[Oz] New Mozart version 1.0.1 released

[Christian Schulte]

Dear Mozart-users,

This is a minor improvement release to fix some
small bugs and offer some improvements. You can
judge yourself whether you should upgrade to 1.0.1
by reading the list of fixes and improvements. If
you have suffered from any of the problems
mentioned, you should definitly download the new
version.

Please enjoy!
--Christian Schulte

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General fixes
 ++ Obsolete menu entries in OPI removed (Bug #276)
 ++ Argument parsing made even more POSIX compliant 
    (Bug #278)
 ++ Error messages pop up right buffer in OPI (Bug #243)
 ++ OPI connects correctly to engine during startup
 ++ Module managers resolve user names '~name' in file 
    names (Bug #219)
 ++ Many small fixes

Windows fixes
 ++ Blanks in URLs work now: Mozart can now be installed 
    into a directory whose path has blanks in it 
    (for example "C:\Program Files\Mozart")  
    (Bug #255)
 ++ Default contributions available under windows
 ++ Performance improvements for Graphics
 ++ Improved installation under Windows (Increased 
    Mozart awareness for Microsoft Internet Explorer 
    and Netscape Communicator)

Unix fixes
 ++ OZHOME can be adapted in oz startup script
 ++ Linear solver packages excluded by default

Linux RPM fixes
 ++ Version numbering scheme fixed such that upgrades 
    become possible

Other platform fixes
 ++ Configure problems for FreeBSD 3.0 (freebsd*-i486) fixed
 ++ Ports to Irix (irix6-mips), OSF-Alpha (osf1-alpha), 
    HPUX (hpux-700) improved

Improvements
 ++ Remote module managers support arbitrary fork methods 
    (in particular ssh)
 ++ Parallel search engines allow specification of fork methods
 ++ Example programs included in all distributions 
    (not only rpms)
 ++ Open.pipe allows brute force shutdown via close method

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Christian Schulte, Programming Systems Lab, DFKI GmbH
Postfach 15 11 50, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Tel: +49 681 302-5340; Fax: +49 681 302-5615 Net: schulte at dfki.de  
URL: http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~schulte/
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