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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.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-