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Started by Bob Glickstein
Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:31
Flakiness on SGI Indigo
Author: Bob Glickstein
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:31
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:31
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I've just built most of the Andrew sources as they appear on the CD-ROM release. The build proceeded without a hitch, but I can't say the same for actually running Ez. When reading text with a large inset visible, scrolling backwards via a right-click in the scrollbar sometimes causes a core dump. My platform is an SGI Indigo running Irix 4.0.5F. Before I go hunting for the cause of this bug, can anyone tell me whether I'd be duplicating someone else's efforts? And incidentally, how much has the source changed since the CD-ROM release (I hesitate to ask)? Finally, I too would like to know what my printing alternatives are these days in the absence of ditroff. Has anyone tried using groff with Andrew? -- Bob Glickstein Z-Code Software Corp. 4340 Redwood Highway Suite B-50 San Rafael, CA 94903 (415) 499-8649
Re: Flakiness on SGI Indigo
Author: Robert Andrew Ryan
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:11
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:11
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Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 16-Nov-92 Flakiness on SGI Indigo Bob Glickstein@zindigo.z (830) > When reading text with a large inset visible, scrolling backwards via a right-click in the scrollbar sometimes causes a core dump. We have fixed some code wrt scrolling insets, but I don't think any core-dumps were fixed. Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 16-Nov-92 Flakiness on SGI Indigo Bob Glickstein@zindigo.z (830) > And incidentally, how much has the source changed since the CD-ROM > release (I hesitate to ask)? Volume wise not a great deal, but quite a bit of change has ... Changes... Support for color images and colormaps is being built into im, graphic and view. Observable objects (text, buttons, views, etc...) are now refcounted (in such a way applications written before should generally continue to work without modification) Core leak fixes in xim Totally new stuff... Figure editor, replacing zip which has moved to contrib. Preferences editor. Color image inset Bison (the Andrew Consortium version), eventually to replace all use of yacc. atk/syntax (including Bison) is intended to provide parsing support so duplication of effort can be avoided among applications where it is useful to use lex/yacc. The above is entirely from memory it may or may not be complete or accurate. I imagine we will post an official list of changes with the announcement of the members only release later this month. -Rob Ryan Andrew Consortium
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