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Dan Albrich
dalbrich@oregon.uoregon.edu
After the Duckware 2001 CDs were released last fall, some minor software problems
came to light. A bug in SSH.COM's SFTP client v.4 caused permissions errors,
Norton AntiVirus 2002 wouldn't install on Windows 95 (see "Watch
for Norton AntiVirus Live Update Problems" on page 7), and some users
had trouble finding the documentation.
If you're having any of these problems, try the following suggestions:
1. SSH/SFTP v2.4 Problem: There is a known permissions umask problem
with SSH.COM's SFTP client v2.4 that's included on Duckware. Because of this
glitch, if you drag an HTML file onto your PC, edit it, and then drag it back,
others may not be able to view that web page.
Solution: After Duckware was distributed, SSH.COM issued a fix for this
bug. All you need to do is install the SSH.COM package build203 directly over
v2.4Ñno need to remove the old version. The new version obeys the permission
umask by default, and allows global permissions to be assigned in the preferences
screen if you always want to assign a particular set of permissions. To download
this patch, go to http://micro.uoregon.edu/security/dist.html
and click on the "Windows" link under "SSH (Telnet replacement)."
2. Windows 95/Norton AntiVirus 2002 Problem: Norton AntiVirus 2002 will
not install on Windows 95. It will, however, automatically launch and install
NAV 2001 on Windows 95B and higher machines after notifying the user.
You can get LiveUpdate codes at http://micro.uoregon.edu/av/
These codes allow older versions of NAV to continue to receive live updates
of current virus definitions. One caveat: If Symantec releases a new version
of NAV next year as expected, NAV 2000 will no longer work for live updates.
(In some cases, installing IE SP2 on Windows 95 will upgrade system components
to a level where newer software can work. This might be worth a try for advanced
users.)
3. Problems Finding Documentation: Documentation is not automatically
installed when you insert the Duckware CD unless you choose the "Easy"
NetApps Install option, which creates a desktop shortcut called "UO Duckware
Start Here!"
To read the documentation without installing it, look for the "documentation" folder and double-click on the file "index.html".