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Subject  :  Terms meaing
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  05 Dec, 2004 on 03:45
When I came aross the readme for Lynx. It mentioned that can be run on OS/2 EMX.

Would someone please tell me what is OS/2 EMX ? Does it refer to a particular version of OS/2 or specific section in different versions of OS/2 ?

Thanks in advance.


Subject  :  Re:Terms meaning
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  05 Dec, 2004 on 04:41
http://os2ports.com/docs/porting/porting.html

http://www.unixos2.org/pages/Documentation/EMXPorting/

It appears to be software that enables Unix to be run in or ported to OS/2(?).

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d

http://www.nl.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2002-September/002491.html

http://posix2.sourceforge.net/guide.html

There were alot more sites on it. I found some using http://www.google.com and the words 'os/2 emx'.

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Subject  :  Re:Terms meaing
Author  :  boldos boldos@os2.cz
Date  :  05 Dec, 2004 on 15:37
Instead of Lynx I personally would recommend Links...
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/download/binaries/

Subject  :  Re:Terms meaing
Author  :  cyberspittle cyberspittle@yahoo.com
Date  :  05 Dec, 2004 on 20:28

Sam (05 Dec, 2004 03:45):
When I came aross the readme for Lynx. It mentioned that can be run on OS/2 EMX.

Would someone please tell me what is OS/2 EMX ? Does it refer to a particular version of OS/2 or specific section in different versions of OS/2 ?

Thanks in advance.


I would say that is poor documentation you are reading. What it means, is that you need to run OS/2 (or eCS) as the operating system and have the EMX runtime installed. Lynx is a text-based web browser. I believe it was originally designed for MS-DOS (and Unix systems not running X-Windows). It worked fine, until the web became increasingly more graphical. If you use Lynx, you will scroll through a lot of text "[image],[image],[image]", where text replaces images.

The EMX runtime can be downloaded from Hobbes OS/2 repository at New Mexico State University (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu). eCS includes EMX runtime.


Subject  :  Re:Terms meaing
Author  :  Radek hajek@vuv.cz
Date  :  06 Dec, 2004 on 12:16
The notification about EMX means, that the app was compiled by means of the (freeware) GNU compiler and that you will need to have the emxrt.dll somewhere on your libpath. At least, emxrt.dll, there are more dll's used by the compiler and they can be required by the app.

Therefore, make sure that you have the dll on your libpath and try running the app. If it complains that it cannot find its dlls or if it crashes then place other EMX dlls on the path and try again.

These dlls are a curse of the GNU. Some GNU apps run with emxrt ver. 0.7, other need ver. 0.9 and do not run with 0.7, some need 0.9d and so on. You should start with the latest version of emxrt, which is, IIRC, 0.9d.
If you are running eCS, then you should already have emxrt.dll ver. 0.9d on your libpath. It is installed by the operating system.


Subject  :  Re:Terms meaing
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  07 Dec, 2004 on 17:33
BigWarpGuy, Boldos, Cyberspittle, Radek,


Thank you very much for the information


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