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 <24908>; Thu, 13 May 1999 17:01:05 -0400 Received: from happy.star.le.ac.uk ([143.210.36.58]) by apollo.le.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10hx6Z-0002GE-00 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:08:59 +0100 Received: (qmail 24905 invoked from network); 13 May 1999 15:09:20 -0000 Received: from ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk (tjg@143.210.36.203) by happy.star.le.ac.uk with SMTP; 13 May 1999 15:09:20 -0000 To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca Subject: Beta release rc-1.5b6 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:09:18 -0400 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: A new beta release of rc is available, rc-1.5b6. Details of changes since rc-1.5b5 are below. There are no known outstanding problems with this beta. Unless anybody can give me a reason not to, I will make the full release of rc-1.6 in a week or two's time. So this is your last chance to test rc before a major release (I'd particularly appreciate confirmation that the configure script now finds tgetent() in -lncurses on Debian Linux). You can obtain rc from here. http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/beta/rc-1.5b6.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 earlier releases. Tim. 1999-02-15 Portability: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE calls AC_ARG_PROGRAM and AC_PROG_INSTALL. Don't do it explicitly. For once, the configure script gets smaller! Program name transformations work right now. Documentation: note that rc has no `set' builtin; fix weird variable name example; any character except `=' may be used in a variable name; document bqstatus; document rc's exit status; other tidying. 1999-03-01 Documentation: document the yacc-imposed limit on ; separated commands in a line. 1999-05-06 Portability: tgetent() might be in -lncurses instead of -ltermcap. 1999-05-10 Portability: Linux *almost* has SysV SIGCLD semantics, and we need to detect them. Bug: if we reset SIGCLD to SIG_DFL, we need to record the fact in the sighandlers[] array. 1999-05-12 Documentation: note that `$(a.b)' syntax only mostly works, and that list definitions in exported functions are noisier than they need to be. Release: rc-1.5b6.