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Applications / Re: XWP Startup Folder - How to make it work?
« on: February 23, 2016, 01:21:23 am »
Seems to me that there is something very wrong with the XWP Startup Folder or I have something misconfigured.
No, it works well in general. I guess you have problems with your inis. I would try to clean them and reduce their size. That has helped me always in the past, when I had any problems with them.

Be prepared to restore older copies. The mechnism in DMT works well, beside the WPS archives, of course.

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Applications / Re: AVxCAT 1.4 alpha
« on: February 21, 2016, 03:21:37 am »
Have you tried the one from the ancient icc Mozilla project times?

http://os2news.warpstock.org/rcos2-5.00.007.zip

This link is still present on Steve's Warpzilla page.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Setting the number of Desktop archives
« on: February 01, 2016, 11:24:48 pm »
Neil, in case you want just your inis being saved, Rich's DMT should be a more valuable tool for recovering than the standard WPS archiving. It recognizes ini corruption well, offers then a menu automatically and also on demand. It has worked for me all the times I had to use it. Since confirmed to work well, I don't use XWP's WPS archiving anymore. There are still situations when XWP warns about ini corruption but at the reboot it shows that it was false alarm, where DMT was always right.

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Applications / Re: Arca Noae Package Manager Comments
« on: January 21, 2016, 10:17:18 pm »
Doug, what is your suggestion to find a way out of the misery you describe?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with fresh yum install
« on: January 02, 2016, 06:08:08 pm »
Do you mean that you have the same error message as Michael? With:
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[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/@unixroot/var/cache/yum/netlabs-rel/176ec
50a88496ad1c9eaa819ba3ea697524629651e879909c37e81ee82481c2a-primary.sqlite.bz2'

Most likely that is caused by outdated DLLs in \ecs\dll.

  • You could try Jan-Erik's dllCleanOut.cmd, posted here. Note that it renames doubled files immediately, without confirmation.
  • But probably that won't help in your case. Then follow Lewis' instructions.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2
« on: December 31, 2015, 12:03:10 am »
I just performed a "clean" install of AOO4120 - as requested in the readme.

To achieve this I copied my existing \PROGRAMS\AOO4 directory structure to my TEMP directory, then deleted the contents of \PROGRAMS\AOO4 and then ran the AOO-4120-GA-base-en-US.wpi package.
This is not a clean install. Because WarpIN can't uninstall anything automatically, you have to uninstall the old version first.

1] The install directory defaults to the existing \PROGRAMS\AOO4 directory and cannot be changed.
Sure. The WarpIN database has that path saved and you need to either uninstall your previous
AOO version or remove its entries from it first. Another option is to hack it to point to the
desired path.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2
« on: December 28, 2015, 12:16:59 am »
Now, for the big one (IMO). Programmers need to start using more static linking, to eliminate the use of DLLs.
No Doug, you're completely wrong, especially in the context of trying to minimize shared memory space.

Dynamic linking is the way to go and that's where we are already now!

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 15, 2015, 09:02:35 pm »
I've overlooked it 2 times I searched for it in that dialog
I made the same experience a few years ago. That part of the notebook page seems to be too crowded.

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 13, 2015, 04:26:13 pm »
Desktop -> Properties -> XShutdown -> Shutdown only
Animation  [ ] before shutdown  [ ] before reboot

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Events / Re: OS/2 - eCS - Blue Lion - Wishlist 2015
« on: December 12, 2015, 05:08:01 pm »
I'd like to see into xCenter/eCenter notebook,
What do you mean by that? XWP proviides many notebook (properties) objects.

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Applications / Re: Lucide Gsview and printers error in Lucide or not
« on: December 12, 2015, 05:00:03 pm »
Or use EPM and execute s /o

Explanation:
   s is the shortcut for Save
   /o is an option to use OS/2 line ends.
   /l is an option to use Linux line ends.
   No option out of /o and / l doesn't change line ends, but can also produce mixed line ends, what has to be avoided.

Option /o is the default value for NEPMD, but not for EPM.

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 06, 2015, 06:09:25 pm »
1] The JFS /AUTOCHECK:+* switch is no longer honoured. This means that it is impossible to *force* chkdsk on drives that are Dirty but marked as Clean.
My technical opinion: Note that with '+*' you can't force anymore any clean-marked volume being checked at all, regardless if it's dirty or not.

When a dirty boot volume is marked clean, it's time to boot from another volume and perform the chkdsk from there. If that would happen for other volumes, you have now also to boot to another volume for that. Is that really that important? How many times happened that for you?

2] Since installing this JFS release  my system often "loses" a drive volume at boot. I have JFS formatted volumes G: through L: with H: and L: being bootable. About 1 in 3 boots I notice that G: is not mentioned at all during the JFS chkdsk display.
Once booted I can get G: to display in the Drives folder by running LVM and then exiting using Save and Exit - with no changes made and - Voila! drive G: appears in the Drives folder.
I would give David at least a few weeks time to investigate this and to react to your recently posted bug.

I agree with you that this needs fixing and if it's somehow reproducible, chances are not bad to fix it.

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I don't know if that apples to 2.1, but in the latest eCS beta there exists in ?:\ecs\bin:

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focdlg.cmd
focdlg.lxe
lxedit.exe
lxreplace.exe

and in ?:\os2\dll

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pmex.dll

Execute

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focdlg /i

to patch ?:\os2\dll\pmctls.dll.

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Applications / Re: XWorkplace Monster Revival ?
« on: November 27, 2015, 09:18:08 pm »
Just ask Chris for the sources. (BTW: I don't have an email address, but that shouldn't be too hard to find out, as there belong still some people to the OS/2 scene who know him.)

Note that he was pissed-off by the type of criticism he got. For me, it was never unstable and it always worked together with XWP.

The reason that I don't install it on my systems is that it eats too much lower shared memory, nothing more. I would like to have WPS Wizards' features at no cost of fewer shared mem. BTW: I don't want the eye candy stuff of it, but the rest is great.

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Hardware / Re: Trackpoint Lovers
« on: October 27, 2015, 06:38:27 pm »
But the common thing is that the OS/2-eCS users like Thinkpad and likes the touchpad.
I think you mean "... and like the trackpoint."

(I've noticed that, too. I never took the time to get used to it and was already an experienced touchpad user years before. That's why I don't use the trackpoint. Another reason is that I use notebooks rarely these days.)

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