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Source: Anonymous
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(** Moderator's note: The following is in reference to the WarpCast
message 'Rumors from WarpX', on November 2nd **)

A source reports that SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 testers will not
receive a copy of FixPak 4 special edition with their testing materials
as WarpX had heard, but will instead get a copy of FixPak 3 special
edition. Apparently FixPak 4 SE does exist, but Lotus only received a
copy of it just before they had sent beta testing CDs to production, so
they didn't have the chance to test with FixPak 4. According to one
Lotus rep:

"We're requiring a "Special Edition" FixPak because IBM's standard
service stream (OS/2 Warp 4 FixPaks) does not yet contain the Open32
updates required to support the SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 applications
which are currently under development -- and we're using FixPak 3
because we just received an edition of FixPak 4 with the required
Open32 updates and did not have time to adequately test and certify the
Beta Release applications on the Lotus internal "Special Edition" of
FixPak 4 before sending the Beta Release (which went Gold today) to
manufacturing (which is scheduled to begin later this week).

IBM PSP will "sync-up" their service stream with the "Special Edition"
FixPaks we're releasing (for our Alpha and Beta releases) and provide
the required Open32 updates in the standard OS/2 Warp 4 FixPak
released at the time SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 ships."

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