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From: hunt@metrowerks.com (Eric Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Loading and Running woes....  HELP!
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:44:09 -0500
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In article <336034A6.73C2@ix.netcom.com>, spelwevr@ix.netcom.com wrote:
 
> So, my most important question is:
> 
>    * How do I load data files from the debugger?

This is not possible at this time. We are working on adding this capability
to the debugger. If all goes well, I will have a patch release for Windows
that will consist of beta tools for people to use in approximately two
weeks. 
 
> Also:
>    * How do I do so from PSComUtil?
>    * What is PSComUtil's Status -39?

This is also going to be fixed in PSComUtil. We have fixed it on the
Macintosh version of PSComUtil, but I believe there are some other issues
preventing it from being fixed immediately on Windows 95/NT. Again, fixing
this is also planned to be a part of a beta release of the Windows tools in
approximately two weeks.
 
> Also, the CodeWarrior tools have some problems (this is in Windows)....
>    * All of the dialogs have context help buttons but no context help!
>    * Settings such as tab size, highlighting, etc. are not saved
>    * Screen updates are incredibly slow (I thought it locked up once)
>    * Scroll bars very rarely draw properly
>    * What help files exist are befouled -- the index keyword list is
>      totally messed up (most begin with 'K ' for instance).
>    * The system slows down badly when running any CodeWarrior app (on
>      a 586-120 with 16 Megs of RAM).  It isn't swapping memory, but
>      rather something is somehow dragging the CPU down.  Given the
>      display problems and general update slowness, I would guess that
>      the display routines for the programs (IDE, debugger, PSComUtil)
>      are the cause (probably not well ported from their Mac origins).

A lot of these IDE issues will also be addressed in the beta patch.

Our minimum system requirements for Windows are 16 megs of RAM, but we
strongly recommend 24 or 32 for optimal performance.

Please, in the future, make sure you send a carbon copy of your questions
to support@metrowerks.com so that we can effectively track and do followups
on them.

Thanks,

Eric Hunt
Metrowerks Playstation Tech Support