From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1725 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 11 October 2008 Number 1725 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS : Peter L Allen" 2 Bootmanage XP : Peter L Allen" 3 Re: FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS : Peter Moylan 4 Re: Bootmanage XP : Nicholas Lysaght" 5 Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant 6 Re: Bootmanage XP : Alan Duval 7 OOo240 : Alan Duval 8 Re: Bootmanage XP : Alan Duval 9 Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant 10 Re: OOo240 : Ed Durrant **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:27:40 +1000 (EST) From: "Peter L Allen" Subject: Re: FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:15:27 +0800, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: >Hi All. > >Have *finally* got around to updating Firefox to 2.0.0.17, but have found >that I am not able to setup File Associations. > >Went to Tool > Options > File Types...Manage and opened the window to find >that everything is greyed out. So, for instance, I can't use Warp Vision to >view videos, or PM123 to listen to various sound formats. > >Amazingly, when I was using Firefox 1.8x, I could actually listen to ABC >720AM here in Perth....strangely enough, through Warp Vision, but she no >works now :-) I bet there's something I missed. Any ideas, please? > >Regards > >NICK On PM-Fx 2.0.016 here, prg has associations set for MP3, WAV, XLS, ZIP. Have no idea how this has come about or how to add any new ones. How to make *.htm files default to FF globally? Assoedit informs me Firefox is not a program when trying setup! Regards, allenpl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:34:14 +1000 (EST) From: "Peter L Allen" Subject: Bootmanage XP Clean disk - dfsee a partition - install XP - install boot manager from dfsee - add xp to BM in dfsee - dfsee shows BM as active and XP as bootable. Will not work - what am I missing ( Yeah right, apart from that), Regards, allenpl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:07:03 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: FIREFOX FILE ASSOCIATIONS On 11/10/08 12:27, Peter L Allen wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:15:27 +0800, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > > Have *finally* got around to updating Firefox to 2.0.0.17, but have > > found that I am not able to setup File Associations. > > > > Went to Tool > Options > File Types...Manage and opened the window > > to find that everything is greyed out. So, for instance, I can't > > use Warp Vision to view videos, or PM123 to listen to various sound > > formats. > > > > Amazingly, when I was using Firefox 1.8x, I could actually listen > > to ABC 720AM here in Perth....strangely enough, through Warp > > Vision, but she no works now :-) I bet there's something I missed. > > Any ideas, please? In my experience, this has been a bug in the majority of OS/2 Firefox releases. I'm still running version 2.0.0.4, and my own "Download Actions" box is completely empty, despite the fact that Z!, for example, is correctly invoked when I get an MP3 file. (But now, thinking about it, it might be the MediaPlayer Connectivity addon that's doing that. That's an addon that I might well decide to remove, because most of the time it opens up a Flash window that then does nothing.) (One reason why I don't often update Firefox is that each successive release turns out to be an even bigger memory hog than the previous version, and once the swap file has blown out to an enormous size the whole system slows to a crawl. There are rumours that Firefox 3 on Windows is impossibly slow for people who have less than 1 GB of main memory. That's not good news for those of us who are still working with 128MB.) This is partly a design flaw in Firefox. Unlike Netscape, it doesn't let you manually add any entries to the "Download Actions". All you can do is change existing entries. But it's more than that, because a lot of the time you can't even change the existing entries. I suspect that there's some sort of configuration option (Firefox has hundreds of them, and it's nearly impossible to understand what most of them do) that is getting lost in the OS/2 ports. > On PM-Fx 2.0.016 here, prg has associations set for MP3, WAV, XLS, > ZIP. Have no idea how this has come about or how to add any new ones. The way it comes about is that, when Firefox meets a new file type, it asks you which program should handle it, and you have the option to check a box saying "always do this for this file type". That, as far as I know, is the only way to add new entries. > How to make *.htm files default to FF globally? Assoedit informs me > Firefox is not a program when trying setup! That's an easier question. In the "Add association" dialogue of Assoedit, you can choose either "Object" or "Program". If you have a program object set up for Firefox, then it will appear in the "Objects" list, and you can choose it. In your case, you probably haven't created a program object, so you need to specify "Program", and then type "firefox.exe" in the "Program" box near the bottom of the dialogue. (But you have to include the path as well, because Firefox isn't one of those stupid programs that insist on cluttering up your PATH environment variable.) Personally, I prefer to create a program object for Firefox, so that I can put a shadow of it into the eCSCentre toolbar. It only takes a few seconds to create a program object from an EXE file, and it pays off in convenience. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:58:11 +0800 From: "Nicholas Lysaght" Subject: Re: Bootmanage XP Good Morning Peter. What I have found. Hope it works for you. It does for me, sometimes :-) On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Peter L Allen wrote: > Clean disk - That's where we differ. Do not DFsee a partition. Windows usually does not recognise it. > dfsee a partition - install XP - This is the point where I would introduce the eCs Install CD. If it can work with XP, install BM and whatever eCs partitions you want, well and good. If not: Introduce eCs Install CD. Try resetting the Mater Boot Record. You may need a couple of attempts. If that doesn't work, try DFSee to disable the Windows MBR so as you can replace with BM, but in such a way that when BM points to the Windows partiton, Windows will boot. Lots of experimentation here. A tip from a friend: Don't assign a Drive Letter to the Windows Partition. For some reason, that helps. I have even come across a situation where the Windows MBR is locked to Read Only, and nothing seems to dislodge it. I'm at a loss here....not sure what you can do. > install boot manager from dfsee - add xp to > BM in dfsee - dfsee shows BM as active and XP as bootable. > Will not work - what am I missing ( Yeah right, apart from that), See above. > > > Regards, > allenpl Hope what I've sent helps you. It works for me most of the time.....ah! that's it! That's what you must have plenty of....time! . Regards NICK > > > > > [attachments have been removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:44:50 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted Ed Durrant wrote: > Mike O'Connor wrote: >> Voytek Eymont wrote: >>> >>>> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in >>>> different >>>> sub-directories at the same time. >>> Ed, >>> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ? >> Hi Voytek, Ed, >> >> Another good one is Clone250 by Edward Marsh, that I have. >> >> Regards, >> Mike >> > Yes I downloaded clone250 from Hobbes this morning - hopefully I'll > get around to testing these over the weekend. > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > > Well my first test using Eracer/2 hasn't gone well, the congigure option doesn't let me set the directory and then when I tell it to run, the program simply exits - could this be as it's not registered ? In any case Null punkte for this program ! Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:46:05 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: Bootmanage XP Peter L Allen wrote: > Clean disk - dfsee a partition - install XP - install boot manager from dfsee - add xp to > BM in dfsee - dfsee shows BM as active and XP as bootable. > Will not work - what am I missing ( Yeah right, apart from that), > > Regards, > allenpl > Just a suggestion; if you have Partition Magic make the partitions with it. Then install Win XP into the first primary partition and eCS into another primary partition. Then install Airboot and use it to start either OS. Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:57:59 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: OOo240 Hi , I have just installed OpenOffice 2.40 over my previous 2.0 version but find it slower to load. I have QuickStart in the Startup folder and find that OOo2.4 takes about 7 - 8 secs to load initially whereas OOo2.0 took about 4 secs. I have eCS2.0 RC4 installed into a JFS partition and most of my applications are in a HPFS partition as they were in this partition when I was using eCS1.2. Would this affect loading time for Open Office? Has anyone else installed OOo2.4? If so do you find a similar decrease in loading time? Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:05:53 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: Bootmanage XP Alan Duval wrote: > Peter L Allen wrote: >> Clean disk - dfsee a partition - install XP - install boot manager >> from dfsee - add xp to BM in dfsee - dfsee shows BM as active and XP >> as bootable. >> Will not work - what am I missing ( Yeah right, apart from that), >> >> Regards, >> allenpl > Just a suggestion; if you have Partition Magic make the partitions > with it. Then install Win XP into the first primary partition and eCS > into another primary partition. Then install Airboot and use it to > start either OS. > > Regards, > > Alan Duval Forgot to mention, I get around the problem by having removable drives and I have my different OSes on separate drives. That way there's no worry with conflicting systems. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:16:27 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted Ed Durrant wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Mike O'Connor wrote: >>> Voytek Eymont wrote: >>>> >>>>> sizes etc. I could also check for duplicate copies of files in >>>>> different >>>>> sub-directories at the same time. >>>> Ed, >>>> there is/was an excellent de-duplicator, I think... ERacer ? >>> Hi Voytek, Ed, >>> >>> Another good one is Clone250 by Edward Marsh, that I have. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mike >>> >> Yes I downloaded clone250 from Hobbes this morning - hopefully I'll >> get around to testing these over the weekend. >> >> Cheers/2 >> >> Ed. > >> >> > >> > Well my first test using Eracer/2 hasn't gone well, the congigure > option doesn't let me set the directory and then when I tell it to > run, the program simply exits - could this be as it's not registered ? > > In any case Null punkte for this program ! > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > > Just tried Clone 250 - it ran but said it found no duplicates but only looked at 12 files (instead of I expect 6000 files), then when I went into the settings it said that settings would not be saved - again I guess as it's not registered. How am I supposed to test a program if it refuses to operate until it's registered? I certainly wont buy programs that work like that! A Rexx script is looking better and better at present ! Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:18:30 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: OOo240 Alan Duval wrote: > Hi , > > I have just installed OpenOffice 2.40 over my previous 2.0 version but > find it slower to load. I have QuickStart in the Startup folder and > find that OOo2.4 takes about 7 - 8 secs to load initially whereas > OOo2.0 took about 4 secs. I have eCS2.0 RC4 installed into a JFS > partition and most of my applications are in a HPFS partition as they > were in this partition when I was using eCS1.2. Would this affect > loading time for Open Office? Has anyone else installed OOo2.4? If so > do you find a similar decrease in loading time? > > Regards, > > Alan Duval > > > It's probably wiser to install to a new directory. not over the top of an old version. That could be part of the problem. Even better to de-install the older version first. Cheers/2 Ed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------