Ganymede dev3a released

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

Ganymede developer pre-release 3, dev3a.tar.gz, is now available from

 ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/

 or

 ftp://129.116.212.1/pub/ganymede/

if your client has trouble resolving a proper address for
ftp.arlut.utexas.edu.

This developer's release has a number of fixes, mostly having to
do with the use of the GASH schema.  We got some good feedback
from external testers on dev3's handling of certain gash files,
which we have incorporated into this release.

The gash and nisonly schemas are compatible with gash and nisonly db
files from dev3.

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Ganymede Developer Release 3a
June 8, 1998
CHANGES

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1. [CLIENT] Notes, History Panels reorganized.

 The object created, object modified timestamps are now on the history
panel.

2. [CLIENT] Can now do vector search operations on embedded invid fields.

 Previously, it wasn't possible to do things like search for systems
with multiple interfaces, as the client-side query code just displayed
the fields contained under the embedded interfaces.  Now it is possible
to query based on the status of the interfaces vector itself.

3. [INSTALL SCRIPTS] Fixed install scripts to work with Perl5.003

 It turns out that the Copy module in perl 5.003 is less friendly than
the one in perl 5.004_4, which we used to develop the install scripts.
We have fixed the install scripts to run under 5.003.

We also made the installServer and installClient scripts check to
prevent relative pathnames, which could result in corrupted properties
files under dev3.

4. [CUSTOM] A number of fixes in the GASH/nisonly schema/custom code.

 Fixed interfaceCustom.canSeeField(), which was breaking the viewing
(not editing) of multi-interface systems in the gash schema.

 Made the directLoader code a good deal more liberal with respect to
handling odd conditions in the gash datafiles, and made it able to
handle admins in admin_info with supergash-level privs.  Made it able
to handle alias_info lines with program invocation targets.

  Both the GASH and nisonly schemas now allow single-character
usernames.  Previously, the schemas were configured to require
a minimum of 2 characters for usernames, which was unnecessarily
restrictive.

5. [SCHEMA EDITOR] Turned off debug output.

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Jonathan Abbey				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
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