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Applications / Re: CUPS User ID and Password
« on: November 06, 2018, 02:39:43 pm »
I don't remember manually installing it so I think it was installed during the install of ARCOS.  ANPM says:

CUPS                  2.1.3-10
cups client          2.1.3-10
cups-filesystem  2.1.3-10
cups-filters          1.17.2-3 (oc00)
cups-filters-libs  1.17.2-3 (oc00)
cups-libs              2.1.13-10

I just updated  klusmgr from 1.1.2-1 to 1.2.1-1 and now have a kLIBC User Management icon on my desktop

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Applications / CUPS User ID and Password
« on: November 06, 2018, 06:59:46 am »
On the CUPS administration page (http://localhost:631/admin) when I click on "View Error Log" I am prompted for a user id and password. None of the user ids/passwords I have entered work.

Does anyone have any idea which user id and password CUPS is looking for?

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Applications / Re: Simple CUPS Support Printer Quesion
« on: November 06, 2018, 03:05:04 am »
Eric,

I have an HP m452dn and am trying to get it to work with CUPS, or directly from a PM printer driver.  My guess is it should work fine since it uses postscript in addition to PCL. Cups has installed a *.PPD file for the m452dn but I keep getting a filter error when I try to print. Plus I don't know the user id and password CUPS administration wants in order to see the error log.

As a side note, the printer drivers (PCL and Postscript) supplied by HP for the printer do not work on Windows 7, although they do work on WIndows XP. I spent a hour or two on the phone with HP support, who remotely connected to my PC. The final solution was to use HP's generic PCL driver and generic postscript driver.  Those drivers are available from HP's web site, and they work fine. Plus they appear to handle all the printers features.

It is a nice printer BTW. The only issue I have had with it is when I am printing 100's of pages it will stop periodically during the job to let the printer cool down. After it cools a little bit (takes a few minutes) printing resumes.

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Applications / Re: How to install and use DropBox plugin for Netdrive
« on: November 02, 2018, 05:47:17 am »
My authentication problem was resolved by installing Qt4 SSL fix, found at
http:/trac.netlabs.org/qtapps#additionalsoftwareprerequisites

Thanks to Silvan and Bitwise Works

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Copy/Replace file dialog in OS/2
« on: October 23, 2018, 02:31:19 am »
I agree with you that the lack of a progress indicator during a WPS file copy is a shortcoming.

When copying large files, or a large group of files I use Larsen Commander, which provides a very nice progress indicator. Larsen is shareware.

Another shortcoming of the WPS is lack of direct editing in details view of extended attributes, such as subject or author. I use FM2 for that. Although I wish FM2 had a search feature that would highlight all the files that contained a certain string in a selected EA.  The WPS details view allows you to select/filter on EAs but it is kind of a pain to use. FM2 is freeware.

Both Larsen and FM2 provide a whole bunch of other features that you really need when working with files.

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Applications / How to install and use DropBox plugin for Netdrive
« on: October 14, 2018, 03:14:19 am »
Anybody have any idea how to install or use the DropBox plugin for NetDrive?

I assume that to install it I use

YUM install  ndpdbox-0.6.0.b9-0.oc00.i686.rpm

This does create a folder on the desktop titled NpdDBox 0.6.b9. Inside the folder is an icon for Dropbox Authorize.

If the browser (firefox 45.9.0) is already open and I have signed on to DropBox when I click on Dropbox Authorize, click on the Start button, and then copy the text from the "Api Request Authorized" page on DropBox.com I get what looks like an error dialog box, title is DropBoxauth, message is: 
No access token in http reply!

If the browser isn't open then when I click the Start button, the browser starts and opens a sign on page for Drop Box. When I type in my email and password and click Sign In nothing happens - there is a busy cursor that never goes away.


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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: October 09, 2018, 06:35:13 am »
Thanks Dave for the suggestion of DosBox.

My observations on DosBox are:

1) Once DosBox starts you can mount a network drive and have that drive accessable inside DosBox, which also means accessible inside a Windows 3.1 application running in Windows 3.11 running in DosBox.

2) While DosBox has a mount command to mount a floppy drive, the Lotus Improv install program doesn't think it is a floppy drive. Which means the installer will not run.

I manually installed by copying the files and editing WIN.INI and the other *.INI files.

3) When you click the mouse in the DosBox, the mouse pointer is "captured", just the same as in vBox and Virtual PC without guest additions. Ctrl-F10 releases the mouse pointer.

4) I found a Windows 3.11 with SoundBlaster installed as a *.rar packaged for DosBox - which worked great and saved a lot of time. I believe all the Warp 4, eComStation and AOS licenses come with license for Windows 3 - so I don't think licensing is an issue when using that method to install Windows 3 that is running in OS/2.

5) What I ended up with is my  Windows application running in Windows, running in Dos. In all its glory, and all its agony. Meaning I saw a divide by zero error in a worksheet that never experienced that before. And at one time Windows wouldn't load the application saying it had run out of application memory. Ah - the good old days.

6) OS/2 really is a better windows than windows. It has been such a long time since I ran a real windows 3 machine I had forgotten how well OS/2 runs Windows 16 bit (and some Windows 32 bit) programs.

7) What you lose in both vBox and DosBox when running windows 3 apps is the ability to cut and paste between windows and OS/2 applications, along with DDE and named pipes. Along with a truly seamless Windows application running on the OS/2 desktop.

But both vBox and DosBox offer the ability to run Windows 3 applications on my lenovo laptop that currently will not run WinOS2.

I don't think you can print - at least directly - from a Windows 3 application running in DosBox. You could create a PDF on a mounted drive and then print that PDF from OS/2.

With vBox running WinXP running Improv I can print from Improv directly to my color HP m452dn printer, which only has drivers for Windows XP and above.

DosBox on OS/2 is pretty impressive, and it will probably run games, and perhaps some applications, that vBox running Windows XP wont. But for Win 3.1 applications that need to print I think that vBox running WinXP is probably a better choice.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: October 06, 2018, 09:40:32 pm »
Valery:

I imported the same "appliance" (virtual machine) in Windows 7 vBox and it imported OK.

I tried to import the same appliance on an AMD desktop running AOS (as opposed to the Intel Lenovo laptop) and it "hung" at what appears to be the same point - the very end. (First attachment.)

Clicking on the red X - to stop the process, doesn't do anything. (Second attachment) The status/dialog changes to "canceling" and then never goes away.

However after killing the VirtualBox process, and then restarting vBox, the imported appliance/virtual machine is there, and runs correctly.

Since it appears to work I am ok. If you are sitting on a beach soaking up some rays and get bored listening to the waves lapping on the sand and want to work on something then perhaps it is worth fixing. Otherwise maybe it is more appropriate to note in a read.me or something.

Improv is a Windows 16 bit application. I installed it a few minutes ago on a laptop running Windows XP and it can see and access network drives. (third attachment). But when running in a Windows XP virtual machine, the shared folder drives do not show up in the File - Open dialog box. That same issue is also true in Improv running in Windows XP in vBox on Windows 7.

I cannot share a network drive inside of a Windows XP virtual machine using either Samba or Netbeui. Now that I have had some sleep I seem to remember you, or someone else, saying that doesn't work. And with shared folders I really don't need to directly share a drive using networking facilities.  I only tried that because the shared folders/drives did not show up in the Improv File Open dialog.

The workaround is to copy the file(s) I need to use with Improv to a local drive in the virtual machine and access them from Improv there. PITA but it works.

(I will point out that FrameMaker v 5.5 running in Windows XP mode (i.e. Microsoft Virtual PC) on Windows 7 occassionally has problems accessing shared folders/drives out.)

If you do want to attack either problem and there is some information I can send you then please let me know.

In the interest of documenting what happens for the one or two other people in the world who might want to run Improv on WinXP on vBox on OS/2 - I will note that the Improv install hangs at the very end - necessitating rebooting the virtual machine. (attachment 4). But once the machine is rebooted Improv appears for work fine - other than the whole shared folder deal. And you probably want to run IMP20W.EXE instead of IMPROV.EXE; IMPROV.EXE has some issues in WinOS2 that IMP20W.EXE doesn't - so I assume the same might be true on Windows XP.

Finally I will repeat that vBox on OS2 is pretty darn impressive. The problems I have run against are pretty minor compared to the function and preformance of the product. Thanks again.




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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: October 06, 2018, 09:01:30 am »
I am using vBox on my Lenovo laptop to run Windows 3.1 programs, since WinOS2 wont run on this laptop.

I installed Improv in a Windows XP virtual machine in vBox. The install hung at the very end when it was creating icons in a Program Group. But it appears that Improv runs OK, except for accessing shared folders.

The Improv File Open dialog does not show any shared folder "drives". And I cannot successfully map a local drive to drive on a remote machine using the native Windows XP method, either to a SAMBA server on the remote machine or throught  NetBEUI (after installing the NETBEUI driver in the WinXP box)

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: October 06, 2018, 08:38:50 am »
Valery,

I did it twice - the first time I used the close button. For some reason, which I cannot remember now, I didn't think the import worked and so tried a second time, which is when I used watchcat. Looking back it think the import probably worked the first time, even though the dialog never reached completion.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox v5.0.51 Testing
« on: September 26, 2018, 03:35:05 am »
The Import Appliance feature never reaches completion but appears to work OK.

I used File - > Export Applicance to export an WinXP virtual machine I had created on an AMD machine.

I used File -> Import Appliance to import that appliance/virtual machine (the WinXP VM) on an Intel based laptop (Lenovo T530i). The import got to 99% 2/3 and never completed. Or I should say the dialog box never got past 99%.

I used WatchCat (a process monitor) to terminate the vbox session.
 
When I restarted vbox the imported "appliance" was there - i.e. the WinXP VM. It started and appears to be running fine. I had to re-import the guest additions, but other than that it is running fine.

So it appears the import works correctly, even though it never gets past 99% on the progress dialog box.

Kudos to all who are working on this project. Very very nice.

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Applications / Re: AOS Removable media monitor - how to install
« on: September 26, 2018, 02:32:38 am »
Thanks Dave.

It appears, once again, to be operator error on my part.

I misread Andreas post as "add new widget" instead of  what he actually wrote, which was "create new widget".

Once I clicked on the right part  of xCenter I saw the create new widget menu option - which worked just fine.

And thanks again Andreas, for your help.

I have the Removable Media thing on another AOS machine (and now on the laptop) and I like it. Very nice.

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Applications / Re: AOS RAM Disk
« on: September 26, 2018, 02:19:43 am »
OK to answer my own question - based in the Ram Disk Memory Limits dialog

The low memory check box must mean all memory below 4gb
The high memory check box must mean all memory above 4gb

Something (BIOS video memory?) must be reserving a chunk of below 4GB memory, i.e. "low memory"

No matter what you do to the check boxes, the next time you open the Ram Disk setup thingy, both check boxes are checked. So the only way to know or check where the Ram Disk is being created is with a memory analyzer, or to look at os2ldr.cfg

Thanks guys for the answer about PAE.

I guess this means, in theory, it is possible for some of those memory hungry applications (FireFox, vBox) to also use memory above 4GB?

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Applications / Re: AOS RAM Disk
« on: September 26, 2018, 01:10:24 am »
I guess I am confused by the Ram Disk setup screen. I am using AOS

The screen shows two check boxes, with available memory next to them.
One check box says Low memory.
The other says High memory.

My laptop has 8 GB of RAM.

If "low memory" means everything below the 4 GB boundary,  and "high memory" means above the 4GB boundary, then the available memory shown next to the "high memory" check box should show 4 GBs.

If the "low memory" check box means conventional memory, and "high memory" means the memory between conventional and 4GB, then how do you select the memory above 4GB

Do anyone know how the Ram Disk setup thingy work?

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Applications / Re: AOS Removable media monitor - how to install
« on: September 26, 2018, 12:49:26 am »
Thanks Andreas

I put those two files, plus RemMedia.xqs in the directory.

AN Removable Media shows up on the Add Widget submenu, but is greyed out so I can't select it.

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