ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (08/16/90)
I just updated the ISIS V2.1 BETA release to include the bug fixes made during our first week of beta tests. The latest version has no known bugs in either normal or BYPASS mode, and Fortran is working again too. However, both of our LISP interfaces are broken. When Robert Cooper fixes these and we've had another week to pound on things, we'll issue a final ISIS V2.1 release. I should probably qualify this by saying that while ISIS is working almost flawlessly, we are still having problems with some host OS quirks. For example, we find that if we overwhelm HPUX with UDP packets by exceeding its "burst out" limit, it jams for 3 seconds. (Anyone have a fix for this? Increasing SO_BURST_OUT only changes the number of UDP outputs before you trigger this problem). Make a note of this number: 1792877 bytes. This is the size of the latest compressed V2.1 image and will enable you to distinguish this beta release from the prior one. The copy on cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu is up to date. UUNET and MCSUN should be up to date tomorrow sometime. To copy this version of ISIS: % ftp cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu Login: anonymous Password: <your user-id> ftp> binary ftp> get Remote file: pub/ISISV21-BETA.TAR.Z Local file: ISISV21-BETA.TAR.Z Transferred 1792877 bytes in 1.3 seconds ftp> quit % uncompress ISISV21-BETA.TAR.Z % tar -xf ISISV21-BETA.TAR % cd isisv2.1 % make HPSPECT (or whatever) To copy it from UUNET: uucp or FTP from network/ISIS/ISISV21-BETA.TAR.Z Same for MCSUN. Please report ANY problems you encounter in this release. The next one will be the our real V2.1 release and I would hate for it to contain a bug someone knew about! Ken