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Re: executor-digest V1 #29



On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:

> >>>>> "cananian" == C Scott Ananian <cananian@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes:
> 
>     cananian> [snip!]                                  I've got 4 Megs,
>     cananian> but I can't manage to set an -applzone larger than 1250
>     cananian> without crashing, with nothing loaded except my mouse
>     cananian> driver.  Is that normal?  --Scott
>  
> That doesn't surprise me.  Executor needs memory for several other
> things besides the program's -applzone.  Executor itself is about 1.4 MB.
[snip!!]
>                                           For now, those of you
> affected by this problem can try to get around this with "executor
> -noclock" and see if that helps.  Running under DPMI (e.g. from the
> Windows DOS shell) will probably solve the problem as well, at least
> if you have virtual memory enabled under Windows.

Thanks!  I tried the "-noclock" setting, and sure enough, no crashes!
Maybe as a temporary measure you might have Executor auto-detect the
conflict and turn off the clock?  It's better for a commercial program 
not to crash, and have slightly reduced performance, than to crash with 
better performance.

Actually, far more troubling are my file system problems.  I can't copy 
or write to Macintosh formatted disks or the DOS filesystem, although 
all i/o with the .hfv file systems seems to work fine.  I thought perhaps 
the DOS file system might have been messed up because I installed 
executor on the d: drive (I thought maybe some of the disk i/o 
routines were hard-coded for c:, though not all, and that might 
explain why although I could see the files, I couldn't work with 
them) but that proved not to be the case, as I SUBSTed c: for d: and 
still had the problem.  Any ideas on that front?  Is this a known bug?
--Scott

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