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Re: 199q problems
In article <30EE6B99.7DA6@okinawa.usmc.mil>, grassn@okinawa.usmc.mil (Nathan
Grass) declares...
> I am useing Executor on a Windows 95 PC. Everything that came
>with it seems to work fine. I can access all my folders with the long
>name support just great. My big malfunction is the .hqx extension does
>not allow me to run a program. I converted some binary files with the
>BinHex program that came with Executor, and all I can do is look at the
>'text' of the file with the text editor. How do I set the file to
>execute??? This is the same with files that I FTP down to my PC.
First, I recommend that you copy the .hqx files into an .hfv volume; I've
had better luck this way (sometimes the un-hqxing apps have trouble writing
to the Win95 volumes, I've found). Second, don't use BinHex; use Stuffit
Expander. You've probably been encoding instead of decoding. You need to
have Stuffit decode the .hqx file to make it binary; then, it's probably
also stuffed or compacted (mac compression schemes), if you got it from FTP.
So it will unStuff the file. Then you should be able to double-click it.
Double-clicking files only works if they have the correct creator/type
information, which you can check by getting info (left-alt-i) on the file.
> I have not registered yet (I am waiting on my checking account
>to be set up) and the 10 minute time out is limiting my ability to work
>with Executor to get this working. It takes almost 2 minutes to start
>it up each time. I am looking at the clock the whole time so I can exit
>without loosing all my progress. Would ARDI release a version with a
>little longer time limit? I can understand them not wanting
>unregistered software out there, this is not shareware, but it is being
>distributed in that manner... I am very reluctant to register a program
>I don't have time to test fully. Maybe they can disable most of the
>nice features or put in lots of nag screens. At least then I could test
>out some things before it crashes violently on me...
What speed is your machine? How much RAM? Mine doesn't take anywhere close
to two minutes to start up (486DX4/100, 12Mb). What is it you can't do in
10 minutes, anyway? Perhaps you could ask some of the registered users on
this newsgroup to try it out for you, if it's easy enough to do. Good luck.
Oh, if you're short on RAM, realize that running from outside of Win95 will
give Executor more RAM, though you won't have access to long file names on
DOS/Win95 drives. But at least try this to see if it starts faster.
Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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