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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA28855 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 06:49:37 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id HAA16326 for nacm.com!executor; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 07:49:35 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0spFKz-000Yc5C; Sun, 3 Sep 95 07:43 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0spFKz-00005oC; Sun, 3 Sep 95 07:43 MDT Message-Id: <m0spFKz-00005oC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 95 07:43 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: executor@nacm.com Subject: BleedingEdge observations Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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