[750] in Release_7.7_team
SGI 8.0 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Oct 16 03:33:08 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 03:33:00 EDT
I put out the 8.0H for the SGIs tonight. Included below is a list of
the changes. It is worth noting that due to this release there will
probably be a moderate amount of old mail that goes out tonight (that
had been left in the mail queues on cluster workstations, since they
were not running those queues regularly).
Jonathon
------- Changes in the 8.0H athena release for SGIs
* An apparent workaround has been installed for the problems
with the SGI floppy drives. Unfortunately, we don't have a
good understanding of the problem or why our workaround
helps, so we can't be sure that the problem is really fixed.
* The local mail queue is now run periodically.
* The -h flag to lpr no longer acts as a toggle.
* The non-functional xinfo option in the "Other Options" login
menu is now disabled.
* You no longer get the SGI xdm login screen if you do
something like abort after a mail check login. xlogin will
be restarted instead.
* People with "system:anyuser none" home directories can log
in properly now.
* The x3270 key bindings have been fixed.
* emacs has been updated, but there should be no user-visible
changes.
* Remote logins with no DISPLAY should no longer give errors
when setting the app-defaults path.
* Some bugs have been fixed in the SGI xsession code for
filtering the 4Dwmdesks file.
