[14907] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape on athena only supports 40-bit encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Sat Jan 11 17:27:31 1997
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: kyoung <khyung@MIT.EDU>, suggest@MIT.EDU, bug@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU,
cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:16:16 EST."
<199701110716.CAA05173@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:27:26 EST
From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
> I believe this installed in the outland locker as "netscape-beta".
As of today, the version of netscape installed in the outland locker
is Navigator 3.01 for US distribution only. It is available as
'netscape-beta', and also as 'netscape-3.01'. 'netscape-gold' will
run Navigator Gold 3.01 forUS distribution.
The 'netscape-beta' program in the outland locker will always run the
most recent version of Netscape Navigator (or Communicator) provided
that it is not already available from the infoagents locker. This means
that it will run the Communicator preview release as soon as it
becomes available.
Netscape in the infoagents locker is currently Navigator 3.0 for
international distribution. It would be nice for it to be upgraded to
3.01 for US distribution before the spring term starts. There was
some discussion on this earlier, but it dissipated during some
arguments over how to manage authuser restriction of the binaries.
Relevant items in cwis-dev are [1208], [1210], [1269]...
It looks like it was decided to make 'netscape-US' and 'usnetscape'
run the US version of netscape, however this doesn't seem to have
actually been done. (At least, it doesn't appear to have been done for
Linux.)
I personally don't feel that this is the best plan, and that the
'netscape' command should run the US version if it is readable,
otherwise it should default to the international version (perhaps
displaying a warning with send_message first? I don't think this would
be terrible.)
Well, that's the long version.
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
