Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.92/text0036.txt

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Dear Folks,

Most, but not yet all non-demo copies of Executor 1.2.1 have been
mailed.  Other than a few hand-delivered copies, the first copies
were sent starting the 6th of October.  Most copies within the states
have been sent UPS ground, most non-US copies have been sent US mail.
Most people who have been given free copies of Executor in the past
will continue to get free copies, but we had to delay your copies
being sent so that we could ship them to customers who have purchased
copies since WE SOLD OUT OUR FIRST PRINTING of the manuals (hooray).

Things are going exceedingly well even though it's taxing our current
capabilities, since, as you may know, Bill Goldman is no longer with
us.  The good thing is that our current revenues suggest that we'll
be able to hire between two to four new full time people early in
November when our Net/30 money starts coming in.

We've already started the process to print more binders (printing
binders should take more time than printing the manual itself,
although we ran into enough trouble with the manual printers that
we're changing printers) and hope to have more copies in ten days.

We just found out that Executor doesn't well on the ADB keyboards.
If you're in that situation and you've ordered a copy of Executor,
please be advised that we're working (round the clock; we spend our
days answering phones) on a patch to Executor 1.2.1 that we can

    leave on an ftp site for those with ftp

    NeXTmail to those with NeXTmail connections to the internet

    and

    send on a floppy to those that don't fit in the top two
    categories

In light of my previous inability to accurately guess when 1.2.1
would ship, I hesitate to give an estimate when we'll have the patch
on unmvax.cs.unm.edu, but it is top priority.

Thanks for all the orders.

    --Cliff

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From: iclone![e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
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Subject: reading EPS and TIFF files in Word 5 under Executor 1.2.1

Dear Folks,

I answered a question on the net that you may also be wondering about.  The
question was how to get EPS and TIFF images into a Word document.  This will
only work with Word 5 and only under Executor 1.2.1 (or greater):



Dear Jagannatha and other interested folks,

Although you can't directly "paste" TIFF or EPS images into Word running
under Executor, you can save TIFF and EPS images to a file and then read
the file into Word 5 running on Executor.

[long pause while I look up the relevant section in our new manual...
 hmm... although EPS and TIFF are in our index, none of the references
 address this problem... let's skim the entire manual (it's only about
 100 pages)...]

I'm VERY embarrassed that this information isn't in our manual, but here's
what you need to do:

1.  Save the graphic to a file.  If you're saving a TIFF file, be sure
    to save *without* an alpha-component.

2.  Run Word 5 under Executor and position the cursor where you want the
    graphic to be placed.

3.  Choose "Picture..." from the "Insert" menu.

4.  Choose "All Files" from the "List Files of Type:" pop-up menu.
    NOTE: This step is needed because the file containing the graphic was
    created on the NeXT and hence the newly created file doesn't have
    a "type" associated with it.  If you created a TIFF or EPS file from
    a program running under Executor, you could skip this step.

5.  Select the file that contains the graphic and click on the "Insert"
    button.

6.  Word 5 will now present you with a list of convertors that might be
    relevant for reading in this file.  Pick "TIFF" or "EPS" as approrpriate.
    This step is necessary for the same reason that step 4 is.

Your Graphic will now be embedded in your document in its original size.
To resize, select the lower-right corner of the bounding box and hold down
the shift key as you move the corner.

TIFF images will be visible as images, although they'll be displayed on
the screen in black and white, even though internally they're stored as
(and will be printed as) gray scale.

EPS graphics will only be visible as rectangles that have the filename in
them.  However, the graphic *will* be printed in PostScript when you print.

By the way, our manual was written entirely in Word 5 under Executor 1.2.1,
so anything that you see in it (we use both embedded TIFF and embedded EPS
images) is something that you can do as well.  No smoke, no mirrors.

I apologize for the omission of this information in our manual.  Posting
to the net worked in this case, but I'd suggest first sending e-mail to
[e-mail], and if that doesn't work sending e-mail to the Executor
mailing list ("[e-mail]" to join send e-mail to
"[e-mail]").

NOTE:  We just discovered that Executor 1.2.1 doesn't work with the
       new ADB keyboards.  We're frantically putting together a patch to
       remedy this and have been slightly remiss in answering e-mail sent
       to [e-mail].  Expect replies shortly.  Since our ad in
       NeXTWORLD, we've been swamped with calls and orders.  We'll be hiring
       another tech-support person or four in November and that too will
       help restore us to our normally fast replying selves.

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Subject: Does executer run ...

I got a recent list of what executer runs and doesn't run.  There are two applications that
weren't mentioned that I am curious if anybody tested:

    Matlab/Simulab    - I imagine this would be a tough port, but I think the demand
                        would be fairly high

    CLIPS            - this is a NASA freeware program.  Not worh porting, but has
                        anybody tested it?

Thanks,
---
Mark Nathan
Center for Space Construction
University of Colorado at Boulder
[e-mail]      [NeXTmail welcome]




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Subject: Re:  Executor 1.2.1 + misc

Cliff,
I'm sorry, I know I'm writing to the wrong address but -
Please change my address from :

[e-mail]

to :

[e-mail]

Thank you for your attention to this matter
Brian Osborne

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Subject: yet another can-it-handle-XXX-program question
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I was wondering if anyone has tried using Meeting Maker from On Technology
under Executor.  The office I work in is a pretty mixed environment of
NeXT, Mac and Sun.  The Sun has a so-so Mac emulator package running on
it.  All I need now is a mac emulator for the NeXT and I'll be all smiles.

Anybody know?

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Ernie Chan, Systems Administrator        Mail: [e-mail]
Software Research and Development        Voice: [phone]
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