VSTa 1.6.5 available

I've put 1.6.5 up on the FTP server (ftp://ftp.vsta.org/vsta/vsta_165) for
your downloading enjoyment. In addition to the changes for 1.6.4:

Added -o to MGR's "startup" command. Lets output be written to the
        named file.
Added VFAT (long filename) support to DOS filesystem.
Ported Plan 9's nroff/troff.
Generalized system shared library support; converted libm,
        libregex, and libtermcap.
Allow dumping of ranges of sectors in dumpsect.
Accomodate various flavors of RCS directory names for rcsdo. Save quite a few
        cycles in its operation.
Port of PDP-11 emulator; runs V7 UNIX under VSTa!
Avoid gcc lame inline support; -O isn't needed any more to correctly get
        an inline compilation of getc/putc.
Auto-flush stdout when read from an interactive stdin happens.
Conversion of man pages to nroff -man format.
Ported BSD's "units" command.
vstafs, file/dir creation inherits protection of parent dir.
less's help ('H' command) fixed.

1.6.5 includes:

Added a little flexibility in use of MAP_FIXED.
Port of GNU Smalltalk.
Added realpath(), gettimeofday().
Added prototype for rename() to <stdio.h>.
Added rmap_grab() to the <rmap.h> library routines.
Fixed long-standing edge case bug when resource map is too fragmented.
Added alias remove() mapping to unlink().
Added two new partition types to disk partition support.
Added "xkeys" stat -w message to console server, so you can disable
        F<n> and arrow key escape sequence generation (if you want).
        Default is they still generate their escape sequences.
        (But I hate'em, so my personal config has them shut off!)
Fix memory leak in selfs server.
Fix "make distribution" to include new DLL's in distribution. This
        manifested itself as any of your -ltermcap type programs dying
        when you tried to run them. Sorry!
Implement inbuf/outbuf counts for console. fionread() now works there.
Always let owner (UID) to chown operations on vstafs. Otherwise you
        can paint yourself into a corner, where you remove all abilities
        of all users to touch the file!
Fix some more long-filename compilation errors.
Have DLL loader ld.shl try the truncated 8.3 filename in addition to
        the full DLL name. This helps when the VSTa distribution was
        loaded via a utility which only supports 8.3 filenames.

As always, send a note to vsta@zendo.com if/when you run into problems.
Note that if you've been accessing your partition as wd0_p0, the two new
supported partition types I mention for 1.6.5 may make your partition now
appear as wd0_dos0.

Andy Valencia
Received on Tue Nov 21 13:36:51 2000