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Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA18587 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 1 May 1995 18:36:27 -0700 Received: (cpage@localhost) by shell1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id SAA18600; Mon, 1 May 1995 18:36:05 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Page <cpage@best.com> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Executor/Linux 1.99m comments... Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950501182802.15915A-100000@shell1.best.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I just set up 1.99m here - looks really good so far. This is almost ready for "prime time" so to speak, in my opinion. About the video speed - when animation is off, things seem smoother now than they did under 1.99k. Did the 4-dirty-rect code make it in here or something? Whatever was done seemed to improve things. I like the new background, too. Most of what follows is nitpicking/bug reports... things which ALMOST work, but still need a little bit more work done. These are much better than 1.99k though. PageMaker 4.2 ALMOST works for me. The one major problem right now is that File/Place dosen't work, reporting "unknown file type" This is a pretty old bug. I think it's becuase it's running some checks on each file, and the filesystem code has some sort of a bug in it which dosen't report what Pagemaker needs. Running Executor/Linux under XF86_Mono is much closer now too. The only problems is that the background turns into a semi-randomish dot pattern (this happens in -bpp 1 too), and the mouse cursor is inverted. I haven't tested printing yet. In general, 1.99m + a few bug fixes + a couple of minor features mentioned by Cliff (formatting disks) + the hack-a-thon + one/two last debugging release(s) should be 2.0. I can really feel it getting much closer now... keep it up! - Chad P.S. Cliff - which company were you signing papers for anyway?