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New Experimental versions of Executor out there
Hi Folks,
ftp.cs.unm.edu contains
pub/ardi/Executor_DOS/exexp12c.zip
and
pub/ardi/Executor_NEXTSTEP/Executor_130e.tar
In addition to a variety of bugfixes, these versions of Executor have
had a bunch of the inner memory management code revamped so that when
you quit an application you go right back into the "pick an
executable" dialogue box. People have been asking for this feature
for years, and we're finally there. There's still a chance that some
little bugs will create situations where if you run program X, it
runs fine, but if you run program W and then program X, X has
trouble. Please let us know if you find such a problem.
This new feature will be used to put a tiny browser in Executor so
that you'll be able to manipulate files or launch apps like you can
do with Apple's Finder (although ours won't be quite so nice).
Color is "limping" "in the lab". We're still at least three weeks
away from making color available to test people, but I hope to have
the other 2.0 features added by then as well. I'm hoping that within
a week I'll have serial port support and a few more goodies, and if
you experiment, you'll probably notice that more apps are running
better than ever before.
--Cliff