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From: mpsimon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (M. Patrick Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: a couple of things
Message-ID: <1009@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 18:33:28 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 18:33:28 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 05:32:47 EST
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Keywords: pearle, gulam, ct, bigformat


Just a few random notes on things coming across the net:

1. Warning, the pearle program recently posted is taking a bit longer than
   15 minutes per image for the default set up. I am getting one complete
   ray traced image about every 35-45 minutes (sorry, I haven't kept closer
   track than that). At this rate, the 24 image movie that is supposed to
   be created by the default initialization file will take over 12 hours to
   produce. Of course, the only reason I ran pearle, was so I could get some
   studying done instead of wasting time programming/hacking, so all's well.
   BTW, pearle does restart correctly, except that the last image, if not
   completed, is started over again.

2. I am running the pearle program on a floppy disk formatted with the
   DA Format11, no problem so far.

3. ct does not seem to save the timestamp when run from the desktop.

4. In gulam, "cp -t infile outfile" copies infile to outfile, preserving
   timestamp.

5. Any plans to make a more recent version of gulam publicly accessible?

6. Has anyone gotten a version of aim higher than 1.0? ATARINET has a new
   version on their server, but the file seems to be corrupted (latest 
   version, from the docs, appears to be v2.31).

--Patrick Simon    mpsimon@phoenix.princeton.edu