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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA15876 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 1 May 1995 16:27:32 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA01220; Mon, 1 May 1995 17:30:38 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0s64rV-000YbDC; Mon, 1 May 95 17:26 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0s64rV-00000BC; Mon, 1 May 95 17:26 MDT Message-Id: <m0s64rV-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 95 17:26 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com (Gene McCulley) Cc: bugs@ardi.com, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: 1.99m is out for DOS and Linux In-Reply-To: <9505010951.AA99876@greatwall.cctt.com> References: <9505010951.AA99876@greatwall.cctt.com> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@greatwall.cctt.com> writes: Gene> 1.99m looks great! A few questions: Gene> I am running 1.99m for Linux on a 486-DX2 66Mhz with 20Megs Gene> of RAM and Linux 1.2.5. Gene> I also had problems until I made /usr/local/lib/executor Gene> world writable. Is there any possibility of using a Gene> .executor or .go in the user's home directory so that I can Gene> leave the /usr/local/lib/executor read-only? Yes, set up the environment variable SystemFolder to point into the a subdirectory of the user's home directory, then copy whatever you want the user to be able to change into that subdirectory and make links to the files you don't want the user to change in /usr/local/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume... Since the desktop pattern is contained in the System file, you might want the user to have his/her private copy of the System file, although it takes up a few hundred k. Gene> I am also unable to move folders or icons around. This is a Gene> bummer since the labels are all squished together and hard Gene> to read. Yes, the browser does not allow you to position documents and folders within the window. We copied much of the look and feel from the XV visual schnauzer, rather than Apple's Finder so they won't sue us. We should probably allow people to adjust the spacing, but that work takes a back seat to a lot of other Executor work we're doing now. Gene> Also, when I do try to move an icon, the outline Gene> moves around real slow. Hmmm... we don't have any similarly equipped machines over here -- the Linux boxes we use the most are 90 MHz Pentiums, but I don't know what would make the dragging real slow. I just tried on a 75 MHz DX4 with 8 Mb RAM and dragging was fine. Do you have a lot of windows open? Are other people seeing this problem, too?? Gene> How do I look at the README's? When I try to open them, Gene> nothing happens. I assume that this is because there is no Gene> application available to view them with. Where can I Gene> download a viewer for them? BBEdit Lite seems to work fairly well, although we can't easily bundle it with Executor. Tex-Edit 2.5 kind of works for viewing files. We're in the middle of rewriting much of "stylized text edit" the section of Executor that many text editors use. When we're done, we'll put Tex-Edit 2.5 back in the distribution. Gene> FYI: I downloaded two games from ftp.pht.com, Ruins and Gene> TechnoManiac. Ruins gets to a splash screen and then I get Gene> seg fault. TechnoManiac doesn't get anywhere before seg Gene> faulting. Right now ftp.ardi.com is a 28.8kb modem PPP link and it's way maxed out, so I can't pick up Ruins and TechnoManiac. Perhaps Cotton (who works out of Cambridge) can pick it those up and look into them. I'm going to log them as bugs that belong to Cotton and if it turns out that they don't, he'll let me know. Gene> If I pay the $50 for the Linux version, how much will it Gene> cost to upgrade when 2.0 comes out? That's an interesting question. I thought I had planned that there would be a small upgrade fee when E/L 2.0 hit, but apparently our FAQ claimed that there would be no such upgrade fee. This was pointed out to me last week, so we're going to make the "policy change" official later this week -- there will be no charge for Linux users to get 2.0.x updates. That means we'll have to reissue keys, but it was our mistake so we'll live by it. Gene> Thanks much for such a great product. I wish other vendors Gene> were even half as enthusiastic as you guys. Thanks. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com