web applications / Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« on: November 30, 2023, 07:10:16 pm »
Hi Remy, thanks for the report. Guess I need to test on a virgin system. For now, move the dictionaries to @unixroot\usr\bin\webengine_dictionaries.

Or use the environment variable DOOBLE_TRANSLATIONS_PATH to point to wherever you have placed the translation files.

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I suggest that you post the entire testlog. It has other interesting information.

Ahem, it also contains your real name, registration number with AN and email address, all in plain text.
So it seems advisable to delete that personal information before you post your testlog output on this public forum!

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General Discussion / Re: Os2.kr
« on: November 27, 2023, 11:52:35 pm »
Also do you know any other Korean programmers that you can contact who might help?

One name that comes to my mind is komh, who (among many other projects) has ported VLC to OS/2.
The file readme.eng in VLC 3.0.20 (to be found at Hobbes) contains even a link for donations, that points to a webpage at www.os2.kr ...

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Utilities / Re: touch?
« on: November 26, 2023, 11:41:08 pm »
So basically I want to be able to create a new file in a directory using the CLI.

Maybe I misunderstand you, but I would expect the following to work:

cd <directory>
e (or tedit or epm or whichever editor)
start typing
use Save as and give it a filename (some editors might even allow you to start the editor with a desired file name which will be created if it doesn't exist already)

Another possibility:

cd <directory>
copy con: <filename>
start typing
Ctrl+Z



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Applications / Re: HyperAccess 7
« on: November 17, 2023, 11:26:22 pm »
Code: [Select]
[C:\] set tmp
TMP=(null)

Hm, if "set tmp" returns (null)  like you write, then there exists no environment variable TMP.

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Programming / Re: Copying text strings to AOS-5.1 clipboard in 'C'
« on: November 16, 2023, 01:27:53 am »
With all due respect to others who have responded, I have to say that the only way you'll really know how things work is if you RTFM (a term, BTW, that had a long history on Usenet and was NEVER taken to be offensive).

You mean Read The Fine Manual? (eg,d&rfc)

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Applications / Re: HyperAccess 7
« on: November 09, 2023, 11:57:52 pm »
"Setup is unable to copy the installation support file A:\~INS0762.LIB to a temporary location.Error 420."

(snip)

tempvar = VALUE('TMP',,'OS2ENVIRONMENT')

This suggests to me that it is looking for a temporary location that is to be found in the TMP environment variable. Maybe there is no TMP environment variable but instead a TEMP environment variable?

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« on: October 23, 2023, 10:35:00 am »
Quote
... on the c't, which seems to have been a magazine.
c't is still a valuable computer magazine. Homepage - https://www.heise.de/ct.

I've trashed all these old copies long ago. I fear at this time there was no annual CD too as it was in the 200x years. But if there is really an urgent need for some old article, changes are good that you can still get/buy it. Have to look at my old CD collection first.

In the 90s  they already had annual CDs, and today you can still buy a complete archive (Blu-Ray, USB stick, DVD). So if you have also thrown out the CDs ...

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Programming / Re: shared memory value - Odin win32k or DosQuerySysInfo???
« on: October 18, 2023, 11:54:11 pm »
I went back to the code and sure enough, what I missed was a call to check the availability of the win32k stuff (libWin32kInstalled) and when not present the usage of Dos16MemAvail API instead.

Now, having said that, while I can find some on-line references to Dos16MemAvail, I cannot for the life of me find actual documentation for this. Is that some kind of a macro maybe?

Some background at https://svn.netlabs.org/repos/xworkplace/branches/branch-1-0/001/xwphelp2/xcenter/xc_mem.html , which says:

"Internally, this widget uses the Dos16MemAvail API, an old 16-bit API that is no longer documented by IBM.

The documentation for OS/2 1.3 says that this reports "the size of the largest block of free memory". This is obviously not true any more, since all 32-bit OS/2 versions (since 2.0) no longer allocate memory in blocks, but with 4 KB page granularity instead.

From my experience, this API now does indeed show the amount of free physical memory in the system, that is, the amount of RAM that is currently not used by OS/2, either because it has never been used or swapped out or released again by a process. (From my testing, this API returns the same values as Theseus does for the free physical RAM.) This free RAM can be used by applications immediately without &os2; having to make room by swapping out other memory pages."

More info can be found at http://www.edm2.com/index.php/DosMemAvail which matches the information in the OS/2 1.3 "Control Program Programming Reference".

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Programming / Re: makefile interpretation - help needed
« on: October 15, 2023, 11:40:12 pm »
Dariusz,

Are you aware of the book "Mastering Make" (2nd edition) by Tondo, Nathanson and Yount? (ISBN 0-13-121906-5)
It also covers NMake and Borland's Make on OS/2 plus versions for DOS and UNIX. It is from 1994.

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