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- Hello again,
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- Beware that sometimes when executor dies, the next time you try to restart
- it it might kill X. For example, get a copy of celpaint.sit.hqx from
- mac.archive.umich.edu in the graphics/graphicsutil directory and try
- running it, crashes executor. Then start executor again and I get booted
- from X, the X server shuts down and it says something like caught signal
- 11. This is probably because since executor died it didn't get to clean
- up any shared memory it was using or such. My current setup is X11R6 with
- XFree86 3.1.1 with a Mach8 (ATI Graphics Ultra 1 Meg) server. In
- addition, after you get booted from X, do a ps -x and kill the
- executor process which is still running, otherwise after you go back
- into X and run executor again, it will crash again.
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- Also I had a weird experience that after running StuffIt expander, Go
- totally reset itself and all the programs and folders and things that I
- had put into the bar were gone.
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- Lastly, why does executor spin my /dev/fd0 everytime it starts up?
- (i.e. drive A:)
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- Finally, I'm testing out some graphics programs off of the umich
- archive and here is a listing of some of them:
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- 3ddots1.1.cpt.hqx makes 3d stereograms needs system 7
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- appledrawer1.71.cpt.hqx drawing program crashes X but
- this takes a little while to do it. the program starts and
- hangs with a perpetual Z mouse and then after a while moving
- your mouse in the window will crash X - signal 11.
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- celpaint.sit.hqx sprite painting prog crashes X
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- certificatecreator1.cpt.hqx makes certificates works
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- designerdraw4.61.cpt.hqx flowcharting seems to work -
- has some weird behaviour when you place items, all these
- vertical lines show up, but they disappear after you have
- placed the item. fonts are a little weird too.
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- decor2.6.sit.hqx drawing prog needs system 7
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- macconcept3.4v03.cpt.hqx cad type drawing works
- the vertical lines also show up here and don't go away until
- you grab the top bar of the internal window and move it a bit.
- nice program actually, pretty good for this type of drawing
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- mattpaint1.93.sit.hqx drawing prog crashes
- executor after initial splash screen - just a simple Exit -1.
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- nihimage1.54nonfpu.cpt.hqx drawing prog seems to work
- drew some lines, changes some colors, pretty nice.
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- That's all for now.
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- Jesse Hong
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