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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Manx 3.4b (was Re: Extra-Half-Brite Tutorial and Demo)
Message-ID: <8870@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 16:14:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.8870
Posted: Fri Jun 19 16:14:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 09:59:44 EDT
References: <3333@well.UUCP> <8736@amdahl.amdahl.com> <3352@well.UUCP>
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Keywords: extra, half, baked

In article <3352@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <8736@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
> >In article <3333@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> >> MANUFACTURE:
> >>         The program compiles and links under Manx 3.4b (should work under
> >> other versions, too).                        ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >3.4b?  b?  Has Jim released the new version?  The Manx support BBS has not
> >been answering for several weeks now, so I am not up on 3.4b's progress or
> >availability.  How's it look, Leo?
> >
> 	Looks solid.  It has a couple of new command line switches in it
> (which I forget off hand).  The README file also says that the version I
> have is preliminary.  Every bug that could be fixed has been fixed.  This
> implies that there are still a few limitations, but I haven't bumped into
> them yet.  Jim says that it should be out Real Soon Now.

I didn't make it to BADGE last night, but the pass along is that Jim has
bundled-up v3.40b, and shipped it off to Manx for release and distribution
(last week).

Also, Steve Walton tells me (about the "bugs"):

+                         that is, those which aren't fixed aren't
+ really bugs but rather non-ANSI interpretations of syntax in the front
+ end which will remain until version 4.1.  Some mysterious libraries
+ with "i" as their middle initial (i.e., mi32.lib) turn out, according
+ to BIX, to be for handling those 68881 add-ons which treat the chip as
+ an I/O device rather than a coprocessor.  I'm told the Starboard 2
+ MultiFunction Module falls in this category.


>                             Drawing through a clipping routine slows things
> down a bit, which is why I bypass it.  So sue me.

Naw ... much more fun to try and "eat up" the entire horizontal bar :-)!

BTW, I hear Viacom is pretty slick, Leo (or did he say "sick" ?)  Hope doc
will get it posted pretty soon ... I hear he's having "mailer problems"
again (sigh)!

/kim


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