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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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