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In article <1993Jan3.074424.10220@netcom.com> pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard ) writes:
>bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) writes:
>>
>>PH>I also find a limit of 1000 on iterations to be rather small.
>
>>I'm confused - Fractint's current iteration limit is 32,768 (it would have
>>been 65536 had I not been stupid enough to use signed integers for a field
>>that never goes negative - maybe we'll fix that someday).
>
>I'm confused.  It doesn't go above 1000.  I just grabbed a new one about
>3 days ago.

You must have a pretty old version.  The iteration limit has been 32,768 for
several years now.

>Since you said "I", I take it you are the author.  Where does the OFFICIAL
>release get put up for ftp access?  I must have an old version or something.

Tim Wegner usually makes sure that the lastest version gets on wuarchive
(a mirror of SIMTEL) within a week of it coming out.  You can find 
Fractint 17.2 (the most recent version, about 6-9 months old) for ftp at
wuarchive.wustl.edu  in /mirrors/msdos/graphics/frain172.zip.

The source code which you asked for is also there, and the file is called
frasr172.zip.

>Since the file names on ftp site very rarely give the version, I have no
>clue as to which sites are up to date and which sites have just copied the
>file without preserving the date.  I list the sites from archie and then
>just pick the largest one that has the most recent date and on my own
>continent if possible.

Hmm, my experience with fractint ftp-ing (all three years of it) is that
the files always have the version number in them.  However, be aware
that you can't search archie for filenames with "fractint" in them; that'll
just give you listings for X-windows version (under unix usually, which 
supports more than 8 letter filenames! :-)  Try searching archie for 
"frain" (short for FRActINt).  It amazes me that some sites have versions
as old as version 12!  I do count about 18 sites with Fractint 17.2, so
you should have no problem finding it.

Assuming that you have an older version, I think you will appreciate the
greatly improved user interface! :-)

  --Greg