dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger) (07/02/90)
Xtrek 6.0alpha has been released. The source distribution can be found on expo.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xtrek.tar.Z. This version represents a substantial improvement over the previous version 5.4 which was released on the X11 R4 source tape. Many bugs have been fixed, and Yet More Code has been cleaned up and sped up. * damage code has been completely rewritten. you should notice a considerable speedup in torpstorms. * the message code has been fixed * all trig code has been integerized - massive speedup with robots. * robot code has been fixed. if you thought the robots where wimps before., well ... an attempted optimization was killing them before. * all borders change color/stipple with alert status. This is for wms such as mwm which conceal window borders. * alert status code fixed for Ultrix based machines * tested under X11 R4 (unlike v 5.4) * better Imakefile * and much more ... All bug reports should be sent to dl2n+xtrek@andrew.cmu.edu. After the bug reports stop, we'll release this as v 6.0 and send it out to comp.sources.x for a netwide release. FOR SITES ON UUCP OR BITNET (This was recently posted elsewhere) : > We are happy to announce a new version of EMAIL-FTP service for sites > that do not have FTP access to the Internet. The EMAIL-FTP service is > an enhancement to the CSNET Info-Server. Version 2 of the EMAIL-FTP > service is less susceptible to errors from time-outs at remote hosts. > Send your requests to info-server@cs.net. The enhanced Info-Server > will parse the request, ftp the file, and mail the results back to you > or to the address specified in the Reply-to field in your message. > First, however, you should send a regular Info-Server request to get > the help file. Send a message to info-server@cs.net with the > following lines in the text: > request: info > topic: help-ftp > request: end > Please send comments and suggestions to cic@cs.net. dan for the devteam
dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger) (07/02/90)
Xtrek 6.0alpha has been released. The source distribution can be found on expo.lcs.mit.edu as contrib/xtrek.tar.Z. This version represents a substantial improvement over the previous version 5.4 which was released on the X11 R4 source tape. Many bugs have been fixed, and Yet More Code has been cleaned up and sped up. * damage code has been completely rewritten. you should notice a considerable speedup in torpstorms. * the message code has been fixed * all trig code has been integerized - massive speedup with robots. * robot code has been fixed. if you thought the robots where wimps before., well ... an attempted optimization was killing them before. * all borders change color/stipple with alert status. This is for wms such as mwm which conceal window borders. * alert status code fixed for Ultrix based machines * tested under X11 R4 (unlike v 5.4) * better Imakefile * and much more ... All bug reports should be sent to dl2npxtrek@andrew.cmu.edu. After the bug reports stop, we'll release this as v 6.0 and send it out to comp.sources.x for a netwide release. FOR SITES ON UUCP OR BITNET (This was recently posted elsewhere) : > We are happy to announce a new version of EMAIL-FTP service for sites > that do not have FTP access to the Internet. The EMAIL-FTP service is > an enhancement to the CSNET Info-Server. Version 2 of the EMAIL-FTP > service is less susceptible to errors from time-outs at remote hosts. > Send your requests to info-server@cs.net. The enhanced Info-Server > will parse the request, ftp the file, and mail the results back to you > or to the address specified in the Reply-to field in your message. > First, however, you should send a regular Info-Server request to get > the help file. Send a message to info-server@cs.net with the > following lines in the text: > request: info > topic: help-ftp > request: end > Please send comments and suggestions to cic@cs.net. dan for the devteam