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- Subject: Re: Odd behavior with Executor and OS/2
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- From: "Jon Hall" <jmah@isvr.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:57:34 +0000
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- On 10 May 96 at 21:59, Joey Mukherjee wrote:
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- >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.
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