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- 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>
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- On Tue, 2 May 1995 mica@cyberspace.com wrote:
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- > 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?
- >
- >
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- You should try using Stuffit Expander to decompress BinHex files.
- Joseph R. Pena
- sjppena@tenet.edu
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