From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 28 00:23:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08184 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA08174 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA16196; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:13:11 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603280843.TAA16196@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:13:11 +1030 (CST) Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <3777.827996761@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 27, 96 11:06:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[