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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 38.6.0

« on: March 27, 2016, 03:20:21 pm »

I have activated the calendar, yet I'm able to reopen Thunderbird the next day. My Calendar is synchronized with iCloud. I'm on eCS 2.2 b2, and my machine is always on. I reboot pretty frequently, but this morning has been up for over 2 days.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS

« on: March 23, 2016, 02:42:21 pm »

Thinking about this thread, I headed over to the Lenovo website. The x250 is already gone. The x260 eliminates VGA support.

I had hoped that the pace of new introductions would slow with the decline of the PC market.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS

« on: March 10, 2016, 01:52:12 am »

The X250 has a VGA port. Does that work for an external monitor?

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1

« on: March 07, 2016, 05:09:49 am »

Has anyone gotten  firefox 38.2.1 to work?

I downloaded it and got it working before the repository went bad. Suntan Special users are stuck because of the repository issue. Sorry about that. In the future, I'll provide support outside of rpm/yum. This is not the first time the repository is down.

By the way, I use iCloud, and it works a whole lot better in Firefox 38.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: March 03, 2016, 11:15:44 pm »

I'm hoping Font Face is the same as Title in the Font Folder. The TTF fonts I removed had the same Title. On one machine, I still have one case of damaged text. Arial comes on OS/2  both as a Type 1 font, in \psfonts and a TrueType font, in \os2\mdos\winos2\system.

I'm going to try removing the WinOS2 TTF font, to see if it will help.

I didn't try the IBM PSCRIPT driver. I don't know why the printer makes any difference to Lotus, but perhaps it's trying to display on screen just as it would be on the printer, in some WYSIWYG sense.

I have what I believe is the same set of drivers and fonts on another machine, and Lotus Word Pro is fine.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: February 29, 2016, 03:12:49 pm »

Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.

1. About the printer driver. I'd like to find one printer driver that works with all applications. These machines have been using the IBM Laserjet drivers, and when I switch back, I get a correctly formatted document. The corruption is only with the PSPRINT driver. The IBM laserjet driver crashes instantly (in PMMERGE.DLL) on Thunderbird and Firefox. PSPRINT doesn't crash.

2. Thanks for the advice about fonts. I removed the Times TTF  and Arial TTF fonts. The document now renders properly, even with the PSPRINT driver. You mention conflicting versions. What is the key for a printer driver? Is it the name (Times New Roman)? I'd like to remove all the conflicts.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: February 27, 2016, 04:28:11 pm »

The image shows the situation on one machine. Other machines render this OK.


I'm also attaching a screen shot of part of the Fonts folder.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: February 27, 2016, 02:39:10 am »

I already have one machine where it works. I'll publish a screen shot of what it looks like on a machine where it does not work.

I imagine not many people on OS/2 World use Lotus.

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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: February 26, 2016, 04:56:21 pm »

I attached a copy of one document that fails. On my default eCS machine, this works perfectly, but on most others, it fails with all the characters much too close together.

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Applications / Fonts in Lotus Word Pro

« on: February 25, 2016, 07:08:26 pm »

I'm seeing a font problem in Lotus Word Pro. On one machine, it can render almost any fonts except Ariel and Times New Roman. Unfortunately, these are commonly used fonts.

I see that in older documents I have not used these fonts, even though they are the default fonts for SmartSuite. Does anyone know about this issue, or how to fix it?

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Internet / Re: New Thunderbird build

« on: February 06, 2016, 05:02:13 pm »

I'm troubleshooting a crash in thunderbird when printing an e-mail. I'm attaching a trap dump from one crash event. It says it's crashing in PMMERGE. This is eCS 2.2 b2.

The crash is on the July release, not the new thunderbird build.

I can print from thunderbird without problems on other systems, but this one not so.

Any ideas?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad X250 & eCS

« on: February 06, 2016, 04:32:34 pm »

On the X200, did you use GenMU to get WiFi support for the Intel 5100?

Pity about no network on the X250. Kind of makes it ornamental to me.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives

« on: February 02, 2016, 05:52:28 pm »

Look for files like this in \OS2\BOOT

Code: [Select]

3-22-15   5:20          10,623      0  CONFIG.1
11-22-14  10:56          10,621      0  CONFIG.2
 8-11-14  21:29           8,751      0  CONFIG.3
 6-11-14  19:51           5,991      0  CONFIG.M
 6-11-14  19:52           6,309      0  CONFIG.X

The seven archives machine has 7 + 2 of these, too.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives

« on: February 02, 2016, 05:13:12 am »

Has someone documented the ARCHBASE.$$$? Because I checked using HexEdit, and there is no instance of the number 7 in the file. So how does it keep making 7 backups?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives

« on: February 01, 2016, 06:02:22 pm »

Yes, it's actively rotating through all 7. Desktop is set to keep 3 copies. I'd have liked it to delete the other 4 automatically. Did the original IBM properties provide for a number of copies?