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From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 2.0 Software Problems
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Date: 2 Feb 91 01:24:51 GMT
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Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
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Here are some problems with the 2.0 software (full-distribution, running on my
upgrade-040 board) that I have run into:


***		      Librarian
    ***	A lot of programs are no longer indexed on-line. That is
	a major step back, in my opinion. For example, I can't
	find information for BuildDOS or the programs in Demo
   	(what is /LocalDeveloper/Demos/crop [does it just log out]) ?
    ***	There are problems indexing such data as the frame-maker
	documentation, and/or the KJV bible.
	For example, here is what I get:
	_textError: 102, _directoryApply: cannot stat '/usr/lib/indexing/frame-ascii'
	_textError: 102, directoryApply: cannot stat '//Apps'
	_textError: 102, directoryApply: cannot stat '/Users/ivo/Unix/bin'
	_textError: 102, directoryApply: cannot stat '/Users/ivo/Apps'
	ixError: 9011, _btreeFileOpenFileixError: 9011, _btreeFileOpenFileixError: 9011, _btreeFileOpenFile
    ***	Why is ~/library not invisible as ~/.Library?


***		         Mail
    ***	killing the Mail application remotely leaves the lockfile around.


***		         Unix
    ***	su no longer reads /.cshrc and /.login scripts.
    ***	I got a read error on /usr/adm/lastlog. It exists, though.
	Also, I wonder if Stuart sometimes leaves wrong information
	for finger to pick up as to who is logged in.
    ***	Is it my imagination, or did memstat disappear?

	            Programs no longer working
    ***	fep (adds emacs-style commands as a frontend to plain ASCII
	applications) does not work anymore. Is there a substitute?
    ***	The two performance measure programs (Monitor/NLoad) no longer
	compile and/or run  under 2.0.
    ***	Emacs, of course.

/ivo welch
ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu