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OS/2 Warp and Executor



 
 >The following e-mail message was sent to me here at ARDI:
 >
 >"I am interested in testing Executor on my system.  I am
 >currently running os/2 with windows and dos support.  For
 >some reason I can't seem to get Executor to run.  I was
 >wondering if I need "real" dos and not dos support in order
 >for Executor to run?"
 >
 >Does anyone know the answer to his question?
 >
 >I have never used OS/2, however, I've seen posts from people who
 >have used Executor/DOS with OS/2.
 >
 >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Executor should run under OS/2 Warp just fine (I don't normally do this
myself, but I have done it in the past).  If you could be a bit more
specific as to what kind of message it is giving you it may be easier to
help you, but I'll go ahead and make a few stabs at it.
 
The only time that I have ever had a problem running Executor under OS/2 was
when it gave an "out of memory error".  I could run the MEM command, and
according to it I had 20 megs of Expanded and 20 megs of Extended memory,
but the emulation still gave and out of memory error.  As it turns out I had
the setting "DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT" set to 4!  This meant that even though I had
effectively 40 megs of RAM, Executor was only able to access 4 of that.  So
what I did was to raise that to about 8 (actually, I raised it to 20, but 8
should work) and the Executor ran fine.  This is most likely your problem,
but if that doesn't work, read on...
 
One other possibility is that you have the setting DPMI_DO_API set to
disabled.  This should be set to enabled for any Executor session (though,
if I remember correctly it will also work as AUTO).
 
Also, there were a few mouse problems reported with Executor for OS/2 but
these were mentioned in the FAQ so they shouldn't be causing your problem.
You might also try changing you video card setting to VGA, because I have
seen some OS/2 programs that had trouble with SVGA cards before.  Also, you
might try re-installing Executor, as I've had it corrupt itself a few times
when doing various weird things that I do with it.  :)
 
Well, ok, that's all that I can think of right now, but if you still have
trouble just hollar and I'll try to help you with it.  :)
 
 
G.Sightler@GEnie.geis.com