Somehow, during the last 7 moves (in 8 years) that I've made I have lost my OS/2 Warp3 and 4 Installation CD's. Now after numerous crashes and reformats installing eCS 2.0 RC5 and 6, I've lost the fwprec.dll for IBMWorks. Can someone help me out with this file, please? My other fwp*.dll's are dated 8/12/96.
Please send to gary@crossno.net.
Thanks.
I went through my old IBMWorks, but did not find any dll file with the name you are missing.
Jan
Thanks for the help Roland and Ivan.
Isn't it not fwprec.dll but it fpwrec.dll?
Quote from: warunyan on 2008.12.11, 21:04:16
Isn't it not fwprec.dll but it fpwrec.dll?
Bingo! And correct!
BigFig, read this (maybe it will be helpful):
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1101H/vnewsft.htm
October 2, 2001 - Pete Milne sent in the following tip to tips@os2voice.org about how to setup IBM Works on a post Warp 4 OS/2 system (MCP/ACP/WSeB/eCS).
It's common knowledge that IBM Works "won't work" with the Warp 4 convenience pack - even though the suite does work with eCS, which is essentially the same thing.
After installing the CP for Warp 4, running the script ibmwdesk.cmd will recreate the desktop objects and config.sys entries for IBM Works, but the programs will not run.
The reason seems to be that the files ien30pde.dll and fpwrec.dll are missing*. They can be found in \os2\dll in a non-CP warp 4 installation, or in \os2image\fi\bonuspak\ibmworks on the warp 4 CD. I've copied them to \bonuspak\ibmworks rather than <CP_drive>:\os2\dll in order to reduce the risk of conflict. Everything seems to be OK so far...
* I used the nifty program pmdll by Arthur van Beek and Steven Levine to discover this.
Hope it helps... if not, let us know and one of us is sure to dig out the CDs and try to locate the missing files for you....
Robert
BigFig, here's another one that may resolve the missing files issue with a short trip to Hobbes:
To ensure that you are not backlevelling your IBMWorks support, make sure you follow the instructions as listed...
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0502H/vnewsfl.htm
April 5, 2002 - Barry Landy wrote the following about installing IBM Works on a post Warp4 system (MCP/eCS):
This is an addendum to the tip that appeared in December 2000 (from comp.os.os2.misc).
That article recommends recovering the use of IBMWorks by installing works-csd.zip from Hobbes. I discovered that this csd is actually a release for Warp 3 and is backlevel compared to the Bonuspak offering in Warp 4. I assume there are missing bug fixes, but for me the big loss was the ability to import and export the appointments database which is a feature of the Bonuspak but not in the V3 CSD.
To get the Warp 4 version installed under MCP I did the following:
a) Save from Warp 4
1) The IBMworks directory
2) the following 5 files from OS2\DLL
FPWOBJ.DLL
FPWREC.DLL
FPWWPS.DLL
IEN30PDE.DLL
IEN30PWR.DLL
b) Install works-csd.zip to get the ini files correct
c) replace the entire IBMWORKS directory by the directory copied from Warp 4
d) put the 5 DLL files into OS2\DLL
and the Warp 4 version is now up and running.