Some OS/2 electronic magazines

Ruzne / Miscellaneous

There is also a list of available OS/2 software.

IBM has a World Wide Web page dedicated to games under OS/2. They can answer most questions, solve problems, and you can get the latest database of tested settings for the more popular games.

There is also the complete REXX handbook. The best one?

For foreigners in France

International commercial organizations

XFree86 and TCP/IP applications

How to setup XFree86 under FreeTCP is written here.

You can have a look at some my tricks for running XFree86 under OS/2: XFreeOS2

• My mystartx.cmd script that I use to start X,
• my .fvwmrc for setting up fvwm,
• my exec.cmd that is needed from the X filemanager (which, however, does not work---why?),
• my runxfig.cmd for starting Xfig with a size appropriate for 800x600 size, LaTeX fonts, portrait format and the grid.

Pozn: Xfig 3.1.3, ktery zpocatku byl na "Ported tools" strance H. Veita pri kresleni oblouku, v nemz 2 ze 3 bodu maji stejnou x-ovou souradnici, padal. Nahrajte si verzi 3.1.4, ktera je OK.

Some nice free TCP/IP apps:

Ceske OS/2 servery

• Velka stranka nove se tvorici `ceske OS/2 skupiny' spravovana panem V. Kuzbou
• Plna kuchyne informaci od L. Galambose na mff cuni
• A Czech ftp server I have to check out is at anet
• Dalsi cesky server s OS/2 softwarem je decsys.vsb.cz
• A ceska BBS s OS/2 softwarem je ftp.infima.cz
• Ceska diskusni skupina uzivatalu OS/2 je cz.comp.os2
• Firma Hobit
• mail.kolej.mff.cuni.cz/ftp/pub/OS2
• palovsky/os2
• hobbes mirror na sunsitu
• Stranka J. Dusaka o OS/2
• Radek F. Kafka (napr. linky na IBM, ftp server na UJEPu)
• Petr Brouzda
• Moon at UJEP archiv
• Martin Lieskovsky
• know-how online(ja bych spis rekl offline) forum na jobs.cz
• Novinky a take archiv u firmy axon (viz tez moji kapitolku o komercnich zajimavostech).
• NetMag : nezavisly pocitacovy magazin
• Pavel Krehula

Prihlaseni se do ceske diskusni skupiny o OS/2 lze provest zaslanim prikazu SUBSCRIBE OS2C-L na listserv@alfa.vse.cz. Tato e-mailova diskusni skupina je obousmerne propojena s newsovou skupinou cz.comp.os2. Dotazy a prispevky se pak mohou zasilat bud na adresu os2c-l@alfa.vse.cz, ci primo do dane newsove skupiny.

Me poznamky k Warpu / Some my Warp notes

Pouzivam americkou verzi Warpa, a tam se mi nelibilo, jak se vypisuje ceske datum a cas. Ja povazuji za ceskou verzi povazuji napriklad 31.12.1995 24:00:00. Tak jsem trochu zaplatoval country.sys. Jak jsem zjistil, tak v ceske verzi Warpa je toto jiz spravne, ovsem v Merlinove opet spatne.

Pouzivate OS/2 v okne ci nejaky nemysoidni file manager a najednou byste chteli provest drag&drop na nejaky soubor, ktery mate v danem adresari? Ja vim o dvou moznostech, jak to provest:

• Pouzivate WPS: sezente si FeelX a z neho si zkopirujte program wpopen; kdyz pak wpopen zavolate, vyhodi vam folder na obrazovku;
• Nemate WPS (pouzivate nejaky jeho replacement, jako vetsinou ja sam): sezente si Mr.FilePM file manager (je na IBM EWS, employee written software); pak vam staci prikaz start mrfilepm.

Jak zjistit velikost adresare se vsemi jeho podadresari? Podivejte se na konec vypisu prikazu dir /s. Ze je to nudne? Co takhle tento ds.cmd file:
@dir %1 /s/w | tail -2 | head -1 | awk -f e:\bat\DirSize.awk
kde DirSize.awk je
{print "Directory contains ",$1,$2," ",$3,"B = ",$3/1024,"KB = ",$3/(1024*1024),"MB"}
(musite mit nainstalovany GNU programy tail, head a awk). Mozna by to nekdo zvladl jednoduseji v REXXu, anebo to jde jeste jednoduseji?

Me problemy s Warpem / My Warp problems

• mys prepnuta na levou ruku se prepina na pravorukou pri prechodu z PM na OS/2 ci DOS full-screen,
• mys v OS/2 a DOS full-screen ztraci nastavene dynamicke rozliseni,
• vyreseno: padani ghostscriptu na videokartach Trident 9440. Bylo to zpusobeno chybou v aladdin.dll. Musite si stahnout nove drivery z ftp.europe.ibm.com:psmemea/os2drivers/video. A pak taky fix z Warp 5 stranky .
• vyreseno: editor v IBM Works, dodavany na CD BonusPak, zcela ignoruje ceske znaky. Ja ho sice nepouzivam, jelikoz TeXuji, ale co kdyby... dala by se odnekud stahnout nova verze?" Nova verze je na hobbes, jmenuje se works-csd.zip. Zase ale pod ni nejede spell checker. Jo, a uz tam neni soubor, OSLEXAM.DLL; takze aby vam jel spell checker v EPM (napriklad), tak si ho z predesle verze IBM Works schovejte jinam. A jeste nakonec: jeste novejsi verze je v BonusPaku v Merlinovi; chcete-li ho pouzit i z nejake starsi verze, pak si ho stahnete odtud .
• Chcete-li pouzivat vicejazycny spell checker a synonyma pod EPM, tak se vam mozna hodi nasledujici text z meho baliku pmCSTeX (ten obsahuje primo i polozku do EPM menu, ktera prepina mezi nize uvedenymi jazyky): EPM comes with the US dictionary and synonym file. If you want to proof text written in another language, it's quite easy: IBM Works from your BonusPak use the same dictionary files. Thus go to the directory of IBM Works of desired language version and copy diction.@ file to your hard disc. Unpack it by the command unpack diction.@ and copy the dictionary files (US.dic, UK.dic, francais.dic) to the desired location (EPM directory). Then type the dictionary filename into EPM Settings/Paths/Dictionary file and rename the default personal dictionary lexam.adl to something like UK.adl, FR.adl etc.
• jestli mate jeste nekdo dalsi ceskou WWW stranky tykajici se OS/2 a ja ji zde nemam uvedenou, dejte mi vedet,
• vyreseno: "Videokarta Trident 9440 funguje dobre, ovsem firma k nemu nedodava zadne udelatko, ktere by roztahovalo obraz podle aktualniho rozliseni (napr. textovy mod 80x25 je na mem monitoru o 1 cm vlevo od obrazu pri grafickem rozliseni 800x600). Pro DOS se dodava tvgacrtc.sys, ktery tohle koriguje (neco jako xvidtune v X-Windowsech), ale pro Warp ani na newsech nikdo nic nema. Jak jsme na tom doma s resenim tohoto problemu?" No, ono se to nejak rozbehlo, kdyz jsem si dal ten tvgacrtc.sys do OS/2kovskeho config.sysu, a dokonce pak ani nebylo nutne pouzit prikaz SVGA INIT, ktery podle aktualniho nastaveni z DOSovsky nastavenych casovani (program tvgacrtc.exe) to zapise do SVGADATA.PMI. Hele, a taky existuje drazsi reseni: kupte si digitalni monitor, ktery si to dela sam (jeste drazsi reseni: kupte dva a jeden mi dejte :-))
• vyreseno: Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM kartu ma kolega, ale dalo proklate prace a hlavne casu ji donutit, aby jela s monitorem Sony. Nakonec se rozjel na frekvenci, na kterou podle manualu vubec nebyl staven. Instalace Diamondich driveru je mizerne zbastlena a vubec takova je cela jejich podpora pro OS/2. I na siti se radi vyhnout produktum teto firmy. Nicmene ted se karta rozjela a obraz funguje dobre (vetsinou).

TeXovani pod Warpem / Warp TeXing

Pro veskerou vyrobu textu a dokumentu pouzivam sazeci system TeX a jeho nadstavbu LaTeX. Pouzivam emTeX, tedy implementaci TeXu pro OS/2 a DOS vyvinutou E. Mattesem (to je tentyz clovek, ktery prenesl gcc pod OS/2). V ceskych, moravskych a slovenskych zemich (plus vsech dalsich, kam to nasinec zavlece), pouzivame ceskou distribuci zvanou CSTeX, kterou jiz od roku 1994 pripravuje CSTUG, tedy Ceske sdruzeni uzivatelu TeXu. CSTeX obsahuje, mimo jine,

• pocestene verze fontu,
• pocestenou verzi plainu (csplain) a LaTeXu (cslatex),
• ceske a slovenske vzory deleni slov,
• ruzne dalsi nastroje nezbytne pro ceskou typografii, napr. vlnkovac, cesky makeindex, csBibTeX (hm, notne zastaraly, hleda se dobrovolnik pro upgrade!),
• cesky instalacni program (pro nektere systemy).

Distribuce CSTeXu pro OS/2 je identicka distribuci pro DOS s pridavkem jednoho modulu navic: os2.zip. (Pripomenme, ze programy z baliku emTeX je mozne pouzivat pod OS/2, DOSem i Winy, protoze jsou prelozeny prekladacem gcc/emx od stejneho autora jako je emTeX---E. Mattese).

Jak si tedy TeX nainstalovat? Doporucuji tento postup:

1. Stahnout kompletni CSTeX pro OS/2, DOS a Win odtud. Tamtez si tez prectete, jake zmeny v CSTeXu v posledni dobe nastaly, jak to vse nacpat na diskety, pokud neni vas pocitac napojeny na Sit, apod.
2. No prave: prozatim (23.11.1997) nebyl v CSTeXu proveden upgrade modulu os2.zip, protoze se nevejde na stavajici organizaci disket. Stahnete si ho proto radeji extra odsudto.
3. Zkopirujte vse na vas lokalni disk.
4. Vsechny informace by mely byt uvedeny v souboru @ctimne, a vy byste si je meli precist! Navic je jeste popisi svymi slovy zde:
5. Tamten jakysi soubor obsahuje vsechny komponenty, ktere se pri instalaci pouziji. Tak tam nechte vse co je DOSove, pak os2.zip, a naopak vyhodte vse je co je Winblozi.
6. V DOSovskem okne spustte install.bat a provedte instalaci pro DOS. Doporucuji vse nainstalovat do x:\EMTEX, kde x: je drive, kde mate par desitek megabajtu mista. Instalacni program provede instalaci pouze do tohoto adresare a do zadneho jineho, tj. muzete si byt jisti, ze vam neposkodi instalaci systemu ci jakychkoliv jinych utility, natoz ze by se vam hrabal v systemovych konfiguracnich souborech.
7. Behem instalace si ctete, jaky program k cemu slouzi, je to poucne jak pro zacatecniky, tak i pro pokrocile!
8. Instalacni program vam rekne, kam si jakesi dva vysledne bataky mate zkopirovat (tusim, ze se jmenuji cstex.bat   a initex.bat), a dokoncete instalaci vygenerovanim formatu tim initexem.
9. Hodte si DOSovske fullscreen okno, a v nem spustte cstex.bat. Overte si funkcnost DOSovske instalace na nejakem libovolnem TeXovskem souboru. Napriklad tam kdesi mate adjust.tex, kterym si zaroven muzete najustovat tiskarnu.
10. Ted vse jede, takze dokoncime instalaci pod OS/2. Zde jiz nekolikrat citovany modul os2.zip   se rozbalil do adresare \emtex\@os2. Tam najdete nejake ctimne ci readme, do nehoz jsem napsal, jak zdarne instalaci pod OS/2 dokoncit:
    • musi se zkopirovat par .cmd souboru (do \emtex\bin),
    • musi se naeditovat par souboru z emTeXu,
    • a pak se nakonfiguruji makra pmCSTeX pro EPM do editoru EPM, cimzto budete mit neco jako deja-vu Olsakovo menu pod timto editorem---and much more!
    Jo, zrejme si vsimnete, ze tohle vse si pod OS/2 budete muset nainstalovat rucne, neni tam zadny nadherny instalacni program. Proc? Protoze ho nikdo nenapsal (nejaky dobrovolnik?). Chapu, ze vas tahle instalace bude mozna otravovat, ale ma to jednu vyhodu: budete vedet presne, co se k cemu ma pouzivat, a pak to sami budete moci efektivne vyuzivat, o coz tu jde predevsim! Jako uzivatele TeXu a OS/2 se da prepokladat, ze jste inteligentni uzivatele pocitace, nikoliv jeho periferie (drzak na mys --- TeX et al. neni zadny user-friendly mysoidni program za drahe penize, ktery obsahuje 95% funkci, ktere nikdy nepouzijete!). Takze si to prosim udelejte manualne, a pak dlouha leta pouzivejte (hm, ja neupgradoval CSTeX uz dva roky, vlastne akorat drivery na tiskarny, protoze hardware se porad meni).
11. Tim je instalace skoncena, a verim, ze vam vse funguje. Doufam, ze jste spravne postupovali podle instrukci v pmCSTeX.INF, a precetli si tez FAQ, a hlavne otestovali spravnost instalace pro OS/2 na demo souboru, ktery je u pmCSTeXu.
12. Gratis rada 1: pokud chcete nekoho noveho zaucit na vasi fungujici instalaci, tak mu predvedte demo z pmCSTeXu.
13. Gratis rada 2: pokud chcete provest identickou instalaci na deseti dalsich pocitacich s OS/2 (gratuluji, ze jich mate tolik!), tak jednoduse cely adresar \EMTEX   zazipujte a preneste. Nezapomente tez patricne prenest konfiguraci editoru EPM (treba taky kompletnim zazipovanim) a pak upravene kousky CONFIG.SYSu (ten rozhodne nekopirujte bezhlave na jinou masinu!).

Napsal jsem makra pro editor EPM, ktera implementuji mnoho uzitecnych funkci do tohoto volne sireneho OS/2kovskeho editoru. Nejnovejsi verze baliku pmCSTeX pro EPM je zde k dispozici. V jeho menu budete mit pristup ke (skoro) vsemu z CSTeXu. Instalujete-li CSTeX a podporu pro OS/2 poprve, doporucuji nainstalovat kompletni

modul os2.zip pro distribuci CSTeXu ('96,'97...) 11. 11. 1997

Jinak, stejne jako na Unixu, muzete vse spoustet z prikazove radky. Napriklad start dvipm @dvipm.cnf clanek spusti prohlizec (to se da implementovat jako Associations pro .dvi soubory). LaTeXuji prikazem latex clanek.tex = cslatex clanek.tex = cslatex2e clanek.tex, stary LaTeX 2.09 se da spustit cslatex209 clanek.tex. Pro tisk na laserovce je prislusny prikazovy radek dvihplj @lj.cnf clanek.dvi clanek.hp. Prevod do postscriptu je dvips clanek.dvi, ovsem predtim se musi pustit dvi-out stejne, jako to dela CSTeX.

O pouzivani cestiny ve Warpu i v TeXu se zminuje jedna z dalsich kapitol.

Az do ery pmCSTeXu pro EPM jsem pouzival TeXshell (TED UZ NE!). Tehdy jsem o tom psal nasledujici: Pouzivam ponejvice prikazoveho radky pro vse, co od emTeXu chci. Prikazem texuj clanek.tex se spusti DOSovske okno s klavesnici kbdlatin, a na to prostredi TeXshellu (Turbo Vision prostredi se zvyraznenou syntaxi a systemem napoved podle Borlandich zvyklosti). Psani cesky bylo probrano vyse, ScrollLock prepina ceskou/US klavesnici. Na pozadi se spusti batch cykl, ktery stale dokolecka testuje, zda jste neulozili soubor, a pokud ano, tak ho projede ceskym LaTeXem 2.09. Z menu TeXshellu si spustte View; Mattesuv ovladac dvipm take automaticky pozna, ze se .dvi soubor zmenil, a okamzite zobrazi zmeny. Timhle mate z TeXu system, ktery jsem nazval "rizeny, casove zpozdeny WYSIWYG". Parada. Dulezite: pred spustenim TeXshellu musi bezet program os2execd; muzete ho zavolat bud z prikazove radky OS/2kovskeho okna anebo spustit z menu PC2: Aplikace/os2execd.

Jeste neco pripsat o TeXovani pod OS/2? Aha, kresleni obrazku. Vzhledem k tomu, ze od brezna 1996 jsou XFree86 (X-Windows) pro OS/2, pouzivam bezvadny kreslici program Xfig (pochopitelne vcetne transfigu).

Na generovani grafu pouzivam gnuplot, ktery umoznuje i vystup do LaTeXu ci emTeXu, takze k popisu grafu se daji pouzivat TeXovske fonty. Blize o prispevek do cstexu je zde k dispozici. Muzete si to precist, a pak prebrat, sami. Ja se rozhodl pro OS/2 a emTeX.

Muzete se podivat tez na kapitolu venovanou (La)TeXu na me hlavni WWW strance.

pmCSTeX for EPM

Version: 11. 11. 1997

This section is devoted to pmCSTeX for EPM---actually, this is the homepage of this program. pmCSTeX for EPM are my macros + some other supporting files for the editor EPM (powerful editor for OS/2, which distributed together with the OS/2). pmCSTeX implements many wonderful (em)(La)TeX-related features into EPM, thus making it "the best choice"   for the (La)TeX writing under OS/2:

• (La)TeX the edited document,
• (La)TeX the edited document on background,
• (La)TeX only the currently edited paragraph of the text,
• locate next error,
• view document (by dvipm),
• dvips the current document, preview the PostScript by GhostView,
• print the document (by dvi* programs) to printer or file, or preview it (by dvipm or by dviscr),
• various optional hotkeys, including those for popup lists of environments for LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX and fonts,
• run other (em)TeX programs (BibTeX, TeXindex, TeXCAD, Qfig...),
• generalized Alt-1 hotkey (load file under cursor),
• a "Greek" keyboard,
• hypertext documentation for LaTeX2e (LaTeX2e.INF)---you can use Ctrl/H hotkey for getting the help on the LaTeX keyword the cursor is on,
• and it implements also some useful macros for EPM: include a file under cursor, refresh (reload) the current files, save all files in the ring, switch the syntax highliting on/off for all files in the ring,
• quickly switches between different EPM and user dictionaries.

• vlnka and dvi-out compiled for OS/2 + csdvips.cmd,
• cs2cs convertor,
• Czech keyboard driver Czech.e (by Z. Wagner ) slightly modified for the compatibility with the "Greek" keyboard,
• running the DOS spell-checker available for the CSTUG members.

pmCSTeX for EPM has been written since the author wanted a tool superior to what he has ever seen or used before. Therefore, he wanted to develop something better than:

• CSTeX MNU for DOS: TeX menu system for DOS, included in the CSTeX distribution.
  Author: Petr Olsak
• TeXshell: Turbo Vision TeX developing system (for DOS and DOS window in OS/2). I liked it very much (I like Borland-like environments, on-line help etc.), it is programmable in a wonderful way. However, it's just DOS and it has many disadvantages coming from the Turbo Vision library: it has 64KB limit on file sizes, it crashes from time to time (in my OS/2 window), and there is no "Undo" function.
  Author: Juergen Schlegelmilch
• EPMTeX: TeX menu system for editor EPM. Good, but it does not fulfilled my high expectations I got accustomed to in TeXshell (late 1995), e.g. it always appended the Master file at the command line. I accepted its First line syntax (Master:, Format: etc.).
  Authors: Jon Hacker and Rodney Korte
• WETeX: actions and icons are defined for texing, previewing and more for a document. Based on WPS and EAs, not Master: notation. I did not use it because of not having enough RAM to work under WPS (I had 12 MB RAM and I preferred Program Commander/2 RUNWORKPLACE replacement).
  Author: Zdenek Wagner .
• emacs: well, I never used this editor except for very simple editing (I prefer vi on unix). However, I was always amazed by its feature "(La)TeX current paragraph"---therefore I implemented it in the pmCSTeX for EPM too.
  Authors: GNU
• pmgraf: that's my integrated Turbo Vision environment for plotting the 2d and 3d graphs (see my WWW page for more details). The build-in editor (the same as that in the TeXshell) contains the hotkeys for pull-down menus for LaTeX environments and font sizes, and a Greek keyboard. Thus I implemented these features into EPM as well.
  Author: Petr Mikulik

You can let me know whether I succeeded to make a good (ultimate, final...) replacement for CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, WETeX, pmgraf and emacs under OS/2.

Since I'm not professional EPM programmer, these macros are easily readable and reprogrammable (if necessary). The package includes the on-line help for LaTeX2e (hypertext LaTeX2e help), epmkwds files for colour syntax highlighting according to yellow/blue scheme, some help on installating the dictionaries for various languages, and much more...

The up-to-date release of pmCSTeX for EPM is dated 11. 11. 1997. pmCSTeX is changed from time to time, you can have a look at its page with the

You can download the latest release from

• our ftp directory here

• CTAN at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• CTAN of DANTE, Germany
• CTAN archive in UK
• Hobbes (now maybe still in incoming),
• leo

Notice: if you encounter slow transfer rate during the transfer of pmCSTeX.zip for EPM from this site, then please try to avoid the download during our working hours. If you have an access to a Unix machine, then you can issue a command like at -f pmCSTeX.cmd 5:00 (I use this trick for downloading files from hobbes).

As one user noticed after getting the latest distribution, there is still the hypertext documentation LaTeX2e.INF version 1.4, even though one can find 1.6 on the net. You can download it from here LaTeX2e.INF. Finally, some questions+answers for this topic:

1. (How did I produced this documentation? I have taken LaTeX2e.texinfo from CTAN, converted it to LaTeX2e.ipf, edited manually the title page (otherwise the L. Lamport's name get together with et al), and then produced LaTeX2e.INF.
2. How do I use it? Put into the directory \EMTEX\book\english  , and then either view LaTeX2e   from the command line, or Ctrl/H   from within the EPM having the cursor on a LaTeX keyword.
3. I will put View LaTeX2e manual menu item into the next release of pmCSTeX, even though I think it is not very necessary.

Editor EPM

pmCSTeX requires editor EPM 6.03b. If you have

• OS/2 Warp 4.0 (Merlin), then this editor is already in your system. You can download the whole EPM is you want the all macros, full documentation or the original US version (if you have a localized version of EPM),
• OS/2 Warp 3.0, then you have EPM 5.51. This is obsolete now and you have to replace it by EPM 6.03b.

Pokud nemate EPM verze 6.03b, pak si ho muzete stahnout:

• odtud (kopie hobbes),
• kopie nainstalovaneho EPM z meho hard disku (bez slovniku),
• z Prahy,
• z hobbes.

Dictionaries for EPM and IBM Works

• Espagnol (+Catalanian)
• Italiano
• US English

But---shame to IBM: the Czech dictionary is not available yet, after more than one year of "localized" Warp!

gnuplot OS/2 PM terminal: now with mouse support!

I have patched gnuplot's PM terminal for mouse support. Currently, this modified version is available from here since the disk of gnuplot ftp server seems to be exhausted. Please notice that my patch is a new feature  of gnuplot and that's why it will not be released officially before the oficial release of gnuplot 3.6 (feature-freeze state).
Here, I cite a part of the README-mouse.os2 from the patched gnuplot: This package contains distribution of gnuplot 3.6 beta 340 for OS/2 with mouse support added into the pm terminal. It possesses the following new functions with respect to the "original" PM (Presentation Manager, not Petr Mikulik's, of course) terminal:

• show mouse position in graph or screen coordinates,
• MB1 double click puts the mouse position to the clipboard,
• MB2+MB1 makes "zoom",
• MB3 annotates temporarily the graph,
• unzoom to x and y ranges before the last series of zooms,
• ruler for showing distance between two points on the graph,
• menu item for switching off the aspect ratio of the graph in its window.

If you are interested in it, then feel free to download the patches and the corresponding executables.

Note: last version is dated 7.4.1998. There are still some more nice things to do (described in the README), but I do not how to implement them. Your contribution is welcome!

Cestina ve Warpu

Dale je casto potreba konvertovat cesky psane texty mezi ruznymi mezi ruznymi kodovanimi cestiny (Latin 2, Kamenicti...). Proto vam doporucuji ke stazeni konvertor mezi ruznymi ceskymi formaty (exac pro OS/2 i DOS a zdrojaky v C++), ktery se jmenuje cs2cs. Dale v instalaci CSTeXu je (volne) k dispozici program cstocs.zip (anebo rucne, je na ftp.muni.cz, hleda se prikazem quote site exec tex cstocs - to byste neverili, ale je obcas dulezite cist hlasky serveru). Je ovsem jenom pro DOS se zdrojaky v pascalu (jsou tam dve chyby, jak vsem uzivatelum znamo).

Jo, a mam taky programek text, ktery vytahne z binarniho souboru vsechny stringy, a pritom akceptuje i ruzna kodovani cestiny (zdrojak v C++ je prilozen.)

Ted klavesnice. Ceska klavesnice, ktera je soucasti Warpa (a ktera by se instalovala prikazem DEVINFO=KBD,US,E:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP v config.sysu), je cesky psaci stroj naprosto nepouzitelny programatory a snad i ostatnimi, kteri potrebuji lomitka, obracena lomitka, zavorky a dalsi znaky, z nichz nektere na ceske klavesnici nejsou. Myslim, ze tohle IBM CR vubec nevyresila. Proto jsem v pocatcich sve prace s Warpem psal cesky pouze v DOSovskych oknech, kam jsem si natahl ceske znaky Kameniku vcetne jednoho meho oblibeneho DOSovskeho driveru pro cestinu a TeXoval jsem bez problemu. Tudy ale cesta nevede.

Panove M. Kures, J. Kolafa a Z. Wagner dali k dispozici zdrojak pro ceskou klavesnici pro DOS, konfigurovatelnou pro kodovani Latin-2, Kameniky i KOI-8 a to pro libovolne usporadani klaves. Pouzijete-li ji v DOSovskych oknech, pak vezte, ze klavesa ScrollLock zapina a vypina cesky rezim, a mrtvou klavesou je obraceny apostrof. Pri me instalaci ji volejte prikazem kbdlatin anebo lepe lh kbdlatin.

V prosinci 1995 dal pan Wagner k dispozici cestinu pro editor EPM. Doporucuji, abyste obojiho take pouzivali, je to velice dobre reseni a editor EPM v. 6.03 je dost schopny, lepsi nez EPM dodavany standardne s Warpem. Cestina se zapina Alt-[ a vypina Alt-], a vice se dozvite v manualu CzEpmCs.INF.
A jeste neco: nainstalujte si kompletni EPM 6.03b ze site (treba hobbes; to, co je v Merlinovi, je jenom kousek EPM.

Klavesnice kbd.asm, EPM v. 6.03 a jeho ceska podpora jsou k dispozici u pana Wagnera.

Ted jsem potreboval cestinu i mimo editor, a tak jsem naeditoval KEYBOARD.DCP, kodovou stranku CS 243 852. Tuto jsem prepsal na ceskou programatorskou klavesnici. (Pozn.: chcete-li pouze prehodit Y a Z, pak se podivejte sem). Je tam ovsem jeden problem: tahle klavesnice funguje pouze v OS/2 a DOS oknech, protoze Presentation Manager programy stale z pro mne zahadnych duvodu pouzivaji cesky psaci stroj. Kvuli tomu se musi zaplatovat PMMERGE.DLL, obludne dlouhy soubor. Jak na to? Slozite. A bohuzel stejne tohle neni problemem pouze ceske lokalizace. Vzhledem k tomu, ze na dotazy tykajici se teto problematiky v diskusni skupine os2-c nikdo z IBM CR neodpovedel (cte tuhle konferenci vubec nekdo z lidi, kteri se na lokalizaci podileli, anebo vubec nekdo z IBM CR?), vznesl jsem patricny dotaz na jedne newsove skupine. Dostal jsem odpovedi od jednoho Nemce a od pana Comellase z Argentiny. Oba mi psali, ze klavesnice pouzivane v PM programech jsou definovany v PMMERGE.DLL (silene dlouhy soubor). Navic, klavesnice tam neni dana linearne, ale dost "zbesile"; da se to hackovat pomoci resource decompileru (rdc) od pana Lafaixe. Pan Comellas mi psal: In order to change the PM keyboard layout you also have to patch the PMMERGE.DLL. I have already written a program in C++ that patches the US keyboard layout in both the KEYBOARD.DCP and PMMERGE.DLL (through Martin Lafaix's RESMGR utility) files to support the US-International Windows keyboard layout in OS/2. If you want I can send you the sources uuencoded to your e-mail address. The .ZIP file is about 80 KB. The comments and messages are in Spanish, but it may still be useful for you. Program jsem dostal, stravil nad nim par hodin, ale klavesnici jsem nerozchodil. Vic casu tomu venovat nemohu. Program si dale vyzadal jeden clovek z CR, ale asi ani on nebyl uspesny. Nejaci dalsi dobrovolnici?
V breznu se v announcich objevila zprava o Keyboard Redefineru (hobbes:incoming) od F. Paly z Madarska. Take on vyslovil kriticke poznamky o "lokalizaci" klavesnice. Tenhle program (je to skutecne program, nikoliv zaplata) jsem vyzkousel, je perfektni tim, ze umoznuje za behu systemu klavesnici vymenit (zmena klavesnice v PMMERGE vyzaduje reboot). Bohuzel, v jeho programu neni podpora pro mrtve klavesy; ale aspon trochu zit se s tim da. Pozadal jsem ho o dodelani te podpory, takze uvidime, jestli na to bude mit cas.

Neco o ceskych encodings.

Instalace Free TCP/IP pro Warp 3.0 neConnect

Pozn.: tento manual je soucasti meho mirne rozsahlejsiho manualu (.inf) pro instalaci aplikaci pro OS/2. Ten davam prozatim k dispozici pouze svym znamym na explicitni vyzadani.

Muzete tez navstivit domovskou stranku autora FreeTCP, kde jsou dalsi linky na free Internetovske aplikace.

XFree86 mohou behat jednak bez napojeni na Internet (takze muzete poustet prenesene Xaplikace), anebo s pripojenim (takze pak muzete poustet Xaplikace i z okolnich pocitacu). Mne behaji XFree86 pod FreeTCP s timto nastavenim:

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lan0 _myip_ netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default _mygateway_ 1
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
SET HOSTNAME=localhost
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

a soubor \TCPIP\ETC\HOSTS musi obsahovat:
127.0.0.1 localhost

Abyste mohli poustet X-okna z jinych (unixovskych) pracovnich stanic na svych XFree86, musite se na danou pracovni stanici nejdrive nalogovat. Ovsem nemuzete pouzit OS/2 telnet, ale telnet x3270. A jeste jedna celkem dulezita vec: ftp prozatim spatne zobrazuje a cte heslo; proto z Xu musite zadat ftp __server__, pak odklepnout dotazy na uzivatele i na heslo, a pripojit se prikazem open __user__ __password__.

Muzete si precist muj .cmd skript na spousteni Xu.

Patches for Merlin

• I have patched COUNTRY.SYS so that the date shows correctly according to the Czech customs (i.e. 31.12.96 instead of 96-12-31) even in the OS/2 and DOS sessions,
• I search for patched KEYBOARD.DCP. Since the code page of the Czech Republic changed, the older patch from Warp 3.0 cannot be used,
• and I search for patched PMMERGE.DLL in order to have the keyboard layout of Czech programmers instead of the Czech typing machine (well, a correct hook, such as the Keyboard Redefiner, would be the best).
• If your Merlin is crashing after leaving a full-screen session (OS/2, DOS or WinOS2), then you probably have Trident 9440 video card (or similar). You have the following choices:
  1. buy yourself (and myself too :-)) another video card, or
  2. change the properties of the WarpCenter so that it is visible only if the mouse pointer is over its area, or
  3. ask IBM or Trident to fix this stupid bug.
  Note: 1. is expensive, 3. seems not to work, so we must use the trick 2. Beee... I don't like this WarpCenter on/off mouse behaviour.

  Well---some other people do not have these crashes. Why do I have them? That's crazy.

Have you read about the undocumented Merlin features?

Ruzne informace o Warpu

Neco o historii FAT a HPFS, a tez o vyvoji DOSu a OS/2 si muzete precit v nasledujicim clanku z Microsoft Systems Journal (Sept. 1989, v4 n5 p1(13)). Tento soubor hpfs.zip je kopii souboru tehoz jmena z hobbes:os2/info. Mj. se tam dovite znama fakta, jako ze napr. FAT je naprosto nevhodny system ukladani dat na disky vetsi nez 256 MB; zrejme proto ho Microsoft pouziva i nadale i ve Windows'95 (a pritom HPFS vyvinuly IBM a MS spolecne; to tedy nechapu, proc MicroMekysi od tohoto systemu upustili -- ze by kvuli prachum?)

IBM ohlasila vynikajici vykon Warpa pod novy Intelackym procesorem P6. Muzete si precist prislusny mail.

IBM dala volne k dispozici program Just Add!, ktery vam pomuze otestovat vas pocitac a pripravit ho pro instalaci OS/2, a ktery tez poradi optimalni konfigurace pri koexistenci vice systemu. Jejich oznameni je zde.

Komercni zajimavosti

• axon. Ti maji velice bohaty katalog vselijakeho softu pro OS/2 (ze by cesky ekvivalent Indelible Blue?)

Pokud jsem si vsiml, tak v Brne se da koupit Warp bud v BitStudiu na Dominikanskem namesti, anebo na rohu Purkynova/Skacelova.

Muzete mi mejlnout, jestli mate nejake zajimave tipy.

Tak, a mozna, ze se vam bude hodit nasledujici informace. Programuji prevazne v C/C++. Pro OS/2 je GNU C/C++ sice zadarmo, ale kompiluje pomalu.

Par charakteristik Borlandiho prekladace:
pozitivni:

• absolutne nejrychlejsi prekladac C++ bez velkych naroku na pamet,
• zadny problem s 64 KB bloky, jaky zname z DOSu ci Windowsu. Napriklad jdou prekladat fortranske knihovny pomoci f2c (pro numericke vypocty),
• preklad na pozadi: lze opravovat chyby i kdyz prekladac jeste hleda dalsi,
• HPFS aware,
• (pro OS/2 PM programatory): SMART toolset pro prenos MS-Windowsovskych programu pod OS/2,
  

• 4.5 kg dokumentace (kdo to bude cist?),

• Pokus o vypsani indexu (Shift-F1) mi zablokuje pocitac (mozna, ze je to zpusobene mou konfiguraci OS/2, mozna ne, ale dost mne to stve -- nema nekdo reseni?),
• Nelibi se mi nektere reakce Watch window, jako jeho neustale rvani, reaktualizace, a nemoznost ho uschovat pri zavreni projektu (nebo to jde nejak nastavit?); Watch window v BC 3.1 se mi libilo podstatne vic,
• Na muj vkus Borland prilis casto pada pri debugovani, ze by Crash Protection pro trasovani nefungovala? Jo, a taky si zkuste trasovat libovolny Ceckovsky program v BC 2.0 a zaroven v DOSovskem okne pusste BC 3.1 a uvidite, ze kdyz ho zacnete trasovat, tak horkou klavesou pro Step neni , ale :-( (on to neni az tak pitomy napad, ja odladil v OS/2ce program, ktery mi v DOSu nejel a chtel jsem ho paralelne ladit, coz neslo. Chyba byla v unsigned char vs. signed char). Pokud se to da spravit nejakym optionem, dejte mi prosim vedet.
• Snazi-li se prekladac optimalizovat nejakou prilis dlouhou rutinu, trva pekelne dlouho nez zareaguje na User break. Vubec optimizer je dosti velkou slabinou Borlandu; nejrychlejsi kod dava GNU C/C++.
• Vubec doporucuji veskerou optimalizaci vypnout, obcas s ni neco nejede (nektere me programy, octave aj.)
• A definitivni tecka: firma Borland uz nema zadny vyvoj pro OS/2, takze neni zadna nadeje na upgrade, bugfix, natoz na novou verzi. Takze si tenhle prekladac snad ani nekupujte.

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