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Re: E/L 1.99q12 thoughts



>>>>> "Chad" == pageone  <pageone@netcom.com> writes:
In article <pageoneDoy09y.DCo@netcom.com> pageone@netcom.com writes:


    Chad> 	I haven't had time to play with Executor too much
    Chad> until lately (I *love* spring break :), but I'm impressed
    Chad> with 1.99q12 for Linux... it's faster (seemingly) than
    Chad> before, and I even got sound to work :)

Sound is nice.  Hard to believe we lived so long without it.  I guess
we'll say the same thing about serial ports, networking and QuickTime
before too long...

    Chad> 	I'm having problems with the temporary files
    Chad> again... I'm not sure what's going on (I'm using RedHat 2.1)
    Chad> - I'd like to try running Executor off of a HFV file or a
    Chad> Mac ZIP disk... a -usehfv option would be really cool under
    Chad> Linux.

We need a better discription in order to help you out.  By clever
manipulation of the "SystemFolder" and "MacVolumes" environment
variable you *can* force Executor to run out of an HFV.

    Chad> 	(I've reinstalled yet again lately to manage space
    Chad> better - this time, the /usr/local is in a partition with
    Chad> ~450MB total, and 28MB free...)

    Chad> 	I'll test a Mac ZIP disk soon - I wonder if the
    Chad> problems with Mac formatted media have to do with bad
    Chad> partition tables, since when I went in and looked there
    Chad> wasn't one!  If that's the case, that could be the elusive
    Chad> bug...

I suspect that Mac ZIP drives aren't partitioned.  We'll take a look
at one in house sometime...

    Chad> 	In addition, the ELF SVGAlib version still does not
    Chad> work under the latest kernels (I had to use a.out) - is this
    Chad> a SVGAlib bug?  I'm hoping that there'll be a new DGA
    Chad> version, although that can wait for post-2.0 of course.

DGA won't be supported until after E2 ships.  We spent a couple days
looking into it.  It would have been nice if we could have, but it
wasn't worth delaying E2 for.  DGA may wind up being *very* nice.
	
    Chad> 	I also got printing under Word 5.0 to work seemlessly
    Chad> on the first try! :) (Having a working lpd setup helped a
    Chad> lot - especially when wired to Ghostscript+real Adobe fonts)

Yay.

    Chad> 	All in all, I'm hoping 2.0 will be finished
    Chad> soon... keep up the good work!

Beta0 still isn't burned yet, but it's *real* close.  I'd guess it's
only hours away, but I have to leave in four and a half hours and I
may be too tired to finish up after I get back.

    Chad> 	- Chad

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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