From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from apollo.le.ac.uk ([143.210.16.125]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24842>; Sat, 29 May 1999 21:55:53 -0400 Received: from happy.star.le.ac.uk ([143.210.36.58]) by apollo.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10nNDw-0005A7-00 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:03:00 +0100 Received: (qmail 28652 invoked from network); 28 May 1999 14:03:21 -0000 Received: from ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk (tjg@143.210.36.203) by happy.star.le.ac.uk with SMTP; 28 May 1999 14:03:21 -0000 To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca Subject: Release of rc-1.6 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 10:03:21 -0400 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: I am delighted to announce, at long last, a new full release of rc. I've included the NEWS file from the distribution below. This is intended to summarize all the changes since the last full release, rc-1.4, about 8 years ago. It is remarkable, and a testament to the quality of rc-1.4, that so little has changed in the code itself over that time. You can obtain rc from here. http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/release/rc-1.6.tar.gz If you don't have gzip handy, remove the `.gz' for an uncompressed tarball. If you are unable to use HTTP to obtain rc, please contact me and we'll figure out some way to get it to you. Thanks to all the people who have contributed to this release, by suggesting ideas, contributing code, or giving feedback on betas and snapshot releases. Tim. 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 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; 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 status of the last backquote command; additional options to the `whatis' 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 any possibility of confusion, I decided to name this release rc-1.6 instead. Tim Goodwin 1999-05-26