JP>Responding to James McKenzie:
JM> On Friday 27 June, 1997, IBM and Netscape released a new version of NS/2.
  > ... It may be obtained ... at IBM's FTP site (ftp://service2.boulder.ibm
  > .com/software/netscape).  The file sizes are definately different.
JP>Just downloaded the file dated 27 Jun 97 and found the contents identical
to
JP>what I downloaded two or three months ago.  I think the 27 Jun date is 
ust
JP>an artifact of some housekeeping activity, but certainly not a new 
rsion.
JP>It would be very strange for Netscape or IBM to issue an update without
JP>changing the labeling.
This is the second time that they have done it. If you downloaded one just
two months ago then it was also different from the original release without
a notice of any kind.  I don't know what you received but the file sizes
were slightly different for me.  I already deleted the old one so I can't
give you a side by side comparison but this is what is in the new
OS2EN202.exe
Archive:  os2en202.exe
 Length    Date    Time    Name
 ------    ----    ----    ----
    488  06-24-97  18:26   NETSCAPE.ICF
   8146  06-24-97  18:26   NETSCAPE.PKG
   3306  06-24-97  18:25   EPFISINC.PKG
   9141  06-24-97  18:26   JAVA.PKG
  12408  06-24-97  18:26   UCONV.PKG
    162  01-22-97  14:38   netscape.dsc
  35769  04-02-97  16:35   read.me
  10744  04-02-97  16:35   license
   8464  01-22-97  14:38   epfihelp.inf
 145447  01-10-97  13:04   install.exe
  27766  01-10-97  13:05   pmddeml.dll
   1949  01-10-97  13:05   chkini.cmd
1491678  03-21-97  14:09   java.in_
 700016  06-24-97  18:25   install.in_
2392595  06-24-97  18:21   netscape.in_
 ------                    -------
4848079                    15
PLUGPKEN.EXE has this
Archive:  plugpken.exe
 Length    Date    Time    Name
 ------    ----    ----    ----
    485  06-24-97  18:23   OS2PIP.ICF
  11250  06-24-97  18:23   OS2PIP.PKG
   4125  06-24-97  18:23   OS2MPEGC.PKG
   5047  06-24-97  18:23   OS2FILES.PKG
   9501  06-24-97  18:23   MMFILES.PKG
    687  01-10-97  13:05   os2pip.dsc
  22511  03-31-97  11:58   readme.pip
   2976  01-22-97  14:38   license
 145447  01-10-97  13:04   install.exe
 690155  03-19-97  13:17   install.in_
   1200  01-10-97  13:04   mkvsdini.cmd
    795  03-17-97  19:54   mminst.cmd
 253189  06-05-97  11:55   nsplugs.in_
 104614  06-05-97  11:55   os2proxy.in_
 200397  06-24-97  18:22   os2_v4.in_
  62726  06-24-97  18:22   os2half.in_
 221067  06-24-97  18:22   os2full.in_
    915  02-25-97  07:32   sysfbkup.cmd
 386056  06-24-97  18:23   os2mpeg.in_
 995780  03-17-97  19:54   mmfiles.in_
   3800  01-10-97  13:05   clock01.sys
   3844  01-10-97  13:05   clock02.sys
  58147  01-10-97  13:05   avio.dll
 ------                    -------
3184714                    23
You should keep in mind that it is not always necessary for a file size to
change to be different. Just changing bytes in an array somewhere and
recompiling may fix a bug without the file size changing. Only a binary
compare of old and new will point out the truth.  I would assume that this
fixes the security bug discovered on the windows version at a minimum.  That
would probably be something they would not want to broadcast considering the
CNN and trade press flack over it.
--Lynn
 * SLMR 2.1a * I'm one with the Universe...on a scale from 1 to 10.
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