What's New In WAM/Glue?

10/30/00

• Matlab 5.3.1 has been installed (tap matlab531)

10/17/00

• Sun Star Office 5.2 has been installed (tap staroffice52)

10/12/00

• Franz Allegro Common Lisp 5.0.1 has been installed. (tap allegro501)
• Ansys 5.6 has been installed. (tap ansys56)

10/03/00

• Magic 6.5.1 and Irsim 9.5 VLSI design tools have been installed. (tap magic651)

9/29/00

• Mathematica 4.0.2 has been installed. (tap mathematica402)

8/29/00

• Netscape 4.75 is now the default version. This fixes a security bug in previous versions.
• Purify/Quantify/PureCoverage 5.1 has been installed. It is available on Solaris machines only. (tap purify51)
• IDL 5.3 has been installed. (tap idl53)
• Ansys 5.5.1 has been installed. (tap ansys55)
• Maple 6.01 has been installed. (tap maple601)

8/28/00

• Sun Workshop 5.0 installed on Solaris 7 platforms. This provides an up to date set of compilers for this platform including 64-bit support.

8/26/00

• Glue dialup machines have been upgraded to new hardware running Solaris 7.
  Users may notice that the password prompt now reads 'Password for <username>:' instead of just 'Password:'.

8/8/00

• WAM RAC machines have been upgraded to new hardware running Solaris 7.
  Users may notice that the password prompt now reads 'Password for <username>:' instead of just 'Password:'.
  This is due to our switching to a new, supported, login code base.
  The WAM Lab machines and Glue dialup machines will be upgraded shortly.

3/8/00

• xlockmore version 4.15 installed. This version was installed to fix some bugs in the previous version.

2/8/00

• Insure++ version 5.1 installed on all Glue platforms.
  Insure++ is a source code analysis tool that automatically detects large classes of programming and run-time errors, including algorithmic anomalies, bugs, and deficiencies.
  Check here for more information.

1/11/00

• gcc version 2.95.2 installed on Glue Alphas. This version gets rid of the 'emulated instruction' warning that some people were seeing.

1/10/00

• Xterm version 122 installed. This version fixes several bugs in the previous version and now provides color support.
• tcsh-6.07.09 installed on Glue Alphas. This brings the Alphas up to date with the rest of the platforms.
• The string displayed by tcsh when it prompts for command corrections has been fixed to show 'Correct? > cmd [y/n/e/a]'. The 'a'bort option was missing previously.

1/6/00

• Pine 4.21 installed on all Glue platforms. This version fixes a bug in version 4.20.

1/4/00

• Pine 4.20 installed on all Glue platforms. To access the old version type 'pine-4.10'.

1/3/00

• Netscape Communicator 4.7 is now the default version of Netscape. To access the previous version, 4.08, type 'netscape-old'.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 is now available on Solaris 2.6. Type 'iexplorer' to run it.

What USED To Be New In WAM/Glue

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