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Re: notes from 12/12

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Dec 17 22:36:55 1996

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:36:49 -0500 (EST)
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[799] in Release_7.7_team"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

} 6.  The videocam problem on the SGIs has a workaround/fix which has
} gone to cfyi and sipb. 

Yup.

} However, we are still seeing help exchanges which just say that the
} SGI cameras don't work and recommend trying another machine.

Perhaps it was my being away last week and being busy catching up on email
and ignoring zephyr, but I haven't seen any of these.

} We should (a) put the information about the fix in the info locker
} and 

Do people actually look at the info locker? I would suggest that
it doesn't matter much for this term given that finals are just
about done.

It seems to be that the appropriate thing to do is the fix this
in a patchrelease after the term finishes. I certainly think it
merits it, given that apparently some classes give assignments
that involve the Indy frame grabber.

} (b) publicize the fix through sipb?

This has been done (by virtue of sending mail).

--jhawk

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