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Re: Locking up.



>>>>> "bill" == Bill Payne <billpayn@freenet.columbus.oh.us> writes:

    bill> On my copy of Executor v1.99f, BinHex 5.0 keeps locking up
    bill> when I try to exit.  The mouse stops moving when I'm ALMOST
    bill> to the file menu.  I have to use my reset button to get out
    bill> of it!  Also, I got a copy of Stuffit Expander, and, well,
    bill> THAT was the program that BinHex 5.0 had a problem with.  It
    bill> was a .SEA.  Then, when I FINALLY got it so I could run the
    bill> .sea file, after it installed, I scanned it with
    bill> Disenfectant, and ran the program.  It seems to lock up too!
    bill> I have a 486 DX2/66, with 8Megs of ram, 1 Meg of Video Ram,
    bill> and a Vesa compatable Genoa video card.  Oops.  When I said
    bill> "Is seems to lock up too," I meant the installed Version of
    bill> Stuffit Expander, not Disenfectant.  Wolfenstein 3d, will
    bill> load somethimes, but not all the time.  I run executor like
    bill> this: Executor -applzone 8192 :The mouse stops moving, and
    bill> CTRL+BRAKE dosn't work, Lalt+Lshift+5 dosn't work, and
    bill> CTRL+alt+des dosn't work either, when that happens.

Thanks for mentioning both the Executor version and the command line
options you give it!  Many bug reports don't bother, which makes our
job more difficult.

This is probably the same Executor bug I mentioned on this list
recently.  When Executor/DOS starts paging and the clock is on
(e.g. no "-noclock"), the buggy DOS extender we use can hang your
machine.  Since you have 8MB of RAM and you're requesting -applzone
8192, Executor needs more total memory than you have physically
available (due to overhead above and beyond the -applzone space).
This would work (via paging) except for that DOS extender bug.  I'm
tackling that problem right now.  For now, try a more modest applzone
(e.g. 2048) and see if that helps.

-Mat


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