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executor-digest            Tuesday, 11 July 1995       Volume 01 : Number 208


  In this issue:

    OS/2 Warp - Quicker way to Executor
    ANNOUNCE:  E/D 1.99n4 and E/L 1.99n4 "bleeding edge" updates
    A note about the BleedingEdge releases
    BleedingEdge (vesafix.zip)
    CLGD 5434 crashes E/DOS immediately
    Win95 & Executor
    Re: CLGD 5434 crashes E/DOS immediately
    CLGD Problem? ; more info
    Works with Warp! Thanks.
    Minor note:  E/L 1.99n4 bleeding edge repackaged
    CD-ROM drive...

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From: [e-mail] (Kym Farrell)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:16:41 +1000
Subject: OS/2 Warp - Quicker way to Executor

        Just thought I'd mention a quicker way to get E/D1.99n up and
running under OS/2 warp (although anyone who's struggled to get warp fully
functional may already have worked it out!). Instead of the somewhat
tiresome method of booting a virtual DOS session from floppy (I'm always
misplacing the damned disk),  you can set up an DOS boot disk image file on
your hard disk & use it instead. This methods a bit quicker and a lot more
convienient.
        All that you need to do is create a DOS boot disk with autoexec &
config files set to your needs
(but remember that your need DEVICE=C:\os2\mdos\fsaccess.sys to get to HPFS
partitions) and then
open an OS/2 command session. From here all you need to do is type VMDISK A:
DOS.IMG, and the file
DOS.IMG will be created in the current directory. Finally, change (or
create) your Executor Icon's settings
to boot DOS not from A: but from C:\...\DOS.IMG.
        Hey-Presto! Executor boots quicker (and won't take the system down
when those buggy apple applications crash the finest piece of engineering
since the wheel!!!).

Regards
Kym.


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From: [e-mail] (Mat Hostetter)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 00:43 MDT
Subject: ANNOUNCE:  E/D 1.99n4 and E/L 1.99n4 "bleeding edge" updates

    ftp.ardi.com:/pub/BleedingEdge/dos199n4.zip
and:
    ftp.ardi.com:/pub/BleedingEdge/linux199n4.gz

contain experimental updates from 1.99n to 1.99n4.  These intermediate
releases are not well tested by ARDI, but we think they fix some
important bugs in 1.99n so please try them out if you are bold.  Note
that we've switched to a sane naming scheme for the BleedingEdge
releases; "vesafix.zip" would have been called "dos199n3.zip" under
the new scheme.

Here is an excerpt from the README in the BleedingEdge directory
describing the relevant bug fixes.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dos199n4.zip    Upgrade from E/D 1.99n to E/D 1.99n4 (intermediate release)
                THIS IS FOR DOS USERS ONLY!  This upgrade fixes:

        - Some video boards only allow 4 bit graphics with VBE 2.0 drivers.
        - Cycling through Desktop Textures patterns causes a crash.
        - Cursor "paints" the screen.
        - Executor crashes right away under OS/2 Warp.
        - Executor leaves junk on screen when changing # colors w/alt-shift-5.
        - Some serious printing problems.
        - BBEdit Lite 3.0 Preferences panel crashes.
        - Some problems with accessing CD-ROMs (not tested much yet)
          and possibly other disk drives.


linux199n4.gz   Upgrade from E/L 1.99n to E/L 1.99n4 (intermediate release)
                THIS IS FOR LINUX USERS ONLY!  This upgrade fixes:

        - Cycling through Desktop Textures patterns causes a crash.
        - Some serious printing problems.
        - BBEdit Lite 3.0 Preferences panel crashes.
        - Minor screen update ugliness.
        - Some problems crossing mount points.
    - Executor consumes all available memory.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Feedback is encouraged.  Thanks!

- -Mat

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From: [e-mail] (Mat Hostetter)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 00:46 MDT
Subject: A note about the BleedingEdge releases

I should point out that since the BleedingEdge releases only replace
one file in 1.99n, they are much smaller than a full distribution.
The DOS update is around 450K and the Linux update is around 420K.

- -Mat

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From: Hugh Mclenaghan <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 12:24:09 +0100
Subject: BleedingEdge (vesafix.zip)

Hi,

    I've downloaded 'vesafix.zip' and it seems to sort out the mode change
problems and the mouse problems that were present in the 1.99n release.

    Well done!  These were important bugs to get fixed.  I'm just going to
download the 1.99n4 and see if the disk/CD bugs have been fixed.

        Hugh McLenaghan

P.S. Keep up the good work!

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From: THOMAS MICHAEL KLUDY <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 09:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CLGD 5434 crashes E/DOS immediately

Hi!

I just got Executor/DOS 1.99n and tried to run it on my computer.  No
luck.  The screen goes black, then Executor checks the disk drives.  The
computer does not seem to lock up, but the screen never comes back.  In
fact, if I reboot, the reboot process goes normally, but the screen
remains black.

My system configuration:

Quantex 486/66
16MB RAM
ALGX Cirrus Logic 5434
Windows 95

I have tried the following:

* Boot to DOS rather than Windows

* Run Executor with  -size 640x480

* Run Executor with  -applzone 8192

* Re-download and reinstall Executor

* Run univbe51

* Boot with a clean system + mouse driver

* Boot with a clean system + mouse driver + univbe51


I am a registered user of E/Linux, but over the summer I don't have a
machine with Linux loaded, so I was hoping to run E/D.

Any help anyone can give me would be appreciated!

- - Tom Kludy


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From: Sang Jin Hong <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:25:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Win95 & Executor

For those of you who use Win95 with Executor,

I read from the FAQ that with Win95, people are able to switch with
ALT-TAB.  For me, it never works, it either beeps and won't let me go
back to Win95 w/o quitting, or it brings me back to Win95, but no way to
get back to E/D.  The Executor crashes if I try to go back, with the
garbage screen.  (I forgot if I had to reboot or if I could just
terminate Executor and go on with Win95)

My setup for E/D is just a plain dos pif with AUTO memory for everything
and -nosplash as a command line parameter.

Thanks for any information.


.sjh.


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From: [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 23:42:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: CLGD 5434 crashes E/DOS immediately

One thing that I learning was that you had to have the dos in you path
statement PATH=C:\DOS; and the other stuff.

On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, THOMAS MICHAEL KLUDY wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I just got Executor/DOS 1.99n and tried to run it on my computer.  No
> luck.  The screen goes black, then Executor checks the disk drives.  The
> computer does not seem to lock up, but the screen never comes back.  In
> fact, if I reboot, the reboot process goes normally, but the screen
> remains black.
>
> My system configuration:
>
> Quantex 486/66
> 16MB RAM
> ALGX Cirrus Logic 5434
> Windows 95
>
> I have tried the following:
>
> * Boot to DOS rather than Windows
>
> * Run Executor with  -size 640x480
>
> * Run Executor with  -applzone 8192
>
> * Re-download and reinstall Executor
>
> * Run univbe51
>
> * Boot with a clean system + mouse driver
>
> * Boot with a clean system + mouse driver + univbe51
>
>
> I am a registered user of E/Linux, but over the summer I don't have a
> machine with Linux loaded, so I was hoping to run E/D.
>
> Any help anyone can give me would be appreciated!
>
> - Tom Kludy
>

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From: THOMAS MICHAEL KLUDY <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:53:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CLGD Problem? ; more info

I neglected to mention some information in my question regarding the CLGD
5434 problem I am having:

I am using build 480 of Windows 95.

When I try to run Executor under Windows (without booting to DOS) it says:

"The program EXECUTOR has attempted to execute an illegal instruction"
(or something to that effect)

Perhaps this will be of help to someone..

- - Tom Kludy


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From: [e-mail] (Bryan K. Baskin)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 02:36:51 EDT
Subject: Works with Warp! Thanks.

Hello, Y'all,

Well, got the vesafix.zip off of the bleeding edge directory and as it
said, E/D1.99n now works with Warp. Good. Once again, i no longer have
to look at DOS's incapable face.

One thing i noticed. At least in OS/2, Executor won't load unless
there is a CD-ROM in the drive. Haven't tried it in DOS. The original
package didn't need a disk. Was this anticipated?

I'm really impressed with the speed. Now my 486 is faster and has
faster graphics than my friends 25MHz 040. He's impressed too.

Thanks,

Baskin            Co-Owner, Chief Technician
Team OS/2        Lil' Squiggle Computers
[e-mail] - UT Austin

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From: [e-mail] (Mat Hostetter)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 16:36 MDT
Subject: Minor note:  E/L 1.99n4 bleeding edge repackaged

Linux 1.99n4 has been repackaged as a tar file, as

    ftp.ardi.com:/pub/BleedingEdge/linux199n4.tar.gz

The old format was unnecessarily confusing.  The "executor" contained
in this file is the same as the "old" 1.99n4 Linux update, so if you
figured out how to use the old update there's no need to grab this
one.  Enjoy.

- -Mat

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From: Jason Best <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 21:34:54 -0400
Subject: CD-ROM drive...

Well, ever since 1.99n, I've tried to get Executor to read my CD-ROm
drive...It will do DOS CDs fine, but I can't get it to read Mac disks...I
currently have the latest Bleeding Edge update (199n4), and Have named the CD
ROM drive J and H, it worked neither time...And the problem with it reading
anything off the directories of the DOS CDs still exists...I haven't tried it
with any otehr versions of Exec, as I just obtained the CDs...
I am running E/D 1.99n4 on a P-90, 8 meg RAM, 1 gig HD...
later
- -ocean

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