Re: dev-ports-os2 Digest, Vol 156, Issue 5

** Reply to note from [email protected] Fri, 08 May 2020 12:00:02 +0000
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> Where can She find it? Hobbes perhaps? Have an excellent and trustworthy  ftp client here namely NFTP/2 both in FS and Windowed OS/2 version.

http://wisdomtree.info/os2/os2app.htm#9504536

 large list,  SyncDir great for non system files, Dsync best for complete system backup.   

> >> Another tack - She have trouble installing the eCs 2.1 Business Edition  on the new box, it TRAPS after doing the setup phase and reboot via F10.  Now
> >> the Quick Installation Guide says that bootable floppies can be  created, but as the new box is empty of any OS at present, could it be  done on the old

 Have you turned off cpu and bus cache while installing? Try it, then when done enable again.

> She must pony up $65 to renew the subscription on ArcaNoae's site so She  can download drivers and ArcaOS itself. But can a new version of AHCI be 
> found on the XEU site? It seems to be an self-extracting .EXE file, so  should She expand it first and place it on a floppy or does it suffice  to put the
> self-extracting file on a floppy so the install process will  run it and install it?

 AHCI is for sata normal hard drive driver. May not be newer drivers. Did you enable such feature in bios?
   
> Btw, durst She reindex the Sent folder on the old profile or wait after  tha new profile is created and then reidex the Sent folder? She have  sent mail
> but they don't show up in the Sent folder and the Settings for  the mailer under the "Mail & Newsgroup" setting and there it's stated  that a Sent mail
> should go to the Sent folder under the mail account,  not to any local file. And when it comes to the Helper section in the  Profile manager, can She just
> leave them out - the only one that She  uses is for opening .pdf document via a lucide.cmd file which is global.  She's an old command line hound and
> does most of the work via the  cmdline, in this case 4os2 instead of the standard command.exe file. For  example if you are in the y:sound dir and want

 Why wait, it is broken already.

        Cal