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- >>>>> "John" == JohnTClark <JohnTClark@aol.com> writes:
-
- John> For some reason my installation of 1.99n5 from the Bleeding
- John> Edge over 1.99n seems to have totally died now under Windows
- John> 95 June Test Release. Before that though there were
- John> problems that mystify me as well. Using 1.99n I could run
- John> executor if it was the very first thing I did after booting
- John> into Windows 95 and could only run it once. After that
- John> trying to run executor again causes the message "Executor
- John> has run out of memory try using a small -applzone" which
- John> seems odd.
-
- It sounds like DPMI memory not being released after Executor quits.
- You can find out how much DPMI memory Executor thinks you have by
- running "executor -info". Once you can run Executor 1.99n5 again,
- please do so, then run Executor without the switch, quit, and then run
- it again. If the amount of DPMI memory has decreased, then there is a
- bug somewhere, quite possibly in your Windows beta.
-
- John> ...
- John> I have noticed that trying
- John> to run cwsdpmi on its own says "Protected mode not
- John> available" and then produces a General Protection Fault of
- John> sorts.
-
- Yes, Windows '95 already provides DPMI, so a second DPMI provider
- can't be run.
-
- John> That at any rate is what it used to do. Now it is worse. I
- John> either get an abort with EIP tracebacks - a representative
- John> example is below - using either 1.99n or 1.99n5 with
- John> applzone 1024 (the only setting which seems not to
- John> immediately provoke the out of memory fail code) 1.99n or
- John> 1.99n5; or if I add -nosplash, an endless stream of the same
- John> messages saying "Make sure $MACDIR/.Rsrc/System is readable
- John> and writable and that it has 512 bytes added to the
- John> beginning of it".
-
- Somehow your System file has been corrupted. Reinstall 1.99n
- somewhere other than where you normally install it, and then copy the
- new exsystem.hfv from your reinstall on top of the exsystem.hfv that
- you normally use. This will allow you to run again. I am trying to
- figure out why System files seem to be getting corrupted fairly often
- now. I thought it was a bug in Executor that Desktop Textures was
- hitting, but now I'm not so sure.
-
- bugs fixed. We're hoping to go beta in mid August.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
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