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First experimental version of Executor/DOS available to 1.2 owners



Hi Folks,

I've now generated the first experimental version of Executor/DOS and  
put it in the directory ftp.cs.unm.edu:pub/ardi/Executor_DOS.  You'll  
want to pick up the README and ".zip" files in there if you want to  
see this first experimental release.

There's not a whole lot of new features in the new release, although  
it does support CD-ROMs and a "-nodrivecheck" switch (which prevents  
the floppy drives and hard disks from being examined every time you  
punch the "drive" button).

In general, many more apps now run than did before, although  
Lemmings, which used to run, no longer does, and the StuffIt  
programs, which were working in the lab, *aren't* working in this  
particular snapshot.  I'd recommend this snapshot only to adventurous  
people, or to people who have been having filesystem problems.

In addition to fixing the Lemmings and StuffIt related bugs, we'll  
also start keeping a more formal log that will show what the various  
new experimental releases do.

If you don't have the commercial version of Executor/DOS 1.2, then  
you will not be able to use this new version; instead of putting a  
fully functional copy of Executor in the .zip file, we put in a set  
of patches that convert the fully enabled 1.2 version into a fully  
enabled 1.2a version.

Please let me know if you are able to use this update.  In the past,  
this newsgroup has been used primarily by our NEXTSTEP customers, so  
I really have no idea how many of our DOS customers already know  
about this list.  I'll make an effort to alert more DOS users to this  
list when the next experimental version comes out.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com