Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/04
Vendors should post these, but alas Embarcadero is not the only one failing here, so here are build/version numbers of the various Delphi Berlin releases until now:
Via: [WayBack] Hi everyone How to know wheter my installed Berlin instance includes update 2?. … G+
If you need the ISO images: Positive: Delphi 10.1 Berlin Update 2 is out – ISO links.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/04
About 12 years ago, I did some Client Access/400 work. When cleaning up “the attic”, I bumped into a paper copy of the below manual. To my surprise that document is still available on-line: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/gg244422.pdf
Client Access/400 API Planning Guide
Document Number GG24-4422-00 October 1994
International Technical Support Organization Rochester Center
Then there is ” This table lists the AS/400 Version 3, Release 7 books that are available in Portable Document Format (PDF).”: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/online/V3R7PDF.HTM which contains a link to SC41-3513-01 “AS/400 Client Access for Windows 95/NT API and Technical Reference V3” which I also used: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/as400/V3R7PDF/QBKACO01.PDF
These were (for me back then) the most important chapters of the first book:
12.2 Typical Usage of the API
An application using the Remote Command/Distributed Program Call function will make use of two objects. Each of these objects are identified to the application through a handle. The objects are:
- System object – This represents the AS/400 system. Commands can be run and programs can be called on this object.
- Program object – This represents the AS/400 program. Parameters can be added and the program sent to the system to run the program.
There is not a separate object for commands. The command string is sent directly to the system object.
Table 16 shows how these API functions would be typically used.
Table 16. Remote Command / Distributed Program Call – Typical Usage Examples
Action
Start the host server and program.
Create a program object.
Add parameter 1 (input) to the program object.
Add parameter 2 (input/output) to the program object.
Add parameter 3 (output) to the program object.
Call the program with parameters in the same order that they were added to the program object with the cwbRC_AddParameter() calls.
API Function Call an AS/400 program
cwbRC_StartSys(′′SYS01′′, &hSystemHandle)
cwbRC_CreatePgm(′′PROG01′′, ′′LIB01′′,
&hPgmHandle)
cwbRC_AddParm(hPgmHandle, CWBRC_INPUT ,
uParm1Length, pchBuffer1)
cwbRC_AddParm(hPgmHandle, CWBRC_INOUT,
uParm2Length, pchBuffer2)
cwbRC_AddParm(hPgmHandle, CWBRC_OUTPUT,
uParm3Length, pchBuffer3)
cwbRC_CallPgm(hSystemHandle, hPgmHandle,
&hMsgHandle)
Run a CL command on the AS/400
cwbRC_RunCmd(hSystemHandle, pszCommandString,
&hMsgHandle)
Clean up at the end
cwbRC_DeletePgm(hPgmHandle) cwbRC_StopSys(hSystemHandle)
Run a command.
Delete the program object.
Terminate the conversation with the AS/400 server.
12.3 Remote Command / Distributed Program Call API Functions
Table 17 lists the API functions. For a complete list with parameters see the Client Access/400 Optimized for OS/2 API and Technical Reference, SC41-3511.
Table 17. Remote Command / Distributed Program Call – List of API Functions
API Function
cwbRC_StartSys()
cwbRC_GetSysName()
cwbRC_StopSys()
cwbRC_RunCmd()
cwbRC_CreatePgm() cwbRC_AddParm()
cwbRC_CallPgm()
cwbRC_GetParmCount()
cwbRC_GetParm()
cwbRC_GetPgmName()
cwbRC_GetLibName()
cwbRC_DeletePgm()
Description Original API
Starts a conversation with the – specified system.
Gets the name of the system for this – conversation.
Stops the current conversation with EHNSRSTC() the AS/400 system.
Issues the command on the system EHNSRSBM() identified by the handle.
Creates a program object. –
Adds a parameter to the program – object identified by the handle.
Calls the program identified by the – handle.
Gets the number of parameters for – this program object.
Retrieves the parameter identified by – the index (index value for the first parameter is 1).
Gets the name of the program that – was used when creating this program object.
Gets the name of the library that was – used when creating this program
object.Deletes the program object identified – by the supplied handle (the AS/400
program object is NOT deleted).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/04
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%f in (myfile) do
If you put delims as the last parameter, then an ending space will be included as delimiter (at the start or in the middle it won’t).
A great tip by jeb and Joey in an answer for windows – Batch file FOR /f tokens – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03
Any more people having experience with these?
I’m welcoming any opinions on:
The OTG Jacket for Men is a warm jacket with the hidden SCOTTeVEST features of concealed pockets. Carry your gadgets with you, and maintain your style, while keeping warm outside.
[WayBack] Men’s Insulated Coat – SCOTTeVEST
via
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03
Is it funny because it so true? Would it be funnier if it weren’t true?
[WayBack] Technical Debt – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03
The first implementation of Compiler Explorer supports many versions of the gcc, clang and icc compilers on ARM, ARM64, AVR and x86 targets.
On the left you type your C++ code, on the right you see the resulting assembler code optionally with byte code and colorised so you can correlate the C++ lines with the assembly.
A great way to start the year: learning new things!
Related:
–jeroen
via:
Some videos:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/03
I got a bit fed-up with the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight reappearing as KB3056819 in each Windows Update within minutes of hiding it (I’m not alone on this, it does this when you have configured to favour the Microsoft Update Servers – that also update Office – in favour of the Windows Update Servers).
Two really odd things:
So I wanted a script that every minute could check for a Microsoft Silverlight update, then hide it.
That appeared a lot more cumbersome than I anticipated, hence this blog post.
The reason is that unlike many other operating systems, Windows does not come with a build-in package manager that you can script (there is Windows Installer, but is’s not easily scriptable).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/02
A long time ago (2014!), [WayBack] Great tutorial on how to split older Git commits: http://bit.ly/1rE72cI – should be used with care, but this can be a lifesaver and a really useful trick… – Ilya Grigorik – Google+ pointed me the below tutorial.
It has been in my drafts since then, but recently I found it back when I needed to rebase unpushed commits. Indeed it’s a great tutorial!
Executing the git rebase --interactive concepts can be tricky as they are on a way higher level than regular git work. So sometimes you want to exit vim notifying git to stop the current action. The easiest way I found was this vim command I found at [WayBack] How to abort a git rebase in interactive editor (thanks [WayBack] Telmo Costa!):
:cx
Via the tutorial, I also bumped into a few advanced git add features:
Another very powerfull feature is
git add -pa.k.a.git add --patchwhich allows you to stage parts (or hunks) of a file.[WayBack] git add -p: The most powerful git feature you’re not using yet
You can go even further with
git add --interactiveas this blog post shows:
Back to the tutorial:
[WayBack] Going back in time to split older commits by thoughtram
Rebasing in Git allows you to go back in time to split older commits. In this article we’ll explore how to do exactly that!
git rebase –interactive
Before the tutorial explains how to amend git commits, it covers these git rebase --interactive commands:
Note that squash will combine the commit on that line with the commit on the line above it.
There is one more little trick: to limit the number of commits (that’s normally limited to the unpushed ones), add like HEAD~4 which limits it to 4 commits.
Finally you can even use this for cherry picking, which I need to put on my research list: [WayBack] git: obtain the benefits of git rebase --interactive for cherry picks – Stack Overflow
Further reading:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/02
Via:
Joe C. Hecht – G+
Windows 7 Disk Images – Is it just me I have noticed that my Windows 7 backup disk images fail when Windows update applies security updates, if the images are more than 2 “Monthly RollUps” old. When I click the update webpage for help, Microsoft the server returnes a “page not found”. Is Microsoft trying to tell me something?
I noticed this as well for VMs that I hardly use (and can be dormant for months): updating them takes forever and I could not find the cause.
The cause seems Microsoft changing the locations for updates, but not having the updater update in the old location any more: [WayBack] Changes to Security Update Links – MSRC.
Solution: manually download the update MSU files for your Windows + architecture combination in a directory, copying a batch file there, then run the batch file.
More details at “Solution to the long search for Windows Updates on a newly installed Windows 8.1, 7 SP1 or Vista SP2”:
Yes, you have to fiddle a bit with the WUAUSERV service, but then everything should work out well.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Windows 7 Disk Images – Is it just me I have noticed that my Windows 7 backup…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/01
The difference in changing your primary email of an Apple ID and a Microsoft ID:
Small but important difference…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 