Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text0243.txt

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Chad Page writes:
 > >     A lot of misc. fixes that will make it more likely that
 > >         randomly selected programs will work
 > >
 >     Wonder if some of them will make PageMaker 4 work (fingers crossed...)

alot of random fixes, plus a few hours of hacking on pagemaker
specifically, and aldus pagemaker v5.0a and v4.2 both seem to work for
the most part.

there are likely to be lots of uncovered bugs... but then again, that
is what we have you testers for :).

sadly, these changes are all very recent, and probably won't make it
into 1.99l.

    - Cotton

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>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Cheng Kwok-wing <[e-mail]> writes:

    Dennis> On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Nik Ahmad Fahmi wrote:
    >> But the program runs beautifully on my office's 486DX-2 66 with
    >> 8Mb RAM. I'm not using any third party memory manager or
    >> anything ... just the plain EMM386 and SMARTDRV with
    >> double_buffer (coz I got a SCSI HD).
    >>
    >> Please help anyone!!!

    Dennis> Try pressing F5 (clean boot) in the boot phase (Starting
    Dennis> MS-DOS...) if you are using MSDOS6 or later.  Of course,
    Dennis> load your mouse driver in the
    C> prompt.

    Dennis> I have tried to use Executor 1.99k in my machine, but it
    Dennis> hanged up initially.  I am using the plain EMM386 and
    Dennis> SMARTDRV too.  What I did is the abovementioned and it
    Dennis> ran.

We ask that everyone who has problems like this PLEASE INVESTIGATE and
figure out what specific aspect of your startup files is causing
problems.  We can't reproduce these problems over here, and we need to
know what's biting you so we can either produce a workaround or
document the problem.

Thanks!

-Mat

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Another solution to decompressing .Hqx is to simply use Stuffit Expander,
ver. 3.5.2. This program is widely avalible on the Internet. By using
Stuffit Expander, you decompress .Bin, .HQX, and .Sit files. Stuffit
Expander, ver. 3.5.2 will decompress Stuffit 1.5.1 and the new Stuffit
Deluxe ver. 3.5.2 archives. If you need to decompress Unix UUencoded
files, .Zip Pkzip/Pkunzip archives, and .Gzip files, then obtain
DropStuff. Add this program to Stuffit Expander, ver 3.5.2. Please let me
know if you need help.
                                       Sincerely,
                                       Joseph R. Pena
                                       [e-mail]

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Dear Executor,
     You should also consider sending a commerical copy of Executor for
DOS and Linux to PC Magazine, PC Computing, PC World, Windows Magazine,
and Windows Sources. I will be glad to write an article on Executor for
you. Please send me some information. Thank you for your time.
                                      Sincerely,
                                      Joseph R. Pena

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Not only that SoftWindows and SoftWindows 68K (for 68040 computers) don't
even run Microsoft Windows 3.1 applications that require 386 Enhanced
Mode.

[e-mail]

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> Date sent:      Tue, 4 Apr 1995 00:05:31 +0800 (HKT)
> From:           Dennis Cheng Kwok-wing <jaring!cs.cuhk.hk!kwcheng2>
> To:             Nik Ahmad Fahmi <abdulla!nfahmi>
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> Subject:        Re: Executor/DOS 1.99k won't load

> On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Nik Ahmad Fahmi wrote:
>
> > HI all,
> >
> > I just got the demo copy of Executor/DOS 1.99k. My problem is I can't
> > seem to be able to run it on my system ... Pentium-90 with 16Mb RAM.
> Try pressing F5 (clean boot) in the boot phase (Starting MS-DOS...) if
> you are using MSDOS6 or later.  Of course, load your mouse driver in the
> C> prompt.

I just managed to pinpoint the problem ... believe it or not, it's my
mouse driver. If I load the standard Microsoft mouse driver, my mouse
won't work but I can load Executor. When I switched to the driver that
comes with the mouse, my mouse works but i was dumped back to DOS
prompt after running Executor.

Running 'mem /c' showed that cwsdpmi and go32 are still in memory and
the PC would just hang after that.

I'm not sure where the mouse driver is from coz it's a no brand mouse
but i believe, it's Logitech compatible .... is there a new version
somewhere on the Net?


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From owner-executor  Wed Apr  5 06:30:02 1995
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Not yet they don't.  The Enhanced Mode version of Softwindows is
supposed to be shipping within the next couple of months.

On Apr 2,  2:32pm, Joseph Pena wrote:
> Subject: Re: brief status report
> Not only that SoftWindows and SoftWindows 68K (for 68040 computers)
don't
> even run Microsoft Windows 3.1 applications that require 386 Enhanced
> Mode.
>
> [e-mail]
>-- End of excerpt from Joseph Pena




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From: [e-mail] (Clifford Thomas Matthews)
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Hi Folks,

ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi/Executor_DOS contains two files: exldisk1.zip
and exldisk2.zip.  If you take these files over in binary and then
unzip their contents onto separate floppies, you'll have a two floppy
installation disk set that will install Executor/DOS 1.99l.

Alternatively, you can unzip their contents onto your hard drive and
install directly from there (this feature was not present in 1.99k).

However, we haven't done very much testing of the complete 1.99l
package because we ran into so many snags putting it together.  We've
tested all the snags and we've done a bunch of testing before all the
files were frozen as "l", but there's a lot of room for mistakes.  If
we didn't know that we already have a bug in our DPMI provider, we'd
have shaken 1.99l out more thoroughly and then sent it to CompuServe,
AOL, various magazines, etc.

Alas, we were not able to fix the DPMI provider bug, so 1.99l is still
not acceptable to distribute as widely as we'd like.  We are also
exploring problems with mouse drivers, which may or may not be the
same bug.

BTW, ftp.ardi.com also carries exldisk[12].zip, but its connection to
the net is *SLOW*, so I recommend ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi.

Executor/Linux 1.99l is probably a day or two away.  Everything is
ready to be packaged up and sent out, but I need to get some sleep,
and an important person is flying in this evening and it's not clear
how much development we can do while he's here.

    --Cliff
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