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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Web applications / Re: QT5 simplebrowser
« on: January 21, 2021, 12:48:24 am »
Also don't forget ffmpeg-legacy-libs or whatever it is called for Mozilla.

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Applications / Re: PMMail questions.
« on: January 21, 2021, 12:46:04 am »
Also, when posting logs, email addresses and such, make sure to sanitize them so no private information is posted. I didn't look but Doug's comment said something wasn't sanitized.

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Applications / Re: OpenSource WishList
« on: January 19, 2021, 10:09:07 pm »
Well as mentioned, the GTK toolkit would allow a lot of other ports to happen. On Linux, it seems that the interesting graphical stuff is linked against QT or GTK. Unluckily porting GTK might even be a bigger job then porting QT as at least QT was designed to be cross platform.
Wine, or rather merging in current Wine into Odin would also allow a lot of stuff to just run or be recompiled, even for GTK, it would be a shortcut to just use the Windows port, perhaps recompiled to be native.

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Applications / Re: Symlink?
« on: January 19, 2021, 09:57:47 pm »
A couple of things. OS/2 uses %ETC% to put the stuff that goes in /etc in *nix systems, our TCP/IP stack for example is a BSD port. %ETC% usually points to x:\mptn\etc (x:\tcpip\etc on Warp v3).
So a good port will use %ETC%, but in the interests of saving time by porters, newer ports often use @unixroot/etc. So we have 2 etc directories.
There are a couple of ways to reconcile these.
ArcaOS ships with the klibC Path Remapper, it is found in System Setup and allows replacing/extending paths, I've never quite got the hang of it but if you look /etc is mapped to %ETC%.
There's also symlinks, these act much like *nix symlinks, at that a symlink on a HPFS partition will work on Linux and vice a versa. These only work at the libc level, so basically anything compiled with GCC (not the old EMX GCC) will see these symlinks, which are kept as an Extended Attribute. You use them with the same tools as on Linux, ln -s for example.
There's also has been file systems that support symlinks, the old ext2 port even supported hard links IIRC, as well as symlinks. Unluckily it is not compatible with LVM.
There's also the TVFS (Toronto Virtual File System) on Hobbes which also allows real symlinks and a virtual drive letter. I used to have everything linked to X:
Really, today the choices are the path remapper or symlinks, or just using the correct etc. The documentation will hopefully tell you.
Note that doing a make install on a Unix port will often install with symlinks.

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Applications / Re: ArcaOS Yum updates question
« on: January 19, 2021, 05:51:43 pm »
That's a known bug that is fixed in the next release, probably soon.

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Applications / Re: XFree86-OS/2
« on: January 19, 2021, 04:13:24 am »
This is the script I use to start X11, started like "xfEnvSetup.cmd X" where X is the drive letter of X11root where X11 is installed.
Note I have display=127.0.0.1:0.0 for running kLIBC compiled binaries which don't do pipes correctly and a better setting is display=:0.0

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Applications / Re: PMMail questions.
« on: January 17, 2021, 09:00:18 pm »
I believe you need something like https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/misc/stunnel-4.05-os2.zip to tunnel your connection through SSL.

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: January 17, 2021, 06:58:24 pm »
Works the same as previous here, turn the master playback volume down and the beginning of a system sound sounds staticy and loud sometimes.
Leave volume on full and use speaker volume control and it sounds good.

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Multimedia / Re: Updated Uniaud32 build
« on: January 16, 2021, 04:17:01 am »
I'm getting weirdness at the start of playing some system sounds sometimes, like sounds staticy at first, other times plays fine.

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Multimedia / Re: Desktop weirdness
« on: January 14, 2021, 04:26:37 pm »
Well, there is the advertiser having access to all your mails. For certain mails it is fine but nice to have alternatives and, at least in theory, a Canadian base ISP's email should be more private.
Then, try sending someone a zip file or certain other types with Gmail.

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Multimedia / Re: Desktop weirdness
« on: January 14, 2021, 08:16:49 am »
Off-topic, I got the mail telling me that I'm being moved to Gmail from Telus mail yesterday. I've started experimenting with gmx.com for mail.

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Hardware / Re: Hardware Wiki report
« on: January 13, 2021, 01:07:28 am »
Latest pcidevs file should be at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/

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Setup & Installation / Re: Arca media options
« on: January 12, 2021, 05:04:12 pm »
I haven't done it but others create a FAT partition and put the USB image there and install from it.
From readme2,
Quote
3.1.2  Using AOSBoot to create a bootable ArcaOS USB stick or partition

To build a bootable ArcaOS installation USB stick while booted to an existing
OS/2 or ArcaOS installation, you may utilize the AOSBoot script, located in the
\AOSBOOT directory of the ISO.

Detailed instructions for AOSBoot are included in the readme.txt file in the
\AOSBOOT directory of the ISO and available from the ArcaOS wiki (look for the
AltBoot sub-wiki).

So you would need an OS/2 install to start with.

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Hardware / Re: 64k vs 16million colors
« on: January 09, 2021, 06:35:16 pm »
You never mentioned which driver SNAP is using and whether accelerated. As https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/panorama/handling-problems/ mentions, using 16 million colours uses twice the memory and twice the CPU as 64K colours. That's Panorama but SNAP depending on the hardware...

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Hardware / Re: USB Scanners and ArcaOS
« on: January 08, 2021, 08:44:12 pm »
How in the fucking world can I deinstall a single package, ignoring any dependencies ?
I'd like to install SANE via RPM but I would like to deinstall USBCALLS from RPM afterwards.

rpm --erase <package> might do it.

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