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- Hi Folks,
-
- I know it's been a long time coming, but 1.2d is now available from
- ftp.cs.unm.edu. As before, it's a ".zip" file that unzips into a
- directory that contains an "update.bat" batch file. This time, the
- transmogrifier will work even if you have SHARE.EXE running.
-
- In general, 1.2d's handling of Mac filesystems is greatly improved
- over all previous versions of Executor/DOS. However, along the way
- we broke the game "1000 miles" and apparently you can't rename DOS
- files using HFS_XFer.
-
- Other than just being several times more solid than 1.2c, there
- aren't many user observable changes in 1.2d. With a new System file,
- you'll be able to print to files, but the new System file is not part
- of the exexp12d.zip file -- it will be released sometime early next
- week.
-
- Just like 1.2c, 1.2d has trouble running under Windows. If you run
- with "-noclock", it will run fine. We hope to have this bug fixed
- sometime next week; it is related to code we are revamping for serial
- support and sound support.
-
- Sometime next week we'll give you a sneak peek at a color version of
- Executor. This will basically just be to show you that we have a lot
- of color stuff going, but that snapshot will probably be even buggier
- than 1.2c was.
-
- Please report any trouble you find in 1.2d to "bugs@ardi.com". We
- want to get the interrupt bugs fixed and then get 1.3 out in beta so
- we can send 1.3 out free of charge to all our existing customers so
- that they'll at least have access to some of the new features while
- we take the time to get 2.0 into and out of beta and into production.
- We'll also release a new DEMO version when 1.3 comes out.
-
- I am still behind in answering a lot of personal e-mail, I will be
- out of town this weekend, but will work on my backlog at the
- beginning of next week. I kept putting it off until 1.2d was
- released, and that release took much longer than I expected.
-
- In the past, e-mail coming from ARDI had return addresses that looked
- like: "cs.unm.edu!iclone!recipient" or
- "iclone!recipient@cs.unm.edu". These style addresses will cease to
- be legitimate addresses at the end of the month.
- "recipient@ardi.com" has always worked and will always work. We will
- try to get our mailer to generate those as the return address,
- although now our return addresses look something like
- "iclone!recipient@swcp.com", which is a legitimate return address
- now, but may change sometime in the future.
-
- It's not clear whether or not ftp.cs.unm.edu will continue to remain
- the repository for ARDI ftpables, but if it changes, I'll post a new
- ftp address to this list.
-
- Thank you for the get-well notes I received after mentioning the
- kidney stone. Thanks too if you decided not to send one because I
- was already complaining about being swamped with e-mail. As far as I
- know, I'm back to normal -- normal for me, that is. In fact, I'm
- doing well enough that I'm going to be on vacation Friday through
- Sunday.
-
- --Cliff
-
-