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Re: Executor/Linux and Mac Drives



>>>>> "Evelyn" == Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com> writes:

    Evelyn> Hi, Executor seems to be working fairly well. I've got
    Evelyn> 1.99n or o installed on Linux 1.3.9.

    Evelyn> Anyways, I'm trying to mount a Macintosh formatted scsi
    Evelyn> hard drive onto the Linux machine for use under executor.
    Evelyn> How do I do that?

Find out what device your SCSI drive is, then set the MacVolumes
environment variable to it's name in /dev, e.g.:

	export MacVolumes=/dev/sdb

Of course you'll need read/write permission on the device in question.
If you get the device wrong, Executor will notice that it's not a Mac
filesystem and will leave it alone.

    Evelyn> Other notes:

    Evelyn> Claris software runs great, though I've had problems
    Evelyn> opening files created on the mac and transfered to Linux.

How have you transferred the files?

    Evelyn> FrameMaker runs better than it did on the mac, though I
    Evelyn> haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about
    Evelyn> printing.

That's good to hear.  Which version of Framemaker?

    Evelyn> Quicken runs, but is unusable because the colours in the
    Evelyn> background of the registers all map to black.

Must be Quicken 4 or earlier.  Which version?  We have 4 over here and
I don't recall the color problem, but I haven't looked at it in a
while.

    Evelyn> Executor doesn't cope with files across mount points at
    Evelyn> all.

Can you be more specific?  I think that might be a problem that was
solved in 1.99o.  Please get 1.99o if you haven't already.  If you
still have the problems, send a little more detail to "bugs@ardi.com".

    Evelyn> The most annoying problem is that when I'm running a
    Evelyn> network session to the Linux machine, the first couple of
    Evelyn> times I run executor I get a segmentation fault
    Evelyn> bomb. After that it runs fine.

Strange.  What kernel?

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com



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