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re: notes, 7/29

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Wed Jul 30 12:32:41 1997

To: othomas@MIT.EDU
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU.mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:32:41 EDT
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>


>> 3. workman is reported to be "freezing" workstations.  apparently it
>> is grabbing focus, then dropping into diskwait, and sitting there.
>> there are other programs which can be used, and the consultants are
>> looking into fixing it.
> 
>actually, it turns out that the consult locker workman is just a script
>which calls the workman binary in outland.  brett is still looking into
>fixing it, but in his capacity as outland bug fixer as opposed to athena
>consulting bug fixer.
> 
>brett mentioned that this may be a problem with openlook rather than
>workman.  (it's also a problem which has been around for a couple of
>releases.)

	I've made a change to workman that should fix this
problem. It's in the one in outland and will be in the consult
version tommorrow.


	Brett


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