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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX problems and suggestions (s800)
Message-ID: <7370008@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 19:23:25 GMT
References: <1717@zen.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>And now, the suggested enhancements:
>
>1) The Number One Enhancement we want: please, *please* add
>shared libraries to HP-UX.  We want to get back to the days when
>a program which opens a file, diddles some information and prints a
>summary has an executable size less than 30K.  We'd be ever so
>grateful.  [I understand this is planned for 7.0.  If you have a list
>of things that might not make it, make sure this is *not* on that list.]

You have unfortunately been misinformed.  Shared libraries were never planned
for 7.0, although we are currently working toward getting them into 8.0.
Do not consider this statement to be a commitment to providing shared libraries
for 8.0, but we do hope to be able to do so.  The shipment dates for 8.0 are
up in the air, so please do not turn around now and ask, "when does 8.0 come
out"?

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Marc Sabatella
HP Colorado Language Lab (CoLL)
marc@hpmonk