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Linux-Announce Digest #636
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Linux-Announce Digest #636, Volume #4 Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:13:04 EST
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GNU CLISP 2.32 released (Sam Steingold)
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:55:17 CST
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.32 released
Reply-To: sds@gnu.org
From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
GNU CLISP is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation.
Release 2.32 (2003-12-29) fixes many bugs
and adds some new features; NEWS appended.
More information on <http://clisp.cons.org>.
Download CLISP 2.32 from <http://sf.net/clisp>.
2.32 (2003-12-29)
=================
User visible changes
====================
* WRITE-BYTE-SEQUENCE now accepts :NO-HANG keyword argument.
Thanks to Don Cohen <don-sourceforge@isis.cs3-inc.com>.
* Support files larger than 2 GB or 4 GB on platforms with LFS
(Large File Support).
* New module berkeley-db interfaces to
<http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/dbt_class.html>
and allows working the Berkeley DB databases.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#berkeley-db> for details.
* New module pcre interfaces to <http://www.pcre.org/> and
makes Perl Compatible Regular Expressions available in CLISP.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#pcre> for details.
* Module syscalls now exports function POSIX:STAT-VFS.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#syscalls> for details.
* When the system C library provides a wildcard (fnmatch) implementation,
it is used instead of the GNU wildcard distributed with CLISP
when the CLISP wildcard module is built.
* Prompt is now fully customizable by the user.
CUSTOM:*PROMPT* is replaced with 5 variables.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#prompt> for details.
* Readline is now used properly on Cygwin/X11.
* Command line interface: the initial verbosity level is controlled
by the pair of mutually canceling options -q/-v.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/clisp.html#opt-verbose> for details.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k
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