From: Kurt Schraner
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:35:57 +0200
Subject: Re: [TSSP] F A N T C: - It's NEW! - and needs some TSSP input
Hi Bart, Paul, waiting such a development, I'm very enthusiastic about your FANTC, and liked to try it directly, by running the first of the demo examples. Well, it suddenly blocked all PC keyboard-entrys (except Ctrl-Alt-Del), but after a longer time in the order of 250sec's displayed a result: Running F A N T C version x.6 using core functions of G E O T C version: 2.0 RUNNING DEMO: A toroided system: (tssp => 17.3 pF) Computing ..... please wait After the result, one is again able use mouse and keys. Beeing back on the program entry screen, (in Netscape 6, version 6.2.2, german; Mozilla /5.0) the following message is displayed: ===================== script warning: a script on this page is causing mozilla to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to continue.... ===================== I also tried Internet Explorer version 6.0.2600.0000 (german), with almost similar behavior. Well, I was waiting about 600 sec's, then aborting the program, without further result displays. My questions: - considering the possible long run times (~1h recently), perhaps I didn't wait long enough? - May be there is some problem with my version of Netscape? - May be there is some problem with my version of Explorer? - I'm using FANTC via an old analog dialup-modem (56k): is a highspeed connention needed? - Will it be possible, to utilize FANTC offline, in some future, 'cause such long runtimes will become expensive on dialup connections? My local machine, however, should have enough power: 2GHz/256MB RAM. (BTW: I understand, in the testphase, a distribution might not be appropriate and desirable). Excuse me for bothering the list with these purely "computer items", it may be continued off list, but for this time I thought, others might encounter similar problems? Cheers, Kurt Barton B. Anderson wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Ran a detail (4) in Fantc: > BTW, with a detail = Time elapsed: 3529.5 secs (900Mhz chugg) >
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.