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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 95 01:10 MST
From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
To: executor@nacm.com
Subject: 1.99p5 is out + status report
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Hi Folks,
1.99p5 is available in the BleedingEdge directory on ftp.ardi.com.
I'm having trouble connecting to vorlon.mit.edu so I haven't been able
to force a mirror. Hopefully that will be fixed up later today,
Sunday.
Executor/NEXTSTEP/Motorola still isn't ready, but Mat's been working
on it every day since Cotton left. We're hoping to have it running in
house in the next few days.
As I've been testing 1.99p5, I've noticed that there are several
places where a black and white icon should appear, but nothing is
drawn in its place.
1.99p5 should correct a few glaring bugs that we introduced in 1.99p4
and should also work better in general. I believe that the slow
access to the DOS drive has been fixed and I also think people using
OS/2 should be able to access their HPFS volumes, although subject to
8.3 filenames. Windows '95 users should be able to use full
filenames. Network drives that can be accessed by a single drive
letter should work as well.
Unless we've really botched something, the next release should have a
new System file and new Browser. The System file has some changes
that will make Adobe Photoshop work better and the Browser should have
many bugs fixed.
In addition to finishing up the NEXTSTEP/Motorola port, we hope to
clear out the following 30 Problem reports before going beta. Those
PRs marked with an asterix *may* be fixed in 1.99p5 already. We have
many more known PRs and depending on how much time we have as we do
vigrous testing and finish up the packaging, we might fix some
problems that aren't on this list and we'll try very hard to fix any
regressions.
1063 Need OpenDocument events (was clicking stuffit doc has problems)
1179 Browser .ecf file shouldn't have much in it
1194 Need a "thanks" panel
1197 DA removal still broken
1205 full disks cause problems
1207 copying problems (error -43)
1213* Can't see files on AppleShare volumes
1252 double column listings don't work well in Browser
1258 error -43 while copying and badness afterward
1259 filesystem consistency checks needed
1271 "Check for disks" and "Format Disk" shouldn't be adjacent
1360 bug in Dec2Str or Num2Dec and Num2Str
1381 Browser tried to do a move between filesystems
1410 Formatting a Linux floppy yields incorrect volume name in dialog
1424 Object Modeler has menu problems
1426* variety of keyboard mapping problems
1429 Browser and windows comes up, but icons are not displayed
1440* PageMaker 4.2 has severe color problems
1446 Sys 7 dialogs need new DLOG and DITL in System file
1450 b&w+desktop textures leads to a crash
1452* slow opening of DOS drives is unacceptable
1453 Desktop Textures III almost usable
1455 RAM Check crashes if you pull down the apple menu
1456 Spaceward Ho! 3.0.1 SEGVs (1.99p4 ELF)
1457 (REGRESSION?) Asymptote Demo has trouble in full-screen mode
1461 hilighting large text loses in PageMaker 4.2
1462 stuff left after dismissing PageMaker 4.2 pop-up box
1463 PostScript doesn't print under ZScript
1464 Browser needs a hotkey for file deletion
1465 (REGRESSION) B&W Icons missing
If you haven't tried running random programs in a while, I think
you'll find that programs are much more likely to work now than they
were a month ago. I think we have an acceptable level of
functionality. Executor/DOS+Linux will have a suggested retail price
of $249, but if we get a deal with a major mail order outlet (we're
talking to MacConnection/PC Connection), the street price will
probably be closer to $175. Pacific Micro's Mac-in-DOS for Windows
has a street price of $128, so for less than 50% more you get a tool
that will allow many Mac programs to run as well as the ability to
copy files and folders about.
Special thanks go out to Tadashi Shimura, who helped us out when
Cotton's motherboard broke (his replacement is faster!). Hearty
thanks go to all of you who have paid your license fees. We're still
pretty tight on money, but it looks like we'll be able to coast into
getting 2.0 out the door.
Because we haven't finished a deal with MacConnection/PC-Connection
yet, we still can't make any other distribution deals. Although we
got a lot of engineering done during Hackathon II, I didn't multitask
particularly well, so some of the business side of things slipped a
little bit.
Remember to vote for comp.emulators.mac.executor. It's as simple as:
