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- >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com> writes:
-
- Gene> 1.99m looks great! A few questions:
-
- Gene> I am running 1.99m for Linux on a 486-DX2 66Mhz with 20Megs
- Gene> of RAM and Linux 1.2.5.
-
- Gene> I also had problems until I made /usr/local/lib/executor
- Gene> world writable. Is there any possibility of using a
- Gene> .executor or .go in the user's home directory so that I can
- Gene> leave the /usr/local/lib/executor read-only?
-
- Yes, set up the environment variable SystemFolder to point into the a
- subdirectory of the user's home directory, then copy whatever you want
- the user to be able to change into that subdirectory and make links to
- the files you don't want the user to change in
- /usr/local/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume...
-
- Since the desktop pattern is contained in the System file, you might
- want the user to have his/her private copy of the System file,
- although it takes up a few hundred k.
-
- Gene> I am also unable to move folders or icons around. This is a
- Gene> bummer since the labels are all squished together and hard
- Gene> to read.
-
- Yes, the browser does not allow you to position documents and folders
- within the window. We copied much of the look and feel from the XV
- visual schnauzer, rather than Apple's Finder so they won't sue us. We
- should probably allow people to adjust the spacing, but that work
- takes a back seat to a lot of other Executor work we're doing now.
-
- Gene> Also, when I do try to move an icon, the outline
- Gene> moves around real slow.
-
- Hmmm... we don't have any similarly equipped machines over here -- the
- Linux boxes we use the most are 90 MHz Pentiums, but I don't know what
- would make the dragging real slow. I just tried on a 75 MHz DX4 with
- 8 Mb RAM and dragging was fine. Do you have a lot of windows open?
- Are other people seeing this problem, too??
-
- Gene> How do I look at the README's? When I try to open them,
- Gene> nothing happens. I assume that this is because there is no
- Gene> application available to view them with. Where can I
- Gene> download a viewer for them?
-
- BBEdit Lite seems to work fairly well, although we can't easily bundle
- it with Executor. Tex-Edit 2.5 kind of works for viewing files.
- We're in the middle of rewriting much of "stylized text edit" the
- section of Executor that many text editors use. When we're done,
- we'll put Tex-Edit 2.5 back in the distribution.
-
- Gene> FYI: I downloaded two games from ftp.pht.com, Ruins and
- Gene> TechnoManiac. Ruins gets to a splash screen and then I get
- Gene> seg fault. TechnoManiac doesn't get anywhere before seg
- Gene> faulting.
-
- Right now ftp.ardi.com is a 28.8kb modem PPP link and it's way maxed
- out, so I can't pick up Ruins and TechnoManiac. Perhaps Cotton (who
- works out of Cambridge) can pick it those up and look into them. I'm
- going to log them as bugs that belong to Cotton and if it turns out
- that they don't, he'll let me know.
-
- Gene> If I pay the $50 for the Linux version, how much will it
- Gene> cost to upgrade when 2.0 comes out?
-
- That's an interesting question. I thought I had planned that there
- would be a small upgrade fee when E/L 2.0 hit, but apparently our FAQ
- claimed that there would be no such upgrade fee. This was pointed out
- to me last week, so we're going to make the "policy change" official
- later this week -- there will be no charge for Linux users to get
- 2.0.x updates. That means we'll have to reissue keys, but it was our
- mistake so we'll live by it.
-
- Gene> Thanks much for such a great product. I wish other vendors
- Gene> were even half as enthusiastic as you guys.
-
- Thanks.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-