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Extensive ERRORS report 1.99l
This is an extensive report that covers the following aspects of 1.99L
-Browser ERRORS (too many)
-Browser suggestions
-Windows and DPMI report
-Apps errors
-Apps that finally WORKS PERFECTLY
-Others
All the test have been reproduced several times in two different machines.
thought the reports (with executor output data) are only from A.
Machine A Machine B
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486 DX2 66 8MB RAM (72 pins) 486 DX2 66 8MB RAM (32 pins)
S3 1MByte in PCI bus S3 1Mbyte in VL-BUS
SCSI Controller NCR in PCI bus. Multi IO/IDE in VL-BUS
SCSI HD 1GB Fujitsu IDE HD 512 MB Maxtor
Sony CDU 33A
Sound Card, Streamer, Disk 1.44
Windows 3.11
Ms-DOS 6.20
Cache used: Smartdrive
Sorry for the languaje but English is not my native one.
I hope it help! Keep it up the good work guys!!
Emilio Moreno
isc@diana.cps.unizar.es
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Browse Errors:
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-When using exuser.hfv the browser dont remeber we were using this volume
and we have to open it from the hot band again and again and again...
-While copying a diskete to exuser.hvf using go, icon by icon, more than (10)
the brower overwrited all i have in the HD and only show the news icons.
HFS_XR shows only the new icons too (Only reproduced twice and without cache)
-Using HFS_XR (or what ever you name it) under browser make the sistem
very unstable (normaly hanged).
- When moving a folder to another in the same Hard DisK, it hangs
(CRL-INTERR escapes) for example if I have
GAMES
ARCADE
MAELSTROM DEMO
and try to move MAELSTRON DEMO to GAMES, the cursor converts to a down
arrow while i move on the same HD folder and change to square-dot cursor
in others HD folders! Then if i release on games folder it says PBcat
error and hangs when I say Abort. (Continue show the error again)
-When creating a folder or moving an icon inside a folder the old
icon remains there till you reopen the drive.
- When I try to delete anything it shows error window, but it deletes the
program!
-If I try to open a doc by clicking on it, and having the aplication that
created it not on the same folder it hangs and when i restart browser, i
have lost the icon (the W icon, e.g.) of the document and find the
normal icon of a doc. (with or without disk cache) (sometimes all the
docs from the same app lost their icons, trying to load only one)
-The same things happens to apps recently copied to Hfv. If I copy
one, execute then and it hangs, when i restart executor, the app is
not executable. (With or without disk cache)
-If you press CTRL-ALT and the left button of the mouse, the system
hangs and i cant access the mouse till i boot again.
-When i rename a HD in the hot band (by example renaming Demos to New demos)
the folder of this HD has the old name till i restart E/D.
-When i add/remove anything to/from hot band the cursor changes to
square-dot and it does not recover their original arrow icon till
an app is started.
-We can resize a window, but there is no resize small button on the
right bottom corner of the window!
-We cant move a folder, it always get back to the original place when
get out from app or restart E/D. The same happens when resizing!
-When Accessing to disks or CDs i have to press ALT +MAYS +2 and
then go to menu and Check for disks instead of Check for disk directy!
-The screen makes more jumps, it is like the screen were down and up!
-The up and down bottons of the folders get confused if an icon is
very near them. The incons are very near themselves too and sometimes
its difficult to read the name!
-The time between app and browser is much longer! (Exiting Word and loading
Browser again take 20 seconds)
Browser suggestions
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1.- Desktop icons of disks
The idea of hot band is great, but i think the Desktop icons of
the HDs and inserted disk is a standard in MACS and easy to see!
2.-3D & Colored Icons
The folder icon would be nicer with a 3d aspect, and the icons
of the disks in the hot band would be nicer too with color
and 3d aspect
3.- Please, I want the TRASH back
Its easy, its simple and its the most characteristic of the
Macintosh OS! Please, do it appear!
Windows and DPMI REPORT
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Using CWSDPMI under QEMM 7.5 E/D seems to work fine!
Without using CWSDPMI under QEMM 7.5 i only can allocate 1024Mb
Using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine! (NOEMS)
EXCEPT when accesing to removable drives (Disk or CD):
ALT+MAYS+2 + Check for disk+opening the icon on the hot band
and voil , U have a bug!
Without using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine (NOEMS)
Using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine! (RAM)
Without using CWSDPMI under EMM386 E/D seems to work fine (RAM)
Under Windows 3.11 if you press CTRL-BRK the entire system hangs
(no CTRL-BRK, no ALT-CRTL-DEL, only RESET button).
Under Windows 3.11 when you CHANGE TASK and get back to E/D
the screen is unreadable and the mouse clears the screen showing
us the app where down but in other video mode!
The hard disk access in Windows, while saving for example a WORD
doc is very slow.
APPLICATION ERRORS
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ANY APP wich tries to print to TMP will hang if the directory
c:\tmp does not exist!!!!!!! I think it wont be difficult to
print to the executor directory, what ever it were, or let choose
the directory!!!!
ANY APP wich tries to save a file with a name longer than 32 chars get the
error message: DISK NOT FOUND. If U rename in the browser and try
a name longer than 32, the browser do nothing!!!!
MAELSTROM does not run!!! In 1.99k it WORKED OK doing the following:
Executor -refresh 4 and then sound volume to 0 (Thanx Cliff)
But now, when you press P , the score line is drawn and it HANGS
(I like it very much, plz i want play 8-) )
SPEEDOMETER 3.21 hangs with the following:
General Protection Fault at eip=000a6c06
eax=b9b9b9ff ebx=00000000 ecx=b9b9b9ff edx=00fff502 esi=803f2c00 edi=00000000
ebp=001b1ba8 esp=001b1ba4 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x000a6c06
0x000a6862
0x00050ee9
0x0004fb46
0x000c1b71
0x000bd4dc
0x000e8c53
0x000c9414
RESEDIT 2.1.1 hangs with the following:
General Protection Fault at eip=000530e7
eax=000530b0 ebx=00167214 ecx=0066c1c8 edx=00400000 esi=c8c16600 edi=0066c20c
ebp=001b1c18 esp=001b1b98 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x000530e7
0x000c1b71
0x000bd4dc
0x000e8c53
0x000c9414
CRICKET GRAPH 1.3.1 hangs with the following:
General Protection Fault at eip=0045a59d
eax=002d6514 ebx=00000000 ecx=0048f8c4 edx=0048f7b4 esi=0047320c edi=003f9e1a
ebp=0016e2b0 esp=001b1cb4 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=00c7 gs=0000 ss=00af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x0045a59d
APPLICATIONS THAT RUN OK
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MS-WORD 5.1 has been tested during 4 hours and never get hanged
(Well, every ten minutes...i had to restart 8-) ).
While exporting or checking spelling is slow, but ...Nice work guys!!!!
OTHER ERRORS
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