To:  dg@LMI-ANGEL
In-reply-to: <8603030008.AA04843@angel.ARPA>
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I suggested that OBL make USER use OBL. Before that the OBL
people had GLOBALIZED a bunch of stuff. So it is the
lesser of two evils. In fact, quite a few functions
"for user by the user" that are now in global should
probably just be exported into user.

The release notes should mention this of course.


To:  Ayesha!keith
To:  software-release
In-reply-to: <8603032157.AA00195@Ayesha.ARPA>
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If there was a decent network connection between cambridge
and andover you could have gotten the software you wanted
weeks ago, just by using the built-in lispmachine tools
for doing it, such as COPY-DISK-PARTITION, LOAD-PATCHES,
etc. etc. etc. LMI is very behind Symbolics and and even 
TI in this.

Problems with Ayesha? Well, chuckle.

Tell you what to do. Have a talk with Ron Rando and Bill Johns
(our LMI Manager of Information Services!). Bill is thinking
about setting up a decent network gateway between Cambridge
and Andover. With the right input from Customer Services
he might just go from "thinking" about it to doing it.

A "decent network connection" would be an IP BRIDGE
bought from Bridge Communications Inc. Combined with the
TCP-IP support that is on the LMI-LAMBDA, UNIX-VAX, and VMS-VAX.
It is the only protocol that is supported by all the machines
at LMI. It is even supported by IBM-PC's (from Excelan again).