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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Setup & Installation / Re: How is Arcaos backup & restore doing?
« on: February 04, 2018, 04:08:27 am »
Backup and restore should work the same as on eCS or older. There are better backup options.
Should work fine from the System Management launched from the DVD or soon, a USB stick. The ArcaOS System Management includes a QT based web browser so has a libc/QT environment and should run most OS/2 programs.

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Storage / Re: Extended Attributes - OS/2 only thing?
« on: February 03, 2018, 09:06:26 pm »
It's a bit more complicated on NTFS. It supports streams, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_streams_%28ADS%29 which can be whatever length. EA support is enabled by having one special stream, probably limited in size as you say and also limited to using codepages rather then being UTF, dedicated for EA support. Malware usually uses regular streams to hide.

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Storage / Re: Low level format error with JFS
« on: February 03, 2018, 08:54:39 pm »
I have couple of new Toshiba 1 TB hard drives that I am trying to format. I used

format x: /FS:JFS /L

and a few seconds later receive the error

Internal error: devices.c(532): Write error 87 (INVALID_PARAMETER)

This happens with 2 brand new drives, so I don't know if it is a software issue, problem with both drives, or what.

Does anyone else low level format spinning hard drives anymore?

Yes, it has usually worked here, though it takes a long time.
Did you fix the geometry on those drives to be compatible with OS/2?

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Applications / Re: NWCALLS DLL ?
« on: January 31, 2018, 09:04:44 pm »
I have a NWCALLS.DLL under my old Warp 4 partition, E:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\NWCALLS.DLL with a 1996 file date. I have no memory of it.
Seems to be for Netware. Running strings.exe NWCALLS.DLL outputs this,
Code: [Select]
VS_VERSION_INFO
StringFileInfo
04091252
CompanyName
Novell, Inc.
FileDescription
NetWare| Calls Library for Microsoft| Windows NT
FileVersion
4.01
InternalName
NWCALLS
LegalCopyright
Copyright
9 1990, 1993 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
LegalTrademarks
NetWare and Novell are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.
OriginalFilename
NWCALLS.DLL
ProductName
NetWare Client API for C 1.0
ProductVersion
1.01
VarFileInfo
Translation

So I guess there is also an OS/2 equivalent.

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Article Discussions / Re: AN changing USB driver stack to 32-bit
« on: January 30, 2018, 12:32:08 am »
Hi Ivan, I think there is a mis-conception of the testers group. It was originally formed to test ANPM and then re-purposed for beta testing other things including Arcaos. I assume that Arca Noae has a group of machines for development and initial testing and hopefully it is a wide range of machines and while the testers do test on even more machines, we're perhaps mainly putting the installer through more varied tests.
In the case of the new USB stack, to quote David,
Quote
This is what the next release of the USB stack will look like. Feel free to
use this software if you like. I am not asking for testing since this
software has been thoroughly tested and has passed the standard QA
testing. The major changes are:
...
And then mentioning the possibility of timing issues and such with other software.
There hasn't been any reports that I'm aware of of breakages.

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Hardware / Re: Choosing a Graphics Card
« on: January 27, 2018, 04:10:27 am »
Snap should be under x:\CID\SERVER\SNAP where x: is your DVD drive. Just run setup.cmd at a cmd prompt for instructions. Basically, eg set LANG=en_US and then
Code: [Select]
setup.cmd SNAP

There's a readme in the directory as well. You should be able to switch straight from Panorama to SNAP without the VGA step though I haven't personally tested.

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Hardware / Re: Choosing a Graphics Card
« on: January 27, 2018, 12:10:40 am »
Is this where I download Snap graphics?
ecsoft2.org/scitech-snap-graphics

Included with ArcaOS or on hobbes, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/video/snap-os2-3.1.8.zip
The version included with ArcaOS has some SMP fixes.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: SSL OS/2world
« on: January 26, 2018, 11:49:46 pm »
Actually it may be a fontconfig issue. The bullets display fine in older versions of the browser that uses mzfntcfgft (SeaMonkey 2.28 or older) or the native font support (SeaMonkey 1.19). Images below.
(Warning, use a scratch profile for older versions of the browser)

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Mail-News / Re: Thunderbird and a long-running script
« on: January 26, 2018, 05:24:37 am »
Never seen that with Thunderbird. SeaMonkey and Firefox, yes.
Mozilla apps are basically a mixture of xul, dom and JavaScript so it's not that weird to get an error like that. Thunderbird is a pig here, just bringing it to the foreground can peg both cores for seconds, wish I knew what to do about it.
What version are you using? Looking at the latest, your error seems to correspond to a progress meter, which doesn't sound right.
Do you have extensions installed? Might want to try safe mode to see if it makes any difference.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: SSL OS/2world
« on: January 25, 2018, 10:03:38 pm »
OK, thanks. I just assume that these sites are tracking as I know that they're very interested in tracking everyone.
The good news is no more warnings or errors in the console.
Unluckily, the padlock is still yellow. Might just be a subtle bug in the browser or perhaps restarting it will fix, I'll report if it does.
BTW, I currently have the os2world scripts blocked.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: SSL OS/2world
« on: January 25, 2018, 08:29:18 pm »
Is all this tracking needed? Unless it is providing you revenue, perhaps it could all just be gotten rid of.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: SSL OS/2world
« on: January 25, 2018, 05:55:02 pm »
Hi Martin. I'm getting a "Insecure information on this page was blocked" with buttons for "Keep blocking", "Unblock" and "Preferences" thingie at the top of this page with SeaMonkey and the padlock is yellow. The Error Console has this (for the Warp 3 Beep page),
Quote
Timestamp: 01/25/18 08:50:27 AM
Warning: Loading mixed (insecure) display content "http://www.amcgr.de/MR/Foren/ana767-200_detroit_intl_to_tokyo_narita.jpg" on a secure page
Source File: https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?topic=1628.0;topicseen
Line: 0
[\quote]

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installation Volume Manager Location
« on: January 24, 2018, 05:45:21 am »
I'll check after with 5.0.1.8 but I doubt it has changed.

5.0.1.8 has both the simple (Installation Volume Manger) and advanced LVM programs installed in System Setup, so it seems the next release will be similar.
The next release is getting close.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installation Volume Manager Location
« on: January 24, 2018, 04:28:49 am »
Here, it seems to be the old GUI LVM manager installed in system setup and I don't see any objects for the text mod LVM manager, it does come up by entering lvm in a cmd console. This is 5.0.1. I'll check after with 5.0.1.8 but I doubt it has changed.

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