langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (06/06/88)
In article <108@hrsw2.UUCP> bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) writes: >In article <3877@cbmvax.UUCP>, carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) >writes: >> Just a note about 1.3 - The 1.3 Run command no longer leaves a lock >> on the CLI it was called from if you redirect output to NIL:. >but, a few messages prior (on my machine), >In article <3876@cbmvax.UUCP>, carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) >writes: >> There will be 1.3 ROMs but they will not clear up the setalert bug. >> 1.3 = 1.2 + autoboot code. All bug fixes and other enhancements will >> be in 1.4. [Dave then expresses confusion over the seeming contradiction: "1.3 is exactly the same as 1.2 but with autoboot code" and "1.3 is not the same as 1.2 wrt the Run command (and other changes e.g. the RRD)".] I believe that Carolyn's statement that the 1.3 ROMs are identical to the 1.2 ROMs except for autoboot code refers to the ROM routines *only*. Disk-based stuff like binaries and device drivers will not be the same distribution as in 1.2. In addition to the improved Run command and stadard RRD, many of today's most popular Workbench enhancements, or reasonable facsimiles, will be included (e.g. a program to change the system font and speed up text display, a la Microsmiths' FastFonts). Be seeing you... Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage..." -- Bill Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, I.v.19
schabacker@fra04.dec.com (posting for Christian Balzer) (06/13/88)
In a recent article Lang Zerner writes: > >I believe that Carolyn's statement that the 1.3 ROMs are identical to the 1.2 >ROMs except for autoboot code refers to the ROM routines *only*. Disk-based >stuff like binaries and device drivers will not be the same distribution as in >1.2. In addition to the improved Run command and stadard RRD, many of today's >most popular Workbench enhancements, or reasonable facsimiles, will be included >(e.g. a program to change the system font and speed up text display, a la >Microsmiths' FastFonts). > Yup, that's it. The 1.3 Workbench and Extras disks have undergone some major changes (mostly transparent enhancements). But the text display speed up program _IS_ Microsmiths' FastFonts! CBM licensed (sp???) it from Charlie Heath. See ya, <CB> -- __ __ / / | \ \ <CB> aka Christian Balzer - The Software Brewery - // / / | \ \ UUCP : decwrl!{frambo|fra03|fra04}.dec.com!schabacker // < < |---< > or : schabacker@{frambo|fra03|fra04}.dec.com \\ // \ \ | / / CIS : 71001,210 (It's a friends account, be brief) \X/ \ \__ |__/ / Snail: Im Wingertsberg 45, D-6108 Weiterstadt, F.R.G "Guess what? That's the news and I am out of here..." A fancy .signature, never leave home without one!