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executor-digest           Friday, 13 October 1995      Volume 01 : Number 298


  In this issue:

 Re: executor-digest V1 #296
 Re: Dos Drives still fail in 1.99p2 :(
 Re: Dos Drives still fail in 1.99p2 :(
 forwarded message from Jerry Foglesong
 executor-linux 1.99p and microsoft word 5.0a
 1.99p2 does not work well with MS Word 5.1
 Marathon
 good job!

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From: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:14:46 -0400
Subject: Re: executor-digest V1 #296

On Wed, 11 Oct 1995
Jean-Christophe "Jice" Cardot wrote:

>Do you know about a picture viewer (gif, jpg, pic)
>that is able to run under executor ? I've tried many, gotten from the
>net but could'nt find one which doesn't tell me "I need system 7" :)

Try not to laugh,  but the America Online mac software has the ability to
display
jpg and gif.  I was able to view a 256 grey-scale jpg but since executor
doesn't support more than 256 colors (as far as I know) I was unable to view
any color photos.  It may not be the greatest viewer but its free and it runs
without a problem on exec199p.

Joe Feldman



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From: [e-mail] (Seth Crews)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:19:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Dos Drives still fail in 1.99p2 :(

>Just a quick note to the Mail List readers,
>I install the 1.99p2 bleeding edge executor.exe,
>but I am still experiencing (sp?) a massive slowdown when accessing
>dos drives.  c: d: e: etc. executor drives are still okay.
>anyone else having the same responses?  thanks
>os: win95 and dos6.2
>ram:16MB
>HD:550 ide
>
>Mark Skinner
>[e-mail]
>Customer Support
>619-457-2111 ext 249
>
>
Yes! I have the same prob.  I've got a 100mhz pentium with 16 meg of
memory and a Gig hard drive... Even just opening the C:\ directory with
about 13 directory's and 5 or 6 files slows it to a crawl..  the mouse
skips around the screen, and it has taken as long as 2 min.

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 01:34 MDT
Subject: Re: Dos Drives still fail in 1.99p2 :(

>>>>> "Seth" == Seth Crews <[e-mail]> writes:

    >> Just a quick note to the Mail List readers, I install the
    >> 1.99p2 bleeding edge executor.exe, but I am still experiencing
    >> (sp?) a massive slowdown when accessing dos drives.  c: d: e:
    >> etc. executor drives are still okay.  anyone else having the
    >> same responses?  thanks os: win95 and dos6.2 ram:16MB HD:550
    >> ide

    Seth> Yes! I have the same prob.  I've got a 100mhz pentium with
    Seth> 16 meg of memory and a Gig hard drive... Even just opening
    Seth> the C:\ directory with about 13 directory's and 5 or 6 files
    Seth> slows it to a crawl..  the mouse skips around the screen,
    Seth> and it has taken as long as 2 min.

I'm a bit behind in my e-mail.  I should have sent e-mail
acknowledging the problem as soon as the first report came in, but I
was hoping to have a fix that I could mention.  No fix yet though.  I
suspect I know what's going on.  I'll send another message to this
list when I have more information.

Sorry about that.

- --Cliff


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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 08:55 MDT
Subject: forwarded message from Jerry Foglesong

This is certainly helpful, although it also seems kind of bizarre.

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From: [e-mail] (Jerry Foglesong)
To: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Subject: Re: Dos Drives still fail in 1.99p2 :(
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 06:38:23 -0700

A related porblem that may or may not help.  I have a 486 running Win'95.  I
installed the bleeding edge 1.99p2.  Whenever I tried to access my Dos
drives, I would have to wait about 5 minutes for it to scan the drive and
create a window. Later, when I dropped my modem connection, (which had been
running a PPP connection for me) Executor accessed the drives fairly quickly.

Hope it helps,

Jerry


>>>>>> "Seth" == Seth Crews <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>    >> Just a quick note to the Mail List readers, I install the
>    >> 1.99p2 bleeding edge executor.exe, but I am still experiencing
>    >> (sp?) a massive slowdown when accessing dos drives.  c: d: e:
>    >> etc. executor drives are still okay.  anyone else having the
>    >> same responses?  thanks os: win95 and dos6.2 ram:16MB HD:550
>    >> ide
>
>    Seth> Yes! I have the same prob.  I've got a 100mhz pentium with
>    Seth> 16 meg of memory and a Gig hard drive... Even just opening
>    Seth> the C:\ directory with about 13 directory's and 5 or 6 files
>    Seth> slows it to a crawl..  the mouse skips around the screen,
>    Seth> and it has taken as long as 2 min.
>
>I'm a bit behind in my e-mail.  I should have sent e-mail
>acknowledging the problem as soon as the first report came in, but I
>was hoping to have a fix that I could mention.  No fix yet though.  I
>suspect I know what's going on.  I'll send another message to this
>list when I have more information.
>
>Sorry about that.
>
>--Cliff
>
>
>

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From: zinc <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:01:51 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: executor-linux 1.99p and microsoft word 5.0a

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howdy from the wild west folks,

i use MS Word (5.0a) a lot.  additionally, i use the weird characters you
can get with certain fonts (ie, new cent schlbck) if you hold down the
option key and type a character.

for instance, on a mac i can type Opt-J.  this results in a triangle or
delta symbol being printed instead of a j.  this is useful for me when i
write about certain deletions i have constructed in the lab.  now, i know
that with executor that l-alt is supposed to be the apple or command key
and that r-alt is supposed to be the opt key.

this is not working for me.  is it working for anyone else?  on my
system, both alt keys are equivalent to the apple-command key.

i guess i'll give it a shot with executor-svga 1.99p.

ok, this is like a work in progress!

i just gave MS Word a shot under executor-svga and all the keys are
mapped correctly.  unfortunately, the quality of the screen sucks
(svgalib problem not executor), the caps lock and num lock keys don't
work and the number of font sizes available is ridiculously limited.

so, the problem must be with X.  anyone know why these key mappings
aren't working.

stay tuned, more news later...

- - -pjf


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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 15:25 MDT
Subject: 1.99p2 does not work well with MS Word 5.1

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Dubinsky <[e-mail]> writes:

    >> Description:
    Jim>         I had this problem after installing MS Word 5.1.
    Jim> Whenever I tried to save, the save dialog box would seem to
    Jim> be only partially drawn.  The outside of the box draws
    Jim> correctly, as well as the bottom part, but the rest of the
    Jim> interior of the dialog box has problems, and I couldn't get
    Jim> it to save anything.  This is repeatable for me both under
    Jim> the X and svgalib versiosn.  I then backtracked to 199o and
    Jim> then forward the original 199p, and these both seem to work
    Jim> fine.  The problem is just with the 199p2 aout binaries.  I
    Jim> haven't transitioned my system to ELF yet so I can't check
    Jim> those binaries.

Yes, I observed this myself earlier today.  I'm trying to fix that and
fix a potentially related bug in PhotoShop3 (where PS3 dies the second
time you try to open a file) and look into the DOS slow drive opening
problem.

When I have a handle on those three (hopefully this weekend) we'll
release 1.99p3.

We've already fixed a few bugs that affect PhotoShop 3 (you can open
one file and do things with it), Realmz (it's marginally playable
now), Quicken 4 (usable, although hard to get since Quicken 5 is on
sale now and Quicken 6 will be out soon), FileMaker Pro (usable
again).  I would guess that we'll get the Ultima III bugs fixed and
that Swoop also will be running by the time 1.99p3.

- --Cliff
[e-mail]

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From: Joe Drasin <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 17:49:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Marathon

 A friend is wondering if the Mac game Marathon will run. Does
anyone know?

Joe

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From: Jason Best <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:59:37 -0400
Subject: good job!

First of all, I just want to say that I'm one of those lurkers who keeps up
with Exec. and all it's releases, and this list...you guys are doing
tremendously well, and it seems like after all this time, success will be just
around the corner...
Secondly, I'd like to hand it to you for doing what I thought was the
impossible...Today I loaded up Executor and ran a demo copy of SoftPC, which
worked (although quite buggy)...I just thought that to be pretty ironic...
Also, a LOT more of my games and programs work from just the differences in
the past few upgrades....thanks so much! lookin forward for 2.0!
later
- -ocean

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