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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
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Subject: Re: XFig crashes
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Date: 15 Mar 90 18:30:12 GMT
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In article <38688@cornell.UUCP>, beck@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
writes:
> At our installation, we have found that every version of XFig from the
> earliest to the lastest (2.0) has an unfortunate tendency to crash regularly.
> Since XFig is a popular program, I can't believe that every one is suffering
> like this.  On the other hand, I have no idea why our installation would
> be special (Sun workstations running R3, now upgrading to R4).  No change
> in our enviornment has had any effect on the problem.  What are other
> peoples' experience with XFig?  It might be best to send mail to me unless
> you have some insight into the problem to share with the whole world.
> 

Micah, I am posting this because several people have complained xfig 
crashing also.

There was a known bug in drawing text that has been fixed in patchlevel 3.
Patch level 4 has some more bug fixes and all patch levels are available
from expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.30.0.212) via anonymous ftp.

If it is crashing elsewhere, please e-mail me some more info and I'll 
see what I can do.
_____________________________________
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.