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I wrote my own proposal for a UI development plan in 2012, which references some of Martin's ideas.

http://www.altsan.org/os2/eComStation_UI_2012.pdf
http://www.altsan.org/os2/eComStation_UI_2012.odt

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Applications / Re: Favorite/Required non-opensource OS/2-eCs apps?
« on: May 19, 2015, 11:59:38 am »
PMView Pro
MED
VX-REXX
ProNews/2
PMMail
X-File

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PMMRGRES is the resource library for PMMERGE.  Run RDC from Resource Manager on it to see what's in it (from an empty directory, preferably, because it creates a ton of files).  I'm not sure if it contains code as well.

I assume PMVDMH has something to do with VDM support.

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Applications / Re: Set default view for folders from command line
« on: May 08, 2015, 12:23:51 pm »
You should be able to use SysSetObjectData with a setup string of 'DEFAULTVIEW=SPLITVIEW;'.

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General Discussion / Re: Yum issue
« on: April 15, 2015, 11:41:43 am »
I've seen this on multiple systems, and it's caused by the latest update to the GCC (and/or LIBC?) DLLs. Specifically, while the new DLL naming logic is apparently backwards compatible with old applications, it breaks if you have old GCC* DLLs in the LIBPATH.

Update your LIBPATH to move %UNIXROOT%\usr\lib to or near the front (especially move it before \ecs\dll or anywhere else that old GCC*.DLL and LIBC*.DLL might exist) and reboot.

Longer-term, try to seek out and remove all other GCC*.DLL and LIBC*.DLL from your system except for those in %UNIXROOT%\usr\lib.

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Marketplace / Re: VX-REXX 2.1 CS
« on: April 12, 2015, 05:52:04 am »
It would be inappropriate for me to describe how to circumvent restrictions designed into the demo version, but it's not that difficult to figure out once you start thinking in the right direction.  8)

Quite incidentally, I might as well put out the following information which could be useful to any VX-REXX developer, for things like crash recovery.  ;)

Normally, saving a VX-REXX a project generates three files: xxxx.VRX (ASCII file containing the REXX function source), xxxx.VRY (binary file containing the window resources) and xxxx.VRP (ASCII file containing the project definition and metadata) – if you have additional code files, these are also saved as whatever.VRX.

Whenever you 'Run' a VX-REXX app from the designer, it creates a temporary directory under %TMP%, into which it writes various working files.  These files don't quite have the usual file extensions, but it's pretty easy to figure out the correspondences. (You can ignore all the files ending in .MMW and .CMD.)  This feature has saved me on several occasions when I suffered a VX-REXX or system crash/hang before managing to properly save my project.

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General Discussion / Re: Help transforming INF to PDF
« on: April 11, 2015, 03:38:59 pm »
I'm not being able to make ghostcript to work fine with the PDF printers to make a direct transformation from Newview to PDF. And on other platform (for what I tried) DocView is very limited, it does not allow to print , save on other format or copy the text.

You could use a 2-step process: use Postscript printer on FILE: to print to a Postscript file from NewView.  Then use Ghostscript's lib\ps2pdf.cmd to convert the .PS file to PDF from the command line.  (This probably requires the gsx.yy\bin directory on both PATH and LIBPATH, unless you run the script itself from there.)

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Networking / Re: Problem with Samba EVFSGUI
« on: March 25, 2015, 02:40:17 am »
If you use the command line, you need to run
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evfscli attach h:first, before issuing the mount command.

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Applications / Re: PDF Printer
« on: March 19, 2015, 04:31:47 am »
I just glanced through the source code on Netlabs (which unfortunately is older than the last release, the code for which appears to be lost).

The return code 1 is coming from Ghostscript, it doesn't appear to be a system error. So I assume Ghostscript is at least loading successfully.

There should be a logfile in %TMP%\pdfwrite.msg.  You could try examining it for clues.  It should contain, among other things, the complete command line used to invoke GS, which you might try running manually to see if you get any more information.

FWIW (from looking at the source code), the command line should be:

gsos2  -q -Ic:\programs\gs\gs8.71\lib;c:\programs\gs\gs8.71\..\fonts;c:\psfonts -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPLATFONTS -sFONTPATH=#c:\psfonts -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sOutputFile#"pdf_file" "ps_file"

(assuming C: is your boot drive)

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Applications / Re: qpdfview
« on: March 12, 2015, 01:35:14 am »
whichdll.exe finds DLLs which are already loaded by an application. If none is loaded, it finds whichever copy would be loaded by default.

My RXUTILEX.DLL Rexx library also includes this function (Sys2LocateDLL).

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Programming / Re: Presentation Manager - About PM DLL's
« on: March 09, 2015, 01:01:27 pm »
Just one some questions, how do I recognize that a DLL is only a plain forwarder?

You could check with lxlite or exehdr etc. to see if all of the entrypoints are forwarded. Although I'm not certain that covers all possibilities...

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Do you know of any forwarder on OS/2 that has something inside (that is not plain) ? like half forwarder and half "implemented functions" on it? Do something like that exist right now on OS/2?

Yes, certainly.  The replacement LVM.DLL in eCS, for example.

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Applications / Re: AOOo 4111GA does not install libc066
« on: February 24, 2015, 04:40:32 am »
Lars: That sounds like the bug where updating Python to 2.7 would break urlgrabber and thus yum.  The fix is to xcopy the \usr\lib\python2.6\site-packages\urlgrabber directory to \usr\lib\python2.7\site-packages\urlgrabber, then run 'yum update urlgrabber'.

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Applications / Re: AOOo 4111GA does not start
« on: February 21, 2015, 04:40:35 am »
I tried bumping my guest RAM up to 768MB. It still made no difference. I don't like giving a guest over 1GB due to available RAM on the host.

The amount of RAM isn't the issue. It's the amount of shared memory, which if I understand correctly has essentially no relation to the amount of installed physical memory. Shared memory is a finite resource with a maximum of a few hundred MB, no matter how much RAM your system has.

I'm no expert on the subject myself, but there are ways to increase the available shared memory. Lowering your VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT in CONFIG.SYS (or defining it to something relatively low, like 512 or 1024) is allegedly one of them. There are others than more clever people can probably suggest.

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Applications / Re: xsane,gimp,xfree86 and a *nix dummy
« on: February 21, 2015, 04:33:32 am »
The message indicates it can't find the X server.  Which X server are you using?  HobLink? Did you make sure it's running?  Is its screen numberset to 0 to match your DISPLAY environment variable?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Keyboard, codepage and headache
« on: February 07, 2015, 06:03:39 am »
The allowable primary/secondary system codepages are determined by the COUNTRY setting.  If just tested with COUNTRY=001 and I was able to use SET CODEPAGE=850,866 without any trouble. 

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