In this directory you will find several files. Please read all of them carefully before installing the patch set on your system: caveats : This file will explain the caveats for this patch set. (This file may not be present in all patch sets). installation_instructions: Explains how to extract the tar file and install the patch set inst.README : Additional information regarding inst.init file, a script that is used by swmgr for easier installation. Only available for IRIX 6.2 or above. General Information Silicon Graphics is committed to making all of its systems stable. For this reason, we are making available to you at no charge by FTP and on the web required patch sets for high-end systems, and recommended patch sets for low-end systems. Prior to starting the download, please ensure that you have sufficient disk space to download the desired patch set. Note that the largest patch set may require well over 150Mbytes of free disk space in the location to which it is downloaded. If you need to extract the tar files into individual files, you will need free space approximately twice the size of the patch set tar file in order to extract the individual patches. Please install these patches as a set, and do not selectively install individual patches from these sets. If you have problems with or questions about any of these patches and you have a support contract with Silicon Graphics, you may contact your local SG support provider for assistance under the terms of your support contract. If you do not have a support contract with SG, you may open a time and materials call with your local SG support provider. If you have a support contract with a third party, you should contact your support provider, or open a time and materials call with your local SGI support provider. If you are located in North America, please call 1-800-8004744. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms and Conditions of Use and Disclaimer Terms of Use. Silicon Graphics, Inc. ("SGI") hereby grants to you permission to download, install and use operating system software patches ("Patches") delivered from this World Wide Web site, solely for use with an SGI operating system, and provided that you agree to these terms, conditions and disclaimer of liability. You may not sublicense, distribute or otherwise convey any Patch or any portion thereof to anyone without prior written approval. You agree that you will not reverse assemble, decompile or disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer any portion of the Patches, provided, however, that if you use the Patches in a country of the European Community, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to restrict any rights available to you under EC Council Software Directive (14 May, 1991) on the legal protection of computer programs. Export. You may not export or reexport any Patch except in full compliance with all United States laws and regulations, executive orders and the like. In particular, no Patch or portion thereof may be exported or reexported into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the U.S. embargoes goods, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders. U.S. Government Users: If you are acquiring Patches on behalf of an entity of the government of the United States of America, the following provision applies: U. S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND. Use, duplication or disclosure of Software by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in FAR 52.227-19(c)(2) or subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 and/or in similar or successor clauses in the FAR, or the DOD or NASA FAR Supplement. Unpublished- rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States. Contractor/manufacturer is SILICON GRAPHICS, INC., 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94039-7311. No Other Rights. Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right under any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right of SGI or any third party. Disclaimer; Limitation of Liability: You acknowledge and agree that (i) SGI cannot test Patches in all possible system configurations and circumstances of use; therefore, Patches may not be error free and may cause problems when used on your system, (ii) SGI may recall or replace Patches at any time, (iii) Patches replace files and may undo previous fixes or Patches, (iv) there is no guarantee that SGI will include Patches in its future software releases, and (v) Patches are provided to you without support of any kind. PATCHES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SILICON GRAPHICS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, OR LOSS OF DATA OR PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE, RESULTING FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF PATCHES, EVEN IF SILICON GRAPHICS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANOTHER PARTY. (03/31/97) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------