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Setup & Installation / How to install Firefox
« on: November 16, 2020, 02:19:09 am »
Is there a web page that explains how to install Firefox on ArcaOS? I know someone who would like to install it, but needs something fairly user-friendly.

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Networking / Re: WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 16, 2020, 12:29:54 am »
I cannot completely fix this with IDLE SENSITIVITY. While telnet works, the system is stressed doing it. I also have occasional traps. I suggest this isn't really useful software on OS/2.

In the meantime, someone suggested that I try ZOC 4.15, and that does appear to have TN 5250 in it.

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Networking / Re: WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 12, 2020, 06:19:19 am »
I heard that I needed to run two programs to get the IBM WinOS2 TCP/IP support working better.

1. Run \MPTN\BIN\VDOSCTL.EXE

2. Inside WinOS2, run \TCPIP\DOS\BIN\TCPCNTL.EXE

After doing those two things, the Mocha telnet is working. I did not yet try the TN5250 or TN3270, but I'll bet they work fine, too.

The only thing wrong is that on my SMP system, all cores are working at 100%. Does anyone know if there is a DOS Setting that controls programs that hog the CPU by polling?

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Networking / Re: WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 11, 2020, 05:50:48 am »
Thanks for the tip.

I tried installing IE from a WinOS2 Full Screen session, and the OS/2 system traps. I have auto-ipl, so I didn't even get to see the trap screen.

The readme for 16-bit IE says you must install your own WinSock.

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Networking / Re: WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 10, 2020, 03:26:55 pm »
Thanks, I see I have winsock, and it's in the path. Something else is wrong.

While I'm at it, I'm trying to get TN5250 to work. Maybe getting these old 16-bit Win freeware programs isn't the best way. What other ways could I get TN5250 capability. (Telnet to an IBM iSeries)

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Networking / WinOS2 and WinSock
« on: November 10, 2020, 02:09:15 am »
I installed some Win16 networking application, and I realized that it won't work without some kind of WinSock support.

 https://mochasoft.dk/win311x.htm

Apparently I've forgotten how to add WinSock support. Anyone remember this one?


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Applications / Re: gImageReader - qt5 OCR application
« on: October 29, 2020, 08:38:55 pm »
Hi Eduardo,

You have left unanswered Neil's comment about dictionaries. In the URL you mention, all the languages use files with the same names. You cannot copy them together to the hunspell folder. And then, how are them installed? The readme says using npm, but npm is not available in OS2.

How would I add a dictionary?
And what are the dictionaries for? I have read documents in English, French and Spanish quite well, with no dictionaries installed.


If I haven't answered, it's because I don't know. I compiled this software after a discussion on OCR in a mailing list. I have no real need for it myself. In terms of the dictionary, I assume after the OCR, if a dictionary is installed,  it will spell check to improve the accuracy.

Cheers,

Paul

I asked for just that reason. Recognition is pretty good, but if spell check were added, it might have been better. I'm not really in need of OCR, but if I was, this program is very promising. I tried some of the same inputs for Recognita and I did not get good results. It is hard to prepare files for input to Recognita. gImageReader takes almost anything.

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Mail-News / Re: Thunderbird and Contact import...what works?
« on: October 25, 2020, 05:37:49 pm »
I like to use vCard to import/export. I also use the ImportExportTools add-on.

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General Discussion / Re: Revolutionary PC Technology
« on: October 22, 2020, 03:41:33 pm »
I remember when a PC came with 4 MB RAM and a Mac came with 768 MB RAM. "But Macs are more expensive..."

I remember a Seybold conference where graphics designers ran $799 iMacs against $25,000 HP personal computers. The Macs ran circles around the PCs.

OS/2 for Power PC had such promise, but IBM had already abandoned OS/2, and Apple abandoned MacOS, and rebranded NeXt as OS X. I had a compatible, but it never ran OS/2, unfortunately. Mac OS 7 did have some libraries with the same names as some of the OS/2 SOM DLLs. I wouldn't be surprised if there was code in common.

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Applications / Re: gImageReader - qt5 OCR application
« on: October 18, 2020, 04:38:05 am »
The speed problem seems to be in QT5, and a fix is expected. I have carved up some of my multi-column files into single-column files, and they seem to OCR fairly well, but a few misses that seem to be due to the missing spelling files.

How would I add a dictionary?

Until the downloading is fixed - copy the appropriate language file from https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries/tree/main/dictionaries into ./share/hunspell

For others, the qt5core fix is linked from https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qtbase-os2/issues/121

Cheers,

Paul

I copied all the files into ./share/hunspell, but it still doesn't know English. I wonder if there should be a sub-directory structure to support different languages?

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Applications / Re: gImageReader - qt5 OCR application
« on: October 16, 2020, 10:34:36 pm »
The speed problem seems to be in QT5, and a fix is expected. I have carved up some of my multi-column files into single-column files, and they seem to OCR fairly well, but a few misses that seem to be due to the missing spelling files.

How would I add a dictionary?

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Applications / Re: SAMBA Network access denied
« on: October 05, 2020, 05:49:31 pm »
I can verify that ndpsmb.dll 3.7.1 dated July 28, 2020 is in ArcaOS 5.0.6. I'm seeing the dates messed up, but the exact cause is unknown. I'll edit this message if I find the cause.

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Applications / Re: gImageReader - qt5 OCR application
« on: October 04, 2020, 05:10:02 pm »
Yes, that was it. I have to move this to a faster machine. But it is kind of recognizing text and displaying it in the output window. I don't have much experience with OCR programs.

If I find a way to recognize a source with multiple columns, I'll edit this post.

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Applications / Re: gImageReader - qt5 OCR application
« on: October 04, 2020, 07:44:42 am »
I can load the application, but I can't seem to get it to scan.

I uploaded a screen shot

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Applications / Re: SAMBA Network access denied
« on: October 02, 2020, 03:56:41 pm »
Hey Neil,

Our implementation of SAMBA still does not respect OS/2 notions of "Last Write Date" which kind if sucks for developers who want to use the make utility.

When you say this, as you talking about the client or server? There were definitely some issues with the mapping of file create/modify/access times which I think are fixed in the latest 4.11.x plugin.

I'm sorry to pollute this thread with other Samba Server issues, but here goes.

My use case is that a client running ArcaOS 5.0.6 (and some earlier versions too) will read a bunch of .cmd files residing on the server. All of the OS/2 file dates are changed to the current time. I asked around and decided that this will be an issue to take up when we are ready to test the new Samba server, as fixing the old code is a lower priority. For now, I keep the real write date as a text string in the cmd file.

I have other issues with the server and fast machines, but those also are on hold waiting for an ArcaOS beta with the new server installed. It's worth it to me to test these. Samba server is nearly as strategic as the new browser for my use of ArcaOS.

When a new beta with the latest Samba client appears, and I will test the file date bug. Arca Noae works so hard to make these beta distributions, I favor testing that. Otherwise, I'm mostly testing my own client or server installation, which hasn't been so productive.

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