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- Hi Folks,
-
- Executor/DOS 1.99j has major problems on some machines. There appear
- to actually be at least two causes of trouble.
-
- One problem is the new memory autodetection code can cause problems.
- You can get around this bug by always specifying "-applzone" (note,
- there is no "e" between the "l" and "z", because it stands for
- Application Zone, not Apple Computer Zone) option.
-
- executor -applzone 4096
-
- will dedicate 4 MB to a section of memory that your programs will see
- as the amount of memory the "Mac" on which they're running has
- allocated for them. (Internally, we'll use more than 4 MB, because we
- also have to have memory for our synthetic CPU, the graphics routines,
- translation space, misc. buffers, and so on). We're looking into
- what circumstances cause our new autodetect code to fail.
-
- If that workaround doesn't help you, you may find that running
- Executor from a DOS shell under Windows will help you. Something we
- are doing around the time when we're checking out which disks you have
- on your machine appears to have difficulties with "cwsdpmi" the free
- DPMI provider that we're using. If you run under Windows, you get
- Windows as a DPMI provider and the bug does not appear. We're working
- with cws to find out whether it's a cwsdpmi bug or whether it's our
- bug that just happens to only show up under cwsdpmi.
-
- I apologize for the inconvenience. I personally spent many hours
- testing E/D 1.99j before shipping it off and making the announcement.
- However, I didn't turn a copy over to Vaune Fischer, our wonderful
- technical support person, because it seemed to work so well and I knew
- that we desperately needed a 1.99h replacement. One of the machines I
- normally do testing on over here is away being repaired and another
- one was in the process of getting groomed to be our FTP/WWW server.
- It's always something.
-
- I'll send more e-mail as we make progress.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-