CDR: [9fans] New release (fwd)
Jim Choate
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Sat Oct 14 14:51:01 PDT 2000
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:14:07 -0400
From: rob pike <rob at plan9.bell-labs.com>
Reply-To: 9fans at cse.psu.edu
To: 9fans at cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] New release
A new release of Plan 9 is now available at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
You can download a full distribution or an update relative to the
previous release, dated July 29 2000. For a variety of reasons the
update is larger than previous ones, but still much smaller than the
full release.
Although this is primarily a maintenance release, it contains a number of new
things.
- The open source license has been updated to improve some of the
more contentious clauses and to add language about the Plan 9
trademark.
- More VGA cards are supported, particularly the 3dfx, and more now
have support for hardware acceleration.
- The AccuPoint II's extra buttons are now connected to `button 2' of
the mouse interface; thanks to Ionkov for the crucial piece of information.
(See mouse(8).)
- The cpu command now has the ability to encrypt the data on its
communication channel. This facility is enabled by default, use
cpu -e clear
to turn it off.
- Acme now has a command language for editing, essentially identical
to sam's.
- Formatted I/O for floating point has been rewritten to provide the
best possible answer always.
- There is a full set of `rune string' routines installed in the C library.
- Pipefile(1) is installed; it is used by the accupoint support and by
Kenji's ktrans.
- Lp will now print to an HP DeskJet and in fact to any Ghostscript-
supported device.
- New command leak(1) detects memory leaks in running programs
without prior arrangement; thanks to Russ Cox.
- Scat now has the ability to orient the maps to place the zenith up;
thanks to Doug McIlroy.
- /bin/termrc has a simple mechanism to enable system-dependent
configuration. cpurc should do the same, but doesn't, for historical
reasons.
There are doubtless many more minor things.
-rob
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