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7.4B is ready for testing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Release Engineering at ATHENA)
Wed May 20 19:01:17 1992

Date: Wed, 20 May 92 18:58:58 -0400
To: "Friendly Testers" <devnull@odie.mit.edu>
From: "Release Engineering at ATHENA" <builder@Athena.MIT.EDU>


7.4B is ready for testing.  Update is per usual as sent in past messages.

Changes in this release:

   BSD:
	NOREMOTE support accidentially left out in integration; added back in
	/source/athena/config/files/bsd-4.3/phase2.sh:
		Fix typo in installs. 
		Don't assume that ${SITE}/usr/vice exists
	/srvd/site/usr/vice moved to /srvd/site/vice
	/etc/disktab - Added Fujitsu 2266 disktab entry as used by ops

   Ultrix:
	NOREMOTE support accidentially left out in integration; added back in
	/source/athena/config/files/Ultrix/Ultrix-4.2/phase2.sh:
		Fix typo in installs. Preliminary support for Maxines
		Don't assume that ${SITE}/usr/vice exists
	/srvd/var/usr/vice moved to /srvd/usr/vice
	/etc/athena/rc.athena: Change AFSADJUST rules for machines with 
		/usr/vice/cache as it's own partition, to use the available
		space more efficiently.

   Common:
	/source/third/common/Imakefile:
		install two new bitmaps for xmh:
		/usr/athena/lib/X11/bitmaps/{black6,box6}
	/source/athena/config/update/do_update:
			     vers/7.4A
				Don't assume /usr/vice points to /site/usr/vice
	/source/third/common/Imakefile:
				Don't assume /usr/vice points to /site/usr/vice
	athena/athena.etc/xdm/xlogin: make; make install
		Motd added to idle screen of Xlogin.
	/etc/rc & /etc/athena/rc.athena
		Remove /etc/athena/login/*.local as part of public ws cleanup
	/usr/athena/lib/update/normaldiffs:
		Added /etc/athena/xserver.conf for future configuration
			of 100dpi and grayscale monitors.
	/third/common/X11R4/clients/twm/events.c
		Make an obscure error message informative and send it to
		stderr instead of stdout
	/source/config/Imakefile:
		install update.conf on all platforms

A copy of the release notes can be found in
/mit/info/Release.dir/Release74.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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