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Received: from relay1.geis.com (relay1.geis.com [192.77.188.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA01362 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 21:53:51 -0700 From: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Received: by relay1.geis.com (1.37.109.11/15.6) id AA044040760; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 04:52:40 GMT Message-Id: <199506070452.AA044040760@relay1.geis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 04:08:00 UTC To: executor@nacm.com Subject: OS/2 Warp and Executor X-Genie-Id: 1509058 X-Genie-From: G.SIGHTLER Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >The following e-mail message was sent to me here at ARDI: > >"I am interested in testing Executor on my system. I am >currently running os/2 with windows and dos support. For >some reason I can't seem to get Executor to run. I was >wondering if I need "real" dos and not dos support in order >for Executor to run?" > >Does anyone know the answer to his question? > >I have never used OS/2, however, I've seen posts from people who >have used Executor/DOS with OS/2. > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Executor should run under OS/2 Warp just fine (I don't normally do this myself, but I have done it in the past). If you could be a bit more specific as to what kind of message it is giving you it may be easier to help you, but I'll go ahead and make a few stabs at it. The only time that I have ever had a problem running Executor under OS/2 was when it gave an "out of memory error". I could run the MEM command, and according to it I had 20 megs of Expanded and 20 megs of Extended memory, but the emulation still gave and out of memory error. As it turns out I had the setting "DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT" set to 4! This meant that even though I had effectively 40 megs of RAM, Executor was only able to access 4 of that. So what I did was to raise that to about 8 (actually, I raised it to 20, but 8 should work) and the Executor ran fine. This is most likely your problem, but if that doesn't work, read on... One other possibility is that you have the setting DPMI_DO_API set to disabled. This should be set to enabled for any Executor session (though, if I remember correctly it will also work as AUTO). Also, there were a few mouse problems reported with Executor for OS/2 but these were mentioned in the FAQ so they shouldn't be causing your problem. You might also try changing you video card setting to VGA, because I have seen some OS/2 programs that had trouble with SVGA cards before. Also, you might try re-installing Executor, as I've had it corrupt itself a few times when doing various weird things that I do with it. :) Well, ok, that's all that I can think of right now, but if you still have trouble just hollar and I'll try to help you with it. :) G.Sightler@GEnie.geis.com