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- >The following e-mail message was sent to me here at ARDI:
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- >"I am interested in testing Executor on my system. I am
- >currently running os/2 with windows and dos support. For
- >some reason I can't seem to get Executor to run. I was
- >wondering if I need "real" dos and not dos support in order
- >for Executor to run?"
- >
- >Does anyone know the answer to his question?
- >
- >I have never used OS/2, however, I've seen posts from people who
- >have used Executor/DOS with OS/2.
- >
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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- Executor should run under OS/2 Warp just fine (I don't normally do this
- myself, but I have done it in the past). If you could be a bit more
- specific as to what kind of message it is giving you it may be easier to
- help you, but I'll go ahead and make a few stabs at it.
-
- The only time that I have ever had a problem running Executor under OS/2 was
- when it gave an "out of memory error". I could run the MEM command, and
- according to it I had 20 megs of Expanded and 20 megs of Extended memory,
- but the emulation still gave and out of memory error. As it turns out I had
- the setting "DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT" set to 4! This meant that even though I had
- effectively 40 megs of RAM, Executor was only able to access 4 of that. So
- what I did was to raise that to about 8 (actually, I raised it to 20, but 8
- should work) and the Executor ran fine. This is most likely your problem,
- but if that doesn't work, read on...
-
- One other possibility is that you have the setting DPMI_DO_API set to
- disabled. This should be set to enabled for any Executor session (though,
- if I remember correctly it will also work as AUTO).
-
- Also, there were a few mouse problems reported with Executor for OS/2 but
- these were mentioned in the FAQ so they shouldn't be causing your problem.
- You might also try changing you video card setting to VGA, because I have
- seen some OS/2 programs that had trouble with SVGA cards before. Also, you
- might try re-installing Executor, as I've had it corrupt itself a few times
- when doing various weird things that I do with it. :)
-
- Well, ok, that's all that I can think of right now, but if you still have
- trouble just hollar and I'll try to help you with it. :)
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- G.Sightler@GEnie.geis.com
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