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Applications / Re: Java applications
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 21, 2026, 06:06:26 am »
Originally, I was just running the jar file Martin posted. Now that I have downloaded the archive, the props file is setup with "weirdx.displaynum=2", probably the default.
X won't run on UEFI as the video BIOS is in the wrong place (address). I thought of trying to fix it a couple of years back, managed to setup the right environment and compiled it, but the xserver always failed to run with an out of memory error. Shame as I was also wondering about back porting a newer video module.
X also won't run here using display port__>DVI, though it did run with a VGA cable, and I'm too lazy to change the cable.
xterm is now giving a better error here,
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[F:\usr\X11R6]xterm
Unable to open \dev\ptyp0, errno=5
Not sure how or if possible to have a ptyp in weirdx. eterm dies here with the wrong jpg.dll.
The gimp does start up here and wants to configure itself. Haven't gone further.
Be aware, a lot of these ports want %HOME% to use slashes instead of backslashes as a directory separator. Probably other ports are happier with slashes. It's EMX.
I see you have a port of Mosiac, don't remember seeing that. I do have Warpzilla (Mozilla 0.98) and it runs in Weirdx. Can't do much with it as the SSL/TLS stuff is so old. Could give you a copy if you want.
I couldn't get any screen shots, what are you using?
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PS: I just accessed the SMF forum via the link you provided, from my Firefox browser on ArcaOs 5.1.2 and it loads and looks great. I didn't observe any browser issues or errors.

Likewise, it seemed to display fine on SeaMonkey, both with and without JavaScript enabled. No account so couldn't try posting.
Hmm, tried registering and keep getting this message,
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The following errors were detected in your registration. Please correct them to continue:

    The letters you typed do not match the letters that were shown in the picture.
Don't see a picture or captcha in SM.
So tried registering with Dooble-Qt6, lots of clicking images for the captcha, then the system froze.
Rebooted and tried with Dooble-Qt5, lots of clicking images and eventually was registered
Trying to post fails on SM, no visible capta and trying to post in Dooble-Qt5 does the captcha thing and afterwards won't let me post with another error about letters not matching picture.
So not much luck actually posting, or previewing which is what I tried.

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PS: I just accessed the SMF forum via the link you provided, from my Firefox browser on ArcaOs 5.1.2 and it loads and looks great. I didn't observe any browser issues or errors.
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Hi Martin, thanks for the reply and link. I can confirm that even going to this link, the newer SMF 2.1.7 looks a lot better on the mobile phone. The display is responsive and much easier to read. I don't even need a userid in the site to observe this.

Hopefully you will be able to upgrade the software from this 2.0.19 version to the current version, which I am assuming is 2.1.7.

Are you saying the concern is that the Firefox/SeaMoney browser for OS/2 doesn't render the newer SMF properly, or is the concern that you can't perform the SMF upgrade from an OS/2 system running those browsers? You would be best to perform the upgrade from a browser running on a modern Windows or Linux system with the latest browser. But I haven't tried accessing this forum using my ArcaOS system hence I don't know if there are issues. Mind you, getting to the site is easy enough from any modern OS, but if the newer SMF doesn't render well from native OS/2 you should still be able to make available an older compatible theme which users could switch to?

Having said that, this is a great forum and integral to the OS/2 community so thanks for running it. I really look forward to something being done about this web host you are on, as the ongoing DDoS interruptions are really frustrating. Took me quite a while to view this thread and finally be able to reply!
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I would be interested in feedback about what you guys feel might be a fair price for this "service"? I going to try to get it as low as possible but just curious what people think seems fair.
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Excellent work, David ...

Just to help out your campaign, you can sign me up for 1 seat ... it'll give us a chance to test out all the "sign-up" processes. Plus, I get to be "customer number 1" of thousands or millions!

Nothing breaks things faster than throwing a user at it ...

Thanks a lot for your support. It means a lot! Sorry about the syncpedia.com issue. I recently updated my cart and haven't had a full time to test it yet.

Anyways i've tested it in ArcaOS 5.06 with the default browser and everything works :).
You can watch a video of me testing it here (sorry it's a bit rough since I didn't have time to polish it up + I haven't figured out how to optimize the display in virtualbox):
https://images.syncpedia.com/unsorted/arcaos-test.mp4

The only thing that worked a little different is copying text is that you can't right click to paste - you have to type cntrl V, but at least copy and paste works even with the limitation.

Also I forgot to mention it supports file downloads to the native OS too. Basically you download the file and then click "show in folder" and then in that file menu drag it the "webfile" folder under PC. And then it transfers the file to the native os/2 firefox browser.

So basically, a fully functional modern browser (actually 4+ in one go) in os/2! And no need for a console client since all functions work with just the html5 stack.
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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.2 (update)
« Last post by j on March 20, 2026, 06:39:14 am »
I have downloaded it but not tried it yet, let us know what else you find out.
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Article Discussions / Re: Adding an extra thing to the ArcaOS strategy ?
« Last post by David Kiley on March 20, 2026, 06:38:53 am »
We all want a "functional browser", and most want it within OS/2 (ArcaOS). But, no need to beat up on AN, because it's their ball (their OS), and they've chosen not to do apps. This probably makes sense, if you assume their primary focus is all the business users of OS/2 licenses.

I'm not trying to beat up AN in anyway. They have done a great job. And yes it's up to them what they want to do. It's just a question (for me) if it's worth paying to upgrade for what it's currently giving me, direction wise.
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Web applications / Re: Need memcached module for php7!
« Last post by Dave Yeo on March 20, 2026, 02:12:37 am »
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Add:
I also failed. Payton3-sphinx is required, but that library is missing.
I also don't known if it can be ported to os/2.

Tried installing it, get permission errors which I'm not sure how to fix.
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H:\tmp\trunk>python  -m pip install  sphinx
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: ("Connection broken: PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')", PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))

There are other ways to install such as wheel and best might be a virtenv (python jail) environment.
There looks like there might be other dependencies too. Run something like
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sh configure --help > configure.hlp
and examine the configure.hlp file. Always a good idea when porting.
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Programming / Re: cross-os2emx
« Last post by KO Myung-Hun on March 20, 2026, 12:28:48 am »
Hi/2.

It's hard to connect to this forum :(

@JTA:
I recommend to use rpm/yum to set up build environment. For my build environment, you can read my blog, https://lvzuufx.blogspot.com/search?q=%22porting+to+os%2F2%22.

@David:
As Dave said, it's ok to use programs as is unless they behave differently for OS/2.

@Dave:
For lxlite, I know, lxlite has been built by Virtual Pascal which supports Linux output. So, it's possible to build lxlite for Linux.

For cmake, I don't understand the situation. Where does cmake-3.28 come from? When using cross-os2emx, prepend /path/to/opt/os2emx/bin to $PATH, please.

For docview, it has many dependencies out of my control. So it would be better to distribute it separately. But, it's good to be able to see .inf on Linux.

Thanks!
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