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Applications / Re: Lucide 1.4.0 GA has a PDF plug-in problem...FYI!
« on: April 28, 2017, 09:35:20 pm »
Now an apparently updated v1.4.0.0 (?) can open two files, so GBM.DLL may be unrelated.

There's still an unreported x:\LUCIDE;%BEGINLIBPATH% error when executed for the first time (with LIBPATHSTRICT=T and BEGINLIBPATH, because of yet another JPEG.DLL).

And there's a new, unreported error because it won't process an old PDF file (PDF v1.2?) correctly. Pages are blank, and Lucide only displays lines of tables and the line of Question. No text outside nor inside tables.

The WPI package includes two files called LUCIDE.LNG and the last one (7 April) will overwrite the newer file (20 April) LUCIDE.LNG. That's an unreported error too. I tend to try to not create accounts to report possible bugs, and I tend to try to not use yet another ICT system of a "supplier" to report possible bugs.

I'll consider a downgrade, as such I'm not a demanding PDF power user.

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Applications / Re: Lucide 1.4.0 GA has a PDF plug-in problem...FYI!
« on: April 27, 2017, 01:06:51 pm »
There is a zip and wpi available on hobbes.

Same version of GBM.DLL, apparently, and already installed here by a human package manager.

Nevertheless I have copied GBM.DLL to x:\LUCIDE.

LIBPATHSTRICT=T and BEGINLIBPATH=x:\LUCIDE are in use, because of yet another JPEG.DLL.

With FF running, opening a first PDF file by using the WPS association, Lucide returns that it can't find the module Lucide1.dll in 'x:\LUCIDE;%BEGINLIBPATH%' (SYS0087).

Without FF running, opening a second PDF file by using the WPS association, results in the same type of trap, despite of using the same GBM.DLL version and despite of a copy in the directory x:\LUCIDE:

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Exception C0000005 - Access Violation
______________________________________________________________________

 Process:  x:\LUCIDE\LUCIDE.EXE (04/07/2017 16:50:07 17,707)
 PID:      37 (55)
 TID:      01 (1)
 Priority: 200

 Filename: x:\LUCIDE\LUCIDE1.DLL (04/07/2017 16:50:06 1,413,425)
 Address:  005B:1D5CDBEC (0001:0001DBEC)
 Cause:    Attempted to read from 00000000
           (not a valid address)

______________________________________________________________________

 Failing Instruction
______________________________________________________________________

 1D5CDBDF  NOT         ECX              (f7d1)
 1D5CDBE1  LEA         EDX, [ECX-0x1]   (8d51 ff)
 1D5CDBE4  MOV         ECX, 0xffffffff  (b9 ffffffff)
 1D5CDBE9  MOV         EDI, [ESI+0x4]   (8b7e 04)
 1D5CDBEC >REPNZ SCASB                  (f2 ae)
 1D5CDBEE  NOT         ECX              (f7d1)
 1D5CDBF0  DEC         ECX              (49)
 1D5CDBF1  MOV         [ESP+0x10], ECX  (894c24 10)

______________________________________________________________________

 Registers
______________________________________________________________________

 EAX : 00000000   EBX  : 00000000   ECX : FFFFFFFF   EDX  : 00000009
 ESI : 16E05938   EDI  : 00000000
 ESP : 0012E4A0   EBP  : 0012F7D8   EIP : 1D5CDBEC   EFLG : 00012246
 CS  : 005B       CSLIM: FFFFFFFF   SS  : 0053       SSLIM: FFFFFFFF

 EAX : not a valid address
 EBX : not a valid address
 ECX : not a valid address
 EDX : not a valid address
 ESI : read/write memory at 0002:00005938 in LUCIDE1
 EDI : not a valid address

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Applications / Re: Lucide 1.4.0 GA has a PDF plug-in problem...FYI!
« on: April 26, 2017, 09:27:00 pm »
Which RPM ZIP file package contains (presumably) GBM.DLL?

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Setup & Installation / Re: OS/2 Warp 3 - Installation
« on: April 25, 2017, 01:29:56 am »
I'm wondering if I can install on an old PC that I have and if so, what are the hardware limits / requirements.

What's the old PC exactly (brand/model/type/CPU/memory/HD capacity/main components)?

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General Discussion / Re: GMail no longer for OS2-eCS
« on: April 22, 2017, 03:02:58 pm »
Hopefully we should get a new version of FF etc before it also becomes too old ;)

Or too new (CPU requirements). eCS is a P6-based operating system, a and I guess so is ArcaOS. So I'm hoping for a last "old" FF versioin 4x before most of you will be pleased by newer versions of FF.

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Applications / Re: Easter egg
« on: April 19, 2017, 07:58:43 am »

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Applications / Easter egg
« on: April 18, 2017, 11:42:52 pm »
A few days too late, or a rare German non-baby joke: unzip HPFSTL17.ZIP, view HPFSTOOL.EXE with E.EXE, scroll down and remove the "damaged"/"filled" middle section of the eggshaped ASCII art. You should see a few tools.

Or execute this Rexx script in the directory of HPFSTOOL.EXE, and open EASTER.EGG with E.EXE (and a non-proportional font). The script does not remove the "damaged"/"filled" middle section of the eggshaped object:

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/**/
all=CharIn('HPFSTOOL.EXE',1,147476)
CALL CharOut 'HPFSTOOL.EXE'
PARSE VAR all . 'Green=Bitmap' rest
CALL CharOut 'Easter.Egg',rest
CALL CharOut 'Easter.Egg'
EXIT

Or open the attached file (21 kiB) with E.EXE, to not have to download and process HPFSTOOL.EXE. Use E.EXE, do not use TYPE.

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Applications / Re: Lucide 1.4.0 GA has a PDF plug-in problem...FYI!
« on: April 17, 2017, 08:49:36 am »
attempting to open another instance of Lucide produces a TRAP...

Same problem here, FWIW, with a manual eCS 1.2 install of a minimum of required DLLs (LUCIDE1.DLL access violation, reading address 00000000).

In another case Lucide couldn't find LUCIDE1.DLL in "C:\Lucide's dir;%BEGINLIBPATH%" while SM was running (may be related to the JPEG.DLL hell). Does this error message imply that "SET BEGINLIBPATH=x:\yyy" is not required when "x:\yyy" is the WPS STARTUPDIR setting?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad T41 and wireless connection
« on: April 16, 2017, 11:13:50 am »
Is RXTT an OS component since eCS 2.x?

In general: if so, and HELP 1003 wasn't some clue, then go to a prompt near you and type: view rxtt36 file and directory names.

No quotes in the OS/2 command (a.o. the PARAMETERS-setting of the WPS object), no PARSEing of quotes, no quotes when executing an external OS/2 commands.

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General Discussion / Re: Problem on the PDF creation
« on: April 16, 2017, 10:55:57 am »
Are you sure there is such a DLL?

I use ePDF as the printer in firefox (works extremely well producing PDFs from web pages) and I can't find an EPDF.DLL on my system, ePDF.EXE yes but no ePDF.dll.

Last time I checked a file called EPDF.DLL was required by http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/pdfmerge0801.zip. That's PDFMerge/2 of the "related stuff"-section of http://www.subsys.de/ePDF.

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Programming / Re: FCrackZip
« on: April 15, 2017, 12:33:27 pm »
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gzip is not UNIX - it's GNU. It doesn't care about tar or anything else. It simply does compression in most cases.

And DIR isn't OS/2. It's an Unix solution. I, not being an Unix benchmark by any standard, have seen more tar.gz files than gz files and could have suggested gar or zar, I was referring to "The program was created ... as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems". The best source ever, Wikipedia ;)

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I doubt that old untgz will handle it reliably.

Typically I'm looking at older packages, but thanks for pointing such a possible problem out. For more modern (source) packages you'll often need libs and GCC. probably with a more up-to-date Unix-environment.

Back to FCrackZip. Recently I've looked at password specifications file. A change is not as trivial as appending a space to the list of allowed password characters. Some of the other (unverified) password characters are TAB and LF, so the way FCrackZip prints possible passwords has to be changed too. Yet another reason to not release an update. The old version will already guess most common passwords anyway, without those more unusual password characters, including but not limited to a space.

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General Discussion / Re: Problem on the PDF creation
« on: April 15, 2017, 11:30:53 am »
What's the home of EPDF.DLL?

Frank Wochatz's website: http://www.subsys.de/epdf

Been there, actually, but I couldn't find EPDF.DLL in any of his "ePDF and addons" section files. Rexx DLLs yes, but not EPDF.DLL (required by PDFMerge/2). If it's the right township indeed, then what's the house where EPDF.DLL lives?

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Minor Lucide WPI bugs, but I'm not going to create an account and use some system to report 'em:

1. The files lucide_fldr_1.ico and lucide_fldr_2.ico are used, but missing.

2. Apparently the nationalized packages don't actually create translated object names (like "Lies mich!")

3. One can find both Dutch and Deutsche object names in, for example, lucide_nl.wpi.

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Programming / Re: FCrackZip
« on: April 10, 2017, 11:59:41 am »
You should better distingiush between archive and compression.

I did, hence the (unquoted) "may be" and "some", with a matching level/lack of accuracy. :8

gzip is available for many OSes, but on its own *.tar.gz looks like a typical, over-engineered UNIX solution to me. Until now I've never needed a *.tar file (nor really wanted the OS/2 equivalent of an uncompressed archive), and used one UNTGZOS2.EXE (instead of executing 7z twice) to get rid of both the gz and tar part.

Please note that I don't have eCS 2.x with all of its UNIX tools, nor a GCC environment (will cause disk full errors), nor have I ever intentionally used the GZIP of eCS 1.x. So remarks w.r.t the option and cpio are, to say the least, interesting. I almost want to ask why cpio is usually used instead of a (tape-unrelated?) tar, but perhaps that's too off-topic.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing eCS 1.2, without CD or network
« on: April 10, 2017, 11:33:20 am »
I can, thanks. I may even decide to call the partition drive S:. The system works, but isn't stable. Lasting new objects have to be created after a <ALT-F1> restore with a matching clean <ALT-F1> backup, it cannot find the desktop after a while, CHECKINI reports weird errors after a while, if a file open dialog with thumbnails causes a CPU load of 100% then the app has to be closed to be able to open the same directory with a 0.1% CPU load, and so on. And there's "some" problem with the CD drive, including but not limited to not opening anymore. I'll first test the method with a working notebook.

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