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A-Shell Development History

Navigation: Version 4.6, builds 699-791

742 — 14 August 2000

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1. EZSPL refinements: Fix potential infinite loop in EZSPL if IATIMEOUT triggers. Fix doubleprinting of last line in EZVUE printing. Allow TAB key to indicate last page in to/from range printing in EZVUE.

 

2. (UNIX) XCALL MESAG is now skipped by when running under SUBMIT (using up no input from the CTL file.) However, if the auto-snapshot mode is on, a snapshot will be taken allowing the message to be seen in the buffer file.

 

3. Fix a couple of color problems in INMEMO (was leaving A-Shell in a color set by INMEMO under certain conditions.) 4. (UNIX/PolyShell) ) Time-out fields now work even when in background mode. Also, the CLOSE command now works better when the job being closed is in an input statement. (However, it is still much preferable to manually close unwanted windows by bringing them to the foreground and then exiting the application.) Note that jobs that time out while in background may get stuck in "T" mode waiting for a terminal context to complete the exit operation. This is not a major problem since they will have already cleared themselves out of A-Shell's tables. The main annoyance is that they continue to show as a job in PolyShell, but when you attempt to bring it into the foreground, it will exit and trigger whatever event normally happens in PolyShell upon the exit of a child process (possibly including shutting down PolyShell if it was the last window and PolyShell was launched with -l.)

 

5. Increase max range length in MATCH.SBR from 512 to 1024, and fix problem with ranges with trailing spaces longer than 132 bytes.

 

6. PolyShell 1.4(134) released along with A-Shell 4.6(742). Fixes a minor problem with closing down a single-window session when it had been launched with the -l2 switch. Also fixes a problem with JOBTBL.SYS now allowing write access by other users (leading to "Unable to write to JOBTBL.SYS errors.)

 

7. Fix problem in A-Shell with JOBTBL.SYS not allowing write access by other users. (Same problem as noted above for PolyShell.)