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- Hi Folks,
-
- I'm finally caught up on e-mail, so if you have sent e-mail to me in
- the last few months and you never received an answer, you'll have to
- resend (or send it to "questions@ardi.com" if that's more
- appropriate).
-
- Scott Brown has volunteered to coordinate a list of what runs and what
- doesn't under Executor. Eventually we'll provide tools that will make
- submitting info a bit easier, but right now if you want to
- participate, you'll have to do it by hand.
-
- To send information about applications, whether they run or not,
- please follow these directions to the letter.
-
- Send e-mail to "applist@ardi.com" (we have an alias that
- automatically logs submissions and then forwards them to Scott)
-
- Use a subject of "applist submission"
-
- In the body of your text, use the following fields (NOTE: they
- must start on the first column, they must be spelled the way
- they are here and the information you provide must begin on
- the same line as the colon, although they can continue onto a
- separate line if you put either a space or tab at the beginning
- of the continuation lines). "Execution Color" is explained below.
-
- Application Name:
- Application Version:
- Application Price:
- Source of Application:
- Executor OS & Version:
- Executor switches:
- Installs under Executor:
- Execution Color:
- Submitter:
- Notes:
-
- The execution colors are:
-
- Green -- thoroughly tested; no bugs that would prevent
- the vast majority of users from using this
- application.
-
- Yellow -- less well tested or known bugs that prevent some
- functionality from being usable. At a minimum,
- the application must be able to read and display
- its own document types.
-
- Orange -- Will take mouse and keyboard events, but has
- enough major bugs to make the application unusable.
-
- Red -- Will not come up, but is still considered a target
- for a better class by the time 2.0 ships.
-
- Black -- Will not come up no, nor is it expected to when
- 2.0 ships (with possible System 7 spoofing
- exceptions).
-
- If you don't want people sending you e-mail, asking for more
- information, put "anonymous" in the "Submitter:" field.
-
- You can put several submissions in a single piece of e-mail.
- Please make sure that each submission contains all of the
- fields mentioned above.
-
- An example submission (totally made up) would be:
-
- Application Name: dibcaboo
- Application Version: 5.3
- Application Price: $49 -- shareware
- Source of Application: ftp.majorcorp.com:/pub/macapps/dibcaboo.pit
- Executor OS & Version: DOS 1.99h, Linux 1.99h
- Executor switches: -applzone 4096 -refresh 4
- Installs under Executor: no
- Execution Color: Yellow
- Submitter: ctm@ardi.com
- Notes: I couldn't get the "PIT" file to decode under Executor, so I had to
- use a real Mac to expand the software. I then used an external hard
- disk to move it over. The application seems to work fine, but it's
- so large that I can't really guarantee that there are no bugs.
-
- Scott will be responsible for keeping all this information in a
- database. Periodically, he'll send us a flat-file copy, which we'll
- make available on ftp.cs.unm.edu until we get ftp.ardi.com up.
-
- After a couple of weeks, I'll put all of the above information into
- our FAQ, assuming that everything works as planned.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
- P.S. You may have noticed a suspiciously high number of posts to this
- mailing list that were "cc"s of e-mail that didn't have a lot
- of significance for this list in general. That's due to me
- switching e-mail systems and not remembering to strip "cc:
- executor@nacm.com" when I reply to something that was sent to
- this list and the reply isn't of general interest.
-
-