[comp.sys.apollo] More on APR response time

rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (04/12/91)

I just got an answer to an APR I submitted on March 4, 1990.  The response
is dated March 27, 1991.  The problem was that 'plot' didn't work at sr10.2.
HP claims that this is fixed in sr10.3, but it still doesn't work for me.
I suspect this is because one of my nodes is down, and 'plot' depends on
something that was on that node, but the error message is too vague to
figure out what that might be.

By the way, HP's plot program (/usr/bin/tgmr) weighs in at half a megabyte,
plus another 770k of bss.  The gpr plotter I wrote from scratch in an hour
when HP's didn't work is just over 8k.  I can't wait for HP's to start
working so I can see all the whiz-bang things they must have implemented to
fill up that half meg!

% plot <usa.pl
gm_$font_family_defn failed with status f0001