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This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state. 031-0117 Contents Tables / vi Introduction / 1 Late-breaking information / 1 A correction to the A!UX Installation Guide / 1 Using a Macintosh CD-ROM under A!UX Release 2.0 / 1 Using a UNIX file system CD-ROM under A!UX Release 2.0 / 2 Connecting devices with LocalTalk cables and connectors / 2 Putting away icons on the desktop / 3 The System Folder / 3 The Keycaps Desk Accessory / 5 The Mouse CDEV / 6 The Keyboard CDEV / 6 The MacTCP CDEV / 6 Using the correct MacTCP for A!UX 2.0 / 6 Switching from EtherTalk to LocalTalk / 6 Switching from LocalTalk to EtherTalk / 7 The UNIX environment / 8 Using the mac include files / 8 Running the name server / 9 Data encryption / 9 The Kom shell / 9 If you are updating from a previous A!UX release / 10 Using file systems created prior to A!UX 2.0 / 10 Using dump. bsd archives created prior to A!UX 2.0 / 10 Kernel configuration / 10 AlUX device drivers / 11 The Slot Library / 11 Changes in terminology / 11 The at_ nbpd daemon / 11 Customer survey / 12 Reference manual update / 15 V 031-0117 Tables Table R-l Files in the System Folder / 4 Table R-2 Macintosh utilities / 5 Table R-3 Routines that have been removed from the Slot Library / 11 vi A!UX 2.0 Release Notes 031-0117 Introduction This document consists of two sections. The first section contains information that was not available in time for the printing of the NUX® 2.0 manual set. You can add this section to the A/UX Installation Guide behind the Release Notes tab. In addition, the first section contains a survey that will help us continue to prepare complete, easy-to-use documentation. The second section contains update pages to the NUX 2.0 reference manuals. Late-breaking information This section presents late-breaking information that was not available in time for the printing of the NUX 2.0 manual set. Be sure to check the README floppy disk for additional timely information that may supplement or supersede the contents of this document. A correction to the A/UX Installation Guide The A/UX Installation Guide incorrectly refers to a System Folder on the A/UX Startup floppy disk. This System Folder does not exist. Using a Macintosh CD-ROM under Alux Release 2.0 To use a CD-ROM that contains a Macintosh® HFS volume under NUX Release 2.0, follow the instructions that come with the CD-ROM drive for installing the CD-ROM software in the Macintosh Operating System (OS) System Folder . • Warning Do not install any CD-ROM software in the NUX System Folder. ~ 1 031-0117 Next, turn on the CD-ROM drive and start up the A/UX operating system. Insert the CD-ROM disc into the CD-ROM drive and log in as you normally would. The CD-ROM volume will appear on your desktop as it would under the Macintosh as. If you want to eject the current CD-ROM and use another, drag the CD-ROM icon to the Trash and insert the next CD-ROM. You must log out and log in once again for the second CD-ROM to appear as an icon on your desktop . • Note: To use a CD-ROM that contains a Macintosh HFS volume, you must turn on the CD-ROM drive prior to starting up the A/UX operating system. Using a UNIX fde system CD-ROM under AlUX Release 2.0 If you plan to use a CD-ROM drive to mount UNIX® file systems only, you do not need to install CD-ROM software as described in the previous paragraph. Simply log in as root or become the superuser. Insert the CD-ROM disc in the CD-ROM drive and use the mount command to mount the file system with read-only access. To mount a different CD-ROM, you must unmount the file system, eject the CD-ROM, insert the new CD-ROM disc, and mount it. • Note: To use a CD-ROM that contains a UNIX file system, you do not have to turn on the CD-ROM drive prior to starting up the A/UX operating system. Connecting devices with LocalTalk cables and connectors If you are using LocalTalk® cables and connectors to connect a serial device to a Macintosh computer, make sure that the serial port to which you will connect the device doesn't have a get t y process running. A get t y process is left running on a port if, for instance, you disconnect a modem from the port without disabling logins on the port. Connecting a device with LocalTalk cables and connectors to a port with an active get t y process can cause invalid data to be transmitted over the LocalTalk network. 2 A/UX 2.0 Release Notes 031-0117 To make sure that a get ty process is not running on the port, use the setport command to disable a modem as described in Chapter 7, "Adding and Managing Modems," in Setting Up Accounts and Peripherals for AlUX. Putting away icons on the desktop To return an icon from the desktop to its original folder, choose Put Away from the File menu. This allows you to put away an icon that, for example, because of access permissions, you otherwise would not be able to drag to its original folder. The System Folder A!UX Release 2.0 uses a special version of System 6.0.5. Some files that A!UX uses are not compatible with the Macintosh as. Conversely, some files that make up the Macintosh as are not compatible with A!UX Release 2.0. .. Warning Randomly interchanging files between the Macintosh as System Folder and the A!UX System Folder is strongly discouraged. • Tables R-l and R-2 refer to the 6.0.5 Macintosh System Software. Those items marked "A!UX only" are either new for A!UX or have replaced their Macintosh as counterparts and should not be run under the Macintosh as. Those items checked "Macintosh as only" should not be run under A!UX.