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Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:44:16 PST
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Project ?

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leganii@surfree.com wrote:
>
> I was (and am still) reading Eric Raymond's
> "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Steve's idea seemed
> to be running in a related channel. It seems to me
> that reading this should be the first step for every
> one on this adapt-an-app project.

I'm too lazy. :))

How about a synopsis?

> Kim Yueng (sp?)

Kim Cheung.

> Dave Watson's serious idea a while back was to put
> together a CD of apps,

I missed this one. What did he want to do?

> What does OS/2 / OS/2 community need the most
> right now?

Well, there you have it. Take a look at the project list over at
NetLabs (Adrienne Geschwend).

> Things I've asked about in the past that no one
> came up with a good answer for were OCR

OCR is a MAJOR effort. I've done predevelopment on OCR and it's a BIG
project.

Before you can start recognizing characters, you have to decompose the
page ("is this text or a picture", "where do the columns start and
end"), adjust for skew (paper wasn't straight when scanned), identify
the individual lines (the descenders of one line sometimes touch the
ascenders of the following line), separate the characters (which may be
tightly kerned so there's no clear vertical line between them), and THEN
you can try to identify the characters (lots of algorithms to choose
from).

> maybe some loadlin like tool to boot
> OS/2 from a real DOS session

Just set the OS/2 partition to ACTIVE and jump into the BIOS for a
warm/cold boot. :)

I have the code for the warm and cold boots (17 bytes for a warm boot, 5
bytes for a cold boot). Setting the ACTIVE bit should be trivial since
you're in DOS and can access the drives directly. I've never tried it,
but you might be able to stuff the DOS keyboard buffer with the desired
FDISK key sequence and then run FDISK to set the active partition --
there are DOS utilities which will stuff the keyboard buffer.

> I'd like to make some improvements to some
> EWS stuff, but that would probably require
> a the earth's axis to be shifted for that to happen.

You can use my disassembler. :)))

- Peter

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