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- Dear Executor,
- In October, when I had an AOL account, I was using a 2400
- baud modem. I did download Extr12a.Zip. It took about 1 hour to download it.
- When I was downloading it, I dropped carrier about 4 times. As a result, the
- archive was corrupt. When I tried executing Executor, there was an error
- message stating that the Exsystem.Hfv was corrupt. Executor did give me a
- path of the courrpted file in the \System subdirectory.
- Then, I setup the program to download all three Executor archives
- and setup the program to dial automatically. (In the Windows version, all you
- have to do is type in your User ID and password. The password is not
- displayed on the screen. The .Ini files that contain the password line is
- encrypted.) I then made a duplicate copy of the AOL software and delted
- unneccessary files. I then asked a trustable friend and gave him a copy of
- the software. Later that night, he called AOL and dnownloaded the archives,
- using his 14.4 baud modem. (He did logoff immediately and deleted the AOL
- software. I did check billing to make sure that he did this.) it took at
- least 1 hour to download the software, since the maximum baud rate on AOL was
- 9600 baud. I downloaded the software and had him try Executor. He too
- received that error message stating the error was in the \System subdirectory.
- (All three archives had 100% CRCs.) Though it did work on my PC. (I have a
- Packard Bell 386SX/ 16 Mhz PC, 4 Megs, and MS-DOS 6.2. I'm also using an IIT
- 80387 SX 33 Mhz math co-processor.) I had another friend try Executor on his
- Compag 486DX2 66 Mhz PC. I didn't work. Why doesn't Executor work on all
- BIOSs? It does not work with Cyrix 486SLCs, 486DLCs and other Cyrix
- processors. Do you have a list that shows the BIOSs that are not compatible
- with Executor and do you have a list of program that are compatible, on
- platforms? I also tried using Executor for DOS, ver. 1.2.1 on a Packard Bell
- 486SX. When I tried to use the showsize program, Executor crashed. I believe
- it was an overflow error. I have concluded that the ShowSize program,
- requires a math co-processor or FPU unit.
- Executor is pretty slow on a 386SX 16 PC. (The program runs
- normally. However, when trying to extract or compress a .Sit file, it takes
- forever.)
- I have tried to use Bill's suggestion. (He suggested to create a
- sample Compact Pro 1.5 archive and renaming %Sample.Cpt to %Cpt.header. I
- tried to access .Cpt files over the holidays. Compact Pro did access the
- archive, but didn't decompress the archive. I received an error esssage
- stating that the TEMP stack was corrupted or was overflowed.
- I also tried to create a folder on a Mac formatted disk, using the
- HFS Xfer program. When I tried to copy a .Sit file to that folder, the FAT
- on the disk became corrupted. I also tried to access the disk using both
- Macindos and Macette. Again, the disk contents were corrupted and were not
- listed. Can you please to correct the HFS Xfer program?
- Does Executor read MFM disks? The MFM FAT is the predeccessof
- riliing System to the HFV FAT. Why can't Executor read Maintosh 800K disks?
- Thank you for your time. I appreciate it.
- Sincerely,
- Joseph Pena
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- Joseph_Pena@fcircus.sat.tx.us
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