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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
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