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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA28517 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 1 May 1995 05:54:23 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Mon, 1 May 1995 13:53:13 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA04932; Mon, 1 May 95 13:57:34 +0100 Message-Id: <9505011257.AA04932@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Thoughts on 1.99m/Linux Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 13:57:33 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Well, it's a great improvement over 1.99k! It's great to have the Browser under Linux! It's also good to have 1 bit per pixel working well. For some applications I find this preferable to colour. The FoxBASE file not found error that I reported for 1.99k is still there (not really a surprise). I can't load any FoxBASE files. If there's any debug options I should try please let me know! Thanks for the -help option... now I know what some of the Linux-specific options do! -synchronous is pretty useful for some things. Printing I have only tried once, and it broke. :-( I tried printing a Word 5.0 document. The PostScript output by Executor is broken, somehow. Aladdin GhostScript 3.12 says: Warning: failed to allocate 5x5x5 RGB cube. Warning: failed to allocate 4x4x4 RGB cube. Warning: failed to allocate 3x3x3 RGB cube. Error: /undefined in FALSE Operand stack: --nostringval-- _MACTimes-BoldItalic --dict:11/13-- true --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:579/631-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:45/200-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 3887 I am hardly a PostScript expert, so anyone got any ideas? And another printing thing... how can I change the paper size? Letter output looks awful on A4 paper. Tim.