Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text0036.txt

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Dear Executor,
                   In October, when I had an AOL account, I was using a 2400
baud modem. I did download Extr12a.Zip. It took about 1 hour to download it.
When I was downloading it, I dropped carrier about 4 times. As a result, the
archive was corrupt. When I tried executing Executor, there was an error
message stating that the Exsystem.Hfv was corrupt. Executor did give me a
path of the courrpted file in the \System subdirectory.
           Then, I setup the program to download all three Executor archives
and setup the program to dial automatically. (In the Windows version, all you
have to do is type in your User ID and password. The password is not
displayed on the screen. The .Ini files that contain the password line is
encrypted.)  I then made a duplicate copy of the AOL software and delted
unneccessary files. I then asked a trustable friend and gave him a copy of
the software. Later that night, he called AOL and dnownloaded the archives,
using his 14.4 baud modem. (He did logoff immediately and deleted the AOL
software. I did check billing to make sure that he did this.) it took at
least 1 hour to download the software, since the maximum baud rate on AOL was
9600 baud. I downloaded the software and had him try Executor. He too
received that error message stating the error was in the \System subdirectory.
(All three archives had 100% CRCs.) Though it did work on my PC. (I have a
Packard Bell 386SX/ 16 Mhz PC, 4 Megs, and MS-DOS 6.2. I'm also using an IIT
80387 SX 33 Mhz math co-processor.) I had another friend try Executor on his
Compag 486DX2 66 Mhz PC. I didn't work.  Why doesn't Executor work on all
BIOSs? It does not work with Cyrix 486SLCs, 486DLCs and other Cyrix
processors. Do you have a list that shows the BIOSs that are not compatible
with Executor and do you have a list of program that are compatible, on
platforms? I also tried using Executor for DOS, ver. 1.2.1 on a Packard Bell
486SX. When I tried to use the showsize program, Executor crashed. I believe
it was an overflow error. I have concluded that the ShowSize program,
requires a math co-processor or FPU unit.
         Executor is pretty slow on a 386SX 16 PC. (The program runs
normally. However, when trying to extract or compress a .Sit file, it takes
forever.)
          I have tried to use Bill's suggestion. (He suggested to create a
sample Compact Pro 1.5 archive and renaming %Sample.Cpt to %Cpt.header. I
tried to access .Cpt files over the holidays. Compact Pro did access the
archive, but didn't decompress the archive. I received an error esssage
stating that the TEMP stack was corrupted or was overflowed.
           I also tried to create a folder on a Mac formatted disk, using the
 HFS Xfer program. When I tried to copy a .Sit file to that folder, the FAT
on the disk became corrupted. I also tried to access the disk using both
Macindos and Macette. Again, the disk contents were corrupted and were not
listed. Can you please to correct the HFS Xfer program?
           Does Executor read MFM disks? The MFM FAT is the predeccessof
riliing System to the HFV FAT. Why can't Executor read Maintosh 800K disks?
Thank you for your time. I appreciate it.
                                         Sincerely,
                                         Joseph Pena

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From owner-executor  Sun Jan 15 14:22:39 1995
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I'm running 1.99h Executor/Linux and I have a program that needs an FPU.
I noticed a software FPU at UMich, is there any way to emulate an FPU to
run these programs?  I haven't heard recent mention of this and I didn't
see it in the FAQ.  There is one mention in the Notes about PrePrint in
Black because of the FPU - does that mean that even 2.0 won't be able to
run programs that need an FPU?

As a side note, just wondering why key repeating always gets turned of
in X Windows whenever I run executor, anyone else experience this?  I just
turn it back on after with xset r on.

Executor not using a private color map is great!  No funky screen colors
for me anymore.  Looking forward to the next 1.99...

Jesse Hong

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From owner-executor  Sun Jan 15 18:09:36 1995
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This message goes to all who were interested in hearing about my results with
executor/Dos runnin off of Warp 3.0  Well needless to say I have not yet
touched it.  I recently upgrated my computer from a
486dx-33/ISA/IDE/64kcache motherboard to at
486dx2-66/EIDE/VLB/256cache/multiCDROM/BLAh blah blah.  And needless to say
I'm only running on 4 of my 8 megs of ram (damn 72 pin ram slots!!)  So I'll
get to it as soon as I can...


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    Macs for people who cant read.
    Pc's for those who can read on line instructions.
    Internet for Pirates.
    UNIX for the criminally insane.
    NET COP: Death of an officer on duty.
    HOW TO CONFIGURE A MAC: for those with too much time on their hands

                    Tim Hudoba
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    Linux comes with an FPU emulator built into the kernel.  This
would work in most cases.  This option can be configured into a
custom-built kernel.  However, the FPU the Mac program needs is a
Motorola FPU which cannot be emulated or used under Executor.

    If I'm wrong here, someone from ARDI please correct me... :)

    - Chad Page

    P.S>  If you're having problems with mouse-clicking in
Executor-DOS 1.99h, DON"T MOVE THE MOUSE after pressing OK to the license
screen.  This seems to help increase the chances of it working.  Or, get
Executor/LINUX running (I need to download the Slackware X series... :)

On Sun, 15 Jan 1995, Jesse Hong wrote:

>
> I'm running 1.99h Executor/Linux and I have a program that needs an FPU.
> I noticed a software FPU at UMich, is there any way to emulate an FPU to
> run these programs?  I haven't heard recent mention of this and I didn't
> see it in the FAQ.  There is one mention in the Notes about PrePrint in
> Black because of the FPU - does that mean that even 2.0 won't be able to
> run programs that need an FPU?
>
> As a side note, just wondering why key repeating always gets turned of
> in X Windows whenever I run executor, anyone else experience this?  I just
> turn it back on after with xset r on.
>
> Executor not using a private color map is great!  No funky screen colors
> for me anymore.  Looking forward to the next 1.99...
>
> Jesse Hong
>
> ==============================================================================
> 305 Memorial Drive, Room 104A           Massachussetts Institute of Technology
> Cambridge, Massachussetts  02139                        Mechanical Engineering
> http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jesse/www/homepage.html           [e-mail]
>

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I have been tring to run executor 1.99f, unfortantly directly after the
copywrite notice it seg faults on me.  I'm runing linux 1.1.81 with
lib.so.4.5.26 and xfree86 3.1.  Any ideas on how I can make it work?

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Well ... I bought a copy of executor back in February last year, but
I could use it only a few months, sice I moved to a Gecko running
NextStep this summer (nice machine, but a lot of recompile).
Now, I wonder if I can use my old licence to make Executor run at least
on my portable 486 (under NextStep, of course :-)), or under DOS
otherwise...

Let me just say that I have always been amazed at Executor, and  I cant wait
to see a   Fat  versin for  NextStep  out.  I  understand that  the NextStep
version is less interesting commercially speaking  than the  dos/linux ones,
but I hope that we will not be forgot, only delayed a little :-)

Thank you, ... and ... good work!!!!

--Roberto Di Cosmo <[e-mail]>

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