Date   : Sat, 20 Aug 1994 21:48:35 EST
From   : Stephen Quan <quan@...>
Subject: Re: xbeeb updated on ftp.pipex.net

> I've fixed a few problems and put xbeeb-0.1.1.tar.gz in incoming/xbeeb
> on ftp.pipex.net.
> 
> Hopefully this will resolve most of the problems found so far...

This is a list of problems I have found (I hope you don't mind!).
I tried loading and running xbeeb on a UNIX system configured as

    sparc 2 running SunOS 4.1.3 but with X11R5 extensions.

* tar xvf gave me a problem.  directories in the tar file were
  extracted as an empty file.  i worked around this my removing
  the empty file and creating the directory and repeating the
  tar command.  (must be an incompatibility between implementations
  of tar)

* xmkmf worked fine!  first X application to do this for me!  :)

* UNIX compiler didn't follow ANSI syntax, had to switch cc to gcc
  in Makefile.

* after running; ReadWordAtPC() crashes program.  Don't know why as
  the debugger returns a value without crashing, must be a limitation
  of my GNU compiler.  Fixed by commenting LITTLE_ENDIAN out define.

* package starts up but then bails out with X error.  Corrected by
  substituting the font names in the program with

     -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

  not sure what you'll do in future, but maybe you could put
  constants such as font names in your Screen.h file.  then again
  your code in Screen.c is very neat!

After all of the above the application compiles and runs, but then :

* x applications grabs all my colour map; i have a 8 bit plane and
  not many x-clients except for a few xterms.  i am not sure how your
  application is implemented, but i should not think you need more
  than 8 colours.

* i tried writing a short basic program, and occasionally queer
  behaviour occurs :

    * misses keys (sparc runs slower than your system)
    * key repeats forever (happened only once, and it was the '6' key!)
    * underline not in correct position (maybe my choice of font)
    * after a while impossible to type in a line longer than 4-8 characters?

Overall not bad!  How do you go about creating the ttext font??
BTW, the doc and font subdirectories (on extraction) turned out to
be empty, is this ok???
-- 
Stephen Quan (quan@...                 ), SysAdmin, Analyst/Programmer.
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