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I don't know how to give a 'thank-you'

Top right hand corner of the persons post that you wish to give thanks for :)

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - Dell Inspiron 1300
« on: June 05, 2017, 01:40:24 pm »
"gamode show" will show your currently available resolutions and device number
ie, device 0

To add a new resolution that is smaller or upto the same x and y values:
"gamode add <xres> <yres> <bits> [device]"

gamode can normally be found in your snap directory.

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Applications / Re: IBM's Windows 95 Emulator
« on: June 04, 2017, 06:36:35 am »
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Going of-topic slightly, I feel that IBM's abandonment of OS/2 as well as their PC business may hurt them in the long run. The current undergraduate and MSc Computing Science students I teach know little to nothing about IBM or what it even did or does today. To me part of that problem is that there are no more IBM devices or services that attract new users who will potentially be the corporate buyers/decision makers in a few years time.

I agree, IBM need to be in the public eye more. I had to correct a lecturer at my uni that Lenovo had not bought IBM.. Then went ahead and explained a bit about the blue octopus.

Maybe IBM should release a Blue Smartphone (I'm not serious, it would be out of date by the time it left development, let along..)

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Internet / Re: Gopher server?
« on: June 01, 2017, 03:34:23 pm »
Hi Dean,

Goserv/SRE-http

GoServe Webserver for OS/2 is a multi-purpose server for OS/2 and Windows which supports both the World Wide Web (HTTP) and the Gopher protocols. IBM EWS.

Hmm, http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/goserve/ is gone so try http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/sre/

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS - Dell Inspiron 1300
« on: May 28, 2017, 04:33:12 pm »
Hi,

What is in your x:\mptn\bin\setup.cmd file ?

If you are using a manual setup you should have something similiar to :-

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.40 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 0
route add default 192.168.1.1 -netmask 255.255.255.255 -hopcount 1
ipgate off


If your using DHCPD I would expect to see a line like :-

dhcpstrt -d 0 -i lan0

towards the end of that file. Unless it lives in x:\mptn\bin\MPTSTART.CMD

Apologies, so many different ways of setting this stuff up.

ifconfig should have been setup via your initial installation, of after by using the TCP/IP Configuration program in System.

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Hi,

Just a thought, do others need to make a manual change in x:\ibmcom\protocol.ini for gigabyte cards anymore?

ie, the line with ETHERAND_TYPE I normally set to "D", MPTS sets it to "I" as a default.

Was this fixed with new drivers?

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Hi Howard,

Can you get ifconfig lan0 to hold the values if you manually enter something like :-
   ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 0
from the commandline ?

And what does
 netstat -n return on the way of interfaces?
Mainly just want to make sure your Interface 0  is Ethernet and that Ethernet isnt on a different interface.

There are other things we can check but first I'd need to know what utilities are included with ArcaOS in the way of listing hardware, maybe someone else will chime in :)

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Internet / Re: FF45.5 - choppy response/window scrolling anyone???
« on: May 27, 2017, 06:23:14 pm »
Hi Andreas,

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Unfortunately that's not the truth.

ok, I probably should have added 'your mileage will vary', which should be a standard caveat with anything using ported apps under OS/2 :)

I only use two addon's, NoScript and VideoDownloadHelper for uni stuff, apart from FF requiring different versions of NoScript, everything else is working well here under FF v38.8.0, at least everything that I use including uTube with audio in the browser. FF gets reasonably heavy daily usage on my computer at present due to it being the end of the university semester. I regularly have FF open alongside OpenOffice.

PS, I'm using nspr-4_12_0-4_oc00.zip

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Internet / Re: FF45.5 - choppy response/window scrolling anyone???
« on: May 26, 2017, 05:35:38 pm »
Returning to Firefox v38.8.0 is no problem, all the additional DLL's that Firefox v45.5.0 require are backward compatible and actually improve the performance of v38.8.0. It is advisable to backup your profile before swapping. I keep an earlier version of NoScript for v38.8.0 as v45.5.0 use's a more recent version of NoScript due to gecko versions.

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Networking / Re: DNS resolution...strange problem?
« on: May 02, 2017, 06:27:48 pm »
Hi Dariusz,

Been a long time since I used hosts as such, I use BIND with internet and external views but..

do you have "SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1" in your config.sys ?
Also what do you have in x:\mptn\etc\RESOLV2 ?


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Applications / Re: OpenOffice 4.1.3 Draw problem
« on: February 11, 2017, 06:45:01 pm »
So far I only get the occasional corrupt prefs.js which is easy to restore from backup but then I don't spend as much time on the internet as I use to.

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General Discussion / Re: registering to upload to hobbes
« on: January 30, 2017, 07:01:15 pm »
Hi Dave,

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Sounds fine as long as it not too much hassle to register.
I do wonder that if the maintainer(s) don't have the time to keep up on incoming, where they're going to find the time to keep up on registration. Too simple and spammers etc will just use a throw away email address, too hard and it'll be too much of a hassle/time consuming to register.

It would be an automated process (I assume), it is a Uni with CS students ;-)
Even something simple will at least get rid of all the automated kiddy scripts, and judging from what I get hit with that's more than 99% of the problem solved.

Doug, Curtis is still the main person that looks after the server, has done for as long as I can remember so there is some continuity.
There are ways and means to overcome bots signing up that are more intelligent that captchas, could also be educational for Uni students to come up with new and novel means to overcome that problem as well.

Andre, you would only receive an email from the system I assume for confirmation, and to reset your access password. Otherwise you would receive an email if there is a file problem (which is why your email address is in the description file) as occasionally happens now. You may have already received an email re your uploads in the past.

I could/should probably do something automated for os2site.com beyond the access methods I use beyond username/password as well but the volume is so low I haven't taken the time to look at it. So far I have only had humans ask for access.

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General Discussion / registering to upload to hobbes
« on: January 29, 2017, 06:37:50 am »
Hi Everyone,

Hobbes provides a great, and free service for the OS/2 community but over the years it has begun to take up more time for the maintainer(s) to remove all those strange files that appear in incoming. They have also ended up with an ever growing list of banned IP address's in the process which is likely to impact on the access of other people as IP address's are moved around a lot more than they have been in the past due to limited allocations for IPv4.

The idea has been floated (just thought about at present by the maintainers) to have people register (still free) before they're allowed to upload to Hobbes. The registration would have to include an email address for password reset. This would remove the addition effort for the maintainers that is currently required to keep Hobbes incoming in a clean state.

It might even be possible if this were to happen, for up-loaders to have better control of removing their own content in incoming due to bloopers or updated files before incoming is cleared.

Any other ideas or comments would be welcomed.

Added - Uploads to Hobbes only, there would be no changes for anyone wanting to download from Hobbes.

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Applications / Re: Regina REXX vs. OS/2 REXX
« on: January 29, 2017, 04:58:56 am »
I don't see a problem that warrants reporting a post, to me the reference to 'real programmers' is more inciteful and that came from you but is simply taken as a throw away line :o)

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According to real programmers embedding it isn't that hard, as such.[/quote1]

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Applications / Re: RPM
« on: January 26, 2017, 08:04:00 pm »
Hi Ivan,

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We must be thankful that they give us the zips rather than having to mess around with RPM.

unrpm works fine for me so I'm not fussed.

Do a websearch for 'OS/2 unrpm' will return a few good links.

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