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Re: Applications list plus a couple of questions...



In article <4pr450$hp8@ob1.uws.EDU.AU>,
Rachel Polanskis  <r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au> wrote:
>
>Also, will running Executor in mono speed it up as well?
>How do I set it to mono?
>

I believe -grayscale is what you want (unless you really want b&w
in which case -bpp 1 might work).

>
>Finally, is there a list of applications known to run on executor?
>(yes I know Word 5 does)
>

There are some lists on some web sites that people try maintaining,
but I don't remember them offhand, and last I looked people didn't
seem to contribute much.

>I am *not* interested in games, but useful software, and something like 
>Photoshop would be nice ;)
>
>What about Excel or Powerpoint? 

Excel 4 works very well as far as I can tell.  Haven't used it
extensively, just tested it out.  But Powerpoint 4 brings up the
banner and then you get sent back to the browser with the message

launch.c:448; fatal error in `launchchain': failed assertion `code0 && (*code0).p'

This was on 1.99q12, registered, with the system set to 7.0 and all
the pretend stuff checked.

On a bit of the downside also, the printing works, but is not that
great.  I currently have executor print to a file and then I print out
these postscript files to an HP 4Si/MX and some things come out
nicely, others not that great, like Excel spreadsheets.  But since I
don't require nice printing that often, it's not that big of a deal
for me.

Jesse.

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