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Re: ROM modules

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In message <5274f22180dave@triffid.co.uk>
          Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <a145e57452.martin@bach.planiverse.com>,
>    Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> wrote:
>> In message <5274db99dcdave@triffid.co.uk>
>>           Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

>>> FPEmulator 4.22 is in ROM and should have been made dormant and
>>> replaced with a soft load FPEmulator 4.28, but it has not.

>> Should it? What makes you think so? Did the documentation advise you
>> that that should happen? Does the program ask for 4.28? Does the
>> program not work?

> Documentation, don't get to see any of that stuff these days.
> Yes, in the Run file it has a RMEnsure FPEmulator 4.28

> No the prog did not work, it was attempting to Run the proggy that caused
> the same crash out that happens if an attempt is made to kill the FPE 4.22
> module.

Ah, I see. Not a good idea to have an RMEnsure FPEmulator in a !Run 
file. Softloading that module requires quite a bit more effort to make 
sure that it does not crash the system. I went through all that when 
putting the PostScript 3 release together. Having to softload 
FPEmulator is a huge inconvenience only justified by the fact that at 
the time of the PS3 release most installed versions of FPEmulator had 
a critical bug that broke PS3. That bug would not affect 
PipeDream/Fireworks though and I am not aware of anything being wrong 
with version 4.22 in the RO6 ROM, so I wonder why it was considered 
necessary to go to the trouble of ensuring a later FPEmulator.

Maybe that is a recommendation in the latest C/C++ tools?

Speaking of C/C++ tools, I do hope that the System update that is 
offered for download alongside Fireworks is the current official C/C++ 
tools release. Has anyone checked?

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
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ROM modules Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 08:04 +0000
  Re: ROM modules Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-23 10:50 +0100
    Re: ROM modules Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 12:10 +0000
      Re: ROM modules Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-23 16:23 +0100
        Re: ROM modules "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-03-27 18:21 +0100

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