From 59f44e1e1fb440fb99d0a39d5174d411e146028a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shivers Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 16:16:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added more description to the "What's new" section. --- RELEASE | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index adfdcb9..39cefb9 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -147,11 +147,26 @@ We even have one of those URL things: good thing is that immutable parts of the image can be shared between processes. see the script scsh/static.scm +** Last few bits of Posix + Scheme bindings for isatty(), ttyname(), ctermid(), and fcntl(). + +** Regular expression compilation + - MAKE-REGEXP now actually does something useful. + - AWK has been modified to use it, precompiling all of its + patterns outside the main loop. + - Unfortunately, things are still pretty slow. We'll work on it. + +** New meta-arg second-line syntax + Simpler grammar. + +** New -s command line switch + Scripts can be read from stdin or other open file descriptors. + ** Etc. Solaris 2 on i386 support, AIX 4 support, HP-UX now uses dld for faster loading, a few small networking bug fixs, better error - reporting, bug fixes, ... - + reporting, bug fixes, more efficient handling of closing unrevealed + file descriptors at exec() with CLOEXEC, ... * Thanks