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Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA25362 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:36:32 -0700 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA166747 for executor@nacm.com; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 21:36:27 GMT Message-Id: <199510252136.VAA166747@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Received: from slip166-226-98.lig.us.ibm.net(166.72.226.98) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smaclQCrx; Wed Oct 25 21:36:23 1995 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 17:35:58 EDT From: pgunn01@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (Pat Gunn) Reply-To: pgunn01@ibm.net (Pat Gunn) To: executor@nacm.com X-Mailer: PMMail (v1.0 PreRelease) Subject: Re: executor-digest V1 #310 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >In light of the fact that you're having trouble with a clean boot, I'd >guess either that the floppies in question that you are using have >some sort of problem or that the floppy drives you are using are >slightly out of spec. To the best of my knowledge, nobody else is >having this problem (although we did have one user who had weird >trouble under Linux that was never tracked down), which makes your >trouble consistent with hardware or media trouble. By replying >directly on this list I'm sure I'll be told if this is an ongoing >problem that other people are having as well. My Executor running under PC-DOS and OS/2 works like a charm with reading, writing, and formatting disks. No problems here. >I have been trying to get diskcopy to recreate a floppy from an image >file. On a real mac, diskcopy ejects the current floppy, prompts the user >for a new diskette, and waits for a disk-insert event. Under executor, >this doesn't happen, so diskcopy is not useable. Does anyone of >you know a workaround for that? And out of curiosity, probably more >programs rely on disk-insert events, how is ardi going to handle that? I recall that PC-Tools, or was it Norton Utilities, no matter, one of them used to have a way to have the disk drive sit there scaning for new disks, and when a disk was inserted, it would continue the program ... I suppose maybe something similar could be done under Executor, except there's the problem of notebook computers having their power gobbled by a continually scanning Disk Drive ... --------------------------------------------------- Pat Gunn, of Team OS/2, Libertarian party, and the Internet. "And thus came the great god known as Emacs, and with him came Neko, the forgotten one" Geek Code Follows: Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d? s+:-- a? C+++$ ULSX++>$ P+? L++>$ E+>$ !W(+)>$ N++>$ o? K--? !w---$ O++$ M+(++)>$ V-- PS+++ PE++ Y++>$ PGP>$ t++(+++)>$ !5-- X++ R+(++)>$ tv(tv) b++++>$ DI D++(+++)>$ G+(++) e-(+++) h* r-- y* --------------------------------------------------