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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
It needs a "Q for Quit" command. I had to use ^c.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Lawyer</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:45:51AM -0800, <a href="mailto:juanslayton@dialup4less.com">juanslayton@dialup4less.com
</a> wrote:<br><br>> If you're on the dev-sig mail list, you've already seen this; I<br>> just want a bit more coverage. (Hit the 'delete', Mike.) I'd<br>> like to ask a favor of anyone who has time or interest. I have
<br>> written a short set of utility routines for 3rd grade students<br>> that I am now reworking for portability to other machines and<br>> distros. A simple binary (titled 'preview') can be downloaded
<br>> from <a href="http://www.dialup4less.com/~juanslayton">http://www.dialup4less.com/~juanslayton</a> and run on a<br>> terminal screen. Some of the routines are dependent on<br>> ncurses, one uses the svga library. The latter is the one that
<br>> seems to have portability problems; it is titled "Say When" on<br>> the program menu. I would greatly appreciate anyone who would<br>> try to run this and send me a bug report. Such report is
<br>> likely to be no more than "runs" or "won't run" on<br>> _____________(distro). My direct e-mail address is<br>> <a href="mailto:juanslayton@dialup4less.com">juanslayton@dialup4less.com
</a>.<br>><br>> John<br><br>I had problems with this. Unless you read "help" first, you have no<br>idea of how to interact. For example, it asks: What seems to be the<br>problem? (And nothing else) For, me, I've having problems
<br>interpreting the meaning of multiplier functions in a non-normal<br>problem of Mayer. But if I type in 40/33 it will not let me type in<br>anthing but an integer for the answer and claims that 1 is wrong. So<br>I think there is a lot more wrong with this than possible problems
<br>with ncurses. I'm using a CIT-101e dumb terminal. At first the<br>preview slowly scrolls, wasting my time.<br><br>I don't know why, but the lynx browser thinks that preview is a text<br>files and downloads it as text. But the "file" command show what's
<br>downloaded to be a binary and it executes OK although I shortly gave<br>up on it due to its other flaws..<br><br> David
Lawyer<br></blockquote></div><br>