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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 VAA02535 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:55:44 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id WAA05332; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 22:55:39 -0600 Received: by mailhost (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0t2tA3-000Yc8C; Tue, 10 Oct 95 22:52 MDT Message-Id: <m0t2tA3-000Yc8C@mailhost> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 22:52 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: Christian Claveleira - Universite de Rennes I <Christian.Claveleira@univ-rennes1.fr> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: E/L: Installer 3.3 segfaults In-Reply-To: <199510060904.KAA05856@mailimailo.univ-rennes1.fr> References: <199510060904.KAA05856@mailimailo.univ-rennes1.fr> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Claveleira <- Universite de Rennes I <Christian.Claveleira@univ-rennes1.fr>> writes: Christian> In your mail you wrote: | I'm running the a.out, Christian> Linux/X11 version of Executor 1.99p. | | On attempting Christian> to run the "Apple Installer 3.3" program included on | Christian> Disk 1 of Microsoft Word 5.0, Executor bombs with a Christian> segmentation fault [...] Although Executor will run Microsoft Word 5.0 and 5.1, the installer for Word won't run. Even Apple had trouble making that installer work under MAE, their Mac emulator for Suns and HPs. Christian> I experience many "segmentation fault" too with a.out Christian> Executor 1.99p under Linux 1.2.9 especialy when Christian> clicking on the icon of a 1.44 Mac disk inserted in Christian> /dev/sd0 to open it. But it depends on the disk Christian> inserted : some open well... If you can send us a copy of the image of a floppy that crashes, that would help. All you should need to do is say something like: dd < /dev/fd0 > floppy_image bs=10k Then you can uuencode floppy_image and e-mail it to us, or drop it into ftp://ftp.ardi.com/incoming christian> Sometimes the crash destroys the window from which I Christian> launched executor ! That is strange and sounds like a bug in your X implementation. Executor shouldn't be *able* to do that. Christian> There is also a problem whith the keyboard mapping : Christian> the notebook on which I run Linux has a french keyboard Christian> and only the letters keys are recognized. The other Christian> keys are bad : '1' translates in '&' '2' -> nothing '3' Christian> -> '?' '4' -> '"' etc... Christian> This is worse if I launch executor with "-keyboard Christian> France" : 'a' -> 'q' 'z' -> 'w' 'm' -> ',' '1' -> '7' Christian> '2' -> nothing '3' -> '+' etc... Yes, our first stab at International keyboard support hasn't helped many people. We are getting valuable feedback and hope to have something better by the end of the month. Christian> Follow traces obtained when trying to open a Think C Christian> project with an old version (3.0.1) of Think C : Think C just doesn't work under Executor. Think C 7.0 gets further, but it still can't compile or link. It's fairly low priority, too. Sorry. Christian> Christian Claveleira - CRU/UniversitØ de Rennes 1 Christian> (claveleira@univ-rennes1.fr) --Cliff ctm@ardi.com