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| author | tjg <tjg> | 2002-02-08 14:14:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org> | 2015-05-16 21:23:21 +0100 |
| commit | 061386e5f31da451257235b3a24a3f00e427fe02 (patch) | |
| tree | f1cf7534b99be1e4c5ea6ecea5fd9ea3a961a5f8 /NEWS | |
| parent | ab5a66ad3e612ae1d0b0b386a65ab13c24a97d2a (diff) | |
Release: rc-1.6c6.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ Bug fixes. A number of bugs have been fixed. The serious ones were: a core dump, triggered by `~ () '*''; premature exit, triggered by sourcing a file which could be open()ed but not read() (such as a directory on many systems); uninterruptible looping, triggered by -semantic errors in `fn prompt'. +semantic errors in `fn prompt'; deficiencies in the `limit' builtin. New features. The following features are new: the `$version' variable replaces the `-V' flag; the `-I' flag (definitively not interactive) was added for compatibility with the Plan 9 rc; ASCII SOH (^A) is now -handled transparently; support for large files. +handled transparently; support for large files; support for more +limits. Documentation. Distributions of this rc used to include a PostScript paper given by Tom Duff to the UKUUG, describing the Plan 9 rc. This @@ -21,4 +22,4 @@ the web, both in its original PostScript version, and an updated HTML version. Tim Goodwin -2001-11-20 +2002-02-08 |