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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with JFS
« on: May 12, 2016, 05:22:21 pm »
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is not fixed by the current XWP beta
A few months ago I've increased the shutdown delay in XWP from I think 500ms to 700ms. On very rare conditions the graphic output of my X300 was not switched off before when shutting down although the rest of the system was switched off. I think this increase has fixed my problem. But as it was so rare and maybe dependent on the USB stack and used devices (which I've changed too in the meantime) I'm not sure if this change really helps.

If you like you can test this version or I can compile you a version with 1s delay. I guess you will not like to make much testing with your server but if yes, let me know.


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Applications / Re: File comparison editor wanted
« on: May 07, 2016, 09:52:41 pm »
Beside kdiff3 DIffzilla included in VisualSlickEdit and SmartSync (Java) do a pretty good job on comparing files or directories.

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If I copy everything from partition 1 to partition 2 and change drive letters C: -> D: and Z: -> C: should I expect to be able to boot from partition 2 if both are marked bootable in boot manager? (Assuming JFS support is included in config.sys)
I would say yes. Maybe a sysinstx is required. And the JFS partition have to be marked as bootable - think the partition type have to be 07 instead 35. But others have to comment on this. I for myself usually let the latest eCS2.2beta installer set up the new bootable JFS partition and after that I transfer the files from the source partition.

@Andreas Schnellbacher - although not what John needs as far as I understand him correctly, changing boot drive letter is not impossible. Find/replace all f.i. C:\ to X:\ in config.sys and the two ini files will do most of the job (carefully checking every occurrence is mandatory). Find/replace recursively in *.cmd files maybe necessary too. Of course without using the WPS for any copying. Not something I would suggest anyone else but doable.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing OS/2 on 320GB disk
« on: May 05, 2016, 11:07:37 am »
Sorry being offtopic but -
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No, it is not the hardware.

If the JFS driver itself is not at fault then I suspect that the driver is exposing a problem .
Pete, I've to second the other Andreas - I am using Davids latest JFS build too on my main machine and some test machines without any problem. I've also followed your ticket and discussions about chkdsk. I've bootable JFS drives on nearly all my installations and no problems with that since years. For me it seems you're the only one having issues with JFS 1.09.06. No offend. But it seems there is something very special to -
a) your systems hardware or
b) your installations (combination of drivers, dlls ...?)

If it is a shutdown problem as mentioned above I would suggest to use the lastest xwp beta from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/ if not already installed.

Hope you can find out the root of the problem some time.

@John - the safest way for any partitioning is using dfsee. But the "Managing partition" tool included in the latest eCS2.2beta version will work too. As suggested use a small boot volume. 1GB is enough when you install your applications and data on other partitions. But if you decide to install the rpm stuff on your boot drive too (not recommended by me but the eCS2.2beta installer) then you need a much bigger boot partition. It is possible to make a big boot partition with JFS. But probably no one will suggest this to you. Do not use big HPFS partitions (more than a few GB). There is no reason or benefit doing this these days.

Regards, Andreas

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Networking / Re: Setting up DHCP server
« on: April 25, 2016, 01:12:20 pm »
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Has anyone managed to set up a DHCP server on OS/2?
I've the mini DHCP server built into Injoy Firewall running on OS/2. But guess you're talking about another one.

On the client side there is a GUI tool called DHCP monitor which will give a bit more information than simply running DHCPSTRT.

Another option is to use dhclient available f.i. as rpm (used by current xwlan packages). Think there is a dhcp server available too. 'yum list *dhc*' should list the packages.

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Applications / Re: AVxCAT 1.4 alpha
« on: February 21, 2016, 11:09:06 am »
I've a program which needs an old rc version (Version 4.00.011 Oct 10 2000) to build. For other programs I sometimes switch versions during development as sometimes rc4 gives better error messages than rc5.

Usually I use this version - IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.007 Jan 30 2003. So it may depend on your source code/development environment which version you should use.

For new projects it's probably better to start with OpenWatcoms wrc.

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Applications / netlabs rpm cups.i686 1:1.4.8-3.oc00
« on: January 22, 2016, 06:47:44 pm »
Just test Silvans cups version from netlabs rpm repository. This is the first cups version which seems to get printing right with qpdfview. All older versions including Pauls 2.x builds did not work properly when printing some pages from bigger pdfs. While the first pages of the document usually did work, some pages with higher numbers only produced errors here. F.i. page 38 from 25MB big pdf with 182 pages did not work with other cups version.

With the new rpm packed version from Silvan I've successfully printed now the pages of the previous failing pdf. Even page 1187 from 41MB big pdf on my slpr connected PS printer works.

Many thanks to Silvan / bww for the continuing development.

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Applications / Re: Arca Noae Package Manager Comments
« on: January 21, 2016, 01:29:52 pm »
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Unfortunately, those who do the porting have decided that this is the way that they will distribute their work. Like it or not, we, the users, are given little choice but to follow, do a LOT of manual work, or quit using ported programs.
One reason why they have chosen to do it the YUM/RPM way was because the other way did not work in so much cases. And it was no longer possible to support all these different partly broken installations. Simply cause the programs we now want to use are so much more complex to install then they were ten years ago and the casual user is to lazy or to dumb to follow the manual installation guides and he does not remember where he spread all these different versions of dlls all over his system.

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And you do know in detail what yum/rpm did?
I consider myself a very experienced user and programmer. But even I do not no know f.e. all the details OS/2 works. But that is no reason for not using it. I'm pretty sure you and every other people on this planet are using so much devices/programs/machines these days without having much clue what they are doing in detail. But for me that's no reason to not benefit from them. Of course you can choose different and do not benefit from them. You can also choose to program you own Internet browser, your own office package, your own printing subsystem, your own development environment, your own pdf viewer, your own sync tool, your own installation tool ....

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Programming / Re: Multimedia with GCC
« on: January 12, 2016, 08:09:50 am »
I vaguely remember I had one or two corrupted/wrong files in my tookit years ago. Maybe there is still some info in on of the newsgroups. F.i. os2.programmer.miscellaneous?

IIRC the toolkit coming with eCS is the correct/complete one. But memory fades....

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Programming / Re: Multimedia with GCC
« on: January 11, 2016, 08:54:58 pm »
I've in my "P:\os2tk45\h\acb.h"
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/**********************************************
 *
 * ACB - Associate Control Block
 *
 *       Each stream handler must define the
 *       ACB for each data object type that
 *       expect ACB's from the application.
 *
 **********************************************/
typedef struct _ACB { /* acb  -  Assoc. Control Block  */
   ULONG   ulACBLen;              /* length of structure                   */
   ULONG   ulObjType;
   ULONG   ulParm1;
   ULONG   ulParm2;
   } ACB;
typedef ACB  FAR  *PACB;          /* Ptr to an ACB        */

The same in older toolkits f.i. in "P:\IBMCPP3.65\TOOLKIT\H\ACB.H", "P:\IBMCPP40\ToolKit\H\ACB.H" or in the device driver kit in "P:\os2ddk\DDK\base\h\acb.h" or with OpenWatcom in "P:\Watcom\h\os2\acb.h"



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Hardware / Re: HP CLP M277n
« on: January 07, 2016, 10:50:35 am »
My HP OfficeJet PRO X476 looks similar to this model and have similar spec except it uses ink. See http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,727.msg7183.html#msg7183. My model can prints duplex automatically too.

If HP uses similar software then there should be no problem. Scans goes to a shared ressource by Samba without problems. No luck with standard OS/2 netbios though. FAX are forwarded to email.

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This 21" CRT was fully capable of displaying 1800 x 1440/76 Hz NI resolution providing a pretty decent 0.26 mm aperture grille pitch.
Doing a bit math with your stated 19.7" and the 0.26mm mask you'll see this CRT is able to display about 1540 pixel horizontally. If you stretch the image to max out the tube best you can display will be 1600 pixels per line. But you talked about it - who will ever accept the convergence problems again these days?

1800x1440 was way to much for this tube and you never could see that much pixels. Simply cause there were not that much stripes in the grill. You can't cheat physics. Btw. that's one reason why your text was hardly readable with such high resolutions.



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There are plenty of monitors out there that support high resolution analogue inputs
That does mean nothing. As stated above handling high resolutions at input stage is useless when the panel can not display the resolution. What's the point in feeding your monitor with pixels you never can see? (Okay you see part of them washed out - aliased but....)

I always post with current available and affordable hardware in mind. It does not make much sense for me to talk about 10 years old or even older professional tube displays which were capable to display 1920x1200 (Not more than that. I do not know a single tube which can handle more. If you know one I bet no one here does have such still working today. The average user did not even know about and never would buy such device priced more than a months salery).

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I run it at either 1800 × 1440
It did not make very much sense when you drove your tube with higher resolutions what the tension mask or shadow mask really could display. Your 2028 or 2560 were simply analog down-scaled to what the tube can handle. Although this analog scaling worked smoother than most of todays digital scaling it was down scaled to 1600 pixel horizontal for 24" 4:3 tubes at best. If you talk about bigger sized tubes used f.i. for air traffic control then that's another story. But I hardly think anyone here needs such (todays) theoretical discussion.

TFT which is what we can use today can be driven of course with analog signals. But the resulting image is always worse than when digital driven. Usable if you do not have high quality requirements but worse compared to native digital driven.

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silly repetition of an old "Tom's Hardware"
I don't know Tom. But I know the inner working of tubes and LCDs and I know whats physical possible to display. I can distinguish between what's technically possible and what's marketing bla bla. High input resolutions much beyond the tube or LCD is capable to display are marketing bla bla. At least for the average computer user these modes are not useful.

Btw. I still do have some Matrox cards with good DACs. But they are useless today as I never will drive f.i. a current available 4k display with analog signals when the whole world drives them digital. I bet if you do not buy a professional monitor (which is out of question for all but the very rich) there analog input and conversion electronics is crappy. 

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I am fairly sure however that 2560 x 1440 is attainable
But not on digital outputs with our OS. This is one more reason why I try so hard to push SNAP development. Although with limited success :(

And if you set the graphic card to produce this resolution and use the analog output there is probably no monitor available which can display this resolution. Even when some can handle that resolution at the input they simply can not display it. I can not think of any affordable monitor which can display such resolution satisfactory well when delivered at analog inputs. Nearly all can not even handle 1920x1200 good enough with analog input.

So what is badly needed is updated SNAP which supports current chips (at least Intel) and DisplayPort output.

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Dariusz, I ever set Manufacturer to '(Standard monitor types)' and Model to 'Unknown monitor'. AFAIR I could choice 1920x1200 then. Maybe I used gaoption to add this resolution but I don't remember anymore. I do this an all my systems since I'm using PCs. And that predates all this shitty DDC stuff ;). I see no reason for letting a software decide which resolution and refresh rate is good for me and my monitors.

Now I tried the 'Detect Monitor' button probably the first time. The HP ZR24w was detected cause this is that one attached to DVI. The Samsung 245B is currently connected via Sub-D / analog RGB. But I had it at DVI without problems a few years ago when I only used one monitor. But don't think I ever used 'Detect Monitor' with the Samsung. It simply works with the standard setting above.

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