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A-Shell Development History

1. Eliminate an extremely obscure situation (probably limited to a single developer who reported the problem) in which A-Shell could run out of memory handles due to repetitively and manually loading a memory module using an ersatz spec.

2. (Windows) Close a loophole in which an attempt to open a sequential file for input might fail, but actually leave the file open anyway, thus causing subsequent problems with getting access to the file. The situation was most likely to arise when trying to open a file which had just been created (or was in the process of being created by an external application

3. (Windows) The wait'file option on an OPEN statement (for sequential INPUT) now actually waits if the file is currently open for output by another A-Shell process. This, along with the above fix, should make it easier for applications that pass data between separate jobs or applications via the reading and writing of sequential files.

(Under UNIX, the wait'file option continues to have no affect when opening a file for sequential input.