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----    IMPORTANT WARNING TO ALL USERS OF CMS RELEASE 6, 7 AND 8     ----
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This fix  will be  required to  install release  1.7c. A  special FIX17Bn
update with just  CARD MODULE will be generated and  sent to all LISTSERV
sites running  CMS release 6,  7 or 8 just  before 1.7c is  released. The
servers are polled once a month for this information; the answers take up
to  two weeks  to come  back  for some  countries. If  you have  recently
migrated or  plan to migrate  soon to one of  these versions of  CMS, you
must take care of installing this fix yourself as I cannot guarantee that
I will have up  to date information on the release of  CMS you are using.
If  you have  migrated in  march 1992  or earlier,  you will  receive the
update  automatically  but you  are  still  advised to  install  17B-002o
manually as soon  as possible. In particular, YOU ARE  ADVISED TO INSTALL
THIS FIX  BEFORE LOADING  THE FIX17B1 UPDATE,  or you may  end up  with a
corrupted LSWCWRT MODULE.
 
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In  addition to  the serious  error mentioned  above, a  number of  minor
problems have been discovered with CARD  under CMS release 8. While these
were mostly known  restrictions, it has become necessary  to address them
in order  to avoid unexpected  problems during LISTSERV  maintenance. For
instance,  the  fact  that  CARD  did not  support  sparse  files  became
unacceptable when  the default  CMS at  SEARN was  changed to  release 8,
given that it is not possible to prevent CMS8 from creating sparse files.
IPL'ing  CMS5 when  generating update  decks does  not solve  the problem
either -  the files have  to be unsparsed  first with COPYFILE,  which in
turn is not possible because CMS5 cannot process the sparse RECFM V files
which  CMS8 creates.  New  code  to remove  these  restrictions has  been
bundled with the CMS 6-8 fix mentioned above.
 
  Eric