Release notes

Version 1.20 (3/10/91) of BEAV contains the following fixes and enhancements;

• Under UNIX files are created with read/write permissions.

• Fixed the bug in the terminal I/O routine that caused BEAV to spin rather than give up control when waiting for a character.

• Added the ANSI #define that was missing for MSDOS.

• Changed the D16 #define to a unsigned short.

• Called ttclose on error exit.

• Check and limit ncol and nrow to the actual screen array size.

• Add the ability to load key bindings from a file automatically under MSDOS and UNIX.

• Add delete current window command.

• Support VT100 type function keys.

• Under MSDOS and 16 bit UNIX systems the kill or copy region could not be over 64K bytes. This limit has been eliminated.

• The save buffer can be made visible with the Esc Ctl- W command. The save buffer is not editable.

• All memory allocation errors now pause and ask for conformation before continuing. In previous releases only an error message was printed. Since an allocation error generally means data loss, I have forced the user to respond. Memory allocation errors are not otherwise fatal to BEAV, they are probably fatal to the user's data. The decision is left to the user with the appropriate warning.

• Two commands have been added to aid in working with PROM files; n-way-split (Esc Ctl-S) and n-way-combine (Esc Ctl-F).

• The speed of the delete-mark-to-cursor (Ctl-W) command has been greatly improved.

• All commands that can potentially take a lot of time can be stopped by pressing Ctl-G.

• A serious bug that causes a crash on systems that trapped the use of dereferenced pointers has been fixed.

• BEAV now names the backup file properly under UNIXṖreviously; if a dot file (.<filename>) was edited, the backup file was given a garbage name. Now, a backup file simply has ``.bak'' appended to the file name.

• You can use the buffers-display (Ctl-X, Ctl-B) command to; go to, kill, or save a buffer.

• A compile flag for DEC ULTRA was created and a makeable is included in this release (makefile.utx).

• When a large region was deleted the offset value was displayed wrong, this is now fixed.

• A bug in the parse_f_name that trashed a variable is now fixed.

• Regions of never used code have been deleted.

• Under UNIX the file permissions are maintained correctly when the file is saved.

• A number of un-niceities that lint reported have been fixed.

• BEAV will now compile and run on the Amiga computer.