[SGVLUG] portability with svga

[Jeff Keys]

It ran on a virtual console under Knoppix 4.0 on a Gateway 450 notebook, but
I had to chmod +x it first. I noticed that < and > didn't work with the
shift key as I expected,  but did work without it.

On David's 40/33 problem, I found that "1 r 7" gave the "Good  work"
response, though the instructions didn't indicate that as a proper response.

On More or Less, the instructions could be clearer for 3rd graders:
referring to the games as comparison games and ordering games could be
confusing to some kids.

It needs a "Q for Quit" command. I  had to use ^c.

On 3/16/06, David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:45:51AM -0800, juanslayton at dialup4less.comwrote:
>
> >      If you're on the dev-sig mail list, you've already seen this; I
> >      just want a bit more coverage.    (Hit the 'delete', Mike.) I'd
> >      like to ask a favor of anyone who has time or interest.  I have
> >      written a short set of utility routines for 3rd grade students
> >      that I am now reworking for portability to other machines and
> >      distros.  A simple binary (titled 'preview') can be downloaded
> >      from http://www.dialup4less.com/~juanslayton and run on a
> >      terminal screen.  Some of the routines are dependent on
> >      ncurses, one uses the svga library.  The latter is the one that
> >      seems to have portability problems; it is titled "Say When" on
> >      the program menu.  I would greatly appreciate anyone who would
> >      try to run this and send me a bug report.  Such report is
> >      likely to be no more than "runs" or "won't run" on
> >      _____________(distro).  My direct e-mail address is
> >      juanslayton at dialup4less.com.
> >
> > John
>
> I had problems with this.  Unless you read "help" first, you have no
> idea of how to interact.  For example, it asks: What seems to be the
> problem? (And nothing else)  For, me, I've having problems
> interpreting the meaning of multiplier functions in a non-normal
> problem of Mayer.  But if I type in 40/33 it will not let me type in
> anthing but an integer for the answer and claims that 1 is wrong.  So
> I think there is a lot more wrong with this than possible problems
> with ncurses.  I'm using a CIT-101e dumb terminal.  At first the
> preview slowly scrolls, wasting my time.
>
> I don't know why, but the lynx browser thinks that preview is a text
> files and downloads it as text.  But the "file" command show what's
> downloaded to be a binary and it executes OK although I shortly gave
> up on it due to its other flaws..
>
>                         David Lawyer
>
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