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Re: Excel 4.0 in Executor problems



Dear Folks,

Executor/NEXTSTEP 1.3 uses a fixed memory partition, regardless of what amount  
of memory the application requests.  There will soon be a new "experimental"  
version of Executor that uses a larger partition, and later yet, we'll make  
the partition be based on how much memory the application needs.

Right now, 1.3a is being held up on two fronts -- our outgoing e-mail  
connection stopped working about a week ago.  I don't know precisely when it  
died since we never received any error messages or other hint that our mail  
wasn't going out.  In addition to the mail problem, a machine that serves 2.6  
gig of disk died on Sunday -- and I reported the bug to field service with  
e-mail, which wasn't working.  The server should be up and running tomorrow  
(Thursday), and hopefully 1.3a will be out sometime soon thereafter, although  
the holiday season is upon us.

I will look into the charts bug(s) when our server is back.  If there aren't  
any pending reports in the gnats Executor bug tracking queue, I may need to  
ask more questions about the nature of the charts bug(s).  Unfortunately, I  
can't examine the database now.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 93 02:24:54 PST
From: Trent Lange <mimbres!CS.UCLA.EDU!lange>
To: executor@ictv.com
Subject: Excel 4.0 in Executor problems


I'm running Excel 4.0 in Executor 1.3 on black hardware, and have run into a
couple of problems on (extremely) large spreadsheets.

The first problem is that with > 1 mb spreadsheets, Excel starts running out
of memory, leading to crashes.  The About Microsoft Excel claims that 1754KB
total are free.  Is it safe to assume that changing the memory Excel
allocates to itself (normally done using Get Info in System 7 on a Mac) will
solve that problem?  Or is it more inherent to Executor 1.3?  If changing the
memory allocation of Excel would solve it, is there any way to change its
memory allocation without going through the chore of installing it on a Mac,
changing it there, and reinstalling on the NeXT?

Secondly, charts in Excel 4.0 in Executor seem extremely flaky, and totally
mess up the display of any on-screen spreadsheets (especially their title
bars).  Is there any way around this?

Thanks much,

- Trent Lange (lange@cs.ucla.edu)