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executor-digest         Wednesday, 15 November 1995    Volume 01 : Number 335


  In this issue:

    Re: INIT, CDEV
    Re: Photoshop functions
    Re: 1.99p6 and Adobe Illustrator
    Re: Slow disk access
    Re: System 7.x (5)
    Re: System 7.x (5)
    Printing problems with E/D 1.99p6
    Feature Request:  Pretend Netowrking
    Re: Printing problems with E/D 1.99p6
    Gateway 66 MHz DX2 users?

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 19:38 MST
Subject: Re: INIT, CDEV

>>>>> "David" == David Danziger <[e-mail]> writes:

    David> I have a question about E/Dp6. I know that the answer is
    David> possibly in the = documentation, but I was just wondering
    David> if someone could answer it here = for me. I am wondering
    David> whether you can use extensions and control panels = with
    David> Executor. =20 Thank you- C:\>David

Nope.  That ability won't even be present in Executor 2.  Sorry.

- --Cliff
[e-mail]

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From: Fred Salerno <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 22:17:21 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Photoshop functions

Pagemaker used to do that a while ago. In the system folder, delete the
Preferences for Photoshop.

On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, Kyle Silfer wrote:

> Got 1.99p6/DOS running and succesfully launched Photoshop 3.0, loaded
> up a small file, ran a filter on it... and then crashed. Better than
> my 1.99p5 experiences, that's fo' sho'.
>
> Unfortunately, after my crash, Photoshop will not run any more. I
> get a message that it can not be initialized because there is
> another file with the same name. Or something like that. Problem
> repeats despite rebooting/restarting my computer. Does this mean my
> copy of Photoshop is corrupt? Or my copy of Executor?
>
> --Kyle
>

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 20:04 MST
Subject: Re: 1.99p6 and Adobe Illustrator

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Clark <[e-mail]> writes:

    Jeremy> I installed 1.99p6 and attempted to run the Adobe
    Jeremy> Illustrator Demo copy I had managed to install, and it
    Jeremy> won't start as it would under previous betas.  The error
    Jeremy> code is this:

    Jeremy> "HALT: Adobe Illustrator can't run.  ID = -5551"

- -5551 is an error associated with the "Gestalt" OS call.  Try some of
the new pretend options in the preferences panel.  I can't give you
more details because we had to temporarily remove Illustrator when our
hard disk filled up.  Our new 4gig drive died with less than 24 hours
of use and we're now waiting for a new one.

    Jeremy> It also gives the usual hyphenation file error, but this
    Jeremy> is no big deal.  Just thought I'd report the error case
    Jeremy> you can fix it for the 2.0 release.

    Jeremy> Jeremy Clark [e-mail]

    Jeremy> E/D on Pentium 100/16mb ram

- --Cliff
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 21:27 MST
Subject: Re: Slow disk access

>>>>> "Sonny" == Foster, Sonny <[e-mail]> writes:

    Sonny> Hello,

    Sonny> I'm running Executor 1.99p5 on a 8 Meg 486DX2-66. I am
    Sonny> using a database package which manipulates a 5 Meg data
    Sonny> file. My problem is that it takes for ever to enter a new
    Sonny> "customer" into the database as the disk access is
    Sonny> painfully slow. Is there any way of speeding up disk access
    Sonny> on Executor? Maybe a RAMDISK?

The big question is what does "executor -info" say.  If other things
are tying up your memory, Executor may be paging excessively.  Granted
our disk access isn't particularly optimized, but I'd guess the real
problem is that Executor doesn't have enough memory to run.  The
output of the "mem" command would help, too.

    Sonny> Can anyone help?

    Sonny> Thanks

    Sonny> Sonny

    Sonny> [e-mail]

- --Cliff
[e-mail]

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From: "JEAN-MARC RANGER" <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:56:42 -0500
Subject: Re: System 7.x (5)

> Once we have enough money to be able to afford a dirty team that is
> separated from the clean team, then we can do what you propose.  We're

Look carefully at what you're doing.  I'm not sure that this way
keeps you out of all possible sues.  We don't want Ardi to close
because of a shortcut.

> --Cliff
> [e-mail]
>


Jean-Marc Ranger

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 09:57 MST
Subject: Re: System 7.x (5)

>>>>> "Jean-Marc" == JEAN-MARC RANGER <[e-mail]> writes:

    >> Once we have enough money to be able to afford a dirty team
    >> that is separated from the clean team, then we can do what you
    >> propose.  We're

    Jean-Marc> Look carefully at what you're doing.  I'm not sure that
    Jean-Marc> this way keeps you out of all possible sues.  We don't
    Jean-Marc> want Ardi to close because of a shortcut.

Yes, good advice.  We will be sure to follow it.  I have a bit of a
vested interest in ARDI myself.

The complete details of how to run clean-room + dirty-room reverse
engineering are too complicated to go into here, but one of the key
aspects of it's all supervised by intellectual property attorneys and
with a massive paper trail.  Although ARDI has had legal counsel from
day one, we don't yet have the resources to do clean-room + dirty-room
reverse engineering properly, so we haven't done any dirty-room work
at all.

    >> --Cliff [e-mail]

    Jean-Marc> Jean-Marc Ranger

- --Cliff
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Michael R. Lewis)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 13:30:52 -0500
Subject: Printing problems with E/D 1.99p6

First, I thank everyone at ARDI, finally Executor wil run KaliedaGraph, my
favorite graphing program. I lost the e-mail on pricing so if you could send
me the prices for executor I would appreciate it. It finally does what I want.

However, now that it runs, KaliedaGraph won't print. In fact none of the
applications will print. I get a 'Fatal Error', 'Unimplemented Trap 'AA02''.
It then says to restart. However, after I restart if I try to print again
executor crashes completly giving an error that moves off the screen to
quickly to see.

I'm running a P-100 with 16MB RAM and a Matrox MGA Millenium video card.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance-

Mike Lewis
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From: Dan Guisinger <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:23:41 -0600
Subject: Feature Request:  Pretend Netowrking

Is this going to be in there sometime soon?  I like using Bolo at =
school, but can't get it to work on Executor because of a Unimplimented =
ABC? error (? is an unknowen number).

Also, a program called BoloStar 1.5 is not working for some reason, I =
get an error dialog box with out any writting, and press Enter and it =
takes me to DOS.


- -=3DDan Guisinger=3D-

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From: Stephen Su <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:46:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Printing problems with E/D 1.99p6

On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Michael R. Lewis wrote:

> First, I thank everyone at ARDI, finally Executor wil run KaliedaGraph, my
> favorite graphing program. I lost the e-mail on pricing so if you could send
> me the prices for executor I would appreciate it. It finally does what I want.
>
> However, now that it runs, KaliedaGraph won't print. In fact none of the
> applications will print. I get a 'Fatal Error', 'Unimplemented Trap 'AA02''.
> It then says to restart. However, after I restart if I try to print again
> executor crashes completly giving an error that moves off the screen to
> quickly to see.
>
> I'm running a P-100 with 16MB RAM and a Matrox MGA Millenium video card.

I've been able to print from Kaleidagraph 3.0.5 to a PostScript file
without any problems (from Windows 95) and view it from GhostScript.  I
did get an error when I tried to export to a PICT file, though.  I don't
remember off the top of my head what error it was, but it would only kill
Kaleidagraph and not Executor.

- ---
Stephen Su    [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Clifford T. Matthews)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 16:02 MST
Subject: Gateway 66 MHz DX2 users?

Hi Folks,

We have two different people, both of whom have 66 MHz DX2 Gateway
machines (both have 8 MB of RAM) that can not get Executor to properly
access their floppy drives.  I'm looking for other people with the
same setups who can say whether or not Executor can read and write 1.4
MB Mac formatted floppies on such machines.

If you have a 66 MHz Gateway 2000 machine and you've tried to read and
write HD floppies in Mac format under Executor, please send me a quick
report saying whether or not you've detected any floppy anamolies and
the workaround (if any) you've found and how much memory your machine
has.  Additionally, BIOS revision might help, too.

Thanks.

- --Cliff
[e-mail]


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