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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: Executor w/Caldera
- Date: 07 Jul 1996 05:17:34 -0600
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- In-reply-to: Jeremy Chatfield's message of Fri, 05 Jul 1996 22:27:57 -0600
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- >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@xinside.com> writes:
- In article <31DDEB4D.7DDFE86C@xinside.com> Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@xinside.com> writes:
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- Jeremy> Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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- >> >>>>> "Al" == CompExpr <compexpr@aol.com> writes: In article
- >> <4r7nll$ehd@newsbf02.news.aol.com> compexpr@aol.com (CompExpr)
- >> writes:
- >>
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- Al> I tried to install Executor Beta 1 with Caldera Network
- Al> Desktop. Caldera uses Accelerated X as it's X Desktop. When I
- Al> tried to run Executor, it crashed.
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- >> Not good. Did X-Windows give any error messages? We tried
- >> Executor with Caldera Network Desktop Preview I and it worked,
- >> although that was a while ago and there have been many changes
- >> to CND and Executor in that time.
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- Jeremy> Executor Beta 1 runs just fine with CND 1.0 (or just about
- Jeremy> any other Linux) and Accelerated-X, to the best of our
- Jeremy> knowledge. We've run Executor in demo mode in 8bpp, 16bpp
- Jeremy> and 24bpp with a range of graphics boards. Accelerated-X
- Jeremy> is an X Server, not a desktop metaphor (the desktop
- Jeremy> included in CND is Visix' Looking Glass). In general,
- Jeremy> error messages that you'd see after running Executor would
- Jeremy> be on the xterm from which you started it, and usually the
- Jeremy> messages are from the X libs.
-
- Jeremy> Server errors usually fall into one of these classes:
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- [wonderful description snipped, but it's a keeper]
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- Jeremy> Jeremy Chatfield -- X Inside Inc, +1 303 298-7478, FAX +1
- Jeremy> 303 298-1406, Internet http://www.xinside.com
- Jeremy> ftp://ftp.xinside.com
-
- I just want to note that I'm very impressed by Jeremy's response here.
- In addition, Jeremy has asked us some questions to help them add
- Executor to their Quality Assurance suite. I will be answering his
- email soon -- I've been out of town, then had holidays, then had to
- prep for an important meeting this coming Monday, but I wanted to
- thank Jeremy for his post now, before i forget.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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