INSTALLATION UNDER OS/2 WARP 1.) Insert the Executor CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2.) Run the installation program. You can do this from a DOS prompt by typing D:\install (assuming that your CD-ROM drive is your D: drive), or you can do it from the OS/2 desktop: Right-click the CD object on the Launch Pad, click the arrow next to Open, and choose Icon view. A window should pop up showing all the disk's program objects. Double-click on INSTALL.EXE to start the installation program. 3.) Change the destination directory for installation if you do not want to install in C:\EXECUTOR. Press the number 2 when you are ready to begin the installation. 4.) When the DOS installation program has finished, double-click OS/2's Add Programs object in the System Setup folder. Press the enter key to have OS/2 detect the new Executor program automatically. If autodetection fails, click on "Yes" to search for and select the new program for the desktop. 5.) Select C:\EXECUTOR\EXECUTOR.EXE and click OK. There will then be a new folder on your desktop containing the Executor object. CONFIGURATION UNDER OS/2 WARP The default DOS settings OS/2 assigns for you may work perfectly. If Executor behaves strangely, though, then you might want to adjust the settings by hand. To do this, right-click on the Executor object and click Settings. Then click the notebook's Session tab and click the DOS settings button. Click OK, and the list of DOS settings should be displayed. Here are some settings other OS/2 users have used with success: DOS_HIGH On DPMI_DOS_API ENABLED DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT 16 EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT 0 HW_ROM_TO_RAM On HW_TIMER On INT_DURING_IO On VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP Off VIDEO_FASTPASTE Off VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION NONE VIDEO_ONDEMAND_MEMORY On VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION Off VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION Off VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION Off VIDEO_WINDOW_REFRESH 1 XMS_HANDLES 0 XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT 0 You don't need to find an "OK" or "Save" button to save these settings. The changes take place as soon as you adjust them. Note that increasing the DPMI memory limit does not automatically increase the memory Executor uses. You must also use Executor's "-memory" command line switch, to tell Executor that more memory is available. If after adjusting the settings you still have trouble running Executor/DOS under OS/2, write to support@ardi.com with your serial number and your system details. We'll try to figure out a combination of settings which will work for you. Some OS/2 Executor users like to start Executor from a batch file instead of starting Executor directly, because on some systems it doesn't show up in the task list unless started indirectly. If you want to do this, just make a text file called "executor.bat" which contains the following two lines: @echo off executor.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 Then point your desktop object to this batch file rather than to executor.exe itself. If you want to run another program to enhance Executor, such as UniVBE (a universal video driver which speeds up graphics performance), you can add its command to the Executor batch file as well: @echo off univbe executor.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 -- Many thanks to Charles Hunter and Pat Gunn for their help with this file.