From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from artemis.le.ac.uk ([143.210.16.126]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <46200>; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:43:32 -0500 Received: from happy.star.le.ac.uk ([143.210.36.58]) by artemis.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15t7HV-00050c-00 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:55:45 +0100 Received: (qmail 13392 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2001 12:56:06 -0000 Received: from morpheus.star.le.ac.uk (143.210.36.121) by happy.star.le.ac.uk with QMQP; 15 Oct 2001 12:56:06 -0000 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:56:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20011015125606.2248.qmail@happy.star.le.ac.uk> From: Tim Goodwin To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca Subject: Beta release rc-1.6b3 available A new beta release, rc-1.6b3, is available from the usual place. http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/beta/rc-1.6b3.tar.gz Please test this beta! I'd like to turn it into rc-1.7, but it needs a lot more testing first. I need positive feedback (platforms where it builds and runs smoothly) as well as reports of any problems. The NEWS file from this release is appended: it describes significant changes since the rc-1.6 full release. Further details are in the ChangeLog file in the distribution, and even more details can be found on my new "hacking notes" page; anyone who is, or would like to be, familiar with rc's internals is encouraged to look at this page. http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/misc/notes The only major missing feature that I'm aware of is support for the 4.4 BSD libedit. This is planned, but probably not till after rc-1.7. Tim. Highlights of changes since rc-1.6. See ChangeLog for further details. Portability. Many minor tweaks, including fixes for BeOS, CygWin, 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'. 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. 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 2001-10-05