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Paul Oman

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Team B,

My beta notes:

  1. Took me a couple minutes to unshar, uncompress, and untar
     without looking at your readme.

  2. I couldn't install it without reading the readme.

  3. My first installation used /usr/contrib/bin/perl, which
     installed fine, but dumped error messages when it ran because
     that's a 4.0 version of perl.

  4. My second installation used /usr/local/bin/perl, which installed
     and ran fine.

  5. I think your installation procedure should check the version of
     perl and abort with a diagnostic if it's not 5.0 or above.

  6. Your usage statement is too cryptic to help anyone but experienced
     users.  

  7. I think if you reordered the usage so the -o and -f parameters were
     at the top, users could get going right away.  Maybe hide some of
     the options in a man page.  Or give an example, simple, usage.

  8. I ran 4 HP code files through, ranging from 2KLOC to 14KLOC, without
     problems.  I did not verify the results.

  9. I tested the graphics output on 2 of the files.  On both I got

         Warning: failed to allocate 5x5x5 RGB cube.
         Warning: failed to allocate 4x4x4 RGB cube.

     when ghostview brought up the image.  The image looked OK, however.

Overall I was impressed.

Paul.