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- On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 Markmage@aol.com wrote:
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- > If this is not the right forum for this sort of post, tell where to direct my
- > queries, and I will move on.
- >
- > I was a Mac user for 10 years, and reluctantly last year switched to a 486PC.
- > I'm running Linux, and just installed Executor. On first pass, I'm pretty
- > happy with Executor; a lot of it looks familiar, and I can do a number of
- > Mac-like things without needing Executor specific documentation.
- >
- > However, the Exectuor documentation I have found is very POOR, and there are
- > some basic things I cannot figure out how to do. Yes, I have read all the
- > FAQs I can lay my hands on; still no help. Here's the problem:
- >
- > I want to be able to read my old Mac floppy disks from Executor. It looks
- > like Executor will happily check my A: drive for a floppy, but my A: drive is
- > a 5 1/4 drive that will never have a Mac disk in it. My 3 1/2 inch drive is
- > the B: drive. How do I get Executor to read the B: drive?
- >
- > -Mark Stone aka markmage@aol.com
- >
-
- Mark,
- Hmm. This is just a guess, but could it be that you need /dev/floppy to be
- a symbolic link to /dev/fd1 instead of /dev/fd0? (Somebody please correct
- me if I'm wrong.) Perhaps ARDI can tell us what executor probes for floppies
- by default... (/dev/floppy? /dev/fd0? /ddev/fd0H1440? ech. Linux does get
- a bit messy sometimes! :-)
-
- ARDI,
- As a side note... Would it be possible to make the floppy access a little
- smarter when it comes to mounting/unmounting disks and for formating? Either
- this was broken a while back, or I couldn't get things to work right. It
- would have been helpful if you put in a non-macintosh disk and hit "probe for
- floppy", that you get a dialog box that says "NON-MACINTOSH disk!" or
- something. (It would really be a plus if it then asks "format disk?" and
- has options for different format types!) Additionally, I seem to
- remember that using "format floppy" was a bit odd--perhaps I had a bad
- sector on my disk, or perhaps it was broken under the version I tried it
- on... But could a format be verified some way? Again, a nice dialog box
- would be great!
-
- I know ARDI has been trying to avoid the "look&feel" lawsuits that Apple
- seems to like so much, but I really to want a better way to delete files,
- and a more direct way to see a mounted floppy. Could the top title bar
- possible make a cute little ICON of a floppy disk whenever there is one
- mounted? (As opposed to the "hot band" idea, where if you are in the
- "programs" part, you can't see the "drives" part...)
-
- Could we possible hear an update on what ARDI is thinking for 2.0 GUI
- improvements? What happened to the hiring of a graphic artist to make
- icons, etc...? I'd like to be able to give you all feedback on these
- items since I think its really important to ARDI's success!!!
-
- Later,
- Jeff Halverson
-
-