From oman@gold.cs.uidaho.edu Tue Dec 3 10:04:43 PST 1996 Received: from gold.cs.uidaho.edu (gold.cs.uidaho.edu [129.101.100.73]) by dworshak.cs.uidaho.edu (8.7.5/1.1) with SMTP id KAA00489 for <jone9333@cs.uidaho.edu>; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from oman@localhost) by gold.cs.uidaho.edu (8.6.9/1.0) id KAA15866; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:04:42 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:04:42 -0800 From: "Paul W. Oman" <oman@gold.cs.uidaho.edu> Message-Id: <199612031804.KAA15866@gold.cs.uidaho.edu> To: jone9333@cs.uidaho.edu Subject: beta test results Cc: oman@gold.cs.uidaho.edu, tpearse@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-roman8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO 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.