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- Dear Folks,
-
- A subtle error crept into the development of Executor 1.2.1 and the
- nature of the error combined with our testing process let it slip
- into the official release.
-
- The nature of the problem is that you may find that Executor or
- HFS_XFer refuses to believe that a freshly inserted floppy is
- actually a removable medium. Hence, it doesn't let you eject the
- floppy, nor does it eject the floppy when it's done.
-
- The solution is really simple. While you're not running Executor or
- HFS_XFer, remove the directory /usr/filesystems/HFS_XFer.fs. You'll
- probably need to do this using the "su" command or logged in as root.
-
- For the curious, the problem is that we modified the utility that
- communicates information about newly inserted disks. However, the
- way the utility is installed is Executor or HFS_XFer notice when the
- utility is not there, and write a new copy if it's not. The problem
- is that new versions of Executor and HFS_XFer carry the new utility,
- and are incompatible with the old utility, BUT the new versions of
- Executor and HFS_XFer don't replace the old utility with the new
- utility unless the old utility has been removed.
-
- Why didn't our testing catch this? Well, we delete all traces of
- Executor from the machines that we're going to test new versions on
- so that we don't accidently rely on something that was left behind
- from the old version. It never dawned on us that there could be the
- opposite problem.
-
- --Cliff
-
-