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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA22481 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:19:17 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id PAA28362; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 15:19:16 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sXEa9-000YbCC; Sat, 15 Jul 95 15:17 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sXEa9-00005mC; Sat, 15 Jul 95 15:17 MDT Message-Id: <m0sXEa9-00005mC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 15:17 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: JohnTClark@aol.com Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Big problems w/ 1.99n5 under Win/95 In-Reply-To: <950715170137_33449094@aol.com> References: <950715170137_33449094@aol.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "John" == JohnTClark <JohnTClark@aol.com> writes: John> For some reason my installation of 1.99n5 from the Bleeding John> Edge over 1.99n seems to have totally died now under Windows John> 95 June Test Release. Before that though there were John> problems that mystify me as well. Using 1.99n I could run John> executor if it was the very first thing I did after booting John> into Windows 95 and could only run it once. After that John> trying to run executor again causes the message "Executor John> has run out of memory try using a small -applzone" which John> seems odd. It sounds like DPMI memory not being released after Executor quits. You can find out how much DPMI memory Executor thinks you have by running "executor -info". Once you can run Executor 1.99n5 again, please do so, then run Executor without the switch, quit, and then run it again. If the amount of DPMI memory has decreased, then there is a bug somewhere, quite possibly in your Windows beta. John> ... John> I have noticed that trying John> to run cwsdpmi on its own says "Protected mode not John> available" and then produces a General Protection Fault of John> sorts. Yes, Windows '95 already provides DPMI, so a second DPMI provider can't be run. John> That at any rate is what it used to do. Now it is worse. I John> either get an abort with EIP tracebacks - a representative John> example is below - using either 1.99n or 1.99n5 with John> applzone 1024 (the only setting which seems not to John> immediately provoke the out of memory fail code) 1.99n or John> 1.99n5; or if I add -nosplash, an endless stream of the same John> messages saying "Make sure $MACDIR/.Rsrc/System is readable John> and writable and that it has 512 bytes added to the John> beginning of it". Somehow your System file has been corrupted. Reinstall 1.99n somewhere other than where you normally install it, and then copy the new exsystem.hfv from your reinstall on top of the exsystem.hfv that you normally use. This will allow you to run again. I am trying to figure out why System files seem to be getting corrupted fairly often now. I thought it was a bug in Executor that Desktop Textures was hitting, but now I'm not so sure. bugs fixed. We're hoping to go beta in mid August. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com