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Re: 1.99m is out for DOS and Linux



>>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com> writes:

    Gene> 1.99m looks great!  A few questions:

    Gene> I am running 1.99m for Linux on a 486-DX2 66Mhz with 20Megs
    Gene> of RAM and Linux 1.2.5.

    Gene> I also had problems until I made /usr/local/lib/executor
    Gene> world writable.  Is there any possibility of using a
    Gene> .executor or .go in the user's home directory so that I can
    Gene> leave the /usr/local/lib/executor read-only?

Yes, set up the environment variable SystemFolder to point into the a
subdirectory of the user's home directory, then copy whatever you want
the user to be able to change into that subdirectory and make links to
the files you don't want the user to change in
/usr/local/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume...

Since the desktop pattern is contained in the System file, you might
want the user to have his/her private copy of the System file,
although it takes up a few hundred k.

    Gene> I am also unable to move folders or icons around.  This is a
    Gene> bummer since the labels are all squished together and hard
    Gene> to read.

Yes, the browser does not allow you to position documents and folders
within the window.  We copied much of the look and feel from the XV
visual schnauzer, rather than Apple's Finder so they won't sue us.  We
should probably allow people to adjust the spacing, but that work
takes a back seat to a lot of other Executor work we're doing now.

    Gene> Also, when I do try to move an icon, the outline
    Gene> moves around real slow.

Hmmm... we don't have any similarly equipped machines over here -- the
Linux boxes we use the most are 90 MHz Pentiums, but I don't know what
would make the dragging real slow.  I just tried on a 75 MHz DX4 with
8 Mb RAM and dragging was fine.  Do you have a lot of windows open?
Are other people seeing this problem, too??

    Gene> How do I look at the README's?  When I try to open them,
    Gene> nothing happens.  I assume that this is because there is no
    Gene> application available to view them with.  Where can I
    Gene> download a viewer for them?

BBEdit Lite seems to work fairly well, although we can't easily bundle
it with Executor.  Tex-Edit 2.5 kind of works for viewing files.
We're in the middle of rewriting much of "stylized text edit" the
section of Executor that many text editors use.  When we're done,
we'll put Tex-Edit 2.5 back in the distribution.

    Gene> FYI: I downloaded two games from ftp.pht.com, Ruins and
    Gene> TechnoManiac.  Ruins gets to a splash screen and then I get
    Gene> seg fault.  TechnoManiac doesn't get anywhere before seg
    Gene> faulting.

Right now ftp.ardi.com is a 28.8kb modem PPP link and it's way maxed
out, so I can't pick up Ruins and TechnoManiac.  Perhaps Cotton (who
works out of Cambridge) can pick it those up and look into them.  I'm
going to log them as bugs that belong to Cotton and if it turns out
that they don't, he'll let me know.

    Gene> If I pay the $50 for the Linux version, how much will it
    Gene> cost to upgrade when 2.0 comes out?

That's an interesting question.  I thought I had planned that there
would be a small upgrade fee when E/L 2.0 hit, but apparently our FAQ
claimed that there would be no such upgrade fee.  This was pointed out
to me last week, so we're going to make the "policy change" official
later this week -- there will be no charge for Linux users to get
2.0.x updates.  That means we'll have to reissue keys, but it was our
mistake so we'll live by it.

    Gene> Thanks much for such a great product.  I wish other vendors
    Gene> were even half as enthusiastic as you guys.

Thanks.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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