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Re: Some questions!



On Wed, 21 Jun 1995 WinCCFAQ@aol.com wrote:
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> What will the windows 95 version have that will be more usefull the E/DOS
> version running under windows 95? (cut and paste surport?)

	I'm not an employee of ARDI, so I don't know what it will include,
but I am a Win95 tester, and have run E/D under it. So some suggestions
for post-2.0 releases: 

	E/Windows could include both clipboard support and long filenames,
and, with a whole lot of difficult coding, perhaps use the Win95 icons in
file/open boxes and such.  Further in the future, provided Executor finds
the kind of customer base it deserves (and note that the base of Mac-users
will likely grow in the next 1-2 years as Radius, IBM, etc. make Mac
clones [at last]), I wonder if Executor could become an extension to
Windows (or X-Windows on the U**X platforms) that would allow Mac binaries
to run on the same desktop as native binaries.  There are X-Windows
clients for Mac and Windows which allow X programs to run under the
client's windowing system, and such funtionality in Mac/PC crossovers
would be exciting. 

Oh. And maybe Executor/Win could run in a window and not freak out.

[snip]

> Do you think Executor can ever be a replacement for a REAL MAC?

No, because Executor will never come on more than a few floppies, and 
it's too hard to prop a door open with anything smaller than a Mac Plus.

And I'm sure copyright reasons will keep it from having that *darling* 
"happy Mac" icon.

> It looks real good, keep up the GOOD work. One other thing is that I have had
> some problems unsuffing programs and executing .SEA files. I still have not
> been able to get any downloaded software working with Executor. 
[snip]

	Hrm, that's odd.  Are you trying to extract them on DOS or .HFV 
volumes?  I always copy my downloads to a (large) .HFV before I try 
extracting them.  Also, though I'm not sure, I think the Stuffit Expander 
included as a demo can extract .sea's directly, without trying to use the 
executable part of the archive.

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu


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