From: P. Sivera
                                                        Date: 07 Dec 2000



              VLT COMMON SOFTWARE "NOV2000" - OVERVIEW
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NOV2000 release is intended to be an internal only release. 

NOV2000 contains some additional patches for both Operating System. 
These patches are supplied by the official HP and SUN support 
sites and their installation is strongly recommended. 



Supported Platforms
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               O.S.         TORNADO           RTAP
   CCS      HP-UX 10.20     1.0.1  (68k&PPC)  6.7

   CCSlite  HP-UX 11.00     1.0.1  (68k&PPC)   -
   CCSlite  Sun    5.6      2.0    (68k&PPC)   -

   NOCCS    HP-UX 11.00       -                -
   NOCCS    Sun    5.6        -                -



Features 

1. HP-UX 10.20: no major changes. Full CCS will run 
   on this platform only.

2. CCSLite will be the only version available for SUN 
   and HP-UX 11.00
 
3. The compiler has not changed.
   Some gnu tools have been added: tar, zip and unzip.

4. New version of VxWorks Tornado 2, 
   including patches.

   IMPORTANT REMARK:
   To avoid network problems, we had to come back 
   to Tornado 1 for HP (Full CCS and CCSLite).
   Tornado 2 is used for SUN platform only.

5. JAVA platform: JDK 1.1.8 + SWING 1.1 

6. MIDAS: 99NOVpl2.2




Distribution
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The release distribution is limited to internal ESO sites.

According to project needs, distribution to external sites
can be provided on request.


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