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Re: "Desktop" Idea



>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Zeyliger <vzvz@netcom.com> writes:

    Philip> The Macintosh has a Desktop.  It is a weird device that
    Philip> can store anything and you can't figure out what drive the
    Philip> files stored there are from.  Executor did not program a
    Philip> desktop and is probably right not to.  Nevertheless I
    Philip> think there should be some kind of lowest level of the
    Philip> disk structure under the drive.  Why?  I, probably like
    Philip> many other E/D users, have multiple hfv drives.  I also
    Philip> have 4 hard drives (C: - F:) In order to switch from one
    Philip> hfv drive to another hfv drive I often have to scroll
    Philip> through all the dos drives.  Since Executor is still quite
    Philip> slow on opening the big D: and E: drives (dir /w takes
    Philip> more than a page), this process is cumbersome.

Although it's clearly not as good as having a desktop, you can tell
Executor to skip drive D entirely by using the command line switch
"-skipdrives d".

    Philip> A solution?  If ARDI could make something under the
    Philip> drives, that JUST contains the drives, no other files,
    Philip> that is created at the beginning of each session (to
    Philip> include floppies), then we could go down to that.  Then we
    Philip> would select the drive and save.

I think that's a good idea, but it will have to wait until after
Executor 2 is out.  We're just too swamped and too behind schedule to
add this new feature before then.

    Philip> 			-- Philip Zeyliger

    Philip> P.S.: VIM 3.0 now works.  (I did experience some crashes
    Philip> though.)  P.P.S: I have run 2 benchmark tests.  I think if
    Philip> someone created a little FTP space where we can drop
    Philip> maybe, exported data off, (or text) someone can create a
    Philip> nice Excel spreadsheet that would hold data to many
    Philip> computers from many executor users.  I tested my DOS
    Philip> version with UniVBE and without.  Amazingly, I got better
    Philip> results without.  If someone tells me where and what type
    Philip> to upload, I'll do it.  (And look at some other records
    Philip> too.:-) Hey, we can even make a web interface.

I do not have time to coordinate this.  I doubt Melissa does, either,
but perhaps she does.  When Executor 2 is in beta we'll be more
interested in this sort of thing, too.  Right now we're trying to fix
all known regressions.

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--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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