Re: newsgroup, profile

Hi Christer

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>> Hi Christer
>>
>
> As Salaam Aleikum!
>
>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>> Peter Brown wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>
>>> As Salaam Aleikum!
>>>
>>>> Bit pointless worrying about news.ecomstation.com/nl as that news
>>>> server is dead and unlikely to return.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What in the nine purple hells of Palain(*) have happened to it?
>>
>>
>> Died about the same time as eCS - years ago.
>>
>
> But She need at least one eCs 2.1 installed on the new box for viewing
> SVTPlay (SVT is our public services TV company) and the browser needs
> the Flash11 plugin which *only* works in an eCs environment - it can
> detect if one tries to access it from WSeB or ArcaOS, it just wont
> function there. But when SVT drops the requirement for a Flash11 plugin
> (plus the latest ODIN), then accessing SVTPlay, URPlay (also a part of
> SVT) and SRPlay (Swedish Radio player, Swedish Radio is also public
> service.) should be accessible via a browser regardless of OS (we're
> talking OS2 / eCs / ArcaOS here).
>


I think it is possible to "fool" the flash plugin although I have not 
tried it as I have no need of that plugin.

On an eCS system there is a \ecs directory containing this file 
ECS_INST.FLG which, I think, the flash plugin checks for.

So, on an ArcaOS or WSeB sysem you need an \ecs directory containing a 
copy of that file to make the flash plugin happy.

Give it a try and see if my above theory works.


>>
>>  You
>>> mentioned news.ecomstation.com/nl, but that would mean that a /nl
>>> (Netherlands?) section of it are dead or are the whole
>>> news.ecomstation.com dead also? What other newsgroup servers are
>>> available for us who uses eCs / os2? And btw should a news server name
>>> begin with news.<name of server> or nntp.<name of server>?
>>>
>>
>> news.ecomstation.* is dead.
>>
>> The server name starts with news.
>>
>>> She needs a newsgroup server for eCs to ask questions how to use File
>>> And Print Services to transfer all data partitions from the old box to
>>> the new box; the goal is to creata an environment that's like the one on
>>> the old box where for example WarpIN is installed in the g:\os2ut\Warpin
>>> dir - better to have only ONE common Warpin than one for each eCs and
>>> ArcaOS.
>>


Re: 1 Warpin for several boot volumes.
That was working fine but now ANPM can install files that have Warpin 
entries but, as I discovered recently, ANPM/Warpin is not yet clever 
enough to work with more than 1 DATABAS_?.INI file. I currently have 3 
boot volumes H:, L:, M:  all using the same Warpin and ANPM. The result 
of installing some files has been a new DATABAS_D.INI file containing 
the entries that should have gone into DATABAS_L.INI

Probably the quickest way to copy files from old disk to new disks is to 
have both disks installed in the same system box and use XCOPY.

Using File & Print Client you need both systems connected to the lan and 
then simply copy your data files.


Regards

Pete


>>
>> Suggest you visit https://www.os2world.com and join the forums.
>>
>>
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>
> Thanks for that tidbit of info :-)
>
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> Cul8er alligator!
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