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- >>>>> "Philip" == Philip Zeyliger <vzvz@netcom.com> writes:
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- Philip> The Macintosh has a Desktop. It is a weird device that
- Philip> can store anything and you can't figure out what drive the
- Philip> files stored there are from. Executor did not program a
- Philip> desktop and is probably right not to. Nevertheless I
- Philip> think there should be some kind of lowest level of the
- Philip> disk structure under the drive. Why? I, probably like
- Philip> many other E/D users, have multiple hfv drives. I also
- Philip> have 4 hard drives (C: - F:) In order to switch from one
- Philip> hfv drive to another hfv drive I often have to scroll
- Philip> through all the dos drives. Since Executor is still quite
- Philip> slow on opening the big D: and E: drives (dir /w takes
- Philip> more than a page), this process is cumbersome.
-
- Although it's clearly not as good as having a desktop, you can tell
- Executor to skip drive D entirely by using the command line switch
- "-skipdrives d".
-
- Philip> A solution? If ARDI could make something under the
- Philip> drives, that JUST contains the drives, no other files,
- Philip> that is created at the beginning of each session (to
- Philip> include floppies), then we could go down to that. Then we
- Philip> would select the drive and save.
-
- I think that's a good idea, but it will have to wait until after
- Executor 2 is out. We're just too swamped and too behind schedule to
- add this new feature before then.
-
- Philip> -- Philip Zeyliger
-
- Philip> P.S.: VIM 3.0 now works. (I did experience some crashes
- Philip> though.) P.P.S: I have run 2 benchmark tests. I think if
- Philip> someone created a little FTP space where we can drop
- Philip> maybe, exported data off, (or text) someone can create a
- Philip> nice Excel spreadsheet that would hold data to many
- Philip> computers from many executor users. I tested my DOS
- Philip> version with UniVBE and without. Amazingly, I got better
- Philip> results without. If someone tells me where and what type
- Philip> to upload, I'll do it. (And look at some other records
- Philip> too.:-) Hey, we can even make a web interface.
-
- I do not have time to coordinate this. I doubt Melissa does, either,
- but perhaps she does. When Executor 2 is in beta we'll be more
- interested in this sort of thing, too. Right now we're trying to fix
- all known regressions.
-
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- --Cliff
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