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              ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING SGI INDY MACHINES

	   SELDON, MACDUFF, ARKADY, DANEEL, BAILEY, TRANTOR


  If you have any questions, comments, or problems please send mail to

                             help@argento

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MARCH 1:

To find out what is installed on the machine itself, type

	relnotes

Then type, relnotes <product> to see a particular product.

There are a number of additional products which you may find
in:

	cd /usr/local/bin

These are installed locally and will be upgraded soon.

The point of following the instructions below which add the path
/usr/local/IT/bin to your .tcshrc allow you to access the NEW versions
of products installed on the BU server.  These products can be 
found by typing:

	cd /usr/local/IT/bin

Applications can be run by simply typing the name of the application,
for example,

	netscape

and because you set the path in your .tcshrc, the machine will
look for it and launch it if found.

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MARCH 1:

THE NETWORK PROBLEMS BEING EXPERIENCED ON THE INDY'S HAS BEEN FIXED AS
OF 1PM TODAY (MARCH 3). THERE WAS AN INCORRECT CONFIGURATION FILE.

Thanks, Paul/Luis.

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FEBRUARY 27:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE UPGRADED INDY'S

The following SGI Indy machines are now upgraded to the 64-bit IRIX
6.5.3 operating system:

	seldon macduff arkady daneel bailey trantor

In order to access the latest versions of software packages you
are accustomed to using, you must do the following:

1. edit your .tcshrc file

2. you will see the line

set path=( /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bsd /etc /usr/bin/X11 ) 
                        ^
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		      insert here

3. add the path

	/usr/local/IT/bin 

in the space AFTER /usr/bin  and BEFORE /usr/local/bin

So the line will look something like this:

set path=( /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/IT/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bsd /etc /usr/bin/X11 )

4. type  

	source .tcshrc

5. type

	rehash


Doing this tells your machine to look in the path /usr/local/IT/bin
BEFORE looking in /usr/local/bin and allows you to take advantage
of the latest versions of many of the programs you commonly may
be using, such as netscape, emacs, and mathematica.

Please note that the additional path you are adding to your .tcshrc is,
in many ways, the only way to access packages which people are used to
using.

This was necessary because the OS upgrade does NOT install these
packages. So in an effort to give everyone access to popular packages as
quickly as possible, we are accessing them over the network (on IT's
computers).

This means you will most likely experience some delay in starting up
applications.

During the next couple weeks, we will be installing most of these
packages on our network so as to remove the dependency on IT.

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