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Re: 1.44 'B' drive problems





On Tue, 2 May 1995 mica@cyberspace.com wrote:

> I have tried versions 1.99k thru 1.99L demos and it's getting lots better with 
> every upgrade.  However my machine has 5 1/4 as my 'A' drive and 3 1/2 as my 
> 'B' drive and although version 1.99L no longer looks for my 5 1/4 'A' drive 
> (which was a time-consuming pain), when I try to eject the disk it still 
> crashes.  Once in a great while it DOESN'T crash but then it won't recognise 
> the next disk and crashes.  Also it occasionally crashes after running it 
> under Windows a few times.  Also when I exit Executor it sometimes freezes my 
> computer.
> 
> Another problem I have is using BinHex on large files transferring from my PC 
> harddrive.  It works fine for smaller files (maybe under 700k but get an 'end 
> of file' error on large files.  To get around this I zip the file and then use 
> ZipIt, which unzips the file into Executor from the PC harddrive.  Why doesn't 
> BinHex work on all files?
> 
> I used to have an Amiga and an AMAX MAC emulator, which, while not in color, 
> did provide serial support for modems and could format disks and run Dart and 
> other disk image programs.  Will this, esp. modem support, be available soon?
> 
> I would like to purchase Executor but only if you can get it to work with the 
> disk configuration I have.  BTW, it only recognises the harddrive that the 
> Executor directory is on (my D drive, which is SCSI) - should it recognise my 
> C drive (non SCSI)?  How would I reverse my floppies to make my 3 1/2 the 'A' 
> drive?
> 
> 

 You should try using Stuffit Expander to decompress BinHex files.
				          Joseph R. Pena
					  sjppena@tenet.edu



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