commit 3f3f0709a332f8384a135b621b811eaf364ccad4
parent e7a3654e598b6597d90d3194d7af160a2853a998
Author: tjg <tjg>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:56:26 +0000
typos, etc.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
@@ -2,22 +2,23 @@ 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 be painless. It has
-been tested on a wide variety of Unix-like systems.
+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;
-$history didn't work properly over NFS; some memory leaks; off by one
-bug in reporting line numbers of errors.
+$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
+flag, which prints a version string; $bqstatus which holds the exit
status of the last backquote command; additional options to the `whatis'
-builtin; support for vrl, another lightweight readline-style library.
+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
