Erlang/OTP                		September 27, 2000


LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.0/OTP R7B


1.      GENERAL
        -------

1.1     Installation Guide

        The installation guide can be found in 
        
                <inst-root>/doc/installation_guide/part_frame.html

1.2     Problem report template

        A problem report template can be found in the file 

                <inst-root>/PR.template

1.3	Java

	Applications using Java have been tested on jdk-1.2.2_05

1.4     Disk space

	An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 45 MB of
	disk space.

1.5	The package contains HTML documentation. You can get this
	documentation preformated for printing in PDF format from

	    http://www.erlang.se/doc/

	This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
	as a reference.


2.      KNOWN BUGS AND PROBLEMS
       -----------------------

        It is strongly recommended that you recompile Erlang object
        files (BEAM files) that was compiled with the R7A compiler.


3.	NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
	-------------------------------

3.1	The Solaris Sparc version was built using gcc 2.7.2.2 on a
	Sun Ultra 1 running SunOS 5.5.1 Generic 103640-31.

	Testing of the Solaris BEAM version has been done on
	Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1) and Solaris 7.


4.	NOTES ABOUT THE WIN32 VERSION
	-----------------------------

4.1	The win32 version was built using gcc 2.8 and VisualStudio 6.0
	running Windows NT WorkStation 4.0, Service Pack 5.


5.	NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
	-------------------------------

	The VxWorks version is described in a separate README file
	that is part of the OTP VxWorks package.


6	NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSION
	-----------------------------

	R7B is only delivered as OpenSource, i.e. it is not a 
	supported product. See http://www.erlang.org


7.	APPLICATIONS NOTES
	------------------

7.1	There is a ODBC "application kit" located in "<inst-root>/src/"
	directory. This necessary since the application adapts its API
	depending on which ODBC driver being used. Because of this the
	application is distributed as a source kit and you use this to
	create the ODBC application.

	This application should work for all drivers and driver managers
	that support ODBC 3.0 or later. It should also work with older
	drivers if the driver manager support ODBC 3.0 or later.

	The ODBC application was tested with

	- Solaris 2.5.1
	    + INTERSOLV DataDirect Connect ODBC 3.11
	      + ODBC Driver Manager
	      + ODBC Oracle-driver
	    + Oracle Server Enterprise Edition 8.0.5.0.0
