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A Beta release of version 5.1 of the Prospero file system is now
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available by anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU in the file
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pub/prospero/prospero.tar.Z. It can also be obtained through Prospero
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itself from /releases/prospero/prospero.tar.Z
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A special stripped-down version of the Prospero server is now
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available, for sites that want to publish their anonymous FTP archive
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areas through Prospero and don't want to worry about the full gamut of
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configuration options. This can be retrieved by anonymous FTP from
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PROSPERO.ISI.EDU in the file pub/prospero/prospero.ftp-only.tar.Z or
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through Prospero itself from /releases/prospero/prospero.ftp-only.tar.Z
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This release must be compiled with an ANSI C compiler.
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Since Alpha 5.0, there have been the following substantial changes of
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general interest. See the release notes (in the top-level README file
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in the distribution) for a full list of changes:
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The user-level name format has been enhanced. Special characters in
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user-level names ('#', ':', '/', '(', ')', and now '\') can be quoted
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by preceding them with a backslash ('\'). This change will be useful
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as more new databases with unusual names are integrated into the
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propero naming network. Library routines have been added to help in
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manipulating the new name format.
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The code sending names across the network has been improved; Spaces in
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file names sent across the network still occasionally caused problems
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in the Alpha 5.0 release; they no longer do in Beta 5.1.
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A new LOCAL access method has been added. Along with it is a new
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definition in pserver.h called SHARED_PREFIXES. This definition,
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among other things, makes it very easy to retrieve files through NFS
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on systems that run an automount demon.
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