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                               NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE
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     Product involved:   AXINSTALL

     Release date:       98-04-21

     Software version:   1.8.3

     Last preceding
     release:            1.8.2
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     Release description:

     1.  Made the script to run with HPUX 10.20.

     2.  Made the PROSA method available for Solaris 2.x systems.

     3.  Paths to help programs are handled more dynamically.
     
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     AXIS COMMUNICATIONS AB


     Appendix A: Technical description of the release.








     Appendix A - TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE                  1(1)

     Product involved: AXINSTALL
     Software version: 1.8.3
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     The numbers below refer to items listed on page 1.

     1. Input redirection is handled in a new way in HPUX 10.20.
        The type of redirection that was used:

        cat <<- END_CAT
        Hello world!
        END_CAT
        
	When the end token was preceeded with whitespaces, it would not
        interpret correctly in HPUX 10.20.

	All such end tokens where aligned so that no whitespace exists
        before them anymore.

     2. To make PROSA work, named pipes has to work. In Solaris 2.4 it was
        reported that mknod did not create named pipes correctly, but in 
	Solaris 2.5 this shold work.

	We try to make a named pipe and if that succeeds, we make the
        PROSA method available for installation.

     3. In addition to the hardcoded search-paths to the help programs
        (such as clear, mknod, cut and tee), we nowdays try to find the
	path using the 'which' command.