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- 4/23 beta:
- I have 'compressed' the HELP dirs to 2 directories only (a-k,l-z)
- + plplot help dir.
- This is because with many directories the RLAB_HELP_DIR variable
- is easily longer than 256 chars and this causes a few problems.
- The solution: I will stick to 2 dirs until I can (they are now
- 75 and 76 files rspectively) or Acorn lifts THAT DAMN 77 LIMIT!
- Try not to keep RLaB in a very 'deep' dir if you have
- 'help directory not found' problems.
-
- The DOC directory is (at the time of beta 4/23 release)
- completely within doc_arc. This is to keep rlab_arc < 1.44Mb.
-
- If you can't find a few files, they have been moved to
- misc.RISCOS
- (gnuplot_ar, gnupipe, loaddir) (loaddir is still in rlib too)
-
-
- KEEP ON READING -- IT'S IMPORTANT!
- THIS IS WHAT IAN CHANGED AND IT MIGHT AFFECT YOU!!
-
- *** What's New in Version v1.23 ?
-
- 1) Some bug fixes, and additions to the misc directory. Most
- notably, the addition of the OS2 port-specific files.
-
- *** What's New in Version v1.22 ?
-
- 1) Re-named some (6) of the plot-related functions so that
- they use the same naming convention as the
- rest. ./misc/plnames.awk (see below) is an AWK script, that
- will change the names for you in any rfiles you may have.
-
- # BEGIN plnames.awk
- # A simple AWK script to change some names...
- #
-
- { gsub("pclose", "plclose");
- gsub("pend", "plend");
- gsub("pstart", "plstart");
- gsub("ptitle", "pltitle");
- gsub("pwin", "plwin");
- gsub("showpwin", "showplwin");
- print; }
- # END of plnames.awk
-
- To use plnames.awk do:
-
- awk -f plnames.awk < file.r > tmp.r
- mv tmp.r file.r
-
- You can automate this in a shell script:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- for i in `ls *.r`
- do
- echo $i
- awk -f plnames.awk < $i > jnk
- mv jnk $i
- done
-
- BUT, be careful, if you make a mistake, you can destroy some
- files. I recommend making a backup of any files _before_ using
- the above.
-
- 2) New functions: plpoint, plline to control point and line
- styles.
-
- 3) Finally got rid of the need for a final newline character
- before End-Of-File.
-
- 4) New function surspl() (Suface Splines Interpolation).
-
- 5) Added RLAB_HELP_PAGER to the accepted environment
- variables. This allows users to specify a separate pager for
- the help command. If you don't do anything, everything will
- behave as before.
-
- 6) New rfiles bodetf, lintrp.
-
- *** What's New in Version v1.20 ?
-
- 1) Sorry, but I had to change the string-matrix ASCII output
- format. To convert files from older versions to this version,
- read in the file(s) using an older version of rlab. Then right
- out the data in binary format. The binary files are readable
- by this version of rlab.
-
- 2) Internally, I have removed the scalar class. This internal
- change should _not_ be visible to the end-user.
-
- 3) OS/2 port modifications have been merged in.
- Thanks to John Perterson.
-
- 4) New file: INSTALL.2
-
- 5) Fixed some bugs in strsplt...
-
- 6) Added new syntax to make system() easier:
-
- \ system-command
-
- The `\' must be the 1st character in the command.
-