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From: root@mentat.UUCP (doug)
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Subject: Re: HAM Ray Traced Juggler
Message-ID: <130@mentat.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 05:25:58 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 27 05:25:58 1986
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Summary: Juggler definitely broken


As Wagner and Dillon have also discovered, the HAM ray-traced juggler
that was just distributed does not work...the best you can hope for
is about eight frames, then everything freezes. Under 1.2 Enhancer you get
a guru 3.00021D88 (after a mouse click), under 1.1 you get just a dead system.

I was persistent enough to try everything, including triple-triple checks
of my triple-triple checks, re-downloading, etc. Initially I had a
fully loaded system but the exact same unvarying problem occurs even with
a single drive 512K system with no extra peripherals hanging off anything.
Naturally I followed Andy's advice in having no background processes nor
popcli nor any other memory eaters running.  The 1.1 gamma WB has the same
problem. There are no truncated files in any of the postings (they all have
headers and trailers sandwiching the uuencoded stuff). I calmly spent
literally the entire day trying various software and hardware configurations,
and re-doing everything; nothing works.

Hence I can safely say that it is the distribution itself that is broken.
I'm dying to get this going (else I wouldn't have spent twelve hours on
it today); Andy F., I would really appreciate it if you would find a known
good version, uuencode it, and then 'diff' it with the distribution to
let us know where to fix it. I'd rather edit the uuencoded files than
to have to wait another week for the second whole distribution, not to
mention the considerable download time.
	Thanks,
		Doug Merritt	hoptoad!mentat!doug, pesnta!mentat!doug,
				ucbvax!unisoft!certes!mentat!doug

P.S. Size of "Juggler.uue" 19018, of "Juggler" 13784,
of "movie.data.uue" 407316, and the size of "movie.data" is 295610.
The sizes of the uuencoded files do not included the header and
signature from the posting, just the uuencoded stuff itself.