[5814] in SIPB bug reports
Katie Livingston: Re: saving 14.01 from themselves (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Feb 16 17:34:44 1996
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: katiel@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:29:57 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
To office people: We've seen a lot of these questions, so here's some
info from the faculty liasons.
To bug-sipb: we should fix our browsers to run the more recent
acroread, if there's no good reason not to.
Marc
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To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: saving 14.01 from themselves (again)
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:56:35 EST
From: Katie Livingston <katiel@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Marc,
Thanks for the warning regarding 14.01. I've been working with the
prof, and here's the scoop:
He does want to use PDF to display course materials. He has instructed
students that:
1. They should use only Suns and SGIs for printing
2. They should not print from Ghostview or the command line (i.e.
you can't print a pdf from Ghostview or lpr it or else you
get pages of garbage)
3. (most important) They should only use a web browser launched from
Dash (i.e. one from infoagents). The versions in the SIPB locker
or elsewhere are not configured to launch Acrobat Reader 2.1. Version
1.0 presents a slew of other problems.
And, yes, he realizes that he's using software that doesn't run on
all Athena platforms. This is ok with us. Anyway, that's it in a
nutshell. I'll alert cfyi too in case they see more 14.01-spawned cruft.
Thanks again for the alert; I think it should be under control now.
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Katie Livingston
Faculty Liaison Office
Academic Computing Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(617) 253-6690, 253-0115
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