February 2023 - Oberon - mailman3.inf.ethz.ch

Tool Form in document
by Aubrey McIntosh 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

I am writing some documentation, and I wanted to put the Form into the document. I wanted it to work as it would in a Tool viewer, and act on the focus View. I read enough to get down into StdApi, and wrote a small app to edit Containers.GetOpts. I even made a local modification and introduced StdCmds.SetToolMode It is dawn, and I have no success. I can open the document in a Tool viewer, but I want the Form view to act as a tool as soon as the document is opened. -- Aubrey McIntosh, PhD

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[Ubuntu 22.04, CPC, BBCB] back down to 20.04
by Aubrey McIntosh 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

I backed my Ubuntu installation to 20.04, Focal, ran all the updates and installed wine. Both blackbox versions work. -- Aubrey McIntosh, PhD

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Ubuntu 22.04 --> wine --> CPC
by Aubrey McIntosh 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

This weekend I upgraded my Ubuntu environment to 22.04, installed wine, and downloaded CPC from http://zinnamturm.eu/downloads.htm 1. I have put the CPC directory tree at /usr/lib/bin/CPC. Where is a better place to put it? 2. I have made ~/.config/autostart/CPC.desktop, attached. It has a /USE command line parameter, so that the distribution directory tree remains pristine. This seems pretty unremarkable, but if you spot anything strange, please mention it. 3. *Oops*. I checked that I could copy attributes by holding down MM in a selection, and dragging the mouse to text with the desired attributes and then releasing MM. This works as I remember from the past when working in the same window, but it does not work across CPC windows. By comparison, this does not work in the Denisov distribution as I have it configured. 4. *Oops*. Text cut and paste does not work. Surely this is a problem somewhere in the complexity of Ubuntu & wine. If anyone has seen this issue, I'd like to know how it turned out. Hint, I can copy text outside the CPC environment & paste it inside the environment. -- Aubrey McIntosh, PhD

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http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2
by peter＠easthope.ca 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Hi, For more than 24 hours, access to http://cas.inf.ethz.ch and to http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2 has failed. Do others observe the same? Thx, ... P.L. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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Re (2): Oberon subsystem of LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.9799.
by peter＠easthope.ca 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

From: Michael Schierl <schierlm(a)gmx.de> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:40:46 +0100 > Therefore, I'd proceed with normal troubleshooting of localhost connections: > > 1) Verify with "netstat" that stunnel is indeed listening on the > correct port and note the interfaces and IP addresses it is > listening on. Stunnel wasn't configured properly. 32 and 64 bit systems on the "new" machine provided an extra opportunity for confusion. =8~/ LinuxA2 is working properly on Debian 11, 64 bit now and I need to add a few details here. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2#Installing_and_Running_UnixAOS > 2) Try telnet ... telnet worked already. According to my old notes near the above link. > 3) ... IPv6 IP addressess ... IPv6 hasn't been a source of confusion yet and I'm overdue to learn exactly what Shaw cable offers and provides. > Hope this helps, Definitely helped, thanks. And the old noodle worked better after a good night's sleep. =8~) Thx, ... P.L. - mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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Oberon subsystem of LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.9799.
by peter＠easthope.ca 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

Hi, Debian 11 AMD64 on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p here. With libc6:i386 and dependancies added, LinuxA2 Gen. 32-bit, rev.9799 works mostly. A simple HTML page on a remote server opens. On a 32 bit machine with 32 bit system, stunnel allows Mail to receive mail. With stunnel in this 64 bit system, Mail immediately reports "timed out". The console, where A2 was started, reports Sockets.Connect: : Connection refused connect failed A 32/64 compatibility problem? Install another package for compatibility? Other ideas? Thx, ... P.L. - mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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[Component Pascal] Where to store StdCoded files
by Aubrey McIntosh 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

I am going to store a StdCoded file for a subsystsem, and make it available online. I am not clear in my head whether it should be in Docu, Rsrc, or perhaps a new directory such as Distr -- Aubrey McIntosh, PhD

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