From: G.Filippi
                                                           Date: 31 Jul 1999

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             VLT-SW-OCT99 - RELEASE NOTES FOR VLT TOOLS
             ==========================================

GNU
===


   GNU (/vlt/gnu)     OCT99         RedHat 6.0 (Linux)
   ----------------------------------------------
   - C-compiler (*)   egcs 2.91.66  egcs 2.91.66              
   - C++-libs   (*)   egcs 2.91.66  egcs 2.91.66
   - make       (**)  3.75          3.77 
   - awk              3.0.3         3.0.3
   - gdb              4.17          4.17.0.11-6
   - flex             2.5.4         2.5.4
   - bison            1.27          1.27
   - gzip             1.2.4         1.2.4
   - texinfo          3.12          3.12f
   - emacs            20.3          20.3.1
   - diffutils        2.7           2.7
   - rcs              5.7           5.7
   - tar              TBD           1.12
   - perl             TBD           5.005_03


(*)  egcs/gcc 2.95 under testing. To be confirmed within 15/08

(**) make 3.77 under testing. To be confirmed within 15/09


TCLTK
=====
See separate Release Note


VLTMAKE
=======


CMM
===
Client-Server communication protocol rewritten.


TAT
===


stdEnv
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