Sorry for the incorrect approval date of 10/05/2007, right one should be 09/26/2007. Also pl. read "specification changes" for TCR's.
Thanks much for James Carlson for pointing these out. Regards, Suresh Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > This is timed out and approved on 10/05/2007 with the following TCRs. > > Following mechanisms will be used for alerting the customers of the EOF. > > 1. The EOF notice a message "ctlmp: This utility will be removed from > future Solaris release. Please use mp(1) print filter or another > suitable printing mechanism instead" will output to stderr for each > invocation of ctlmp. > > For ctlconvert_txt > "ctlconvert-txt: This utility will be removed from future Solaris > release. Please use mp(1) print filter or another suitable printing > mechanism instead". > > 2. For ctlmp user can prepare for the upgrade by making use of mp(1) > print filter in places where ctlmp is used inside a script. For > ctlconvert-txt the part of the script which converts text to > presentation forms and then piping to a print filter need to be > replaced by mp(1) filter. Will be documented in the release notes. > > Regards, > Suresh > > > James Carlson wrote: >> Suresh Chandrasekharan writes: >> >>>>>> If there's customer action required, is this something that >>>>>> customers >>>>>> can do (prior to upgrade) on existing S10 and S9 systems when the >>>>>> EOF >>>>>> notice is released? Or is it an upgrade-break-fix cycle? >>>>>> >>>> Is there an answer to these questions? Can the user prepare for this >>>> change, or does the system just break on upgrade? >>>> >>>> >>> For ctlmp user can prepare for the upgrade by making use of mp(1) >>> print filter in places where ctlmp is used inside a script. For >>> ctlconvert-txt the part of the script which converts text to >>> presentation forms and then piping to a print filter need to be >>> replaced by mp(1) filter. Will be documented in the release notes. >>> >> >> OK; thanks. That's what I was looking for. >> >> > >
