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- In article <30EE6B99.7DA6@okinawa.usmc.mil>, grassn@okinawa.usmc.mil (Nathan
- Grass) declares...
- > I am useing Executor on a Windows 95 PC. Everything that came
- >with it seems to work fine. I can access all my folders with the long
- >name support just great. My big malfunction is the .hqx extension does
- >not allow me to run a program. I converted some binary files with the
- >BinHex program that came with Executor, and all I can do is look at the
- >'text' of the file with the text editor. How do I set the file to
- >execute??? This is the same with files that I FTP down to my PC.
-
- First, I recommend that you copy the .hqx files into an .hfv volume; I've
- had better luck this way (sometimes the un-hqxing apps have trouble writing
- to the Win95 volumes, I've found). Second, don't use BinHex; use Stuffit
- Expander. You've probably been encoding instead of decoding. You need to
- have Stuffit decode the .hqx file to make it binary; then, it's probably
- also stuffed or compacted (mac compression schemes), if you got it from FTP.
- So it will unStuff the file. Then you should be able to double-click it.
- Double-clicking files only works if they have the correct creator/type
- information, which you can check by getting info (left-alt-i) on the file.
-
- > I have not registered yet (I am waiting on my checking account
- >to be set up) and the 10 minute time out is limiting my ability to work
- >with Executor to get this working. It takes almost 2 minutes to start
- >it up each time. I am looking at the clock the whole time so I can exit
- >without loosing all my progress. Would ARDI release a version with a
- >little longer time limit? I can understand them not wanting
- >unregistered software out there, this is not shareware, but it is being
- >distributed in that manner... I am very reluctant to register a program
- >I don't have time to test fully. Maybe they can disable most of the
- >nice features or put in lots of nag screens. At least then I could test
- >out some things before it crashes violently on me...
-
- What speed is your machine? How much RAM? Mine doesn't take anywhere close
- to two minutes to start up (486DX4/100, 12Mb). What is it you can't do in
- 10 minutes, anyway? Perhaps you could ask some of the registered users on
- this newsgroup to try it out for you, if it's easy enough to do. Good luck.
-
- Oh, if you're short on RAM, realize that running from outside of Win95 will
- give Executor more RAM, though you won't have access to long file names on
- DOS/Win95 drives. But at least try this to see if it starts faster.
-
- Scott Shuchart
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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