Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> I've just built and tested the current cvs version on VMS.
> I can't test x11 because it's a remote machine with no X connection
> available, but 'all.dem' run through 'set term post color solid'
> looks almost perfect.
>
> Only two glitches:
> 1) There are some spurious <null> characters at the end of each
> page of PostScript output. Perhaps some buffer flush oddity.
> 2) The column-stacked histogram demo has some missing boxes.
> I vaguely recall encountering that once before, but I can't
> remember what it turned out to be. Maybe some browsing through
> ChangeLog.
Didn't we recently have something with an extra "gprestore"? Anyway, maybe you could send an example output with the <null> chars and the missing boxes. (Just one page each.) Could think it through to see if there is a bug
> Anyhow, given the huge number of changes since the last time
> I did a full build and test under VMS, I'm amazed how smooth it was.
> Somebody with a local box would have to test the x11 support,
> however.
That is amazing, but not surprising. I think I've said this before: the attention to detail since the 4.0 series has been very high.
Dan
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