Hamilton C shell Recent Changes

Hamilton C shell(tm) for Windows(R)  Release Notes 3.0.b
Copyright (c) 1989-2003 by Hamilton Laboratories.  All rights reserved.


Change Summary


Fix Level 3.0 Changes:

711. The longstanding problem with "ps -s | more" is fixed.  Microsoft
    appears to have changed the way the HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA\Counters
    object works:  individual names (e.g., "Virtual Bytes") can appear
    multiple times in the list, but only the first counter number is
    actually usable.

712. Support for OS/2, MIPS, PowerPC and Alpha are dropped.

713. All our contact information has been updated.

714. The C shell didn't parse floating point literals of the form nn.nnE-nn
    correctly.  It does now.

715. Postage.csh has been updated with current US postage rates.

716. Colors.csh now resets MoreEOF, DIRECTORIES, SYSTEMFILES, SYSTEMDIRS
    and HIGHLIGHT, so that if you change to something else (e.g., laptop
    colors) then back, everything is restored.

717. The cl.csh sample script has been retired.  (Current versions of cl.exe
    supplied with Microsoft Visual Studio work just fine.)  Also, the
    makecpgm.csh sample script now includes user32.lib.

718. The undocumented csh -Q (quiet) option is now documented.

719. The entire product has been rebuilt using the latest Microsoft
    Visual Studio for Windows XP, though still retaining back-level
    compatibility with earlier Windows releases.

720. The default for MixedCaseDrives (if that variable's not defined) has
    been changed:  Everything is now mixed case, reflecting the fact that
    no one's still using 8.3 filenames anymore.

721. Des is now legal to export, so there's no longer a separate export
    version.

722. Shortcut can now be used to set console properties on the shortcut.

723. The C shell will now look for a startup.csh and login.csh file in
    the distribution directory, e.g., d:\Program Files\Hamilton C shell 2003,
    if it doesn't find one in the Home directory.

724. Any inherited value for the SHELL environment variable is discarded;
    the value of SHELL is always set at startup to be the actual path
    to this particular csh.exe.

725. The default colors are changed as follows to assume a white on blue
    window:

      Color       Old default             New default

      Deletions   bright red              bright white on red
      Additions   bright green            bright white on green
      MorePrompt  green                   red on white
      MoreFillin  white                   black
      MoreError   bright yellow           bright white on red

727. At last(!), the shell comes with an automated install and uninstall
    using the Microsoft Installer and the Add/Remove Programs applet.

728. The User Guid is now on-line as hypertext and as a Word document.
    PowerPoint slides deck tutorials on the shell and on Tar and MT have
    been added.

729. If a popup was generated (e.g., after the 10th command in the demo)
    after a command that had just scrolled the screen, the popup would be
    off the top of the window.  That's fixed.


Fix Level 3.0.a Changes:

730. The PV_Annuity and FV_Annuity calculations were wrong in finance.csh
    and have been corrected.  Also, the Annuity_PV and Annuity_FV procedures
    have been added.

731. ls encountered a buffer overrun error on any shortname (e.g., c:\progra~1)
    arguments.  That's been fixed.

732. All the hypertext is now Palatino Linotype font rather than Times Roman
    for better readability.


Fix Level 3.0.b Changes:

733. The new auto install would fail on Japanese and other machines with
    localized names for Start Menu\Programs and Desktop.  That's fixed.