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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: March 26, 2018, 05:27:05 am »
Styer (estyler) titlebar and button bitmaps

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Internet / Re: Firefox and Traps
« on: March 26, 2018, 03:38:12 am »
Ben

Have you checked out this web page.  They do a pretty good job of explaining and telling one everything they need to be successful.

http://ecsoft2.org/firefox

I remember you said you use eCS 2.2 beta.

This is the site if you want to download and use Arca Noae Package Manager:

http://ecsoft2.org/anpm-arca-noae-package-manager


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Internet / Re: Firefox and Traps
« on: March 26, 2018, 01:09:13 am »
I noticed my

d:\home\mozilla\firefox\profiles\pmhqn8zi.default\cache2\entries

has 25,502 files.  Are all these files necessary or can I delete them? 

PMseek and other search engines bog down when they hit this directory.

David

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Applications / Re: David's Doodles
« on: March 25, 2018, 08:25:02 am »
XWP shadow icons and boot logos

530
Applications / David's Doodles
« on: March 24, 2018, 05:16:54 am »
OS/2 pointers and pointer sets

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Applications / Re: XWP v1.0.12 Beta 1
« on: March 20, 2018, 12:17:22 am »
Hi Martin

The icons look good.  I started a few myself years ago, but never finished.  Good job!

David

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Applications / Re: XWP v1.0.12 Beta 1
« on: March 19, 2018, 03:24:47 am »
I just created 3 more shadow icons for anyone interested in trying them. Just rename your old one in the Warp theme directory.  Change the name of the new one to shadow.ico.  Enable Warp icons in XWP setup and restart the desktop.

David

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Hi Dave

Thank you for the suggestions.

I changed my Startup.cmd as you suggested.  Works great.

That was a typo in my config.sys that I corrected.

Made the two changes and Firefox download works as it should. 

Thanks for your help.

David

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I made a mistake.  Firefox points to the download directory which is in the home directory. The download directory does exist. 

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I made a STARTUP.CMD file and put it into my ArcaOS 5.02 root directory.

@ echo off
x:
md temp
exit

which creates a temp directory on drive X which is my RAM drive.

I then changed my config.sys to point to where my new temporary directory is located.

SET TMP=x:\\temp
SET TEMP=x:\temp
SET TMPDIR=x:\temp

Now the problem.

My Firefox 45.9.0 download directory in Options points to

f:\home\temp

When I download a file, it always fails.  When I click the retry, it shows it finishes the download.

However,the downloaded file is not found in the f:\home\temp directory.

I now find it in my X:\temp directory.

Before, Firefox would have no problem downloading and the downloads would always be found in the home\temp directory.

Have I done something wrong or is this a problem with Firefox?

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Applications / Re: Curious about these old patches
« on: March 11, 2018, 07:22:09 am »
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/title.zip
1) right-click on the Titlebar pushes a window back in the z-order.
I had used that 15 years ago. Unfortunately that feature didn't made it into XWP. I had missed it a lot.

2) ctrl-right-click shrinks a window to its titlebar size.
AFAIR, I had found that it has bugs. Other WPS enhancements that provide that feature work better (Nice, ALWALTFX, Object Desktop).

The program has worked flawlessly for me.   

Here is another old program I enjoy dearly.  I have tried it with XWP lite that comes with ArcaOS 5.02 and so far it has worked great.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/npswp182.zip

Over 20 functions to enhance OS/2. 

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/npswa01.zip

2 additional window animation sets

Some of these functions I have not seen anywhere else.

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Applications / Re: Curious about these old patches
« on: March 10, 2018, 05:46:27 am »
To begin, ArcaOS 5.02 is pretty rock solid.   But I am always testing things.   I have been using these patches now for around a week and the system has been doing great.  There is another utility I find very useful and wish it was part of XWP.  It is called title.  It is very simple to install.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/title.zip

This program modual was designed to add some missing funcitonality to OS/2. The specific features are: 1) right-click on the Titlebar pushes a window back in the z-order. *2) ctrl-right-click shrinks a window to its titlebar size.

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I was looking at a utility called highmem

http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/util/highmem-20140406-os2.zip

Its developer "Yuri Dario (Paperino)" states the following:

"Loading code high should almost always be ok. That's because loading code high is mostly transparent to applications: it's the kernel's job to map high addresses to the physical memory where the code resides. Unless some code tries to map a linear code address (aka: a function pointer) to a segmented code address, see below but that does not happen very often.

For loading data high this is much more critical: of course, the same applies as for code but remember "thunking"? A lot of APIs make the silent assumption that a linear data address can be easily mapped to a segmented address and vice versa by a simple well known "thunking" algorithm. However that algorithm only works for "low memory". And OS/2 has enough 16-bit code in its bowels that can only access data via a segmented data address. If you have a big application like Firefox you never know if there is some low level OS component that makes that simple assumption, thunks a data address and subsequently gets it wrong if "high memory" data addresses are used."

This looks like what Firefox is doing. 

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I have noticed that the amount of CPU trashing changes with sites one goes to.  OS2World home page is low.  This other site is low

http://ecsoft2.org/

However when I go this another web page at the same site, the CPU usage goes up trememndously.

http://ecsoft2.org/popular

Go back to to the home page and it drops tremendously.  So it appears to be certain web pages that cause these browsers to go bonkers.  So what is it about sites such as this that cause the browsers to overreact?

I wonder if it is possible to build into Firefox or Seamonkey the ability to use another caching program such as Oops.  On a properties page select external cache program and have a text box to point it to it, similar to what FM/2 and PMMail do for for external editors.

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/server/oops-1-5-24.zip

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I had to move back to Firefox.  Seamonkey would run for awhile and then would suddenly terminate.

What is wierd is that on my lastest bootup, Firefox CPU trashing is way down,  I can't explain it.  Before I could barely use Firefox.  Right now it is pleasant to use.

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