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From: "Paul W. Oman" <oman@gold.cs.uidaho.edu>
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Subject: beta test results
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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.