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Re: Dos ver 1.99



>>>>> "mt" == Micheal Allen Thompson <mat0001@jove.acs.unt.edu> writes:

    mt> I cant seem to get this demo running on my machine. A year ago
    mt> I got the older demo running but found it not very
    mt> usable. Here is the error measage: !fh: fSize = 0, family = 0
    mt> Exiting due to signal SIGFPE Division by Zero at eip=00099d02
...
    mt> helpful. I'm running Dos 6.22 on a 386 with 6 md ram.

This is a symptom of problems with the system file.  What's happening
is that there is font selection code that knows that if all else
fails, the system font is always present and can be used.  However, if
the System file is in a bad state, this is no longer true.  We
*should* have a test for this very early in Executor's startup so that
a polite message can be printed, and we *will* have such a thing
before 2.0 ships (better error messages are the next large set of mods
that we'll be introducing to Executor).

However, if this is from a virgin installation, I'm not really sure
what could be going wrong.  The system file should be installed
automatically.  1.99n had a bug that caused the system file to get
messed up if you ran Desktop Textures, changed the background and then
did anything that caused a crash.  However, that has been fixed in
1.99o.  If you're not running 1.99o, try that.

You don't mention where you get Executor from, but the "canonical"
location is ftp.ardi.com:/pub/Executor_DOS.

If this still doesn't help, you can send e-mail directly to
"bugs@ardi.com" and we'll try to figure out what the problem is.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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