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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Excel problems
- Date: 22 May 1996 02:46:27 -0600
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- >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Stone <mstone@mkp.com> writes:
- In article <mstone.66.00086E3C@mkp.com> mstone@mkp.com (Mark Stone) writes:
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- Mark> I have let Executor languish on my system for quite a while,
- Mark> but I am facing a situation this summer where being able to
- Mark> use Executor productively could be a big help. The two
- Mark> programs I hope to have running are Word 5 and Excel 3. Word
- Mark> seems to be working OK, but Excel has problems.
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- Mark> I am running Executor 1.99q, with the following system info:
- Mark> Linux kernel 1.2.13, elf binaries. 2 MB applzone. .5 MB
- Mark> syszone ..25 MB stack. Excel version 3.0. When attempting
- Mark> to use formulas in Excel, Executor locks up. I can enter a
- Mark> formula into a cell - such as =sum(a1,a2) - but as soon as I
- Mark> hit return to calculate the formula Executor freezes.
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- Mark> If I try to start Executor in system 7 mode, by the way,
- Mark> Executor simply bombs out of Excel upon trying to start it.
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- Yes, you'll need to start it in System 6 mode, definitely.
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- Mark> Is this a known problem, or have other people had Excel
- Mark> working fine? And what can I expect once 2.0 is out?
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- Excel 3.0a should work, but Excel 3.0 (without the a) will not work
- under Executor, nor will it work on a 68040 based Mac with the cache
- turned on. In short, Excel 3 had a bug that made it incompatible with
- 68040 based Macs, and the 3.0a revision fixed this.
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- Excel 4 doesn't have this problem at all.
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- Unfortunately, Excel 5 requires multi-tasking in order to enable OLE
- and we don't yet support multi-tasking, so Excel 5 won't work.
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- You used to be able to get a free upgrade from 3.0 to 3.0a, but I
- doubt that Microsoft will still do that.
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- Mark> Mark Stone markst@kudonet.com mstone@mkp.com
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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