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Re: executor-digest V1 #29
On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
> >>>>> "cananian" == C Scott Ananian <cananian@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes:
>
> cananian> [snip!] I've got 4 Megs,
> cananian> but I can't manage to set an -applzone larger than 1250
> cananian> without crashing, with nothing loaded except my mouse
> cananian> driver. Is that normal? --Scott
>
> That doesn't surprise me. Executor needs memory for several other
> things besides the program's -applzone. Executor itself is about 1.4 MB.
[snip!!]
> For now, those of you
> affected by this problem can try to get around this with "executor
> -noclock" and see if that helps. Running under DPMI (e.g. from the
> Windows DOS shell) will probably solve the problem as well, at least
> if you have virtual memory enabled under Windows.
Thanks! I tried the "-noclock" setting, and sure enough, no crashes!
Maybe as a temporary measure you might have Executor auto-detect the
conflict and turn off the clock? It's better for a commercial program
not to crash, and have slightly reduced performance, than to crash with
better performance.
Actually, far more troubling are my file system problems. I can't copy
or write to Macintosh formatted disks or the DOS filesystem, although
all i/o with the .hfv file systems seems to work fine. I thought perhaps
the DOS file system might have been messed up because I installed
executor on the d: drive (I thought maybe some of the disk i/o
routines were hard-coded for c:, though not all, and that might
explain why although I could see the files, I couldn't work with
them) but that proved not to be the case, as I SUBSTed c: for d: and
still had the problem. Any ideas on that front? Is this a known bug?
--Scott
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