Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:13:11 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl? Message-ID: <199603280843.TAA16196@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3777.827996761@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 27, 96 11:06:01 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > I downloaded this, it's not half-bad, for the little bit I've been > > playing with it. FreeBSD specific version as well. > > Huh - the installation totally fell over and I was unable to get > either to really work all that well. I sent them a long list of bugs > and this also went into the void. Strange. Under -stable the install was painless and both run quite OK. I can't comment on bugs; they don't support 16bpp so they went back into the archive. The demo versions expire in three days anyway. > I was so unimpressed with their degree of support for this that I > nuked them back out of the commercial section of our web pages. I'll > be happy to add them back if and when they ever start responding to > email! For this you could mention that the Xess spreadsheet Linux version runs just fine under -stable's Linux emulation. It looks like a pretty nice spreadsheet (not being an expert on such things...) > Jordan > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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