wondering when/whether our 3.3.2 will arrive ...

[Bob Green]

The following is an extract from the 4D1-3.3.3 release notes.  Please be
aware that a precondition for 4D1-3.3.3 is that 4D1-3.3.2 is installed on
the system.

Bob Green




       4.  Bug Fixes

       This chapter describes bug fixes to IRIX, Networking, NFS
       and NIS, Graphics, 4Sight, X11, and Demos.  A Silicon
       Graphics software change request (SCR) number appears with
       some of the bug fixes in this chapter.

       4.1  Bug Fixes to IRIX

          +o The 1/2-inch tape driver fix that was supposed to have
            been in the 4D1-3.3.2 maintenance set is now on the
            4D1-3.3.3 tape.

          +o Login was changed so that it does not request a new
            password for accounts that have the aging feature
            turned on and have been accessed through an rlogin with
            an associated .rhosts file.

          +o The 4D/310 kernels were fixed to exclude hardlocks,
            thereby increasing performance.

          +o The logical volume functionality was corrected to keep
            it from occasionally causing a system crash.

          +o Make core dumped when very long file names and the $!
            operator were used.

          +o The 2-gigabyte I/O limit on irregular files was
            removed.  This had caused errors when attempting to
            back up logical volume file systems exceeding 2
            gigabytes.

       4.2  Bug Fixes to Networking

          +o In 4D1-3.3.2, diskless workstations would sometimes
            hang during periods of heavy swapping.  This occurred
            whenever the Ethernet driver tried direct memory access
            (DMA) on consecutive virtual pages pointing to the same
            physical page in memory.

       4.3  Bug Fixes to NFS and NIS

          +o UNIXrO domain sockets were fixed to work over NFS.  This
            bug disabled the BSD lpr utilities on diskless clients.

       4.4  Bug Fixes to Graphics

          +o The setvideo(3) Graphics Library call could
            inadvertently cause the screen to blank on GT and GTX
            systems running 4D1-3.3.2; this bug was most evident to
            users of the Composite Video and Genlock Option.

          +o The gl readscreen() internal Graphics Library call had
            a problem with GT- and GTX-based systems that use the
            RV2 (Raster Video 2) board; this bug prevented image
            processing tools such as ipaste and scrsave from
            functioning properly.

          +o A defect disabling the use of all eight stenciling
            planes was fixed in the PowerVision graphics.

          +o On some Power Series GT, GTX, and VGX models with
            programmable video formats, stereo operation did not
            always replicate the cursor in a manner consistent with
            other models.  Cursor operation is now restricted to
            the bottom ``right'' image, and a duplicated cursor is
            drawn in the top ``left'' image for all models with
            stereo capability.

          +o On GT and GTX models with programmable video formats,
            the NTSC and PAL formats had bugs that could insert a
            vertical stripe on the right-hand edge of the video
            image.  The PAL format in particular would generate a
            several-pixel-wide green stripe on the right-hand edge
            of active video.  Both formats have been fixed to
            correct this problem.

       4.5  Bug Fixes to 4Sight

          +o The space character was incorrectly specified in the
            75-dot-per-inch and 96-dot-per-inch fonts. This caused
            some characters in FrameMakerrO to overlap.

       4.6  Bug Fixes to X11

          +o The Destroy.o module in libXt.a caused UIM/X to dump
            core.

          +o The 4D1-3.3 through 4D1-3.3.2 versions of xterm dropped
            support for the -ibmkbd option referenced in the 4DDN
            product.  The 4D1-3.2 version of xterm has been added
            to the release under the name xterm.3.2 for support of
            this feature.

       4.7  Bug Fixes to Demos

          +o The eyes demo that was supposed to have been in the
            4D1-3.3.2 maintenance set is now in the 4D1-3.3.3
            maintenance set.