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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio...
Subject: [9fans] Re: 9libs, new sam release, experimental wily release
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 02:44:31 -0400

"Mark H. Wilkinson" <mhw@kre...> writes:
| 9libs-1.0, sam-9libs, wily-9libs

Thanks.  I have a couple of complaints, though.  Several of my
favorite bugs (patches posted ages ago) have been resurrected
in this new release.

They are:
  * In samterm, MAXFILES is too small.  (I've been using 4K.)

  * In sam, private temp files are world readable/writable.

  * In libXg, "fontfile" is specified by the X client app.  In general
    that cannot work: unlike in Plan 9, the X terminal usually won't
    share any filesystem with the machine on which the X app is
    running, so *no* filename can be valid for "-p9font".  The fix is
    to store the unicode font map in an X property which is set by your
    xinitrc.

I'll dig the diffs out of my RCS files tomorrow and sent them along.