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A-Shell Development History

1556.8.2

Revise

ATE: ATE About box now shows the correct number of nodes licensed on the server when the ATE license was issued from the server.

1556.8.1

Fix

ARY(0) detection patch in 1556.7 was not properly handling case where the array reference occurred within a function parameter list.

1556.7.2

Fix

Certain combinations of tracing options were resulting in corruption of AMOS-to-native filespec conversions. These mostly resulted in failed file lookups or opens, but in some cases, could have resulted in the process hanging.

1556.7.1

Fix

References to element 0 of an array, i.e. ARY(0), were failing to trigger subscript-out-of-range errors when the reference occurred within an expression within an XCALL or function/procedure call parameter list. They were being treated as array base references instead, but the resulting expression evaluation was potentially causing a segmentation fault.

The most likely occurrence of the problem was within TRACE.PRINT statements, where it is common to have expressions such as:

TRACE.PRINT "ARY(X) = "+ARY(X)+"..."

Such an expression should have triggered—and now does—error 8 if X = 0.

1556.6

Fix

Add server-side logic to address the XTREE 32K row width limit (see 6.4.1556.5 below) for older ATE clients.

1556.5.3

Fix

String expression: close a loophole which was allowing a small underflow condition on the string stack. In some cases, this was leading to a segmentation fault.

1556.5.2

Fix

Environment variable: in some cases, command lines with %env% vars, especially unrecognized ones, were resulting in garbage on the command line.

1556.5.1

Fix

(Windows) XTREE: close loophole in which a tree with width > 32K would result in an overflow condition possibly leading to memory corruption. This is a client-side fix; see 6.4.1556.6 for addressing it on the server side.

1556.4.4

Revise

CSV2XL.SBX Enhancement and Fixes.

1556.4.3

Revise

ATEGFK.SBX 1.0(105) eliminates a five second delay in the case where the source file exists but has zero bytes.

1556.4.2

Fix

SUBMIT.LIT 3.3(158): Fix obscure problem causing subscript out of range error sometimes when using the /W switch.

1556.4.1

Fix

INSTR(spos,subject,pattern,flags): When one of the INSTRF_xxx flags was specified, the spos was being applied to the pattern rather than the subject. This was no problem if spos=1, but would likely cause failure of the search otherwise.

1556.3

Fix

Minor refinement to XTREE/ATE protocol to close loophole resulting in spurious screen garbage under obscure scenarios.

1556.2.4

Fix

Windows installer: during a new installation, or when updating from a version prior to 6.4, in some cases the installer was forcing a reboot. That has been stopped.

1556.2.3

Fix

Close an obscure loophole which could have resulted in bad attempts to free memory (possibly even a GPF). UNIX only.

1556.2.2

Fix

XTREE: Multi-line editable cells (cformat ME) in property sheets where not allowing the use of the ENTER key to insert a line break.

1556.2.1

Fix

ODTIM: option &h01000000 (do not output month) was only working if option &h00000008 (output month as a number) was also specified. Documentation fix: the documentation had the wrong value for the option to not output date punctuation; it said &h00400000 but should be &h00200000.

1556.1.2

Fix

XTREE: in some cases, an answer array passed as ANSARY(1) with element size of 24 was being misinterpreted as an array descriptor, causing a failure to load some or all of the lines.

1556.1.1

Fix

APEX: selective page printing (when starting from other than page 1) was failing to initialize the auto-pitch font.

1556.0.2

Fix

Close segmentation fault window when passing F4 parameters to ASQL.SBR.

1556.0.1

Revision

Installer enhancement: script files %MIAME%\ash_custom1.bat and %MIAME%\ash_custom2.bat will now be executed during installation/update, at the start of the file copying and at the end, respectively, if they exist. This provides a way for sites to exercise some control over the update process, perhaps by shutting down background services using A-Shell and then restarting them. Or by saving/restoring customized components or files that you don't want updated in a normal A-Shell update. Note that all the install package contains sample versions of these two files, any customizations you make will not be overwritten.