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[howcome@dxcern.cern.ch: Arena 0.92 available]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 1 11:35:36 1994

From: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 11:35:16 +0500
To: www@MIT.EDU


In the last week, I sent lots of feedback to the authors of Arena. :-)
They just sent me this:

Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:55:00 --100
To: arena@www0.cern.ch
Subject: Arena 0.92 available
From: "H&kon W Lie" <howcome@dxcern.cern.ch>
Content-Length: 859

Thanks for your comments on Arena 0.91 -- prerelease 0.92 is now
out. You can read more about it from

   http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Arena/

Among the changes are:

 o monochrome displays don't require the "-mono" option anymore

 o image support for 1, 2, and 4 depth displays has been added

 o arena starts up in color8 mode by default to avoid black 24bit SGIs

 o button labels are now inside the boxes on all platforms

 o info.cern.ch has replaced www.w3.org as home of help pages

 o unexpected X events are no longer reported unless -debug is
   specified

 o the W3O icon is also used as application icon

 o mailcap files are looked for in several places: /etc/mailcap,
   /usr/etc/mailcap, /usr/local/etc/mailcap, ~/.mailcap

 o WWW_HOME is honored

 o files can be opened from status line

 o cache directories are created world writable


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