by @Macarlo
Team OS/2 Registered
Screenshots by Embellish 

Hi All.
I'm working just fine here on my OS/2 Warp 4 FP12 Web IDE using a modest Pentium 200 with 128MB RAM and I'm very happy because my CPU usage has been decreased from 95% to 30% with StarOffice 5.1a (Sun) Web Editor as you can see in the photo above. Note that I'm using this obsolete (for Microsoft...) PC because it is my test machine, where I test alphas and betas. Well, if you are a high tech fanatic user join Pentium 700 + 1GB RAM using Windows 2000 and...do exactly I'm doing here with my old Pentium running OS/2.

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 Yesterday I talk in private with an OS/2 user from Canada, Gilbert Lefebvre, and he suspected that my Bus Master is not really enabled. I was using the IBM Bus Master IDE Driver for OS/2, version 4.53, that displays a banner during the boot reporting about the devices. It is the most recent IBM1S606.ADD, inside the updated diskettes 1 and 2 for ThinkPad. Lefebvre suggested that I will try the latest Daniela's drive developed in replacement to the traditional IBM1S506.ADD. I downloaded danis506.zip (183.5KB) from Hobbes, unzipped it and copied it to OS2/BOOT subdirectory, replacing in my Config.sys the call for DaniS506.ADD, as you can see in the photo bellow, that shows my Config.sys inside Emacs:

About this photo above note that at this time my CPU usage is only 8% and I'm using Emacs, Embellish and other tools not displayed in the Rick Yoder's TaskBar that you can see at the right corner. I noticed that Danis driver really improves the Bus Mastering and the CPU usage decreased in some operations as a "move" for an entire directory tree with 900 megabytes. This driver also improves some StarOffice operations, including web edition tasks. But this driver examines exhaustively the IDE devices during the boot and the boot time is dramatically increased. With the IBM driver 4.53 my boot for this Warp4 FP12 is performed in 1 minute 12 seconds; with Danis driver 4 minutes 45 seconds is the time consumed for the boot. Note that this time is measured since my <enter> in the OS/2 option of System Commander to the point when CHKDSK predetermined by <+> before the drive letter begins the checking; after this point the boot delays in both cases (DaniS506.ADD and IBM1S506.ADD) because others drivers must be loaded, as Ray Gwinn's SIO, J. Shan Super Virtual Disk (three disks), OAD (for Iomega ZIP 100 parallel port), RSJ CD Writer etc etc etc, including BootSet by Martin Alfredsson - JMA Technologies (for me simply fundamental!).
But the principal problem I encountered in site publishing using StarOffice 5.1a is just the delay for open a folder with 4,000 html pages and 2,700 images .gif and .jpg. Neither driver can solve this problem, because it is fundamentally a cache problem ! I tried apply the Object Desktop Professional Hypercache on my principal web site folder but this operation simply don't increases the StarOffice 5.1a read performance. Talking in the Sobra Mailing List (StarOffice mailing list for Brazilian users) with the Moderator, the computer guru Renee Senger, he suggested that I use the HPFS386 with a 32 megabytes cache. This guru said that the StarOffice 5.1a for OS/2 problem is just the compilation used. Senger said that the compiler brand (and method) was changed because the StarOffice size was augmented excessively. I'm thinking in try HPFS386 with this monster cache, but I'm scared, because if you crashes using this feature you are in the ethernal damnation: neither other feature can read correctly files wrote using this special cache and all data is simply lose!
But with all problems I consider that after the FP12 installation and with the Java 1.1.8 correctly added, this Web IDE is now running fine. Actually I can without problems create and edit above ten pages at the same time, and concurrently work with image optimization for web usage with Embellish as you can see in the photo below:

At this point I consider very important that I related here that I use Embellish on OS/2 Warp for all purposes in image works. Embellish is a fine release from the deceased Dadaware and I registered for OS/2 in BMT Micro, Inc. and also registered it for Windows in Beyond.com, the softwarehouse with I'm associated. Las year Dadaware closed it doors and Embellish is now available for free in the developers web site. With Embellish you can make nice screenshots, you can optimize images and you can improve all graphics formats. If you have Embellish you can works fine in Site Publishing using the StarOffice 5.1a web editor, a design mode editor that accepts the most recent HTML level an generates clean code (if you know the correct manner for use it; version 5.1 is very fast, because it's not very big release, but have a serious bug and generates dirty code).
Finally, I consider that using Warp 4 FP12 + Java 1.1.8 + DaniS506.ADD you can works fine in Site Publishing without clipboard problems and another traditional OS/2 failures. StarOffice from Sun Microsystems, Inc. is available for free and is really a pretty suite. If you are webmaster and if you are using exclusively Windows because on Windows platform you can run several very good web editors, I suggest that you tree StarOffice 5.1a on OS/2 Warp 4 FP12. Note that is very important make your TCPIP upgrade to version 4.1 (fixed) in order to eliminate some problems in Internet connection. My TCPIP has been updated and fized and I can make quickly all transferences by FTP as you can se in the photo below:

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