From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:00:00 +1100 (EDT) Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 215 Reply-To: Date:- 27 November 2001 Please reply to ianatos2site dot com to post to the list. 1================================================ From: "John Angelico" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:46:18 +1100 (EDT) Subject: Re: [os2genau] [os2genau_digest] No. 210 On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:58:03 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote: Hi Mike. >From: "Mike O'Connor" > >Hi All, > >It's great now that the NAB is using JAVA for Internet Banking - don't need to use the >Laptop(W98) to connect to the www for anything now - at last! No more digital >certificates/software to download - access from any JAVA-enabled platform including >internet Cafes. All that's left now is the Tax Office GST site for electronic lodgement of BAS. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au -------------------------------------------- PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... SYNTAX? Why not--they tax everything else! 2============================================== From: "Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:56:20 +1000 (EST) Subject: [os2genau] Re disc fragmentation Hi all the vexed question of HPFS and fragmentation! is this a major issue (as on the MS Windows 9x set up) and if so, what utilities do others use to defragment their partitions? How would I know that my disc needs to be defragmented? Graham Norton President OS2 Users Group SA 3============================================== From: Trevor Clarke Subject: Re: [os2genau] Re disc fragmentation Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:59:05 +1100 Hi all the vexed question of HPFS and fragmentation! is this a major issue (as on the MS Windows 9x set up) and if so, what utilities do others use to defragment their partitions? Never seen it as a major issue. In fact, I've only ever run a defrag util because it was there. That said, I did notice an improvement. I'm pretty sure there was something in Chris Graham's utils. How would I know that my disc needs to be defragmented? Probably if it gets slow during long write/reads. Graham Norton President OS2 Users Group SA 4============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:04:26 From: Voytek Eymont Subject: Re: [os2genau] Re disc fragmentation ** Reply to note from "Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist" Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:56:20 +1000 (EST) > the vexed question of HPFS and fragmentation! > > is this a major issue (as on the MS Windows 9x set up) and if so, what utilities do > others use to defragment their partitions? > > How would I know that my disc needs to be defragmented? yes, it's an issue that needs to be addressed at regular intervals; I do mine at least every other year.... use either Graham Utilities or Gammatech Utilities; both have a function to assess/analyze ³ ³ HPFSView - View the layout of HPFS disks ³ ³ Usage: HPFSView {Switches} ³ ³ Switches ³ -d Defragment files. ³ -o Optimise files with more than extents. ³ ³ HPFSView displays the physical layout of all ³ files, directories and other HPFS specific ³ information. After the scan of the disk has ³ completed it may also optionally visually ³ defragment files on the disk. ³ ³ The mouse can be used to select a sector: all ³ information about that sector will be displayed. ³ ³ Note: ³ Use the F1 key to speed up the disk scan. HPFSDfrg - Defragment files on HPFS disks Usage: HPFSDfrg {Switches} Switches -d Display defragged files only. -f Force file names to lower case. -h Hard disks only. -r Retry count; default of 10. -s Include Subdirectories in the search. -o Optimise files with more than extents. HPFSDfrg deframents all of the files that match the given file specification. It can defragment one file, one directory, one drive or all drives in one invocation. Example it's seldom a problem for OS/2 and HPFS and, unlike on WinDOS, you can defrag in real time and use your PC with no coninual restarts I don't recall right now, last time I've done a system here, after something like 1 or 2 years, it had a ridiculosly low number of files that needed to be defragged Voytek Eymont SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd http://www.sbt dot net dot au/links/ phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118 5============================================== From: "John Angelico" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:58:20 +1100 (EDT) Subject: Re: [os2genau] IBM Browser & JAVA 1.3 On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:21:18 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >Java 1.3 IS faster than 1.18 - there were quite a few changes to >achieve this, but ... only faster on a fairly powerful machine. >Java 1.18 is faster on a "low-spec" (ie < 400MHz) machine So I guess a P166 Cyrix equipped machine is low-spec, huh? Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au -------------------------------------------- PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... CPU to VIDEO: "I'm just waiting for the bus." 6============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:05:15 +0930 From: Andrew Hood Subject: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll Greetings all, I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others being necko.dll and SW.dll). My questions to the learned of this group are: Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? TIA Andrew Hood 7============================================== From: Trevor Clarke Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:15:25 +1100 I believe that later fixpack builds of Warp4 improved the font rendering to a point where freetype's contribution became negligible. It certainly is the case with EcS, so you may try dumping freetype and unpacking a later TrueType library from a later fixpack. TC -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hood [SMTP:hoodtooatiprimus dot com dot au] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 4:35 PM To: os2genau Subject: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll Greetings all, I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others being necko.dll and SW.dll). My questions to the learned of this group are: Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? TIA Andrew Hood 8============================================== From: "John Angelico" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:34:27 +1100 (EDT) Subject: [os2genau] Fwd: Rexx mail For those who don't know, the URL below is to the Dutch site of a number of useful REXX programs including a REXX Email client. Marcus also has some very useful links on his home page. Enjoy! Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au ____________________________________________ ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== http://www.degeus dot com/rexx/ ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... Beware of OS/2! It's speed and reliability can become addictive. 9============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:39:47 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Re disc fragmentation By design, HPFS386 and HPFS do not suffer from any level of fragmentation that it's worth worrying about. There are OS/2 HPFS Defrag utilities but every time I've used them, they've reported there's no point in running the utility and when I have run it anyway I have seen absolutely no change in disk access speeds. I guess if your hard drives run VERY full - ie 98% or so, there could be a justification, but then I'd rather put a larger drive (or an additional drive) in rather than run any defrag utilities. NTFS or FAT32 under Windoze is a totally different story of course. Which is probably why a lot of companies still ran HPFS rather than NTFS under Windoze NT 4, even though it was no longer officially supported ! Cheers/2 Ed. Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > Hi all > > the vexed question of HPFS and fragmentation! > > is this a major issue (as on the MS Windows 9x set up) and if so, what utilities do > others use to defragment their partitions? > > How would I know that my disc needs to be defragmented? > > Graham Norton > President > OS2 Users Group SA > 10============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:43:05 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll freetype.dll is not standard in OS/2 or ODIN - so you must have installed some add-on that uses it. de-install the add-on and see if the problem goes away, if so contact the suppliers of the add-on for any possible fix. Cheers/2 Ed. Andrew Hood wrote: > Greetings all, > > I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and > Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is > the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others > being necko.dll and SW.dll). > > My questions to the learned of this group are: > Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? > What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? > > TIA > > Andrew Hood 11============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:35:27 +1000 (EST) From: Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Subject: Re: [os2genau] Spam and relay control I need some help!........... We have our own Internet presence and email server (Inet.Mail - Hethmon Brothers) We have an ADSL permanent connection via ISP Internode. Our domain is smart-road dot com dot au thus I have set up email accounts for our staff for example today I was informed by our ISP (Internode) that they suspect our email server has been used in the past 48 hours to send out spam mail!!! How can I configure Inet.Mail so that hackers cant use our email server to send out spam email? I have attempted to do this but it is not too intuitive for me as a non programmer!! I added the domain [smart-road dot com dot au] to the relay control properties but this did not allow me to send out email to any address, other than internal addresses (ie ****atsmart-road dot com dot au). I do have a way round this at present by specifying that outgoing mail (SMTP) is sent via our ISP mail server (mail.internode.on dot net) rather than via our email server [nortox41.smart-road dot com dot au] I can receive email OK! suggestions?? Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Smart Road Specialist Centre Modbury SA 5092 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) gnatsmart-road dot com dot au 12============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:37:48 +1000 (EST) From: Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll That is fascinating - of all the software that we use at work Describe is the most stable! we have a 5 user LAN set up and in more than 5 years of use. Describe has *never* crashed or trapped or mis behaved! On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:43:05 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >freetype.dll is not standard in OS/2 or ODIN - so you must have installed >some add-on that uses it. de-install the add-on and see if the problem goes >away, if so contact the suppliers of the add-on for any possible fix. > >Cheers/2 >Ed. > >Andrew Hood wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and >> Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is >> the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others >> being necko.dll and SW.dll). >> >> My questions to the learned of this group are: >> Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? >> What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? >> >> TIA >> >> Andrew Hood > > Graham Norton President OS2 Users Group SA 13============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:47:17 +1030 From: Gregory Hicks Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll hi graham, is there any kind of firewall in your system? (i will be finally creating an OS/2 server at home in the next week). I have heard of some hacking by taking advantage of some weaknesses, but I suspect that you need to tighten the firewall up. I think brian or ed would be able to shed more light on the matter :) Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > That is fascinating - of all the software that we use at work Describe is the most > stable! we have a 5 user LAN set up and in more than 5 years of use. Describe > has *never* crashed or trapped or mis behaved! > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:43:05 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >freetype.dll is not standard in OS/2 or ODIN - so you must have installed > >some add-on that uses it. de-install the add-on and see if the problem goes > >away, if so contact the suppliers of the add-on for any possible fix. > > > >Cheers/2 > >Ed. > > > >Andrew Hood wrote: > > > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and > >> Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is > >> the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others > >> being necko.dll and SW.dll). > >> > >> My questions to the learned of this group are: > >> Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? > >> What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? > >> > >> TIA > >> > >> Andrew Hood > > > > > > Graham Norton > President > OS2 Users Group SA > 14============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:09:49 +1000 (EST) From: Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll HI Greg no we have an excellent set up with firewalls etc, We have a separate stand alone PC with 2 NIC cards whihc serves as our internet gateway machine and as well we have Injoy Fiewall on this machine and then we have our Apache Web server and Email server on the actual separate file and print server PC!!! I dont think it is an issue with firewalls but rather an issue with set up of the Email server and its relay set up!! thanks for your support and suggestions and it has been configures and set up well by Brian On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:47:17 +1030, Gregory Hicks wrote: >hi graham, > >is there any kind of firewall in your system? (i will be finally creating an OS/2 server >at home in the next week). > >I have heard of some hacking by taking advantage of some weaknesses, but I suspect that >you need to tighten the firewall up. > >I think brian or ed would be able to shed more light on the matter :) > >Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > >> That is fascinating - of all the software that we use at work Describe is the most >> stable! we have a 5 user LAN set up and in more than 5 years of use. Describe >> has *never* crashed or trapped or mis behaved! >> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:43:05 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >> >> >freetype.dll is not standard in OS/2 or ODIN - so you must have installed >> >some add-on that uses it. de-install the add-on and see if the problem goes >> >away, if so contact the suppliers of the add-on for any possible fix. >> > >> >Cheers/2 >> >Ed. >> > >> >Andrew Hood wrote: >> > >> >> Greetings all, >> >> >> >> I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and >> >> Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is >> >> the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others >> >> being necko.dll and SW.dll). >> >> >> >> My questions to the learned of this group are: >> >> Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? >> >> What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> Andrew Hood >> > >> > >> >> Graham Norton >> President >> OS2 Users Group SA >> > > Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Smart Road Specialist Centre Modbury SA 5092 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) gnatsmart-road dot com dot au 15============================================== Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:33:48 +1030 From: Gregory Hicks Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with freetype.dll at a loss to help you further with that graham.. see u tomorrow nite :) Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > HI Greg > > no we have an excellent set up with firewalls etc, We have a separate stand alone > PC with 2 NIC cards whihc serves as our internet gateway machine and as well we > have Injoy Fiewall on this machine and then we have our Apache Web server and > Email server on the actual separate file and print server PC!!! > > I dont think it is an issue with firewalls but rather an issue with set up of the Email > server and its relay set up!! > > thanks for your support and suggestions > > and it has been configures and set up well by Brian > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:47:17 +1030, Gregory Hicks wrote: > > >hi graham, > > > >is there any kind of firewall in your system? (i will be finally creating an OS/2 > server > >at home in the next week). > > > >I have heard of some hacking by taking advantage of some weaknesses, but I > suspect that > >you need to tighten the firewall up. > > > >I think brian or ed would be able to shed more light on the matter :) > > > >Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > > > >> That is fascinating - of all the software that we use at work Describe is the most > >> stable! we have a 5 user LAN set up and in more than 5 years of use. Describe > >> has *never* crashed or trapped or mis behaved! > >> > >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:43:05 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: > >> > >> >freetype.dll is not standard in OS/2 or ODIN - so you must have installed > >> >some add-on that uses it. de-install the add-on and see if the problem goes > >> >away, if so contact the suppliers of the add-on for any possible fix. > >> > > >> >Cheers/2 > >> >Ed. > >> > > >> >Andrew Hood wrote: > >> > > >> >> Greetings all, > >> >> > >> >> I've been having problems lately with my copy of Describe crashing and > >> >> Warpzilla as well. A quick troll through popuplog shows that freetype.dll is > >> >> the culprit with Describe and one of three culprits with Warpzilla (the others > >> >> being necko.dll and SW.dll). > >> >> > >> >> My questions to the learned of this group are: > >> >> Has anyone encountered this (or variants) before ? > >> >> What procedures are reccommended for fixes ? > >> >> > >> >> TIA > >> >> > >> >> Andrew Hood > >> > > >> > > >> > >> Graham Norton > >> President > >> OS2 Users Group SA > >> > > > > > > Graham Norton FRACP > Neurologist > > Smart Road Specialist Centre > Modbury SA 5092 > > 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) > 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) > gnatsmart-road dot com dot au >