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7.3I is ready for testing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Release Engineering)
Wed Aug 14 18:41:18 1991

Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 18:38:51 -0400
To: "Friendly Testers" <devnull@odie.mit.edu>
From: "Release Engineering" <devnull@odie.mit.edu>



7.3I is ready for testing.  Update is per usual as sent in past messages.

Changes in this release:

ALL:
    	Fixed from to allow both -r and -s [from/from.c]
	/usr/doc/ibmdoc installed (actually in usrdoc locker)
	Kerberos old-style klogin compatibility
	    athena.lib/kerberos/
		util/imake.includes/config.Imakefile
		lib/krb/Imakefile
		lib/krb/kparse.c
		lib/krb/kuserok.c
		appl/bsd/login.c
		appl/bsd/rshd.c
	    bin/login/login
	    athena.bin/rkinit/rkinitd/rkinitd
	kinit: "Project Athena" --> "Athena"
	    athena.lib/kerberos/util/imake.includes/config.Imakefile
	emacs command parsing of -display broken:
	    third/common/gnu/emacs-18.57/lisp/term/x-win.el
	Permissions on s_lpr s_lprm s_lpq, and lpd wrong
	    athena/ucb/lpr/Imakefile
	Xdsc no longer does usage logging
	    athena.bin/xdsc/{Xdsc,Lucy}
	Dash/console changes: 
            athena/athena.bin/dash/
	    	AClock.c:	strange interaction of 2 resources
		Imakefile:	More up-to-date fallback file copied
		Jets.c:		Fix to make work done during resizing
				down to minimum.
		Menu.c:		Only when debug enable print warnings
				about unknown platforms
		Window.c:	Fixed bug to prevent getting into loop
				when a window was resized
		console.c:	comment fix
		dash.c:		POSIX fix for exiting on RS/6000 & typo
				(sprintf->fprintf)
	attach:
	    zinit -d: typo corrected (attach/zephyr.c)
	    fsid -a no longer authenticates to other's filesystems or
	        filesystems of type 'n'  (attach/main.c)

	delete changes mod. times on deletion so expunge can work on AFS
	       athena.bin/delete/delete.c, delete.1
	andrew: fixes to make more consistant behaviour in entering characters
		andrew/src/mit/export_lib/global.prf
		andrew/src/mit/export_lib/NEWA
		andrew/src/cmu/atk/text/txtvcmod.c
				  	txtvcsty.c
	dash: resize bug fix (take two)
	      athena/athena.bin/dash/Window.c

	emacs: updated manual page
	      third/common/gnu/emacs-18.57/etc/emacs.1

VAX:
    	Kerberos and all its dependencies needed rebuilding

BSD & DECstation:
	machtype -r -v did not show device if extended
		info was not available for device. (tk50)
	    athena/athena.bin/machtype/machtype.c


RS/6000:
    	Remove cruft [vers/7.3I]
	finger fixed to work with SYSV-utmp [finger/finger.c]
	xterm: calls setsid() to get pgid [xterm/main.c]

An updated copy of the release notes can be found in
/mit/info/Release.dir/Release73.system.{tex,dvi,PS}

If you have encounter any problems with the release, send a bug report
to <testers@MIT.EDU>.

Enjoy!


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