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Date: Sat, 13 May 95 16:42 MDT
From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
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Hi Folks,
I've largely been away from my e-mail for three weeks now. I thought
I was only going to be gone for about a week, but things always take
longer. But now I'm back. Don't be surprised if you get e-mail from
me answering mail that you sent me a while back.
Because of all the trouble 1.99l had, 1.99m didn't have as much in it
as we'd like; it was largely just a set of bugfixes to 1.99l. As
such, 1.99n won't be quite as nice as we'd like, the biggest drawback
being that 1.99n won't have Mat's blitter running at full speed and
1.99n won't run under NEXTSTEP. The good news is that lately NeXT has
been very nice to us, so 1.99o should run under NEXTSTEP and be fairly
fast, too.
1.99n is still at least a week away, but here are things that *should*
be in 1.99n that you can use:
Linux permissions fix
Tex-Edit will once again be included; this time it will work
Linux printing improvements
Floppy disk high level Mac formatting
Font/DA installation in Loser
a variety of bugfixes in Loser and Executor proper
Here are a couple things that will also be in 1.99n, but that won't be
*directly* usable until 1.99o:
low-level international keyboard support
Mat's fast blitter
In other news, we will soon have a paid liason who will surf the
internet, CompuServe, AOL and maybe Prodigy on ARDI's behalf, politely
mentioning Executor's existence when and where appropriate, and
probably moderating an Executor group on CompuServe and AOL.
We should also be buying a copy of PGP so that we'll be able to take
credit card orders via e-mail from people who are already using PGP.
It's a little too early to share the news of the project I was working
on the last few weeks, but when all the i's are dotted and the t's are
crossed, I'll let you know what's up.
That's about all the news from here for now. I'll now start working
on the approximately 250 e-mail items that require an action from me.