Mac 2.8.2 VM

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 5 08:38:06 UTC 2000


Hi,
  John has produced a new mac VM 2.8.2 as well as a new plugin
VM and now the FTP site is updated.

full package:
<ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/Squeak2.8-mac.sea.bin>

vm only:
<ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/files/Mac VM 2.8.2.sit.bin>

plugin VM only:

<ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/BrowserPlugins/
  Mac NS Plugin 2.8.2.sit.bin>

The readme is attached below.

cheers

bruce


The macintosh 2.8.2 VM, Sept 4th, 2000.

Since the 2.8.x series of images is stable, then the 2.8.x series of VMs
will only contain fixes that are critical to the operation of the 2.8.x
images. The 2.8.x VM is built using the latest patched 2.8 image. It
supports 2.8 and 2.9 images, and is backwards compatible with earlier
2.x images.

What has been fixed/changed.

1) If a macintosh was disconnected from the internet and you made a
request to connect to a remote host using a tcp/ip address the machine
would crash. This has been fixed.

2) The icon mask in the BNDL was changed to remove holes from the Squeak
icons so drag and drop is easier.

Notes:

The 2.8.x VM contains most of the optional plugins, you might want to
check this by inspecting "Smalltalk listBuiltinModules" to see where
your plugins are coming from. In some case people have been accidentally
overriding the new builtin plugins with older 2.7 plugins. The list is:

'AsynchFilePlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'B2DPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'BitBltPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'FFTPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'FilePlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'FloatArrayPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'JoystickTabletPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'Klatt 17 August 2000 (i)'
'LargeIntegers v1.1 17 August 2000 (i)'
'MIDIPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'Matrix2x3Plugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SerialPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SocketPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SoundCodecPrims 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SoundPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'
'Squeak3D 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SqueakFFIPrims 17 August 2000 (i)'
'SurfacePlugin'
'ZipPlugin 17 August 2000 (i)'

The file Squeak 2.8.2 VM.asc contains the PGP signature for the Squeak
2.8.2 VM
The file NS-Squeak VM 2.8.asc contains the PGP signature for the
NS-Squeak VM 2.8 browser plugin

John M McIntosh  johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com





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