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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
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- Subject: Re: Flakiness on SGI Indigo
- Message-ID: <If2Fah600Wo557FGcy@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:11:25 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 16-Nov-92 Flakiness on SGI
- Indigo Bob Glickstein@zindigo.z (830)
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- > When reading text with a large inset visible, scrolling backwards via a
- right-click in the scrollbar sometimes causes a core dump.
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- We have fixed some code wrt scrolling insets, but I don't think any
- core-dumps were fixed.
-
- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 16-Nov-92 Flakiness on SGI
- Indigo Bob Glickstein@zindigo.z (830)
-
- > And incidentally, how much has the source changed since the CD-ROM
- > release (I hesitate to ask)?
-
- Volume wise not a great deal, but quite a bit of change has ...
-
- Changes...
- Support for color images and colormaps is being built into im, graphic
- and view.
- Observable objects (text, buttons, views, etc...) are now refcounted (in
- such a way applications written before should generally continue to work
- without modification)
- Core leak fixes in xim
-
- Totally new stuff...
- Figure editor, replacing zip which has moved to contrib.
- Preferences editor.
- Color image inset
- Bison (the Andrew Consortium version), eventually to replace all use of yacc.
- atk/syntax (including Bison) is intended to provide parsing support so
- duplication of effort can be avoided among applications where it is
- useful to use lex/yacc.
-
- The above is entirely from memory it may or may not be complete or
- accurate. I imagine we will post an official list of changes with the
- announcement of the members only release later this month.
-
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
-