Executor 2.0/executorv2.0.iso/pc/dos/extra/docs/maillist/text/archive.95/text0305.txt

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Hey Y'all,

Messed around with it a bit and here's what i get:

When using small icons, the default folder icons kinda get chopped off
a little. They could be prettier too.

When using listing with no icons, programs won't open and files can't
be selected.

Occasionally, the view options will cause a crash.

The scroll bars in the hotband don't indicate in which direction there
is more stuff. Minor, but annoying.

When removing items in the hotband with the delete function (Which
seems intutive) Executor almost always crashes. Sometimes, the mouse
will still work, but mostly, a crash occurs.

Removing objects by dragging to the desktop works. I didn't try this
first 'cause i wanted it gone and in OS/2, it would just be on the
desktop, not gone...

For some reason, i opened the globe folder and there were tons of
globe folders inside of it. I guess it got corrupted. Deleted it. Keep
the globe in the demo software. Tis a great way to compare Macs...

TexEdit just generally is a little weird.

Will try WriteNow 4.0 soon. Later.



Baskin
UT Austin
Team OS/2

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> We can't do this before 2.0 is out.  Getting the Control Panel glue in
> place and working is fine, the problem is CDEVs themselves tend to do
> a lot of funky things that we won't support, so even if we had CDEV
> support that wouldn't allow you to add fonts, and After Dark would
> probably crash, etc.

    It does that without any help.  In my experience, 40 to 60% of all
macintosh crashes can be avoided by removing After Dark.

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> PS. it's rather sad that the only cood WP I can get for linux is running
> under mac emulation.

    This is not true.
    The iBCS suite at tsx-11.mit.edu will allow you to run the SCO Unix
version of WordPerfect, and several other programs besides.

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Has anybody managed to get any Gif/Jpg viewer/converter to work with
Executor/DOS 1.99l. If such a beast exist .... please point me to the
location and filename please ....


Thanks in advance.

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>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <[e-mail]> writes:

    Fred> Today, everytime I tried to load Executor, it crashed just
    Fred> as the browser came up. yet, as soon as I put my battle
    Fred> chess cd in the drive, it came up fine.  It has something to
    Fred> do with leaving windows open in the browser and then trying
    Fred> to re-read them when it loads. Maybe if the windows on the
    Fred> browser came up closed when executor loaded, it would be
    Fred> better. It seems to save open windows.

If something like that happens again, use "executor -nobrowser" to
fire up Executor, and then use HFS_XFer to save a copy of
"System:System Folder:godata.sav".  If you can then get a copy of that
file to us, we might be able to figure out what our problem is.  You
can then delete that file and you won't have to put in your battle
chess cd just to get the browser to go.

    Fred> And ever since that, I have been able to load Executor with
    Fred> my EMM driver, yet I can only get it to work if i set
    Fred> applzone to 2048.  Otherwise it says i have no memory (when
    Fred> there is 10 megs free.)

I'm not "Mr. Memory Manager", so I can't comment.  Charles Sandmann is
Mr. Memory Manager and he's away until the 14th or so.  We'll (read
Mat and he) will look into it then.

    --Cliff
    [e-mail]