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First experimental version of Executor/DOS available to 1.2 owners
Hi Folks,
I've now generated the first experimental version of Executor/DOS and
put it in the directory ftp.cs.unm.edu:pub/ardi/Executor_DOS. You'll
want to pick up the README and ".zip" files in there if you want to
see this first experimental release.
There's not a whole lot of new features in the new release, although
it does support CD-ROMs and a "-nodrivecheck" switch (which prevents
the floppy drives and hard disks from being examined every time you
punch the "drive" button).
In general, many more apps now run than did before, although
Lemmings, which used to run, no longer does, and the StuffIt
programs, which were working in the lab, *aren't* working in this
particular snapshot. I'd recommend this snapshot only to adventurous
people, or to people who have been having filesystem problems.
In addition to fixing the Lemmings and StuffIt related bugs, we'll
also start keeping a more formal log that will show what the various
new experimental releases do.
If you don't have the commercial version of Executor/DOS 1.2, then
you will not be able to use this new version; instead of putting a
fully functional copy of Executor in the .zip file, we put in a set
of patches that convert the fully enabled 1.2 version into a fully
enabled 1.2a version.
Please let me know if you are able to use this update. In the past,
this newsgroup has been used primarily by our NEXTSTEP customers, so
I really have no idea how many of our DOS customers already know
about this list. I'll make an effort to alert more DOS users to this
list when the next experimental version comes out.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com