Hi all, I have *finally* updated my binary package of Xfractint that is available on my Web site. It's now updated to the latest developers version - 20.2.04, and my Xfractint page has gone through a major re-design. For more details, and to download Xfractint 20.2.04, please go to: http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/xfractint/xfractint.html Have fun! Scott Boyd
Where do we report bugs in xfractint? I've got an interesting one. The archive of .map files that Scott distributes includes several with the first letter capitalized (all others are all-lower-case). When xfractint reads the directory, for some reason it reads all the filenames as all-lower-case, so if I select one that really begins with an upper-case letter, it can't load it. Obviously the problem can be fixed by renaming the files, and maybe there's some option to tar to do this when unarchiving, but there's definitely something wrong with xfractint. I know it's a port of an MS-DOS program, but it's been compiled on Linux and linked with Linux libraries, so I don't know why it should screw up the case-sensitive issue -- unless one of the libraries has a bug, but I can't imagine nobody finding it before this.
On Thursday 06 June 2002 07:20 pm, Jim Shaffer wrote:
Where do we report bugs in xfractint? I've got an interesting one. The archive of .map files that Scott distributes includes several with the first letter capitalized (all others are all-lower-case). When xfractint reads the directory, for some reason it reads all the filenames as all-lower-case, so if I select one that really begins with an upper-case letter, it can't load it.
Obviously the problem can be fixed by renaming the files, and maybe there's some option to tar to do this when unarchiving, but there's definitely something wrong with xfractint. I know it's a port of an MS-DOS program, but it's been compiled on Linux and linked with Linux libraries, so I don't know why it should screw up the case-sensitive issue -- unless one of the libraries has a bug, but I can't imagine nobody finding it before this.
This is the place. The same thing happens with image files. It 's a case where we are converting the filenames to all lowercase, which MS-DOS doesn't mind, but Linux does. I'll look into a fix. Thanks for the bug report. Jonathan
On Thursday 06 June 2002 07:20 pm, Jim Shaffer wrote:
Where do we report bugs in xfractint? I've got an interesting one. The archive of .map files that Scott distributes includes several with the first letter capitalized (all others are all-lower-case). When xfractint reads the directory, for some reason it reads all the filenames as all-lower-case, so if I select one that really begins with an upper-case letter, it can't load it.
I've got a fix for it. It'll be in my next patch. Jonathan
Scott wrote:
I have *finally* updated my binary package of Xfractint that is available on my Web site. It's now updated to the latest developers version - 20.2.04, and my Xfractint page has gone through a major re-design.
I added a link from http://www.fractint.org to Scott's xfractint page in case you forget. Tim
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