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| author | Toby Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk> | 2002-02-08 14:48:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org> | 2015-05-16 21:22:10 +0100 |
| commit | e354cf4fd756584239e7778217ee8860009e6728 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d57048a4ba5af27da6a9f43f81fec0ec0b78969 /NEWS | |
| parent | bc11ebf09feec23608459c8e632f30369c6bae49 (diff) | |
candidate: 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. +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 -2001-10-05 +2002-02-08 |