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@@ -2,22 +2,23 @@ Highlights of changes since rc-1.4. See ChangeLog for further details. Portability. The major change since the last full release is that rc now uses GNU autoconf and automake. Other parts of the build process -have been tidied up too, so that building rc should be painless. It has -been tested on a wide variety of Unix-like systems. +have been tidied up too, so that building rc should now be painless. It +has been tested on a wide variety of Unix-like systems. Bug fixes. The following bugs have been fixed: the interaction with readline was not always correct; SIGCLD set to SIG_IGN could cause a hang; some obscure pipeline incantations could cause a hang; the `wait' builtin could become uninterruptible; an application could crash rc by making stdin nonblocking; the `-i' flag didn't work with readline; -$history didn't work properly over NFS; some memory leaks; off by one -bug in reporting line numbers of errors. +$history didn't work properly over NFS; a few memory leaks; and an off +by one bug in reporting line numbers of errors. New features. The following features are new: the `-s' flag, which causes rc to read from stdin even if arguments are present; the `-V' -flag, which prints a version string); $bqstatus which holds the exit +flag, which prints a version string; $bqstatus which holds the exit status of the last backquote command; additional options to the `whatis' -builtin; support for vrl, another lightweight readline-style library. +builtin; and support for vrl, another lightweight readline-style +library. What happened to rc-1.5? A number of beta releases were made with names like rc-1.5b2, which might suggest improvements over rc-1.5. To avoid |