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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2
« on: December 31, 2015, 12:03:10 am »
I just performed a "clean" install of AOO4120 - as requested in the readme.

To achieve this I copied my existing \PROGRAMS\AOO4 directory structure to my TEMP directory, then deleted the contents of \PROGRAMS\AOO4 and then ran the AOO-4120-GA-base-en-US.wpi package.
This is not a clean install. Because WarpIN can't uninstall anything automatically, you have to uninstall the old version first.

1] The install directory defaults to the existing \PROGRAMS\AOO4 directory and cannot be changed.
Sure. The WarpIN database has that path saved and you need to either uninstall your previous
AOO version or remove its entries from it first. Another option is to hack it to point to the
desired path.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 for eComStation and OS/2
« on: December 28, 2015, 12:16:59 am »
Now, for the big one (IMO). Programmers need to start using more static linking, to eliminate the use of DLLs.
No Doug, you're completely wrong, especially in the context of trying to minimize shared memory space.

Dynamic linking is the way to go and that's where we are already now!

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 15, 2015, 09:02:35 pm »
I've overlooked it 2 times I searched for it in that dialog
I made the same experience a few years ago. That part of the notebook page seems to be too crowded.

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 13, 2015, 04:26:13 pm »
Desktop -> Properties -> XShutdown -> Shutdown only
Animation  [ ] before shutdown  [ ] before reboot

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Events / Re: OS/2 - eCS - Blue Lion - Wishlist 2015
« on: December 12, 2015, 05:08:01 pm »
I'd like to see into xCenter/eCenter notebook,
What do you mean by that? XWP proviides many notebook (properties) objects.

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Applications / Re: Lucide Gsview and printers error in Lucide or not
« on: December 12, 2015, 05:00:03 pm »
Or use EPM and execute s /o

Explanation:
   s is the shortcut for Save
   /o is an option to use OS/2 line ends.
   /l is an option to use Linux line ends.
   No option out of /o and / l doesn't change line ends, but can also produce mixed line ends, what has to be avoided.

Option /o is the default value for NEPMD, but not for EPM.

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 06, 2015, 06:09:25 pm »
1] The JFS /AUTOCHECK:+* switch is no longer honoured. This means that it is impossible to *force* chkdsk on drives that are Dirty but marked as Clean.
My technical opinion: Note that with '+*' you can't force anymore any clean-marked volume being checked at all, regardless if it's dirty or not.

When a dirty boot volume is marked clean, it's time to boot from another volume and perform the chkdsk from there. If that would happen for other volumes, you have now also to boot to another volume for that. Is that really that important? How many times happened that for you?

2] Since installing this JFS release  my system often "loses" a drive volume at boot. I have JFS formatted volumes G: through L: with H: and L: being bootable. About 1 in 3 boots I notice that G: is not mentioned at all during the JFS chkdsk display.
Once booted I can get G: to display in the Drives folder by running LVM and then exiting using Save and Exit - with no changes made and - Voila! drive G: appears in the Drives folder.
I would give David at least a few weeks time to investigate this and to react to your recently posted bug.

I agree with you that this needs fixing and if it's somehow reproducible, chances are not bad to fix it.

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I don't know if that apples to 2.1, but in the latest eCS beta there exists in ?:\ecs\bin:

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focdlg.cmd
focdlg.lxe
lxedit.exe
lxreplace.exe

and in ?:\os2\dll

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pmex.dll

Execute

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focdlg /i

to patch ?:\os2\dll\pmctls.dll.

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Applications / Re: XWorkplace Monster Revival ?
« on: November 27, 2015, 09:18:08 pm »
Just ask Chris for the sources. (BTW: I don't have an email address, but that shouldn't be too hard to find out, as there belong still some people to the OS/2 scene who know him.)

Note that he was pissed-off by the type of criticism he got. For me, it was never unstable and it always worked together with XWP.

The reason that I don't install it on my systems is that it eats too much lower shared memory, nothing more. I would like to have WPS Wizards' features at no cost of fewer shared mem. BTW: I don't want the eye candy stuff of it, but the rest is great.

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Hardware / Re: Trackpoint Lovers
« on: October 27, 2015, 06:38:27 pm »
But the common thing is that the OS/2-eCS users like Thinkpad and likes the touchpad.
I think you mean "... and like the trackpoint."

(I've noticed that, too. I never took the time to get used to it and was already an experienced touchpad user years before. That's why I don't use the trackpoint. Another reason is that I use notebooks rarely these days.)

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Applications / Re: Why Qt4 Lib uses REGISTRY.DLL?
« on: September 29, 2015, 10:31:45 pm »
I guess that Qt has functions to deal with W32-type registries.

Exehdr.exe from the toolkit lists with parameter /NO and the DLL pathname the exported funcs, among other outputs:

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Exports:
 ord  obj   offset    name
  22    1  00007840  RegOpenKeyA exported, shared data
  11    1  0000754c  RegEnumKeyA exported, shared data
  25    1  00006a5c  RegOpenKeyW exported, shared data
   1    1  00006fb8  RegCloseKey exported, shared data
   3    1  00007450  RegCreateKeyA exported, shared data
  17    1  00006fa0  RegFlushKey exported, shared data
  14    1  00006720  RegEnumKeyW exported, shared data
  42    1  00007948  RegSetValueA exported, shared data
   7    1  000074d0  RegDeleteKeyA exported, shared data
   6    1  0000647c  RegCreateKeyW exported, shared data
  45    1  00006d0c  RegSetValueW exported, shared data
   8    1  000065d0  RegDeleteKeyW exported, shared data
  23    1  000070dc  RegOpenKeyExA exported, shared data
  12    1  000075d0  RegEnumKeyExA exported, shared data
  24    1  00005ea8  RegOpenKeyExW exported, shared data
  13    1  00006848  RegEnumKeyExW exported, shared data
  15    1  0000704c  RegEnumValueA exported, shared data
  16    1  00005d70  RegEnumValueW exported, shared data
  30    1  000078c0  RegQueryValueA exported, shared data
  43    1  000071e8  RegSetValueExA exported, shared data
  33    1  00006bb0  RegQueryValueW exported, shared data
  44    1  0000615c  RegSetValueExW exported, shared data
   9    1  00006fd0  RegDeleteValueA exported, shared data
   4    1  00007394  RegCreateKeyExA exported, shared data
  10    1  00005c20  RegDeleteValueW exported, shared data
   5    1  000062f0  RegCreateKeyExW exported, shared data
  26    1  00007a9c  RegQueryInfoKeyA exported, shared data
  31    1  0000715c  RegQueryValueExA exported, shared data
  27    1  00006e9c  RegQueryInfoKeyW exported, shared data
  32    1  00005ffc  RegQueryValueExW exported, shared data
  50    1  00004d74  KRegInit exported, shared data
  51    1  000051c8  KRegTerm exported, shared data

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Setup & Installation / Re: Problems with fresh yum install
« on: September 27, 2015, 11:14:22 pm »
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Warnung: RPMDB wurde außerhalb von yum verändert.
...
Rpmdb checksum is invalid: dCDPT(pkg checksums)
This is a known bug in the Python scripts, AFAIR. Search for it and you'll see that other OS are affected as well. Just ignore it.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 31.8.0 Beta 5 - First Impressions
« on: August 30, 2015, 11:10:39 am »

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Applications / Re: Firefox 31.8.0 Beta 5 - First Impressions
« on: August 29, 2015, 05:06:41 pm »
Would you like my script to pause in the end perhaps, not show the unlocking
part but rather just the file names it work on?
I would just create a log file to list all changed filenames.

Additionally, the script could report at the end how many files were changed
and give a useful return code, e.g. 0 = NO_ERROR if files were changed and
2 = FILE_NOT_FOUND if no file was changed.

Yumie that Alex Taylor is working on should take care of it all.
Good idea. I would add a bug report for that on https://mantis.arcanoae.com

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Applications / Re: Firefox 31.8.0 Beta 5 - First Impressions
« on: August 29, 2015, 10:45:06 am »
I would have thought that the simple answer to that limitation would
be to insert BLDLEVEL information into the DLLs.
The buildlevel is ignored when DLLs were loaded. Therefore it can't
help reliably with loading the correct versions.

Additionally, even many files compiled by IBM don't have that info
built in.

That way there can be no confusion and it should be very easy to find
out if the correct DLLs are there
Finding means an additional process. Moreover, you need a package
management system (or similar) for the info which app requires which
DLLs and which ones are available. That's nothing for the end user
having just a simple installer.

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