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- Bug fixes of 5.13: bug present since
- - 'csh -r' now works (yet another SAS C global optimizer bug) 5.00
- - KS 1.3 installation docs error: 'newcli' should be 'newshell' 5.00
- - installations docs error: 'stack 8000' necessary before starting csh 5.00
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- New features to 5.12:
- - 'if -o char args' checks for options in the remaining arguments
- - @arg( ) introduced as an alias for @pickargs( ), @opt( ) for @pickopts( )
- - new format symbol in 'dir': %l inserts line feed if there's a file note
- - history completion (shift-arrow up) can now be repeated
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- Bug fixes of 5.12: bug present since
- - nested braces now should work in all cases 5.10
- - external commands with args no longer see two line feeds 5.10
- - external commands without args will no longer see 2 LF's (e.g. D2D) 3.00
- - c:Run can be used, although redirection does not work yet 3.00
- - redirecting 'dir >prt:' now works, although problem not 100% solved 5.00
- - partial tab file name completion accepts words with different case 5.00
- - 'dir -z' with corrupt format strings prints no random characters 5.10
- - 'dir -v' correctly sums up the directory sizes 5.10
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- Incompatibilities in 5.12:
- - @drives( ) no longer adds colons, you can append them yourself easily
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- Bug fixes of 5.11: bug present since
- - 'assign' without args would crash on an MC68000 under Kick 1.3 5.10
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- New features to 5.10:
- - totally rewritten parser, therefore:
- - local variables, in aliases as well as in batch files
- - blocks can be formed, redirected, aborted: {e yo;e ho}
- - $(foo) will insert output of program foo at that point, similar with `foo`
- - wildcard expansion also done in first arg, e.g. '*' is a legal command line
- - command lines like '$mydir/$mycommand ram:' now works
- - aliases/foreach/forline/fornum/source can be redirected as a whole
- - direct recursion in aliases prevented, 'alias ls "ls -s"' works
- - additional speedup; twice as fast as 4.xx, four times as fast as c:Execute
- - '.bra' and '.ket' introduced as dummy commands for script compatibility
- - 'assign' now yields a list of all assings including late/nonbinding, paths
- - 'assign -p' does path assigns (like 'c:Assign ... ADD)
- - 'cat' CR terminated non-CR-termintad files again if not redirected
- - 'class' can pattern-match now, e.g. 'class sound name="mod.*"'
- - 'copy' has a larger buffer and checks for ^C more often
- - 'copy -m' moves files (but not directories yet)
- - 'dir -p' prints full paths and suppresses titles
- - 'dir' can separate direcories at the top or bottom
- - 'dir -z formatstring' is a very powerful formatting feature
- - 'error' generates a desired return code
- - 'forline i STDIN' reads args from stdin
- - 'input' removes leading, trailing and multiple blanks
- - 'local' and 'unlocal' for generating and deleting local variables
- - 'man' can handle multiple .doc files, so you can document your own aliases
- - 'mem' uses , instead of ' and is right adjusted
- - 'source' can handle multiple line blocks of arbitrary length
- - 'qsort' can now sort in reverse order
- - 'rback'/'run' now set the variable '$_newproc' to the # of the new process
- - $_abbrev can be used to disable abbreviation if internal commands
- - $_ioerr contains the secondary return code after an error
- - $_path now contains S: and CSH: in order to run scripts
- - $_pipe now holds the directory for the temporary pipe files
- - $_verbose need to be set to special values, now can trace alias calls
- - @console tells whether stdin or stdout are interactive
- - @ioerr converts a secondary error number to a string (like 'Why')
- - @mounted indicates whether a device has been mounted yet or not
- - @sortnum sorts its arguments numerically
- - @volume now suppresses ugly system requesters
- - shift-arrow-up and shift-arrow-down now behave like under AmigaDOS
- - there is now an editing function that duplicates the last word
- - csh has a startup option to enable '*' as an alias for '#?' in AmigaDOS
- - a directory CSH: is proposed for scripts and the doc
- - concatted lines in source files can be as long as you want
- - . now stands for current directory, .. for parent
- - soft and hard links to directories are ignored on wild card expansion
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- Bug fixes of 5.10 (in order of severity): bug present since
- - AmigaDOS residents should work fine now. V37 kickstart required 5.00
- - 'Wait 5&' as an alias for 'rback Wait 5' now works 5.00
- - 'rm -r ram:' and 'search -r "" hello' finally do their job 4.00
- - 'c:execute' works. check the restrictions chapter 3.00
- - '!!' was broken in the first parser rewrite, fixed now. 5.00
- - 'return' occasionally didn't skip the whole source file 5.00
- - '~' now can correctly be used in path names: ~/*.c 5.00
- - 'Repeat' from menu caused a loop (correct behaviour!) 5.00
- - 'forline' no longer crashes if the from-file does not exist 4.00
- - 'set x 1 2;echo hello$x' finally yields 'hello1 2'. 1.00
- - 'goto' also works if there are '\' in the source file 4.00
- - command line editing on VT100's was broken. fixed. 5.00
- - low mem situations now cause a graceful exit instead of a crash 1.00
- - actions on files with embedded blanks are performed correcty 5.00
- - 'man' no longer opens garbage files (SnoopDos is hard to cheat) 5.00
- - 'dir -o' now works (ls -o always did) 5.00
- - 'dir df0:' with no disk in drive yields correct error message 5.00
- - 'dir' no longer adds line feeds to invalid date stamps 5.00
- - 'set _prompt "% "' is now allowed (not only 'set _prompt "%% "') 5.00
- - 'search -l' no longer does unnecessary line feeds 5.00
- - '@pickopts' stops picking options at the first non-option 5.00
- - system requesters are no longer unintentionally disabled 5.00
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- Incompatibilities in 5.10
- - a stand-alone '.' must be quoted now. check your strhead's and strtail's!
- - the quick-cd file and the manual (now named csh.doc) should reside in csh:
- - some builtin aliases and preset function keys have been moved to compat.sh
- - the functions of shift-arrow-up & down are mapped to esc-arrow-up & down
- - the path is now searched before auto CD is attempted (mimicking AmigaDOS)
- - the characters { } @ ( ) should be quoted if you just want to echo them
- - a redirection error now causes a return code of 20 instead of 1
- - _verbose now holds numeric values, 'set _verbose yes' won't work anymore
- - @volume no longer appends a trailing colon to the volume name
- - an empty string is now passed to external commands as ""
- - future: a leading '/' and '~' might change meaning towards UNIX
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- New features to 5.00
- - read the doc! almost everything's new.
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- Bug fixes to 5.00:
- - recursive wild card expansion does not crash the Amiga 3000 anymore
- - recursive wild card expansion does not lose memory anymore
- - now works on AUX:
- - trying to start a non-object-file now properly prints 'Command Not Found'
- - automatic sourcing now also works if you already add .sh to the file name
- - files longer than 999999 bytes no longer misalign 'dir'
- - exec does not discard the rest of the command line ('exec echo hi;echo ho')
- - all memory trashing fixed. Thanks to C= for their great debugging tools!
- - source doesn't forget last character if batchfile was not CR terminated
- - run & rback also search AmigaDOS path now
- - division by zero does not crash rpn anymore
- - temporary pipe files are now written to t: instead of ram:
- - shift-tab does not cause a lockup anymore
- - running the shell via aux: no longer crashes the machine
- - 'history partial' now numbers the lines correctly
- - strleft, strright and strmid no longer crash on strings > 256 bytes
- - source with no arguments now prints correct error message
- - 'input' now cuts down lines longer than 256 bytes instead of crashing
- - cursor-up no more deletes lines if there's an invalid entry in the history
- - if history fails, no empty history entry is generated
- - 'echo "---"' and even 'echo ---' work, but 'echo "-a"' still doesn't
- - international character sets can be used
- - 'copy -u' won't copy a file with identical date stamp but in uppercase
- - 'copy -u' will no longer access low memory
- - 'echo "echo mem | shell" | shell' now works, not only every second time
- - starting from workbench now prevented
- - editing lines longer than 256 bytes is now correctly prevented
- - word-right cursor movement works correclty with multiple blanks
- - 'if'-stack will be adjusted when a batch file is exited
- - relabel occasionally crashed in Syquest drives. should be okay now
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- Known bugs in 5.00:
- - under 2.0, doing a 'cat' with no args and pressing return will cause a
- character to appear at the right border of the window. seems to be a
- kickstart bug, as it does not happen under older kickstarts.
- - AmigaDOS 2.0 CLI commands cannot be made resident. They read their command
- line from stdin. This is definitely a kickstart bug.
- - guaranteed to crash in extreme low mem situations
- - command line editing doesn't quite work on a (physical) vt100. OK on VT200
- - under kick 2.00, fast repetition of ^W crashed. OK under 2.02
- - 'set x a b;echo hello$x' still outputs only 'a b'
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- Incompatibilities in 5.00:
- - 'copy -f' now means 'freshen'. Old meaning of -f is now -p (protection)
- - '~' at the beginning of a file name must now be quoted
- - '@' is the beginning of an argument should be quoted
- - 'cat' no longer adds a CR to a non-CR-terminated file
- - '0' is now 'false'. Example: 'if 0;e hi;else;e ho;endif --> ho
- - variables with comparision operators inside now cause problems in 'if'
- - a single '?' will not pattern match, but be passed as a string
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- New to 4.02A:
- - Fixed bug that caused loss of memory on exit.
- - cp now copies protection bits; use -f switch if you want to avoid this.
- - Added commands: man (and alias manlist), uniq, head, tail, tee.
- - This doc has been reformatted to work with man.
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- New to 4.01A:
- - This version features mostly bug fixes and corrections:
- * Window title is restored after quitting.
- * rxrec now answers to the 'bye' message.
- * rpn can now be redirected and piped; however, this causes
- some problem (see rpn for info).
- * resident list now works with ARP 1.3. To recompile source, you must
- modify include file "libraries/arpbase.h".
- Change definition of rpn_Usage in struct ResidentProgramNode from LONG
- to WORD.
- * pri no more assumes 20 CLI maximum.
- * you can now split long lines in source files even into more than 2 lines.
- - Added much info in this doc about source files (chapter XI)
- - Added copyright notice (see under restrictions).
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- New to 4.00A:
- - This version is called 4.00A because it is not 100% compatible with
- previous versions. We choose to accept this in order to better support
- the new ARP.library 1.3.
- - External commands are searched in a different order than before; Shell
- path is now searched AFTER current directory, AmigaDOS path and C:.
- - ARP pattern matching has been implemented (in part for line arg expanding,
- fully for search -w).
- - Internal changes for various optimizations.
- - Search command has been improved in several ways.
- - New commands: basename, tackon.
- - New options: if -v, resident -d, fornum -v -s, dir -n.
- - Fixed bugs with dir (some dirs remained locked), foreach -v, htype
- (blanks were treated as binary), info (for devices > 32M).
- - rback command now works ok (run, however, doesn't).
- - Oh, I forgot: it also has an AREXX port... And you don't even have to get
- AREXX to use it. See new commands rxsend, rxrec
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- New to 3.03A:
- - New filter commands fltlower, fltupper.
- - Added configuration file feature: now if you have a file named S:.login,
- it will be sourced for every Shell you start.
- - New option dir -c.
- - New editing feature: shift-left(right) arrow move cursor to previous(next)
- word.
- - Bugs fixed: alias command wasn't listed in help; typing a number as a
- command was interpreted like 'alias'.
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- New to 3.02A:
- - New commands: fornum, forline, strleft, strright, strmid, strlen, exec.
- - Improved commands: foreach, pri.
- - New system variable _clinumber.
- - You can now split long lines in source files (see source for details).
- - window -q now lists also position of screens/windows, not only dimension.
- - Since strings are handled directly from Shell with new commands,
- rpn is now used only for calculations; string commands are gone.
- However, now RPN is really usable.
- - Changed rawgets() to fix some problems with function keys, multi-line
- editing and window resizing; also, fixed bug with ^E.
- - cat now warns you if it can't find any file matching your pattern.
- - Now uses DOS packets to get ptr to CLI window; this fixes a bug that
- caused problems if Shell was run on unactive windows.
- - Fixed minor bugs (htype printed some more ASCII bytes, some commands
- returned random values, history didn't print CR's).
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