VSTa 1.6.6 released

Please find in ftp://ftp.vsta.org/vsta/vsta_166 the 1.6.6 release
of VSTa. I've attached my notes on what I *think* is in this release. :->

Note that I dodged a couple bullets on this release. While doing
regression testing on my old DOS 3.1 tower system I ran into a latent
bug in 8.3 filename compatibility, as well as a much bigger bug in
the new > 4gig disk support. But all of that is resolved (he said
hopefully) and I hope you'll all find this release less of a bumpy
ride than 1.6.5.

Enjoy,
Andy Valencia

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Added FS_BLK{READ,WRITE} operations to support true sector-oriented
        I/O. Offsets and counts are in units of 512-byte sectors, and
        thus the 4 gigabyte offset limit of byte-oriented I/O is
        avoided. vsta/src/lib/abc.c uses this, and falls back to
        the old I/O primitives if it finds these not supported.
        For now, IDE supports it.
Filename completion is available in the shell. TBD... right now it's
        a separate plug-in from libusr.a; should it be made a part of
        getline()? When should it be active versus the regular tab
        expansion function?
TTY state (vsta/src/lib/tty.c) is now per-TTY.
Added "dev" FS_STAT parameter to the console server, also fixed a bug
        where interrupts didn't clear typeahead.
Fixed shift key rollover--if you hold one shift, then the other,
        then release the first, you'll still be shifted until you
        release the final key.
Converted current regexp package to use libregexp.a (note the new 'p').
        This is made possible by long filenames in VFAT, and makes
        room for...
Ported POSIX libregex.a package.
Ported BSD's expr.
Added lots more details on how to implement select() in a server.
        See /vsta/doc/select.txt
RS-232 server now supports select().
Fix output positioning so things like "make > make.log" now give you
        usable output. Fixed some latent race conditions in port
        duplication messaging.
Made the shell use wait.h macros; non-zero exits don't get listed
        as signal terminations now.
Shell doesn't hang on pipe when doing some types of here documents.
Add some options to kill, and convert to getopt().
Create aliases for awk (=gawk), egrep/fgrep (=grep), [ (=test).
        We still have cc (=gcc).
hostname(1) emulated in shell script using uname.
Fix long-standing latent bug in "fstab" with no arguments.
Ported vim-5.7... multiple edit buffers, filename completion,
        lotsa good stuff. The new one is more than 3x the size
        of the old one, though, so I'm going to keep the old
        one available for now as "ovim".
access(2) for W_OK doesn't change the file's mtime any more.
Since the output positioning fix spares us needing to do clone()
        operations on each fork(), I've decided to live it up and
        have /vsta/bin mounted as /bin as a standard configuration.
        This means standard shell scripts which start with #!/bin/sh
        will now work, too.
Ported file utility.
Fixed up libgcc.a so it holds all the functions needed for floats,
        doubles, and long longs.
Port of dosfsck... native filesystem checking of DOS filesystems
Fix DLL loader so short filename conversion always works (missing
        null termination)
Fix MGR's startup so it gives a clear message and exits when it can't
        attach to the mouse.
Received on Wed Jan 24 13:56:22 2001