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Re: Odd behavior with Executor and OS/2



On 10 May 96 at 21:59, Joey Mukherjee wrote:

>I tried Executor/DOS with OS/2 in a DOS VDM and it worked great.
>
>However, if I have a CD in the drive, Executor will hang at the login screen.
>I can easily close the session, remove the CD, and restart Executor and 
>everything is fine.
>
>Anyone else have this behavior?  Bug?  Weird "feature" of my system?

Having Executor 'lock up' in this mode is a new twist, but CD-ROM access
not working under OS/2 Warp (and Windows 95 and NT for that matter) is a
known phenomenen. I've been doing some research in that area myself; as
far as I can tell it's because the MSCDEX functions used by Executor to
directly read data off the CD don't work fully within any of these
operating systems (for those interested in the technicalities, INT
2Fh/AX=1508h doesn't work if the CD is not in ISO-9660 format). I am
currently working on a workaround for this, but haven't yet got it
working; when (and if) I do I will of course let this list know. The
'proper' fix is, of course, native ports of Executor.