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E/D 1.99l is out, but largely untested



Hi Folks,

ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi/Executor_DOS contains two files: exldisk1.zip
and exldisk2.zip.  If you take these files over in binary and then
unzip their contents onto separate floppies, you'll have a two floppy
installation disk set that will install Executor/DOS 1.99l.

Alternatively, you can unzip their contents onto your hard drive and
install directly from there (this feature was not present in 1.99k).

However, we haven't done very much testing of the complete 1.99l
package because we ran into so many snags putting it together.  We've
tested all the snags and we've done a bunch of testing before all the
files were frozen as "l", but there's a lot of room for mistakes.  If
we didn't know that we already have a bug in our DPMI provider, we'd
have shaken 1.99l out more thoroughly and then sent it to CompuServe,
AOL, various magazines, etc.

Alas, we were not able to fix the DPMI provider bug, so 1.99l is still
not acceptable to distribute as widely as we'd like.  We are also
exploring problems with mouse drivers, which may or may not be the
same bug.

BTW, ftp.ardi.com also carries exldisk[12].zip, but its connection to
the net is *SLOW*, so I recommend ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi.

Executor/Linux 1.99l is probably a day or two away.  Everything is
ready to be packaged up and sent out, but I need to get some sleep,
and an important person is flying in this evening and it's not clear
how much development we can do while he's here.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com