What Used To Be New In WAM/Glue? (1998)

11/2/98

The Digital Unix 4.0 Documentation Library has been placed online. To access, type 'bnu' on any Glue Digital Unix machine.
Spim has been upgraded to 6.1, tap spim to access.

9/11/98

gcc version 2.8.1 installed on Solaris 2.5/2.6 and Digital Unix 4 platforms. To access the old gcc, use gcc-2.7.2 on Solaris and gcc-2.7.2.1 on DU. To use the old g++, use g++-2.7.2 -L/usr/local/gnu/lib/2.7.2 on Solaris and g++-2.7.2.1 -L/usr/local/gnu/lib/2.7.2.1 on DU.
libstdc++ version 2.8.1.1 installed on Solaris 2.5/2.6 and Digital Unix 4 platforms. (This used to be called libg++.)

8/27/98 Recent events on the software front:

Netscape Communicator upgraded to 4.06
(there is not currently an x86 netbsd version).
Netscape Communicator 4.5beta installed on Solaris machines for evaluation. Use the netscape-beta command to start. (note: this is completely unsupported).
Matlab 5.2 has been installed, and is now the default Matlab. Tap matlab for more information.
Maple V Release 5 installed, and is now the default Maple. Tap maple for more information.
Mathematica 3.0.2 is now the default version of mathematica.
Java is now at version 1.1.6.
Idl is now at version 5.1.
Networker backup software version 4.2.3 has been installed.
Island Office is now at version 6.0
Purify is now at version 4.1.
Internet Exporer for Solaris is now the Strong Encryption version 4.01.

7/27/98

Perl version 5 is now the default perl accessible as /usr/local/bin/perl on Solaris 2.5/2.6 and Digital Unix 4 platforms. Perl version 4 is now accessible as /usr/local/bin/perl4 for those that need it.

1/6/98

WAM Home spaces remounted following the same scheme as existing Glue home spaces. Users accessing their home directories via AFS from outside of WAM or users that have written programs containing the full path to their home directory will need to change to the new format.

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