Re: swiftforth on Linux

At 08:06 PM 10/29/2007, you wrote:
>I have installed a version of Linux (Ubuntu) on a machine, and then
>installed Wine, which allows the installation of Windows based applications
>so that they run on the machine in a Windows equivalent environment.
>
>I have installed Swiftforth (2.2.2.9) on that machine, and it works, with
>one problem - the session window is black, as is the text, and the color
>palette is filled with black squares. I can see operations working (2 3 *
>and I see 6 on the bottom of the session window) but cannot see any typing.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- Roger

The early versions of V3.0.x worked fine then somewhere around V3.0.5
it broke again and I had the same results you had. My latest version
I have before my maintenance ran out is V 3.0.11 and it's still broken.

I wish it would work, it used to work fairly well with Ubuntu.

Cecil Bayona
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."
-- Rich Cook.

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Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 18:40:21 PDT