On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:39:53 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>> I really want to run the Linux prime search software when I'm in Red Hat 5.2 (I'm
>usually in Windows 98), but the program seems to have no documentation or information
>once it's running. I ran it for 4 hours once and had no idea how to close it. I had
>to use "kill," the only command I could think of to close it. When I got back to
>Windows, I saw that my work had not been saved. I had set the option in Windows for
>disk saves every 15 minutes. Mprime and Prime95 shared the same data files, like
>they are supposed to. What's going on? I'd vote for an mprime on an X-server. I
>want to see SOMETHING while the thing's going. At least show me the iteration #,
>iteration % of total, and seconds / iteration.
>
>(could everyone please set their mailer to wrap at <80 charactors)
>
>Try mprime -m
>then choose 6. Test/Continue
>
>It seems a bit odd that it didn't save work when it was killed.
>I thought it was supposed to. What signal did you send the process?
>Try CTRL+C if kill continually keeps it from saving.
>
>-Lucas
To add to that, try mprime -m -d that will output the same info as Prime95
does.
It is all in the readme.txt that come with mprime, unless your version did
not come with one. The latest v19 certainly does.
Regards,
Mike,
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