Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:49:55 -0500 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: bootAble 6.10 released ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: hayo.baanDESPAM at DESPAMxs4all.nl Dear bootAble users, It has been a long time since I was able to really work on bootAble (the previous release was from March 2013…). I am therefore very pleased to be able to announce the a new release today! Version 6.10 contains quite a number of new features and improvements. Most notably it now has support for QSINIT, Air-Boot, and MiniLVM and Firefox and Seamonkey seem to work quite well using the latest available release for OS/2 (though some websites, most notably the google homepage, still crash the application when run from a bootAble environment). Thanks go especially to Doug Bissett. His perseverance and help to get eCS to run in a VirtualBox VM on my Mac have given me the ability to continue developing bootAble in a much more productive environment than before. The new version can be downloaded from the bootAble website http://hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl/bootAble/>. Bug reports and feedback are most welcome! Enjoy, Hayo Baan v6.10 (15/01/2016) * Added support for QSINIT (|QSINIT|); * Added support for QSINIT's ram disk (|HD4DISK|); * Added support for Air-Boot (|AIRBOOT|); Note: As a convenience, an |airboot2.cmd| command is created that will allow you to start the air-boot installer (|airboot2.exe|) without having to first go to the directory where the |airboot.bin| file is located. * Added support for the Maintenance & Installation Volume Manager (|MINILVM|); * Added a setting for the Virtual Address Limit (|VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT|, default taken from the user's |config.sys| file). * Changed the default for |TCPIPLEAN| to |No| as the lean versions of the TCPIP code do not work with all software (most notably not with the mozilla software); * When unzipping archives any file matching is now done case insensitive; * Adding the |b2z.dll| that is part of the newer unzip versions. Note too that the newer zip and unzip require |GCCRT| which is NOT enabled by default; * Added config file for the INI file editor (|bootAble.initor|); Note: when started from the command-line Initor might give an “Error” and refuse to close, killing the process still works though. When started from the Initor program object, this issue does not occur… * Updated |bootAble.firefox|, |bootAble.thunderbird|, and |bootAble.seamonkey| to support the latest & known to be working versions (31.8.0b5, 31.8.0, and 2.28b5r2 respectively). * Adapted |bootAble.dfsee| to the latest dfsee distribution (13.x) and change of the location of the os/2-only files to |bin| instead of |os2| (|APP_DFSEE_EXEDIR|); * Adapted |bootAble.pmview|, it now prefers version 3 over version 2. It will furthermore ask for the source directory if PMView isn't installed (or a version different from 2 or 3 is installed); * Adapted |bootAble.amouse| to include all found language versions and made sure that it doesn't override the system version of the USB Mouse driver with aMouse's version if this should not be done (controlled by |APP_AMOUSE_REPLACE_USBMOUSE|); * The XWorkplace settings are now taken over from the current installation instead of defaulted. * Improved support for VirtualBox additions; Files are now always placed on the “CD” to maintain the long file names and into their own |\OS2Additions| directory (just as with the normal installation). Enabling the VirtualBox additions also enforces |GCCRT|. * Now including /all/ |gcc| and |libc| dlls when |GCCRT| is enabled (the source is set using |GCCRTSOURCE|); * You can now force asking a question using |defaultIfNotSet()| even if a default value is given (previously it would only ask if the variable was not previously set /and/ the provided default value was empty. To do this, use |'ASKIFNOTSET'| as the third parameter to |defaultIfNotSet()|. * Major cleanup of html documentation. -- Hayo Baan mailto://hayo.baan at xs4all.nl hayo.baan(at)xs4all.nl> http://hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl http://hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl> Hayo Baan – IT Services mailto://info at hayobaan dot com info(at)hayobaan dot com> http://www.hayobaan dot com http://www.hayobaan dot com> LinkedIn http://nl.linkedin dot com/pub/hayo-baan/0/508/883> Twitter http://twitter dot com/#%21/HayoBaan> GitHub http://github dot com/HayoBaan> Hayo Baan – Photography mailto://info at hayobaan.nl info(at)hayobaan.nl> http://www.hayobaan.nl http://www.hayobaan.nl> LinkedIn http://nl.linkedin dot com/pub/hayo-baan/0/508/883> Twitter http://twitter dot com/#%21/HayoBaan> Facebook http://facebook dot com/HayoBaan> 500px http://500px dot com/HayoBaan> Blog http://blog.hayobaan.nl> -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. 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