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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA28875 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:17:26 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA19261; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:49:34 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0t4uYY-000YcBC; Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:46 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0t4uYX-00002QC; Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:46 MDT Message-Id: <m0t4uYX-00002QC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:46 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews) To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Canvas 2.0 almost works! In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951016094411.5848A-100000@pauling> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951016094411.5848A-100000@pauling> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> writes: Tom> Hi, Tom> Just wanted to make a quick report on E/L 199p3. I've just Tom> tried Filemaker Pro 2.0 and it works beautifully (no more Tom> corrupted files and I can read in my big research tracking Tom> data base). Yay. It turns out that Filemaker Pro is the only app in a year and a half to have failed due to a bug in Mat's synthetic CPU. I have actually tried to figure out the corruption file several times previously but it was only through luck that I happened to run Filemaker Pro with a debugging version of the synthetic CPU. When I did, Filemaker Pro worked. It took me a while to figure out that the difference was due to different versions of syn68k, but once I knew that, Mat very quickly found and fixed the first syn68k bug (that I can remember, at least) in a year and a half. Tom> Also, Canvas 2.0 (an old version, I know) almost Tom> works!! It fires up and and I see what appears to be a Tom> flawless new document with tools but then it crashes executor Tom> suddenly with the following error message... Tom> executor: XError `8': BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Tom> X_CreateCursor Tom> I'm going to try to install Canvas 3.5 later today and cross Tom> my fingers... Hmmm... I'm not sure what's causing the BadMatch error, but I suspect that you're going to get a "m68k pc jumped to 0!" death with Canvas 3.5, since we were getting that with a demo version of 3.5.2. We fixed that bug and a couple other Canvas related bugs, but those fixes won't be out until 1.99p4. Tom> Tom Mat is still fighting with the bug that makes Executor unstable under Windows 3.x, and we're also still trying to figure out the slowdown when opening DOS drives under Windows '95. When we make substantial progress on those two, we'll release 1.99p4 which has fixes that make Executor work better with Canvas 3.5.2, HyperCard 2.3 built stand-alone applications, Quark XPress 3.5 and more that I can't think of. --Cliff ctm@ardi.com