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Epoch 4.0 Patchlevel 1 Released

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From: Christopher Love
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 20:49
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The first update to the official release of Epoch 4.0 is available via
ftp from cs.uiuc.edu, in the directory /pub/epoch-files/epoch.  The
file "epoch4.0p1.tar.Z" contains a complete distribution;
"epoch-4.0-update7.tar.Z" contains the update in patch form.

This update release fixes the following bugs in the 4.0p0 release:
(Names indicate people who reported the problem and/or suggested fixes)
With this update, the variable epoch::version evaluates to "Epoch 4.0
Patchlevel 1"

o Switching screens with cursor in a local minibuffer window (Peter A
  Fletcher and others).

o Pasting from Epoch to Openwindows clients (Thanks to Chris Kasso and
  Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart at Sun for help in tracking down these
  problems). 

o Ability to set cursor foreground and background colors (Hilarie
  Orman).  (cursor-foreground and cursor-background functions added)

o Ability to load standard bitmap files.  (load-bitmap functions
  added) 

o Coredump after errors when loading a pixmap file (Michael Joosten).

o Problems when using overlay-arrow on a line containing tabs (Dave
  Brennan). 

o Fixes for running on Convex systems (Thanks to Dan Tormey at Convex
  for these patches).

o Fixes for ptys on SGI systems (Thanks to John C. Ruttenberg at SGI
  for the patch).

o Read-only zone problem (Kevin Layer).

o Screen titles and icon names set after loading .emacs, so it can
  override value of include-system-name (Thomas A Peterson).

o Screen icon names set consistently following create-screen and
  duplicate-screen (Robert Inder). 

o Several manual updates for missing functions, etc. (Marc Andreessen
  and others).

o Initial screen placement problem seen with gwm (Kent Williams, Tom
  Shields, Paul Nakada).

o Replacement info.el for contrib/hyper (Many people). 

o Vanishing zones on top lines of windows (Many people).

o Other minor fixes.


--
Christopher J. Love ||     Epoch Development Team, University of Illinois
love@cs.uiuc.edu    ||          yet another "feature" supported...
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Subject: Epoch 4.0 Patchlevel 1 Released
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