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Received: from Kay-Abernathy.tenet.edu (Kay-Abernathy.tenet.edu [198.213.2.7]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA13914 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 2 May 1995 22:23:04 -0700 Received: (from sjppena@localhost) by Kay-Abernathy.tenet.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA00742; Wed, 3 May 1995 00:22:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 00:22:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Silvia J Pena <sjppena@tenet.edu> To: mica@cyberspace.com cc: executor@nacm.com, bugs@ardi.com Subject: Re: 1.44 'B' drive problems In-Reply-To: <9505020708.AA24028@armitage> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950503002215.604A-100000@Kay-Abernathy.tenet.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 May 1995 mica@cyberspace.com wrote: > I have tried versions 1.99k thru 1.99L demos and it's getting lots better with > every upgrade. However my machine has 5 1/4 as my 'A' drive and 3 1/2 as my > 'B' drive and although version 1.99L no longer looks for my 5 1/4 'A' drive > (which was a time-consuming pain), when I try to eject the disk it still > crashes. Once in a great while it DOESN'T crash but then it won't recognise > the next disk and crashes. Also it occasionally crashes after running it > under Windows a few times. Also when I exit Executor it sometimes freezes my > computer. > > Another problem I have is using BinHex on large files transferring from my PC > harddrive. It works fine for smaller files (maybe under 700k but get an 'end > of file' error on large files. To get around this I zip the file and then use > ZipIt, which unzips the file into Executor from the PC harddrive. Why doesn't > BinHex work on all files? > > I used to have an Amiga and an AMAX MAC emulator, which, while not in color, > did provide serial support for modems and could format disks and run Dart and > other disk image programs. Will this, esp. modem support, be available soon? > > I would like to purchase Executor but only if you can get it to work with the > disk configuration I have. BTW, it only recognises the harddrive that the > Executor directory is on (my D drive, which is SCSI) - should it recognise my > C drive (non SCSI)? How would I reverse my floppies to make my 3 1/2 the 'A' > drive? > > You should try using Stuffit Expander to decompress BinHex files. Joseph R. Pena sjppena@tenet.edu