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- Hi there! I don't have access to a Mac drive and I'd like to download some
- of the cool stuff on sumex.stanford.edu. I have the 'xbin' (.hqx->.bin) and
- 'unsit' utilities ready. How do I move the stuff I un-hqx and unsit into
- the Executor volume?
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- From iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu Fri Jan 17 11:22:15 1992
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- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 12:10:43 MST
- From: iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews)
- Message-Id: <9201171910.AA00326@ iclone >
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- Subject: command line options for Executor (you don't need to know this) + X Question
-
- Dear Folks,
-
- Here are the few command line options you can specify to
- executor:
-
- -delay [n] Have GetNextEvent delay n ticks on a null event [this
- is a poor man's WaitNextEvent]. Min for n is 0, max
- is 60, default with just "-delay" is 2, default
- without -delay is 0.
-
- -dogmeat [n] Turn off the cache if n is 1. Don't mess with the
- cache if n is 0. Default with just "-dogmeat" is to
- turn off the cache. Default without "-dogmeat" is to
- not mess with things.
-
- -flush [n] A different cache flushing strategy. The n is
- interpreted the same as -dogmeat, but the strategy is
- to flush the cache after every Mac A-Line trap.
-
- -noclock [n] Turn off the automatic updating of the Ticks
- variable. This switch is confusing when you give a
- value for n because you get a double negative if you
- set n to 0 (i.e. don't turn off, leave it running).
-
- -refresh [n] Keep a shadow copy of the screen and affter every n
- ticks, resolve the differences between the two (i.e.
- use this switch when the program writes directly to
- screen memory). N can be between 0 and 60. The
- default for just "-refresh" is 10. Without
- "-refresh" the default is 0.
-
- Two other switches are recognized but don't help you on a NeXT.
- "syscall" is for machines whose unix implementation doesn't allow
- loadable kernel mods (and hence you have to add a new system call).
- "nbitsinaddr" is for machines where we can simulate 24 bit addressing
- better. We may be able to support this in future versions of
- Executor on the NeXT. Note: all the options listed above can be set
- up in the configuration file so you don't have to worry about them.
-
- If you come up with a configuration file that helps a program run,
- send a copy to me and I'll include it in our next distribution.
-
- NeXTStep also has a chance to look at arguments so there's a chance
- you can set geometry that way but I don't really know what the
- options it looks at are or what they do. Feel free to clue me in.
-
- Remaining arguments are then checked to see if they specify files.
- If they do and the first one is an application (file type 'APPL')
- then Executor will try to execute that file, passing the remaining
- files into the application to run. All the filenames should use UNIX
- paths (i.e. slashes instead of colons), but the files must exist
- within a volume that you've set up with dwrite, or in the default
- volume ExecutorVolume within the app-wrapper.
-
- Here's my X question: Would there be any demand for doing a merge
- with NeXTStep and X so that in addition to being able to run Executor
- under NeXTStep as is now the case you could alternatively run it
- under X, which means by setting your DISPLAY variable you'd be able
- to have your NeXT be a Mac server for all your X-stations? We have
- the technology (we ran Executor under X when we got our first NeXT
- back in July for the first couple of weeks while I taught myself the
- bare fundamentals of programming the NeXT [I'll be attending
- developer's camp some day]) but don't know where to put the work for
- the merge on the priority list.
-
- --Cliff
-
- From shanega@Athena.MIT.EDU Fri Jan 17 12:06:40 1992
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- To: executor@ictv.com
- Subject: Re: command line options for Executor (you don't need to know this) + X Question
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 17 Jan 92 12:10:43 -0700.
- <9201171910.AA00326@ iclone >
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 15:05:13 EST
-
-
- In my opinion, there are about a million useful and important things
- that can be done with Executor that are like having X windows
- compatibility. Also in my opinion, these things should come at the
- end of the development cycle for Executor, given that ARDI's resources
- seem to be quite small. Executor-MSW will probably not be taken truly
- seriously by those with the ability to buy in very large quantity
- until it is a true Mac emulator i.e. the tag '-MSW' is removed
- forever. Finally, and again in my opinion only, I would prefer, and
- think ARDI would profit most, by having Executor run everything, just
- like SoftPC. Configuration files should be considered a crutch
- because they reflect underlying inconsistencies in the emulation
- (obviously). No doubt I am speaking the obvious, but it seems that a
- great deal of attention is being focused on the short-term quick-fix,
- at least in this mailing list. I don't know anything about ARDI's
- actual product development cycle, but unless these fixes are required
- to keep ARDI viable instead of in bancruptcy proceedings then I think
- the focus might be a little wrong.
-
- This is in no way meant as disparagement of ARDI's brilliant work.
- Keep with it and you will command any resources you might ever need.
-
- Shane
-
-
-