Turning Off & editting "What's New Window" For virtuoso

There are two What’s New windows displayed by layout editor.
The What’s New in 5.0.0 window is displayed when the CIW is opened. It describes the general changes made to the Design Framework II between releases.
The About What’s New window is displayed when a cell view window is opened. It highlights new features and enhancements in each release of the Virtuoso design environment.

If you do not want these windows to open each time you display the CIW or a cell view window you may stop them from opening.

To turn off the Command Interpreter Window (CIW)’s What’s New in 5.0 window, do one of the following:
---Choose the Edit – Off at Startup from the Edit pulldown menu on the What’s New in 5.0.0 window. 

 ---Add the following line to your .cdsenv file
           ddserv showWhatsNew string "5.0"

To turn off the Virtuoso Layout Editor’s About What’s New window, do one of the following:
---Choose the Edit – Off at Startup from the Edit pulldown menu on the About What’s New window
---Add the following line to the .cdsenv file:
           layout showWhatsNew string "5.0"
You can display these windows at any time (even if you have turned off the startup display) by choosing Help – What’s New from the CIW or by choosing Help – What’s New from a layout editor window.

The About What’s New Window text is a concatenation of .txt files located at your_install_dir/tools/dfII/etc/tools/layout. If you modify the text of any of the .txt files, you can rebuild the Whatsnew.txt file in Unix (you can change the order of concatenation or even add your own files) The following is a C shell example:

rm -f Whatsnew.text
cp layout.txt Whatsnew.txt
foreach file ("layout.txt” “vxl.txt")
echo "" >> Whatsnew.txt
echo "" >> Whatsnew.txt
cat $file >> Whatsnew.txt
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