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[Robert]

'only 64-bit' updates. Are there many of those?

There have been more 64-bit issues of late and think that is just people taking it up and using it more. There are significant differences between FTN95 in 32 and 64-bit modes. It isn't just a 'recompile' because FTN95 is the recompiler! We hide lots of complexity so that, hopefully, the user can just use a command line switch and move between 32 and 64 bits as required.

There isn't a push for a 64-bit only version. Some features may suit 64-bit more, some might not.

[Kenneth_Smith]

I use %pl on a daily basis, so it must be robust.

[DanRRight]

John,
Some bugs were fixed in this new incarnation of %pl, some are still there, mostly in LOG part.

But i hope now rest of problems will be fixed quicker. They all are minor anyway. I understand that slow new %pl fixing in the past was because it was no sense to fix some minor things when the entire %pl was scheduled to be completely upgraded.

And of course all settings of the plots may look more graphically visual. There you could, for example, click on X axis numbers instead of searching and scrolling for X axis numbering in the long list of features like today. You can move axis by mouse (like it is done in my own graphics) instead of reading the same long list and clicking 100 times to move it by 100 pixels etcetcetc.

Such Visual %PL will be totally great. Users just need to adopt it ASAP.

Ability to adjusting million things which is done right now with Visual %PL without programming is exactly what needed to satisfy everyone. Because Bill Gates' proverbial 640k will not fit everyone. Before adjusting small misplacement of tics numbers was a nightmare. Today if it exists -- it just a loss of few seconds.

John, i sill assure you to fix this misplacement by few pixels with all 5000 fonts in the computer is special job. It is doable. But it's not justifiable loss of time until many, almost all will start using this new %pl (in my own graphics i gave up and till now did not complete auto adjustment, i also do that manually like Paul is doing with new %pl. Who cares - this is just few clicks).
It probably has no sense to fix it anymore. Paradigm is changed.