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- From: Scott Shuchart <shuchart@husc.harvard.edu>
- Subject: Re: Some questions!
- To: WinCCFAQ@aol.com
- Cc: executor@nacm.com
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- On Wed, 21 Jun 1995 WinCCFAQ@aol.com wrote:
- [snip]
- > What will the windows 95 version have that will be more usefull the E/DOS
- > version running under windows 95? (cut and paste surport?)
-
- I'm not an employee of ARDI, so I don't know what it will include,
- but I am a Win95 tester, and have run E/D under it. So some suggestions
- for post-2.0 releases:
-
- E/Windows could include both clipboard support and long filenames,
- and, with a whole lot of difficult coding, perhaps use the Win95 icons in
- file/open boxes and such. Further in the future, provided Executor finds
- the kind of customer base it deserves (and note that the base of Mac-users
- will likely grow in the next 1-2 years as Radius, IBM, etc. make Mac
- clones [at last]), I wonder if Executor could become an extension to
- Windows (or X-Windows on the U**X platforms) that would allow Mac binaries
- to run on the same desktop as native binaries. There are X-Windows
- clients for Mac and Windows which allow X programs to run under the
- client's windowing system, and such funtionality in Mac/PC crossovers
- would be exciting.
-
- Oh. And maybe Executor/Win could run in a window and not freak out.
-
- [snip]
-
- > Do you think Executor can ever be a replacement for a REAL MAC?
-
- No, because Executor will never come on more than a few floppies, and
- it's too hard to prop a door open with anything smaller than a Mac Plus.
-
- And I'm sure copyright reasons will keep it from having that *darling*
- "happy Mac" icon.
-
- > It looks real good, keep up the GOOD work. One other thing is that I have had
- > some problems unsuffing programs and executing .SEA files. I still have not
- > been able to get any downloaded software working with Executor.
- [snip]
-
- Hrm, that's odd. Are you trying to extract them on DOS or .HFV
- volumes? I always copy my downloads to a (large) .HFV before I try
- extracting them. Also, though I'm not sure, I think the Stuffit Expander
- included as a demo can extract .sea's directly, without trying to use the
- executable part of the archive.
-
- Scott Shuchart
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
-
-