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1    New and Changed Features
1.1    Common Desktop Environment
1.1.1    The CDE Video Tour
1.1.2    CDE Screen Savers
1.2    X/Open-Compliant Curses
1.3    X11R6
1.3.1    The X Keyboard Extension for X11R6 (XKB)
1.4    DXImageview
1.5    Commands and Utilities
1.5.1    Changes to Mtools
1.5.2    The sendmail Utility Supports Configurable GECOS Fuzzy Matching
1.5.3    df Supports Large File Systems
1.5.4    Compressed Reference Pages
1.5.5    Enhancements to terminfo
1.5.6    GNU emacs Version 19.28
1.5.7    Netscape Navigator
1.5.8    dxterm
1.5.9    Performance Manager
1.5.10    utilupdate
1.5.11    Bootable Tape
1.5.12    Partition Overlap Checks Added to Disk Utilities
1.5.13    scsimgr Utility for Creating Device Special Files
1.6    SysMan System Management Applications
1.6.1    Installation
1.6.1.1    New Installation User Interfaces
1.6.1.2    New Format of Distribution Media
1.6.1.3    Installation Name Changes
1.6.1.4    Enhancements to the Installation Procedure
1.6.1.5    Cloned Installations
1.6.2    Configuration Applications
1.6.2.1    Bind Configuration
1.6.2.2    Disk Configuration
1.6.2.3    Mail Configuration
1.6.2.4    Network Configuration
1.6.2.5    NFS Configuration
1.6.2.6    Print Configuration
1.6.2.7    Internationalization Configuration
1.6.3    Daily Administration Applications
1.6.3.1    Account Manager
1.6.3.2    Archiver
1.6.3.3    File Sharing
1.6.3.4    Host Manager
1.6.3.5    License Manager
1.6.3.6    Shutdown Manager
1.6.3.7    System Information
1.6.3.8    Audit Manager
1.6.4    Monitoring and Tuning Applications
1.6.4.1    Kernel Tuner
1.6.5    Storage Management
1.6.6    Tools
1.7    Standards
1.7.1    Realtime Is Compliant With the Final POSIX 1003.1b Standard Interfaces
1.7.2    DECthreads is Compliant with the Final POSIX 1003.1c Standard Interfaces
1.7.3    DEC C Compiler Complies With ISO C 94
1.8    Development Environment
1.8.1    Tcl/Tk Availability
1.8.2    DEC C++
1.8.3    Replacement of the pixie Utility
1.8.4    Software Development Environment Repackaging
1.8.5    DEC C Compiler
1.8.6    Init Execution Order Modified for Static Executable Files
1.8.7    PC-Sample Mode of prof Command
1.8.8    atom and prof Commands and Threads
1.8.9    Thread Independent Services (TIS) Interface
1.8.10    High-Resolution Clock
1.8.11    POSIX 1003.1b Realtime Signals
1.8.12    POSIX 1003.1b Synchronized I/O
1.8.13    POSIX 1003.1b _POSIX_C_SOURCE Symbol
1.8.14    Digital Porting Assistant
1.9    Networking
1.9.1    New Version of the gated Daemon
1.9.2    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
1.9.3    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
1.9.4    NFS over TCP
1.9.5    Extensible SNMP
1.9.6    SNMP MIB support
1.9.7    telnet and mrouted
1.9.8    Network Time Protocol (NTP)
1.10    Enhanced Security
1.11    File Systems
1.11.1    AdvFS
1.11.1.1    New Tuning Parameters for AdvFS
1.11.1.2    AdvFS Now Supports Directory Truncation
1.11.2    File System Access Control Lists (ACLs)
1.11.3    Logical Storage Manager
1.11.4    Overlap Partition Checking
1.12    Bootstrap Linking and Kernel Modules
1.12.1    Defining Modules
1.12.2    Bootstrap Linking
1.12.3    Related Changes
1.13    Internationalization and Language Support
1.13.1    Internationalization (I18N) Configuration Utility for CDE
1.13.2    Unicode Support
1.13.3    The Worldwide Mail Handler No Longer Exists
1.13.4    The Worldwide Mail Handler No Longer Exists
1.13.5    Multilingual Emacs (mule)
1.13.6    Support for Catalan, Lithuanian, and Slovene
1.13.7    man Command Supports Codeset Conversion
1.14    PCMCIA (PC Card) Support
1.14.1    Restrictions
1.14.2    Configuring the PCMCIA Adapter Board from the Console
1.14.3    Configuring and Using a PCMCIA Modem PC Card
1.14.4    Creating a Device Special File for the Modem Card
1.14.5    /etc/remote File
1.14.6    Inserting a PCMCIA Modem Card
1.14.6.1    Possible Error Message
1.14.7    Removing a PCMCIA Modem Card
1.15    Dynamic Device Recognition for SCSI Devices

2    Features and Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement
2.1    Retired in This Release
2.2    Nonconforming Curses Library
2.3    ACC
2.4    Kernel Build Procedures
2.5    TURBOchannel Denali Graphics
2.6    dbx Debugger
2.7    Nemacs
2.8    Security Interfaces
2.9    Security Windows-Based Administration Utilities
2.10    System Management Utilities
2.11    BSD TTY-NAME
2.12    NC and NL Interfaces in the Standard C Library
2.13    Desktop Applications
2.14    SCSI Device Names
2.15    POSIX 1003.4a (draft 4) pthread Routines in DECthreads
2.16    DECthreads CMA Interface
2.17    Functions Retired from libc
2.18    AdvFS Quota Commands
2.19    LVM-to-LSM Migration Tools
2.20    OSF/Motif Version 1.1.3
2.21    XIE Version 3.0 X Client Extension
2.22    ULTRIX Remote Installation (RIS) Support
2.23    Disk Space Requirement for Installation
2.24    MSB Driver
2.25    C Library Functions and POSIX P1003.1C