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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
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Subject: E/NS 1.99p6 available once more
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Hi Folks,
It took a little longer than I expected (doesn't everything) to
straighten out E/NS 1.99p6, because there were a couple other severe
problems to be addressed, but BleedingEdge contains E/NS 1.99p6 now.
Unfortunately I'm having trouble forcing vorlon.mit.edu to do a
mirror, so you can expect ftp.ardi.com to be pretty busy until people
can use vorlon, too.
I'm now going back to work on getting 1.99p6 out for DOS and Linux.
For the benefit of our NEXTSTEP users,
ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/BleedingEdge/NEXTSTEP/README is included below.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
executor-nextstep-199p6.tar.gz contains a complete Executor/NEXTSTEP
distribution (Fat: Motorola + Intel). The installation procedure is a
little non-standard, but it's the first Motorola release we've had in
a while and we know people have been waiting for this, so we made it
available as a bleeding edge release as soon as we could.
Shortly after 1.99p6 was first made available for Executor/NEXTSTEP,
our customers quickly pointed out three fairly major bugs. Here are
descriptions of the bugs and workarounds:
1. Summary: ardimods was not included in the original distribution
Symptom: Executor would not start up and "ls /LocalApps/Executor.app"
would show that there was no directory "ardimods" in
"Executor.app"
Solution: We repacked the 1.99p6 distribution to include the ardimods
directory and also made the contents of that directory available
as the file "ardimods.tar.gz"
2. Summary: Making Executor "Fat" broke our registration code
Symptom: NEXTSTEP/Motorola users could not use the supplied temporary
serial number and authorization key to register Executor.
Solution: We repacked the 1.99p6 distribution with a modified INSTALL
shell script which will automatically "thin" the Fat Executor
binary. The drawback is this means that /LocalApps/Executor.app
can only be run on machines with the same architectures as the
machine which Executor is initially installed from.
3. Summary: Unexpected Executor termination can corrupt DirectoryMaps
Symptom: After quitting Executor, Executor refuses to start up again
Solution: We repacked the 1.99p6 distribution to include a modified
executor-nextstep.readme file with this advice:
If you find Executor refusing to run, try typing this
at the command line:
sh -c 'for f in /LocalApps/Executor.app/DirectoryMap*; do > $f; done'
All three of the above bugs should be fixed in 1.99p7, which we hope
to have out as soon as we've collected all the "showstopper" bug