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Huba Leidenfrost

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From: "Huba Leidenfrost" <huba@uidaho.edu>
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Subject: Beta Test Results
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  Name : Huba Leidenfrost (huba@uidaho.edu)
  Computer - HP K-Class Server 
    Processor : RISC (9000/819)
    OS version : HPUX B10.01

  Version of Perl : 5.002
  Version of GhostScript : 2.6.1

  Comments on the command-line, man page, usage statement, README
file: 

  Adequate. 

  Comments on the output format, both textual and graphical:

  Textual is fine.  Graphical I had some trouble getting it to print
out on
  as large as I wanted it to.  

  Description of any bugs / errors found:

  I found none but honestly only spent about 45 minutes total on
evaluating
  it.

  Additional comments, criticisms, suggestions, or information which
will
  help us improve this product:
  
Specific things to look at:

Can you get the program to run ? check
Is the man page helpful / readable / complete ? check
Do you understand the command line switches ? check 
Is Perl installed on your system ? check 
Does it complain ? nope
Can you generate a graphical output file ?  check
ghostview should display it, does it? check
If so, 
  ** Is it correct (as far as you understand it ) ? ** check
  ** Will a postscript capable printer print it ?? ** check
  (We're particularly concerned with these issues)	
Does the graphical output make sense to you ? check
Can you find any errors in the output which we haven't caught?  

My testing entailed running it on all the sendmail source (8.8.3).  I
only
counted numbers for a 1 file since the sendmail source averaged
around
90 lines per c source file.  The one I counted was correct for lines
the directives started on, lines inbetween directives, etc.

Suggestions/Criticisms:

I don't know if it is a feature of lp or not but when I printed out 
the postscript output at -g16 the output had blank pages inbetween
every
page of flow chart.  At the top of the graphed page were numbers. 
For 
example:  (0,1), (0,2), (1,2) etc.  Seemed weird. 

It would be nice if you had your install script ask where I wanted to
install the program and then install everything needed to run it into
that directory and add the directory to my PATH (man page
installation also).  This is feature creeping but if you have time it
would be a nicety.  And of course an 'uninstall' script to scrub
everything to 'before cca' status.  Another feature for your install
script would be to find out where perl is for you and insert the path
automagically.


Good work gentlemen.  Happy graduation?



With best wishes
for Peace Profound,

     H  u  b  a