From 879921041eb0d12a6789f954db311cc3ef8b892d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tjg Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:25:58 +0000 Subject: Release: rc-1.6b3. --- NEWS | 41 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 320ad47..34b7d6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,29 +1,24 @@ -Highlights of changes since rc-1.4. See ChangeLog for further details. +Highlights of changes since rc-1.6. 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 now be painless. It -has been tested on a wide variety of Unix-like systems. +Portability. Many minor tweaks, including fixes for BeOS, CygWin, and +gcc-3. -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; a few memory leaks; and an off -by one bug in reporting line numbers of errors. +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'. -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; $bqstatus which holds the exit -status of the last backquote command; additional options to the `whatis' -builtin; and support for vrl, another lightweight readline-style -library. +New features. The following features are new: the `$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. -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 -any possibility of confusion, I decided to name this release rc-1.6 -instead. +Documentation. Distributions of this rc used to include a PostScript +paper given by Tom Duff to the UKUUG, describing the Plan 9 rc. This +paper is no longer distributed with rc, but instead is available on +the web, both in its original PostScript version, and an updated HTML +version. Tim Goodwin -1999-05-26 +2001-10-05 -- cgit v1.2.3