Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text0295.txt

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Hi Folks,

There's been a ton of e-mail associated with E/D 1.99l, and I wanted
to digest everything before we spin 1.99l.  Right now there's a
problem in 1.99l that doesn't affect our DOS users much, but it might
play havoc with our Linux users.

The problem is that our "Standard Get file dialog", which is what we
use to launch applications in the absence of a file browser, is smart
enough to realize that some directories and files can have parents or
children that are on different volumes.  E.g. in UNIX you can have
"/usr" mounted on "/", so "/" has a child "usr" that is a different
volume than "/" itself is.  To make this work with the standard
dialogs we had to put in special code.

Hoever, our new file browser *doesn't* have this code and it gets
confused.  If you try to descend into "/usr" from "/" and the two
really are separet filesystems, the browser will bring up a window
titled "/usr", but the contents will be "/".  Ick.

We can do one of two things now, either make the Linux version of
1.99l default to *not* using the browser, or we could make the
appropriate mods to the browser and then release a 1.99m that
incorporates that fix and a number of other fixes that we've made and
are making now that some egregious 1.99l bugs have been pointed out.

Right now we're still reviewing the severity of the bugs that we've
seen in 1.99l, but we're leaning towards not releasing 1.99l for
Linux, but cleaning up the mount point problem and some of the other
bugs and then releasing 1.99m for everyone (for instance, the screen
flash has already been fixed over here).

    --Cliff
    [e-mail]