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Re: [cfox@MIT.EDU : blank screen during update]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Mar 22 20:12:01 2001
Message-Id: <200103230109.UAA01515@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
received Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:20:46 -0500
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:09:44 -0500
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>>> * Give up on trying to put out these Solaris patches.
>
> I think we need input from alexp before we can determine how much of
>an option this is. On the other hand, has anyone verified that the
>patches in 8.4.21 make our JDK problems go away? If they don't, punting
>seems like the easiest solution.
I haven't had a chance to test yet, but Alex sent this earlier today.
>To: ajfox@MIT.EDU, ghusdon@MIT.EDU
>cc: facdev@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Sun Java patches
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:42:07 -0500
>From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>
>Here's the verdict on the effect of the Java patches on the Sun release.
>
>As usual, there's good news and bad news.
>
>The good news is that a number of problems have gone away.
>
>Printing now works from the JDK 1.3 appletviewer and Forte for Java
>2.0.
>
>Doing Applet -> Properties from the 1.3 appletviewer no longer crashes
>Java with an exception.
>
>The Splus 6.0 Java GUI problems have gone away (they were all
>printing-related).
>
>The bad news:
>
>All the Matlab 6 Java GUI problems are still there, including the printing
>ones (these were a bit unusual and didn't manifest in the same way as the
>printing problems in other applications, so I'm not real surprized).
>
>At this point I think all we can do about the latter is report this back to
>the Mathworks. Now they don't have the excuse that we need to install all
>applicable Java patches before thy'll look at this seriously (I'm presuming
>we installed them all).
>
> Alex
>
