* Release rc-1.7 is now available
@ 2002-06-20 16:27 Tim Goodwin
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From: Tim Goodwin @ 2002-06-20 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm delighted to announce the release of rc-1.7. Apart from bumping
the version number, and a couple of trivial changes to the
installation documentation, this release is identical to rc-1.6c7.
The release is available from the usual place:
http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/release/rc-1.7.tar.gz
and it should also be on the UToronto FTP server soon.
I've appended the NEWS file from the distribution, as a reminder of
what's changed since rc-1.6. (In summary: not a lot!)
A big thank you to everybody who contributed to this release.
Tim.
Highlights of changes since rc-1.6. See ChangeLog for further details.
Portability. Many minor tweaks, including fixes for BeOS, CygWin,
QNX, and gcc-3.
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'; 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; support for more
process resource 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
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
2002-05-21
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