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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2026, 06:31:25 pm »
Hello Steven

The OS2World server implemented a new firewall and some changes on a apache-mod for blocking the bots.

EDM/2 is hosted by Netlabs. Adrian will have to check on that. On my side EDM2 is working with the Dooble browser, I don't know if you want to give it a try. "yum install dooble".

Regards
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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« Last post by Steven Levine on January 19, 2026, 06:01:31 pm »
I just noticed that anubis seems to be preventing me from accessing edm2 with firefox and seamonkdy.  Did I miss a setting somewhere?  If not, can the same fixes that are used for os2world be applied to edm2?
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Applications / IRIT - Modeling Enviroment
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 19, 2026, 03:54:32 pm »
Hello

This is a little subject I want to share with you. It is not important as far as I can tell, but I want to let it documented just in case.

"IRIT is a freeform geometric modeling environment that allows one to model general freeform surfaces' based models as well as polygonal objects, and use Boolean operations on both."

The IRIT modeling package is free for noncommercial use and it is copyrighted to Gershon Elber. It is not open source under one of the common licenses.

Long time ago (1997), someone ported IRIT 7 and shared the binaries with the source code. I have the source code that contains an OS/2 makefile here: https://github.com/OS2World/APP-GRAPHICS-IRIT

The modern source code is still available (free for noncommercial use) here: https://gershon.cs.technion.ac.il/irit/irit-sm.zip

I got a request to delete the source code since it is old. (Current version is 13)
-- https://github.com/OS2World/APP-GRAPHICS-IRIT/issues/1

I have to comply to that, since it is not traditional open source software. I will turn the repository private. I'm just notifying this, just in case someone think there is something useful on the source code OS/2 port.

I don't know how to use IRIT, I just can tell it is a command line tool, but it has some PM app to viewing 3D models (I guess).

Regards
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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Michael on January 19, 2026, 12:51:09 pm »
Yes, it runs on OS/2 1.3 and OS/2 2.11. Not on OS/2 Warp 3.

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Steven Levine on January 19, 2026, 09:36:22 am »
Turns out I misread the popuplog.  it's not a stack problem.  I cranked up the debugger to see what the code was really doing that triggered the trap.  The trap is at

035B                 les     di, pntr_2FC8   ; MartinI trap here

so it's a pointer problem.  The pointer is set at:

0293                 call    far ptr WinLoadPointer
0298                 mov     word ptr pntr_2FC8, ax; return pntr not handle ??
029B                 mov     word ptr pntr_2FC8+2, dx

What is odd about this is that based on the code, WinLoadPointer is returning a pointer, not a handle like current versions of WinLoadPointer.  I have to assume that this app was built to run against a really old version of PM.  Possibly for OS/2 2.1

The pointer returned by WinLoadPointer looks OK, but the selector (1b30) is a ring0 selector which is not usable by a ring3 app.

It would be interesting to see if someone with an OS/2 2.x install can run this app.
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Applications / Re: XTide
« Last post by Dave Yeo on January 18, 2026, 06:55:45 pm »
Interesting, I wasn't sure how to run it, as well as not having the local tide database for here. There's a whole rabbit hole on the tidal databases. Seems they were public domain but no more and my government is worried about commercial use :(
I am curious about the local tides, I'm perhaps 30 miles upstream from the ocean and the railroad bridge in town is considered the end of tidal waters.
I'll have to read up on the time zone support and whether x:\sys\apps\timeset\tz_en.lst that is installed by AOS is good enough. Seems it should be taken care off by the operating system and ideally installed in %ETC%
Then there is the rabbit hole of when the time zones change. Here the Province passed a law to switch to DST when ever you guys get around to it.
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Applications / Re: XTide
« Last post by Neil Waldhauer on January 18, 2026, 03:49:24 pm »
I unzipped the program files into a directory. I downloaded and extracted the harmonics file

https://flaterco.com/files/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20251228-free.tar.xz

I set and environment variable to the location of my harmonics file

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set hfile_path=\suntanv6\apps\xtide\dist\harmonics-dwf-20251228-free.tcd
I ran the program, but I now get a message about time zone support.

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tide -l "Santa Cruz"

Indexing \suntanv6\apps\xtide\dist\harmonics-dwf-20251228-free.tcd...
XTide Fatal Error:  BROKEN_ZONEINFO
Your platform appears to have broken time zone support.  You need to have a
reasonably modern version of the time zone database that is available from
http://www.iana.org/time-zones.
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Applications / Re: XTide
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on January 18, 2026, 02:32:55 pm »
Hello Dave

I created this repo: https://github.com/OS2World/APP-SCIENCE-XTide
Let me know if you think that way is fine (the program and the library), otherwise, just delete the files and set it as you like it.

Also, a quick tutorial on how it works would be appreciated just to test it out.

Regards
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Applications / Re: XTide
« Last post by Dave Yeo on January 18, 2026, 05:06:26 am »
Hi Neil, can you test tide.exe. Need https://flaterco.com/files/xtide/harmonics-dwf-20251228-free.tar.xz along with SET HFILE_PATH=location/of/harmonics-dwf-20251228-free.tcd adjusted to your install. Not sure of the expected dir separator in the SET statement. I'll include the man page.
Still working on the web server, stupid IPv6 stuff and how to handle daemon. Might try the xtide too.
Edit: The missing DLL
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Applications / Re: Media downloader
« Last post by Dave Yeo on January 17, 2026, 05:39:58 pm »
Will it work with python 3.9 ?
How to safe install python 3 without disturbing python 2 under arcaos v5.1.1 with valid Arca noae support ?

Sure. First try python --version to see what you have installed, here,
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H:\tmp>python --version
Python 3.13.2
if you need to install Python3, IIRC, "yum install python2.7 python3" then "yum update"
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