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Multimedia / Re: Static and looping audio with UniAud
« on: March 24, 2017, 04:53:29 am »
Quote from: thinkwiki.org
the ALSA intel8x0 driver plays sound too fast. The following /etc/asound.conf restores normal operation:

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  pcm.intel8x0-hw {
  type hw
  card 0
  }
 
  pcm.!default {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "intel8x0"
  }
 
  pcm.intel8x0 {
  type dmix
  ipc_key 1234
  slave {
  pcm "hw:0,0"
  period_time 0
  period_size 512
  buffer_size 4096
  rate 44100
  }
  }
 
  ctl.intel8x0-hw {
  type hw
  card 0
  }

Regarding UniAud and shooting troubles, is there a way to execute (the equivalent of) this code with OS/2?

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.8.0 - userchrome.css and UI settings...
« on: March 24, 2017, 04:06:34 am »
Considering how fragile the profile can be, they perhaps assume that you stopped using Firefox due to profile issues such as Doug with his memory usage.

LOL, granted. In that case it isn't the only assumption, and it keeps asking the question without the STFU option of "Firefox appears ... to be .. starting slowly. Do ... you want ... to disable ... add-ons? (Y/N/STFU)". Nevertheless I did expect it was a setting.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.8.0 - userchrome.css and UI settings...
« on: March 24, 2017, 03:54:44 am »
If you really want to make it "permanent", put something in the boot sequence to delete it, if it exists, at each boot.

FWIW: if one has a clean STARTUP.CMD policy, then it can be added to an own frequently used, irrelevant CMD file. For example a X.CMD of 5 bytes, which could delete the file before executing its "@EXIT".

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Applications / Re: Regina REXX vs. OS/2 REXX
« on: March 24, 2017, 03:23:01 am »
I added your notes about missing Regina features to our bugtracker: http://osfree.org/doku/en:issue:list

The listed INF documentation is important too indeed, because a package like VX-REXX may use the INF file as "the" Rexx reference. All SWITCHRX.CMD-related files will be somehow relevant.

As mentioned earlier, PM versions like PMREGINA.EXE may have to return PMREXX with Address(). PMREXX itself is broken since a Warp 3 FP, and returns a different string. With CMD.EXE Regina's Address() doesn't return CMD.

I haven't verified the way Regina works, but it may be a new feature to disable syntax checking with an environment variable too. This would allow you to run broken (packed or tokenized) scripts, without having to patch unpatchable (packed or tokenized) scripts. SWITCHRX and Rexx SAA are an alternative for such a feature, but having to use Rexx SAA won't be a goal of a new Rexx interpreter.

Check, I don't have a Regina available at the moment: does RxMessageBox() always work, and without having to RxFuncAdd() it?

A more structured approach will be better For now it was a way to point out why having a working binary is important, an advantage compared with Open Object Rexx for Windows/Linus, but it's not as easy as just appending a REGINA.DLL to SWITCHRX.CMD. Files will be missing, results will be unexpected, and Rexx apps will stop working properly.

At the moment Regina is probably the best cross-platform interpreter of Classic Rexx, so you'ld probably use it as-is in an environment with more than one platform. Then one doesn't need a fully and perfectly embedded Rexx interpreter.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.8.0 - userchrome.css and UI settings...
« on: March 24, 2017, 02:48:13 am »
It's been answered on here search the forum and it's on the Warpzilla tips page too.

Yes, if we ignore the fact that e.g. Warpzilla uses none of my words (theirs are reseting, profile, bug and parent.lock). Thank you for playing the role of a human search engine, and I'll try to remember that I won't answer any question here which can be answered by using possibly unrelated information of any source.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.8.0 - userchrome.css and UI settings...
« on: March 24, 2017, 02:42:30 am »
There were not very many things that needed to be fixed.

In the case of OS/2 (en-us distribution only) the UI language is an annoying one, because it's not as easy as opening all FF XPI files again, and I frequently use the large button in the bottom left corner without wanting to read pop-ups each time. Thanks.

I'm not sure what not having used FF for a while has to do with a refreshment. You'ld perhaps except a refreshment if you'ld use it frequently, when a broken profile or some memory-related problem is far more likely. It's rather a weird "welcome back"...

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.8.0 - userchrome.css and UI settings...
« on: March 23, 2017, 02:08:27 pm »
Is there a way to disable or to reduce the frequency of the message "You haven't used FF for a while. Welcome back! Do you want to renew/refresh/tune up FF?".

The answer would be no/never, to not have to install add-ons and restore the UI language again, but it looks like that's not an option.

713
Applications / Re: Can I use a usb port as a com-port?
« on: March 18, 2017, 09:24:15 am »
the new motherboards no longer has normal com ports.

[pedantic]Only the connector is missing. Or, in the case of some portable computers, the connector looks like a docking station connector. A port replicator will replicate an existing port.[/pedantic]. Of course USB will have been a desktop's reasonable and efficient alternative for soldering, and so on.

Just pointing out that the port will still be there, so users of such a "normal" serial connector don't always have to throw away their devices or debuggers.

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Applications / Re: Do you really need DOS/WIN16 Support?
« on: March 18, 2017, 08:57:57 am »
It is interesting to know the applications that are making people stick to DOS and Win16, and also why they want the "seamless Win-OS/2 integration".

The rather weird context of a few individuals was already clear, but your goal wasn't. Applications had to be "really needed", apparently the slow video of DOSBox and buying Windows is an alternative, and happy users almost had to justify why they are satisfied. While not installing WinOS/2 and DOS isn't that hard. If a minority claims that DOS software is old, then I won't stop them from using a ported "RM * -R"

I may have started it, by pointing out that a return of DOS sound is important for the niche market of people finding their old collection of DOS games, with people perhaps failing to understand that pointing out the existence of a larger market is irrelevant for a niche market. AN itelf has used Win-OS/2 to promote their OS (in the case of Orly Airport, Paris, France). It's almost trolling to point out that DOS software is really, really old, while using and OS that may even be older than the DOS software in (virtual) question. Go figure...

It has no use to throw away working, (rarely and not rarely) used DOS and Win16 software. There's a Chomp for OS/2 (black & white) and there's a Chomp for Win-OS2 (colors). If you want to, you can install both. If you prefer the colors, then you can delete the even older OS/2 software and, unlike me, keep the Win-OS/2 version.

A generic problem of DOSBox is the slowlyness of its video, compared to OS/2 and SNAP, as already pointed out by Dave Yeo. Slowlyness (DOSBox) affects all applications, being mute (OS/2) affects less applications.

So: what's the dicussion? Does a minority emand that all users of DOS-based software delete their software? Even DOS sound for a niche market isn't a new develepoment. We used to have it.

A virtual business case involves a "modern" DOS game and modern hardware. We don't know if the game will work, if you'd try to promote some ArcaOS, the game will be mute, and there's DOSBox for Windows 10 too.

Regarding companies (what about governments and their lack of technical competition?): if I know a case of people still using Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.1, then I can promise you that I've already informed this rather random lead about, my reference, eComStation and Win-OS/2, and I'm not representing AN's marketing department. Niche market advertising will work better. AN is already aware of at least one well-known case, which can be used in advertising: the commercial French airport, which made the international news.

No list, which would include a classic Win-OS/2 app like PBRUSH.EXE. Because I'm not going to feed the opposition, if the DOS sound-inspired opposition still exists. And if I'd "prefer" MS Office, or "need" it, and outdated software has to be banned, then I'm already aware of Windows 10 and Office 365. The right order is that the opposition, if any, has to advocate why I have to delete my copy for Win-OS/2. Let's not reverse that. DOS support and Win-OS/2 is an asset, optional, which doesn't stop any new developments, and it makes no sense at all to delete working software "because it's old" (but possibly not as old as OS/2 itself).

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad T41 and wireless connection
« on: March 14, 2017, 11:07:28 pm »
Spot on. IBM ThinkPad 20-series were involved, because several older, slightly different CONFIG.SYSes were combined. LCSS gets it right too. HELPERW is now the first network-related CALL/RUN item, before e.g. NETBIND, and GenMac is selectable with XWLAN.

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Applications / Re: Abandonware?
« on: March 13, 2017, 01:44:18 pm »
Thank you for trying. Same here. So, after an UNINSTAL, CHECKINIs and a cold boot, a winning order appears to be:

UNZIP TEXTC092.ZIP
INSTALL I
Warm reboot

I'm not sure that everything is installed correctly now (there's no ToolsByGoran entry in the "USER" INI). But after using INSTALL.CMD, without a warm reboot, the TEXTCONV.EXE, Initor nor FM/2's INI Viewer were able to open CHARSETS.INI. The reboot probably fully closes and/or unlocks the INI file. Please note that TEXTCONV.EXE doesn't use Rexx' SysIni() to test the INI file, which may somehow haved played a role.

Solved, without looking at a real cause.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad T41 and wireless connection
« on: March 13, 2017, 11:57:05 am »
Other one (IBM ThinkPad T23, reinstalled MPTS/XWLAN/GenMac): green (& white) CONFIG.SYS text, same log files w.r.t. GenMac (WRND32.LOG can be found in x:\GENMAC\DRIVER).

Driver not actually fully loaded, start looking for a LLAECS.EXE?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad T41 and wireless connection
« on: March 13, 2017, 11:17:28 am »
Deleting XWLAN 3.10 settings via REGEDIT2 and reinstalling XWLAN: no change.
Reinstalling GenMac after the previous step: no change.

Different Pentium III machine, without the previous attempts to make it work: the GenMac driver loads. Visually. XWLAN's icon is "No WLAN driver". According to MPTS the installed drivers are GenMac (Intel 2200) and GenPRISM (no adapter inserted).

LANTRAN.LOG, translated:

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LT00073: FFST/2 is installed but not started. LANTRAN.LOG will be created.
IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [05/21/04] 6.00 is loaded and activated.
IBM OS/2 LAN Netbind
WRND32$  WRAPPER : Helperw.exe must be started before NETBIND!.
PRO0021: A general error occured during the execution of a bind for TCPIP_NIF and W8086X4220_NIF.

WRND32.LOG (v2.20):

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//------------ Version 2.1 ------------------
WRND32.TXT:

Code: [Select]
[D:\genmac\driver]copy WRND32$ WRND32.TXT
The system cannot open the device or file specified.
        0 file(s) copied.

XWLAN doesn't show any selectable driver, but let's restrict that to the missing GenMac driver. I've rebooted to make sure that the driver was loaded by CONFIG.SYS, visually. The usual, expected green message appeared. Does XWLAN (still) work corrrectly, but does it not actually (fully) load the GenMac driver indeed?

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Applications / Re: Abandonware?
« on: March 12, 2017, 10:39:19 pm »
Is there a working copy of the file CHARSETS.INI of Text Converter 0.9.2 (TEXTC092.ZIP)?

CHARSETS.INIs in both TEXTC090.ZIP and TEXTC092.ZIP cannot be opened by an INI editor. The (edited) section of source code of TEXTCONV.EXE which trigger a fatal error is:

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dummy = CWRexxIni(datfile,uniapp,'ALL:','uckey.','ucval.')
IF dummy = 'ERROR:' THEN CALL FatalPage 9

So apparently a non-broken OS/2 INI file format is expected, with specific data. The variable "uniapp" translates to "UniCode". I can imagine that users may still have a working copy of a CHARSETS.INI of Text Converter 0.0.1. According to the manual it's a required "database". Some kind of reconstruction of CHARSETS.INI may be possible, but it's not a small file and it won't be that easy.

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Applications / Re: Do you really need DOS/WIN16 Support?
« on: March 12, 2017, 01:57:04 pm »
Too many to list, mainly DOS, and I won't provide data to the alledged opposition whom tend to abuse a poipular vote. "Need" is undefined. The list is longer than the list of reasons to drop support for DOS. Win-OS/2 apps include MS Office, and Windows 10 is a better alternative than DOSBox/2. A guesstimated DOS/Win16-OS/2 ratio of installed WPProgram objects will be about 50-50'ish. A guesstimated DOS-Win16 ratio of DOS/Win16 apps will be about 19-1'ish. A Win16-DOSBox ratio will be about 4-1. DOSBox typically is an inferior solution, exceptions excluded.

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