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Subject: xosview beta-test volunteers needed (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:37:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Picked up from a concurrent thread FYI:

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> From owner-netbsd-help@netbsd.org Fri Feb 16 04:55:29 1996
> Message-Id: <199602152045.OAA13269@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
> Subject: xosview beta-test volunteers needed
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> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:45:16 -0600 (CST)
> From: bgrayson@pine.ece.utexas.edu (Brian C. Grayson)
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>   Several months ago, I ported the Linux xosview application (a graphical
> performance meter) to NetBSD-i386.  After communication with the original
> author, Mike Romberg, further enhancements have been done, and the
> NetBSD port of xosview has been merged in with the C++ source tree. 
> xosview 1.4 is currently close to release, which will be xosview's public
> debut as a NetBSD application.
> 
>   So far, xosview for NetBSD has only been tested on 5 Pentium machines I
> have access to.  In addition, I'm the only one who has installed it.  As
> such, I'd like some beta testers, preferrably including people from
> non-i386 ports, to see how easy it is to install (and how good the
> directions are), and make sure that it performs as expected (no major
> bugs).  We want the 1.4 release to be as high-quality as possible! 
> gcc-2.7.0 is required (or at least recommended -- we blew away 2.5.2(?)
> when we bumped up to 2.7.2, so I can't test it with 2.5.2).
> 
>   I have a very simple home page for xosview, at
> http://lore.ece.utexas.edu/~bgrayson/xosview.html.  A real, permanent kind
> of web page is being designed by Mike Romberg, that will also have links
> for downloading source code or binaries.
> 
>   Volunteers should reply directly to me (no reason to clutter up the
> mailing list any worse than necessary!).  I'll send you a uuencoded tgz
> file (~50KB in size) as soon as time permits!
> 
>   Thanks for your time!  I hope other people agree that xosview is a useful
> utility.
> 
>   Brian
> -- 
> Brian Grayson (bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu)
> Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
> The University of Texas at Austin
> Office:  ENS 406       (512) 471-8011
> Finger bgrayson@pine.ece.utexas.edu for PGP key.
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de