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(Weasel v1.20) for ; 19 Mar 2001 01:00:40 From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2001 01:00:40 +1100 (EDT) Reply-To: "OS2GenAu" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: CASMailer 1.0 for OS/2 Warp PPC 5.05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: OS/2 GenAu Digest No.4 Message-ID: <200103170000.000029G6atmail.> Date:- 19 March 2001 1) Daryl Pilkington [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 2) Ian Manners Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 3) Ian Manners Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 4) Robert Traynor (BobT) Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 5) Chris Graham [WarpSpeed] Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 6) Ed Durrant [os2genau] Web Mirror 7) Kris Steenhaut Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 8) Ed Durrant [os2genau] Associations - this time in Netscape 9) Ian Manners Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 10) Ian Manners Re: [os2genau] Web Mirror 11) Ed Durrant Re: [os2genau] Web Mirror 12) Ed Durrant Re: [os2genau] Web Mirror 13) Kris Steenhaut Re: [os2genau] WPS Image Viewer & Convert to 1==================================== Greetings, 1) How do you get rid of the "Image Viewer" view option for most graphic formats in the WPS? 2) How do you get rid of the "Convert to" option on graphic objects? I'd like to use GBMV2 as my viewer. -- Regards, Daryl Pilkington //// The PC Therapist, Business Computing Integration O OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2 IBM Certified Systems Expert email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au ICQ: 91914134 Tel: +61-2-8902-1300 Mob: +61-425-251-300 Mob SMS: 0425251300.0000atorangenet dot com dot au (120 characters max, send no carriage returns) 2==================================== Hi Daryl >1) How do you get rid of the "Image Viewer" view option for most > graphic formats in the WPS? >2) How do you get rid of the "Convert to" option on graphic objects? >I'd like to use GBMV2 as my viewer. http://www.os2site dot com/sw/util/wps/assoed16.zip If you are using Object Desktop, there are some setting you will need to turn off for AssocEdit to work. Instructions should be in the zip file. Cheers Ian B Manners 3==================================== Hi Daryl My apologies, try assoed21.zip, I thought I had a more recent version, it was in the wrong directory :-) Cheers Ian B Manners 4==================================== Later version is at Henk's Pages:- http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~henk.kelder/henk/assoed21.zip BobT. On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 03:53:17 +1100 (EDT), Ian Manners wrote: >Hi Daryl >>1) How do you get rid of the "Image Viewer" view option for most >> graphic formats in the WPS? >>2) How do you get rid of the "Convert to" option on graphic objects? >>I'd like to use GBMV2 as my viewer. >http://www.os2site dot com/sw/util/wps/assoed16.zip >If you are using Object Desktop, there are some setting you >will need to turn off for AssocEdit to work. >Instructions should be in the zip file. >Ian B Manners ,-._|\ Robert Traynor (BobT) / Oz \ email rtraynoratnetstra dot com dot au \_,--.x/ 5==================================== On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 03:08:31 +1000, Daryl Pilkington wrote: >Greetings, >1) >How do you get rid of the "Image Viewer" view option for most graphic >formats in the WPS? >2) >How do you get rid of the "Convert to" option on graphic objects? > >I'd like to use GBMV2 as my viewer. Apart from the fact that PMView rules. Go directly to the settings for your viewer and under the associations page add in *.BMP etc under the new names section. You might want to also make sure that the Bitmap File etc available types are also added. For point 1, you'll have to deregister some WPS classes. -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9307-0611 PO Box 212 FidoNet: 3:632/344 FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Brunswick Internet: chrisgatwarpspeed dot com dot au BBS: +61-3-9307-0644 VIC 3056 CompuServe: 100250,1645 300-28,800 N,8,1 ANSI Australia Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au 6==================================== Hi All, Is anyone else using Web mirror? My experiments with Web Mirror from www.maccasoft dot com - the people who also produce Internet gate, haven't gone to well. This program can pre-fetch complete websites to your disk and act like a proxy to serve them to your browser, or if you run a LAN, to the other PCs on the LAN - Licence allowing. Although I can get the program to pre-load the pages to my firewall PC. The loading of these pages and related graphics/pages varies from immediate to not successful - 404 error. The program should also pass requests through for sites it hasn't pre-loaded, although I have configured this it doesn't seem to work.I know I'm only using the demo version which is limited to 150 objects per web site, however this does not equate to what is happening. At the moment I would not buy this program. As far as I can see I have configured the program correctly, which is why I am asking if anyone else on the list uses the product and if they have experienced the same problems. I'm also open to suggestions of other "pre-fetching" proxy programs for OS/2 if anyone has one they can recommend. Regards, Ed Durrant. 7==================================== Daryl Pilkington schreef: > Greetings, > 1) > How do you get rid of the "Image Viewer" view option for most graphic > formats in the WPS? > 2) > How do you get rid of the "Convert to" option on graphic objects? > > I'd like to use GBMV2 as my viewer. > Right you are. There is a nasty bug in OS/2, causing the "Image Viewer" to be the default, no matter what you do and no matter how you act. Luckely, there is a fix: 20-11-00 15:21 48.616 0 a--- primgfix.zip Apply the fix, and you can set any viewer, program, whatever as default, just as you like it. You'll get a copy by private mail. ************ OS/2 Warp 4 Default Image File Association Fix ---------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Practice. Visit us at http://www.practice.xo dot com Background info: A problem was introduced in Warp 4 (and not sufficiently corrected in FixPak 1) which causes the Open As... view for image files to be unalterably set to IBM's "Image Viewer". The fix: This package installs two new WPS classes which override the default Open As... view for image files to follow the normal association rules for data files. To install: - Copy primage.dll to a directory on your LIBPATH, such as \OS2\DLL. - Run primgfix.exe. - Shut down and reboot. To uninstall: - Run the command "primgfix -uninstall". - Shut down and reboot. - Delete primage.dll from the directory to which you copied it. ***************************** 8==================================== I'm presently trying to get a solution that will work to play Apple Quicktime movies in the Netscape 4.61 browser under OS/2. I've installed QuickFlick but this can't handle recent formats, I now wish to remove it's association and install either the IBM Quickmotion player for OS/2 or possibly a WIN31 or Java one, or even the Win32 one running via ODIN. I've manged to remove the association of MOV files to Quckflick under OS/2 using assoedit and (I think) within Netscape. How do I now tell Netscape to use one of the other programs when it gets a MOV file ? I've tryed adding the program under applications however when I go to the website I want to watch (www.thebasement dot com dot au) it reports I don't have a plugin to support the mime video\quicktime format and points me at the Apple site to download it. If I do an ABOUT:PLUGINS on the URL line of Netscape, it doesn't list any of the apps that I have defined, but only those programs with a DLL file in the plugins directory. My players are applications and not plugins and hence do not have a plugin DLL - how do I tell Netscape 4.61 to launch the application ?? Regards, Ed Durrant. 9==================================== Hi Kris >There is a nasty bug in OS/2, causing the "Image Viewer" to be the default, no matter >what you do and no matter how you act. Is this bug still current ? It might be that either ObjectDesktop has fixed the problem for me many moons ago, or I can remember running a similar fix years ago, and I've never thought of it since. Cheers Ian B Manners 10==================================== Hi Ed > Is anyone else using Web mirror? Use to, until I discovered wget. > My experiments with Web Mirror from www.maccasoft dot com - the people >who also produce Internet gate, haven't gone to well. This program can >pre-fetch complete websites to your disk and act like a proxy to serve >them to your browser, or if you run a LAN, to the other PCs on the LAN >- Licence allowing. I've never tried that bit but I can think of better programs, like squid. > Although I can get the program to pre-load the pages to my firewall >PC. The loading of these pages and related graphics/pages varies from >immediate to not successful - 404 error. The program should also pass >requests through for sites it hasn't pre-loaded, although I have >configured this it doesn't seem to work.I know I'm only using the demo >version which is limited to 150 objects per web site, however this does >not equate to what is happening. I have the registered version, and I've just tried setting it up as a local proxy but with the same results as you on some sites, it seems to work only for pure HTML sites, and not on anything that seems to us ASP, or JAVA, must have something to do with the calls it makes to the websites. > At the moment I would not buy this program. As far as I can see I have >configured the program correctly, which is why I am asking if anyone >else on the list uses the product and if they have experienced the same >problems. > I'm also open to suggestions of other "pre-fetching" proxy programs >for OS/2 if anyone has one they can recommend. tproxy.zip delegate6.1.12-os2.zip http://www.os2site dot com/sw/internet/proxy/ I only refer to my website as other URL's escape me, I'm also sure there must be a more upto date version of delegate at the website you should find in the doc's Cheers Ian B Manners 11==================================== Thanks Ian, I've downloaded all three (Delegate, Squid & Tproxy) to try out. I think Daryl uses Delegate but I didn't realise it could "pre-fetch" sites. Thanks for the confirmation of problems with Web-Mirror, as you say it could be that it's OK on pure HTTP sites but not Java or ASP, that would tie in with my findings. I'll let all know how I get on with these packages I think as we want to make the most out of our internet connections (whether dial-up or broadband), such utilities become very useful. Regards Ed. 12==================================== Ed Durrant wrote: > > Thanks Ian, I've downloaded all three (Delegate, Squid & Tproxy) to > try out. From looking at these 3 proxy servers, I can't see anyway of making them go at a set time and fetch a specific website back into their cache. This was the particular option that made me look at Web Mirror. I realise they will all cache recently accessed pages but that's not what I need. Am I missing something ?? Cheers, Ed. 13==================================== Ian Manners schreef: > Hi Kris > > >There is a nasty bug in OS/2, causing the "Image Viewer" to be the default, no matter > >what you do and no matter how you act. > > Is this bug still current ? I'm at FP 9 here and still it is. Dunno about later FP, but afaik it isn't fixed yet. > many moons ago, or I can remember running a similar fix years ago, > and I've never thought of it since. Most likely the latter. Don't think OD has anything to do with it. -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris http://www.yahoogroups dot com/group/smartsuite-os2/ End====================================