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- "Release Notes" for Columbia MM Version 0.87-Beta
-
- Below is an informal list of changes in MM since Version 0.86-Beta.
- Some of the bug fixes have already been announced as patches number
- 1-6 to our mailing list. Some of the changes refer to additional
- external features, and others will only concern people that are more
- familiar with the code.
-
- 1) movemail program: we have rewritten the movemail program from
- scratch. The one that comes with gnuemacs had too many security holes
- in it.
-
- 2) Makefile: We have made various changes to the Makefile to make it
- more portable.
- a) Some people complained about the awk script and the
- nonexistence of 'test' on some systems. We now run awk
- explicitly (I hope it's in everyone's path) when building
- h files (mkdefines).
-
- b) don't declare MACHINE unless absolutely necessary. use cpp
- predefines instead.
-
- 3) Aliases:
- a) don't hang on "foo@@bar" addresses
-
- b) add "deferred indirect files". You can define an alias to
- have an indirect file, and have that file read when the alias
- is used, rather than when it is defined. The syntax is:
- define foo @@ind_file1, @@ind_file2
-
- c) allow ! in aliases
-
- d) fix some problems in break masks. allow leading digits
- and dashes.
-
- 4) Keywords:
- a) fix lots of keyword bugs
-
- b) handle keywords with whitespace/wierd characters in them
-
-
- 5) parse_sequence: parse_sequence takes more args now.
-
- 6) Help strings: Help strings are no longer strings inside the MM
- source. They are kept in a separate database and read in by MM.
-
- There is a file called help.src which contains a source file for all
- the help strings. This file is run through the c preprocessor (cpp)
- and a help.cpp file is created. This file is then read by buildhelp
- which creates an mm.help file which you put somewhere accessible by
- all mm users. The mm.help file has an index at the top, followed by
- all the help strings. The first time you ask for help, MM will read
- the index into core, and get the correct offset into this file for the
- requested help string. Subsequent help requests will use the in core
- offset table.
-
- in config.h define HELPFILE - path to help database. (Yes, this will
- be a settable variable in mm in the future.)
-
- routines don't need to be called with helpflag anymore
-
- 7) chartype.h: fix isprint() definition
-
- 8) cmds.c: take out unused ancient #ifdef undef's
-
- 9) the sequence n#m requires typing n^V#m, since # is a comment character
- so, use + instead and leave # as an invisible synonym
-
- 10) celerity: added if accel for celerity systems
-
- 11) Backup files: remove gnuemacs and spell backups (~ and .bak
- files)
-
- 12) shell(): shell returns correct return code now
-
- 13) mm_execute: added mm_execute function, like shell, but forks and
- exec's the specified program.
-
- 14) use mm_execute() instead of shell() when running editor or
- speller.
-
- 15) SIGINT handler: much better ^C handler -- don't use CCMD,
- use read/write instead.
-
- use quiet flag in update -- used when called from ^C handler so we don't
- do printf's then...
-
- 16) MMHOSTNAME: need argument for isourhost even if MMHOSTNAME defined
-
- 17) add reply_initial_display variable and use it in reply when set.
-
- 18) write a rename function for SYSV
-
- 19) use getcwd in sysv instead of getwd
-
- 20) Celerity (accel) is like SUN for quotas
-
- 21) avoid printing banner twice, since people coming in over slow
- connections hate it...
-
- 22) turn off backups on .mm* files (mmail.el)
-
- 23) make "mm take /dev/tty /dev/tty" work (i.e. exit when you finish
- with a "take"). Not perfect: if you take a file while inside the
- take, then no number of "take"s will make mm exit.
-
- 24) fix problem with null default-{send,read}-command
-
- 25) newmail: don't give "cannot read" error message all the time
- (we get this when sendmail is still writing our mail)
-
- 26) switch ordering of directory path for file creation
- (mail-directory .) -- so new files will be created in your
- "mail-directory" (if defined) rather than "."
-
- 27) LITERAL command defaults to LITERAL TYPE but now does not need to parse
- the "type"
-
- 28) print command parses optional /separate-pages switch
-
- 29) mm core dumped in cmd_type since it was using n instead of cf->current
- when setting flags.
-
- 30) fix erase all bug
-
- 31) setpgrp the child (sendmail) so it can continue even if we suspend
- mm. (make sure all wait()'s do a sendmail_delete)
-
- 32) don't fflush or print to NULL
-
- 33) make "headers on <date>" work correctly
-
- 34) accept an fdb chain in parse_sequence, to be linked before
- sequence fdbs
-
- 35) try not to let mail-file be one of the incoming-mail files
-
- 36) make fastfile init's work with new deferred indirect files properly
-
- 37) parse movemail-path as a command, not a readable file
-
-