Hello Christian!
*** 28.10.03 at 19:11, Christian Boettger wrote to Martin Foster:
CB> In FIDO.XPOINT on 28.10.03 (received 28.10.03)
CB> Martin Foster uttered
CB> on the subject "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":
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MF{at}>> Now for the bad news .....
MF>> If I select "Edit/Servers/> Server>//Point/", OpenXP
disappears completely from
MF>> my screen. In other words, it crashes!
CB> Do I get it right that you're testing the DOS executable on Windows?
CB> Is it just for testing?
Yes and yes.
CB> It would be much better to use the Windows-Version if you're running
CB> Windows in the first place. There's absolutely no reason for using
CB> the DOS Version under Windows.
I'm sorry to have to say this but I don't like the Windows version. To be
more precise, I don't like the slow reaction time to key presses.
MF>> In addition, I have the debug level set to 10 and if I look at
MF>> DEBUGLOG.TXT immediately after the crash, it's 9Mb in size. Here
MF>> are the first few lines .....
MF>> It looks like it's continually checking
MF>> the mouse coordinates
Oooooops, I should have said it looks like it's continually reporting the
mouse coordinates regardless of whether they have shifted or not.
CB> Does the Windows version of OpenXP do the same?
Nope, it only reports the mouse coordinates when they change.
CB>>> 564631 Oct 26 19:41 openxp-3.9.8-33.dos.rar
CB>>> Hmm, the 3.9 seems to be a bit small?
MF>> Yeah, the .EXE file is missing!
CB> I suspected as much... I'll tell Markus.
OK, thanks.
Regards,
Martin
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