From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:01:06 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1523 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 24 July 2007 Number 1523 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Help with HPFS386 crash : Kris Steenhaut 2 Re: Help with HPFS386 crash : Ed Durrant 3 Printing to PDF : Glenn Montgomery 4 Re: Printing to PDF : Peter Moylan 5 Re: Printing to PDF : Paul Smedley" 6 Re: Printing to PDF : Ed Durrant 7 Re: Help with HPFS386 crash : Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" 8 Re: Printing to PDF : Alan Duval 9 Re: Printing to PDF : Chuck McKinnis **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:01:12 +0200 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: Help with HPFS386 crash andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com ha scritto: > can't access anything on the drives because the drives are HPFS386. I tried to make up some HPFS386 boot disks but I can't do it with files downloaded from the net. > The only solutions I can think of at the moment are: > Important! I'm afraid you are doing some wrong thinking. There are no hpfs386 formatted drives. Drives, or better, partitions can be formatted hpfs, and managed then by hpfs "tout court" or hpfs386. Bottom line, if you encounter problems with hpfs386, edit the config.sys by booting from CD or so, and edit the config.sys to plain hpfs "tout court". > 1) Asking very politely if someone can email copies of their HPFS386 boot disks so I can try them, > It's available since ages: http://www.taartenbakkerij.eu/bestanden/hpfsmax.exe It's a self extracting os2 archive. -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:45:37 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Help with HPFS386 crash andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com wrote: > Hello all, > It's been a while since I posted anything here but I need a bit of help with a problem I'm having and the story goes like this........ > I had a bit of an epiphany a couple of weeks ago, we managed to make enough money to have a bit of an upgrading session, the wife got a new P4 duo with all the flash bits we could afford and I got her old 1600 celeron machine. I pulled all the IDE drives out and swapped my SCSI drives in, hit the power button and it booted but froze because the Gengradd driver couldn't handle the 128 meg video card in it (don't know why and haven't had enough time to play with it). Pulled that card and put the old 32 meg card in and we were away and flying. It was amazing how fast it was after the last 10 years of my old PII 400. > I had to play a bit and load new drivers for the onboard network and got that working OK and got the broadband connected, then I cruised through the os2site looking for onboard sound drivers, found one that looked about right, and started loading it. Right about then we had one of those mini power blips, just enough to shut the machine down and then immediately restart. > This is where my problems started. I forgot that a couple of years ago while playing around I had installed HPFS386 file system onto my main drive to see what it was like, liked it, and left it there. What I hadn't done was change my maintenance partition to HPFS386, or made boot disks to suit. > The machine re-booted but crashed with a SET RUNWORKPLACE = error, no problem I'll just reboot to the maint partition to sort it out, that crashed with a DOSCALL1.DLL error, bugger, drag out the boot disks, wipe the dust off, hope like hell they still work and try to boot them. They worked OK but I can't access anything on the drives because the drives are HPFS386. I tried to make up some HPFS386 boot disks but I can't do it with files downloaded from the net. > The only solutions I can think of at the moment are: > 1) Asking very politely if someone can email copies of their HPFS386 boot disks so I can try them, > 2) Point me in the direction of a URL that has copies of the above boot disks, > or > 3) fdisk and reload from scratch, remembering to make a image of the partition once I have done all the fixpacks and upgrades so I don't have to do it again, and then remembering to install the FS driver on the maint partition as well. > > Any other suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated as I am a bit stuck and want my OS/2 machine back! > > Thanks > > Andrew Hood > > PS: I would love to try eCS but haven't got the money spare to buy it so unfortunately that is not an option, and sliding it past the finance department would be difficult (why do you keep playing around with that old stuff, just use windows, at least it works (shudder)). Any one got a spare copy they want to sell cheap? > > > HPFS 386 is an add-on, on top of HPFS. It consists of additional directories that control access profiles plus some additional software daemons that are loaded to manage things. My point is that the base level format of the harddisk is actually just HPFS. Therefore if you have boot diskettes that support HPFS and you can run chkdsk /F from these on the drive, I expect you will be OK, unless the glitch has occurred in that HPFS386 directory. If you are still stuck, e-mail me privately your postal address and I'll see what I can dig out in the way of HPFS 386 boot diskettes. Just as an interesting point (not sure if it has HPFS386 support, suspect not as writing to other disks is blocked), you may want to download and burn the free eCS v 1.2 demo CD from http://www.ecomstation dot com/democd/ Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:11:55 +0000 From: Glenn Montgomery Subject: Printing to PDF Hello all, Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to PDF? Many thanks, Glenn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:19:41 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Glenn Montgomery wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible > printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I > could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my > question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to > PDF? Look for epDF on Hobbes. It's aPostscript-to-PDF converter, and it also includes a printer driver to which you ca print from any applicatio. From memory, there's also adaemon that will take the output of the printer driver and feed it into ePDF. i've forgottten the details of that part - it might be aseparate package that yiou have to download - but a bit of googling on ePDF (or just a Hobbes search) should resolve that. Sorry abou all the typos. I'm trying to typ[e one-handed while on hold on the phone. I must have heard "thank you for your patiece" about 20 times. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org Please note that my e-mail address has changed yet again. Some of my older addresses still work, but it is not certain when they will be phased out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:03:55 +0930 From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Hi Glenn, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:11:55 +0000 Glenn Montgomery wrote: > Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an >os/2 compatible printer so I was thinking if I just >printed to PDF then at least I could use my windoze >machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my question is >how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to >PDF? On this subject - with any luck - eCups will be a viable solution for printing to most inkjet printers in the near future. I start two weeks vacation on Friday 27th - one of my projects is to tidy up the CUPS port side of things, and nag Bart into doing his bit to improve pin.exe so that Gutenprint PPD files can be easily imported into pscript.drv to provide the printer dialogs that are needed to control options, etc. Stay tuned! Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:57:11 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Paul Smedley wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:11:55 +0000 > Glenn Montgomery wrote: >> Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible >> printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I >> could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my >> question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to PDF? > > On this subject - with any luck - eCups will be a viable solution for > printing to most inkjet printers in the near future. > > I start two weeks vacation on Friday 27th - one of my projects is to > tidy up the CUPS port side of things, and nag Bart into doing his bit > to improve pin.exe so that Gutenprint PPD files can be easily imported > into pscript.drv to provide the printer dialogs that are needed to > control options, etc. > > Stay tuned! > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > > Great news Paul - let me know when you need anything testing as I am also on vacation from the end of the week for a month (moving house). Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:09:25 +1000 (EST) From: "Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" Subject: Re: Help with HPFS386 crash >HPFS 386 is an add-on, on top of HPFS. It consists of additional >directories that control access profiles plus some additional software >daemons that are loaded to manage things. My point is that the base >level format of the harddisk is actually just HPFS. Therefore if you Er, not quite. Mostly correct. HPFS386 does use the base same structures, but it does add some extra stuff into the file system (ACL's to be precise) that the normal HPFS.IFS does understand. The upshot of this is that there are some cases where only the full HPFS386 can recover itself. ACL protected directories (think: IBMLAN\ACCOUNTS etc) will not be visible to the base HPFS. If it is crashing at the RUNWORKPLACE line then the OS2.ini and OS2SYS.ini files may have been hosed. What happens when you boot to a CMD.EXE instance? (ie no PM). Tools such as the WPSTools suite may fix this. Either that, or restore a previous OS/2 desktop. To protect against this, I normally run ARCINST (which sets the initial install one) and then enable backup archiving and shutdown and reboot three times (and then disable it again). That leaves me with three 'good' and up to date copies. Be warned though, I have been known to go through all three backups and to the initial install one before it has actually worked. Go figure. Your mileage may vary. -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9395-1504 Internet: chrisg at warpspeed dot com dot au FAX: +61-3-9395-7633 Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au Postal: WarpSpeed Computers, PO Box 4293, Hoppers Crossing DC, VIC 3029, AUSTRALIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:50:06 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Glenn Montgomery wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible > printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I > could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my > question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to PDF? OpenOffice 2.0 will convert documents to PDF. Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:30:07 +0300 From: Chuck McKinnis Subject: Re: Printing to PDF Alan Duval wrote: > Glenn Montgomery wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Just a quickie, hopefully. I currently don't have an os/2 compatible >> printer so I was thinking if I just printed to PDF then at least I >> could use my windoze machine later to print if needed. Anyhow, my >> question is how would I set up my ecomstation machine to print to PDF? > > OpenOffice 2.0 will convert documents to PDF. > > Regards, > > Alan Duval > > > > Or use the PMPDF application from Netlabs. -- Chuck McKinnis Harvesters Reaching the Nations, Yei, Sudan http://www.hrtn dot org/ http://www.calvarychapel dot org/eastmountain/ http://www.7cities dot net/~mckinnis/ I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------