For infinite loops problems, you can use alt-. (which also works
on NT and perhaps every platform?)



For line-end problems, you can load CRLFFileStream.cs from:

         http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/CrLfFileStream.cs

(although maybe there is a more official location).  After loading it,
change the method FileStream class>>concreteStream to say CrLfFileStream
instead of StandardFileStream.


Regarding sound, at least three people have put together sound support
for Linux.  I'm one of those, and have put my stuff at:

         http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/squeak/sound/

It seems to work fine for me, though I don't exactly test it real
hard.  I don't know if the other two (or more!) have put their stuff
on a Web page or not; my stuff has the potential disadvantage of
requiring pthreads for recording to work.




And finally, I don't have any suggesting about crashing after window
resizing.  IMHO, though, little quirks like this are well worth the
benefits of having the latest code available.  If you want more
safety, you can always turn off the really new features like xshm and
jitter.



Happy Squeaking (and Linuxing)!

Lex





Alexander Lazarevic writes:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > I just joined the mailinglist a few days ago. There was a mail from
 > someone (sorry I accidentally deletetd it) complaining about the lack
 > of Linux squeak to produce sound. I would like to take the opportunity
 > to point out some other shortcomings of Linux squeak.
 > 
 > The one thing, that really annoys me is that squeak won't interrupt on
 > CTRL-C. If I get stuck in an endless loop I have to kill the squeak
 > process, restart squeak and replay the changes.
 > 
 > Mentioning starting squeak reminds me that I have tried to start
 > squeak with the -xshm option to enable X shared memory extensions. If
 > I try to resize the squeak work window it crashes. This won't happen
 > when I start squeak without -xshm.
 > 
 > What confuses me is that some of the sourcecode in the image uses CR
 > as the lineend character. Everytime I want to have a look at a method
 > which has this line terminator I just get garbage in the method
 > view. I have to do a format and accept to get it straight. Shouldn't
 > the display method treat LF and CR equally?
 > 
 > Other thing I noticed, is that output to Transcript is very
 > slow. Something like <? 80 timesRepeat: [Transcript show: '#'] ?>
 > really gives you a coffee-break. I don't know if this is just a linux
 > specific problem.
 > 
 > After all that bashing I want to make clear, that squeak has some
 > aspects I really like. Just to pick one: PWS is a very ... "cool"
 > thing. :)
 > 
 > I appreciate the rapid development of squeak and that it offers a
 > playground for new ideas. This made me return to it. (After first
 > contact with squeak about one year ago, my first reaction was to set
 > up "The official Squeak haters page" at our university. -- Things can
 > change :)
 > 
 > Alex.
 > 
 > -- 
 > ------  Alexander  Lazarevic  ------------------------------------------------
 > -- Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet      mailto: lazarevi at cs.uni-magdeburg.de --
 > --   Computational Visualistics    http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~lazarevi --
 >