From e354cf4fd756584239e7778217ee8860009e6728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Toby Goodwin Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:48:47 +0000 Subject: candidate: rc-1.6c6 --- NEWS | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 34b7d6d..fc00aab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3