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BleedingEdge observations



Hi Folks,

There have been many reports that the SVGAlib version of
Executor/Linux doesn't work.  That isn't too surprising, although we
had hoped for better.  When Mat built it we tried it on systems with
two different types of cards, one with a Mach32 card the other with a
card with a Cirrus chipset.  The Mach32 systems work fine, the Cirrus
based one just turns black and wedges.  Mat will look into this as
soon as he gets back.  He's out of town until Thursday.

On a separate note, as you know, some of the more recent BleedingEdge
releases have a little support for System 7 features.  Internally a
new routine we provide is "FindFolder", which is a way an application
can find the proper folder for preferences or temporary files, etc.
However, FindFolder expects a few things that the BleedingEdge release
doesn't set up (this will be done in 1.99p).  If you run programs that
seem to have problems with folders, during startup (for instance
Ultimate Solitair will now complain), you need to create the folder

	System Folder:Preferences

If you want to be thorough, you can also create these folders,
although putting things in them won't do anything special:

	System Folder:PrintMonitor Documents
	System Folder:Startup Items
	System Folder:Apple Menu Items
	System Folder:Extensions
	System Folder:Control Panels
	System Folder:Fonts

In addition, under Linux, "/tmp" will automatically be used for
temporary space.  If it exist, "\tmp" will be used under DOS, but
since the DOS filesystem has ridiculous limitations on file names,
many programs that create temporary files will have trouble if it
can't put them in an HFV, so Executor will first look for an HFV with
a Mac name of "TMP:" and use that if it's found.  Again, 1.99p will
come with a small TMP HFV.

Someday we'll have real documentation.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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