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- Hi Folks,
-
- There have been many reports that the SVGAlib version of
- Executor/Linux doesn't work. That isn't too surprising, although we
- had hoped for better. When Mat built it we tried it on systems with
- two different types of cards, one with a Mach32 card the other with a
- card with a Cirrus chipset. The Mach32 systems work fine, the Cirrus
- based one just turns black and wedges. Mat will look into this as
- soon as he gets back. He's out of town until Thursday.
-
- On a separate note, as you know, some of the more recent BleedingEdge
- releases have a little support for System 7 features. Internally a
- new routine we provide is "FindFolder", which is a way an application
- can find the proper folder for preferences or temporary files, etc.
- However, FindFolder expects a few things that the BleedingEdge release
- doesn't set up (this will be done in 1.99p). If you run programs that
- seem to have problems with folders, during startup (for instance
- Ultimate Solitair will now complain), you need to create the folder
-
- System Folder:Preferences
-
- If you want to be thorough, you can also create these folders,
- although putting things in them won't do anything special:
-
- System Folder:PrintMonitor Documents
- System Folder:Startup Items
- System Folder:Apple Menu Items
- System Folder:Extensions
- System Folder:Control Panels
- System Folder:Fonts
-
- In addition, under Linux, "/tmp" will automatically be used for
- temporary space. If it exist, "\tmp" will be used under DOS, but
- since the DOS filesystem has ridiculous limitations on file names,
- many programs that create temporary files will have trouble if it
- can't put them in an HFV, so Executor will first look for an HFV with
- a Mac name of "TMP:" and use that if it's found. Again, 1.99p will
- come with a small TMP HFV.
-
- Someday we'll have real documentation.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-