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Athena patch release 7.4H testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Feb 5 19:00:24 1993
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 18:58:28 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
We're finally ready with this release, but rather than risk breaking
things over the weekend, we will not start testing until Monday
evening.
If your workstation was one of the friendly testers for release 7.4,
then sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning release 7.4H
will be available for it. If it allows autoupdates, it will update
itself. If not, you will have to login as root on the console, and
run /srvd/update_ws, then reboot.
Release notes follow.
-Mark
User noticible changes:
* The help and olh programs will no longer dump core when you start
them up specifying a document name on the command line. Currently
specifying a menu works (i.e. ``help @sas:main_menu''), but specifying
a document fails (i.e. ``help @sas:interfaces''). This will cause olh
to find any named module.
* On DECstation's with 100dpi resolution displays (i.e. DS5000/133),
ez and the rest of the andrew applications will find the appropriate
fonts. Most noticably, this allows text to be visible in the
printer setup dialog box.
* On the RISC/6000, third party motif programs will now find the
proper keyboard mappings. Some third party applications did not
properly recognize the arrow keys and other special keys because
a configuration file was missing. We have installed a symlink from
/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB to /usr/athena/lib/X11/XKeysymDB where our
file is stored.
Other fixes:
* Security problems with xlogin and rdist have been fixed.
