[jed-users] jed version B0.99-8 released

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

From: "John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Version B0.99-8 of the jed programmer's editor is now available from

  ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/v0.99
   
and should appear within a day at the following mirrors:

  ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/unix/misc/slang
  ftp://ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de/pub/unix/editors/jed
  ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/slang/

The distribution comes in two forms:

 1.  A compressed .tar file that contains the complete source
     distribution for Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS, and win32.
     
 2.  A zip file that for MSDOS, windows 9X, and NT systems.  This file
     contains pre-compiled executables and everything needed to run it
     on these systems.  However, it does not contain any source code.

Although version B0.99 is considered to be a beta version, it appears
to be very stable with no significant problems reported in the B0.99
series.  The only reason it is beta code is that it has not been
tested enough on non-Unix systems; however, under Unix it has been
extensively tested and is solid.

***You will need slang 1.3.7 or greater to compile this version.  
   The latest version of slang is 1.3.8.

Changes since B0.99-7:  (The complete list of changes is available
from the ftp site in changes.txt.)

   0.  win32 subprocess support changed.  Basically from what I
       consider to be bug in windows, a helper application is required
       to launch subprocesses (jed/bin/w32shell.exe).  Microsoft says
       this need is due to ``differences'' between windows 95, 98, and
       NT (???!!!).  A function `_win32_get_helper_app_name' has been
       added to allow some experimentation with the helper app.  In
       addition, the console version will spawn a subshell when
       suspending.

   1.  Under Unix, if `info' is a symbolic link to jed, then jed will
       run as an info reader.
   2.  If you attempt to write to a file that has changed on the disk,
       you will be warned.
   3.  Asynchronous process denied if started via `jed -secure'
   4.  A warning message is printed if compiled against a version of
       slang that is more recent than the one it is linked to--- this
       happens when the user does not properly install the slang library.
   5.  OS/2 findfirst/findnext patch from Eddie Penninkhof
       <wizball@xxxxxxxxx>.
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John E. Davis                   Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center
617-258-8119                    One Hampshire St., Building NE80-6019
http://space.mit.edu/~davis     Cambridge, MA  02139-4307

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