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.CENTER; MAQ RELEASE 2.6
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	This release of the software is a maintenance release.  It fixes
the following known bugs:
.list
.le;Development command procedure that builds the installation kit
(BLDMA_Q_KIT) fails to provide all needed objects for later kitinstall.
.le;Problem with the system service when the user buffer is not
probed for read or write access which can result in system crashes
if user passes an invalid buffer.
.le;Problem with the router when a node disconnects, and reconnects but
messages are still marked with an outstanding RNA.
.le;Problem with VERIFY_Q when an outstanding RNA is present, Verify_q
sometimes will not traverse the RNA thread correctly.
.le;Router will not connect when node names are less than six characters
.le;The following routines have been modified to probe user arguments in
User context instead of Kernel context:  ATTACH_Q, READ_Q, BACKUP_RNA,
WRITE_Q, ACK_READ, DISPLAY_ID, RTR_WRITE_Q.  This helps ensure a more security from a user 
distroying the queue (and actually crashing the system).
.le;RTR_WRITE_Q, and WRITE_Q when passing an invalid buffer length in the
descriptor (negative or too large), now returns a status instead of 
corrupting the queue.  A new KITINSTAL question now asks for the largest
message to be allowed to be written to the queue so that a reasonability
test can be done.
.LE;An Documented utility "QIT" has been added. QIT 
is a simple utility that allows anyone at
the DCL level to request a message be placed into
MA_QUEUE and ROUTING software.  The DCL command is:
.sk
.nofill
QIT/ID:messag_id[/TIME] "up to 160 character message"
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.sk
	The "/TIME" is an optional parameter that if specified,
will translate the message using SYS$BINTIM (see system services
manual for description of SYS$BINTIM), and write the
message to the passed message id.  The following are possible
calls (the quotes are required syntax):
.sk
.nofill
QIT/ID:STOCK_AVERAGE/TIME "-- 01:00:00.00"
QIT/ID:STOCK_AVERAGE/TIME "09-AUG-1988 01:00:00.00"
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.le;The user's Q_BLOCK is zeroed on a disconnect.  It is further tested
to be zero on an ATTACH_Q.  This reduces some the wasted processing when
the caller attempts to the attach_q a second time with out detaching first.
.le;Some changes made for future 5.0 migration.
.els
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.LIST
.LE;Router will not connect when node names are less than six characters
.le;QMT utility will not allow you to specify a message id greater than
14 characters (as opposed to 16 as it should).
.els
.center;Other items that may be in release 2.7
.list
.le;Modify the VMS router to support logical name translation so as to allow
multiple routers on the same node (since we already support multiple
queues, maybe multiple routers would be nice).  
.le;Support for VMS 5.0.
.le;Allow specification of lock names, default queue names, etc. during
VMSINSTAL.
.LE;Incorporation of QIT into Kitinstal.
.le;New utility DQIT reverse of QIT.
.els
			Earl