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en:release:3.09_release_notes [2019/09/05 07:10] – [SIGPIPE errors when building a collection] anupamaen:release:3.09_release_notes [2019/12/13 04:11] – [Useful information] anupama
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   * Patches to perl code upgrading perl syntax to work with newer versions of perl   * Patches to perl code upgrading perl syntax to work with newer versions of perl
   * GLI updates:   * GLI updates:
-    * The GLI Applet has been converted to a Java WebStart Application. Java Web Start not supported from Java 9 or onwards. To use the JRE bundled with your Greenstone, ensure no custom installed System Java is in the environment.+    * The GLI Applet has been converted to a Java WebStart Application. Java Web Start not supported from Java 9 or onwards. Therefore, to use the JRE v7 bundled with your Greenstone, ensure no custom installed System Java is in the environment.
     * GEMS can now launch in languages other than English     * GEMS can now launch in languages other than English
 ===== IMPORTANT information ===== ===== IMPORTANT information =====
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 ==== Useful information ==== ==== Useful information ====
-When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection's //import//, //archives// and //index// subfolders and wonder whether Greenstone could really be so  inefficient with space as to keep 3 copies to everything. As it happens though, Greenstone uses **hard-links** both on Linux and **Windows**, in order to keep just one set of your documents. Then it simply hardlinks to these, instead of making copies. +When you've built a collection of documents, you may discover that there appears to be a copy of all these documents in the collection's //import//, //archives// and //index// subfolders and wonder whether Greenstone could really be so inefficient with disk space as to keep 3 copies of everything. As it happens though, Greenstone uses **hard-links** both on Linux and **Windows**, in order to keep just one set of your documents. Then it simply hardlinks to these, instead of making copies. 
-By default, Windows doesn't show you when files on your filesystem are hard-linked. If you choose to install the Windows extension program [[http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html|Link Shell Extension (LSE)]], it will put red arrows on files that are hard linked.+By default, Windows doesn't show you when files on your filesystem are hard-linked. If you choose to install the Windows extension application [[http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html|Link Shell Extension (LSE)]], it will put red arrows on files that are hard linked.
  
 ====Known Issues==== ====Known Issues====
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