A-Shell 7.0 Release Notes

1770.4.1

Fix

TPRINT/DPRINT/EPRINT: tab(x,y) positioning within any of these commands was incorrectly limiting the x and y dimensions to the size of the main window even when the current context was a dialog.

Note that although this is a GUI display issue, the bug fix is on the server side. Updating ATE does not solve it; you need to update A-Shell on the server. An alternate workaround is to increase the main window dimensions using tab(-5,x) or tab(-6,y) to match the dimensions of the target dialog.

1770.4.2

New

VIEWASHLOG.LIT 1.0(107) enhancement: new switch /USER: allows extracting (and grouping) log lines by the user login name.

1770.4.3

Fix

INFLD timer: the patch introduced in 1770.1 for Windows didn't make it over to the Linux platforms. Now resolved.

1770.4.4

Fix

Xcall REGEX: close a loophole where the same variable is passed for both the source and one of the returned sub-matches, interfering with the output of subsequent sub-matches.

1770.4.5

EIR

SRCCOM.LIT 2.0(205) refinements: optimization improvements, both in terms of performance and minimizing the amount of difference reported. Also, add lifesigns.

1770.4.6

Fix

(ATE) silence annoying messages about license failure when not actually connected to A-Shell.

A-Shell Release Notes Version 7.0.1770.3 (14 March 2025)

1770.3

Fix

Compiler edit 1066:  Several dot functions were generating spurious syntax errors. Problem Introduced in edit 1065.

A-Shell Release Notes Version 7.0.1770.2 (14 March 2025)

1770.2.1

EIR

Compiler edit 1065: further refinements to the behavior of various .ARGxxx functions.

1770.2.2

Fix

LIBASHNET update: libashnet.so.1.14.201 fixes a linkage problem in which XCALL FTP, XCALL HTTP, and/or XCALL CRYPTO calls would abort with a missing function error. This may have affected only only the CentOS-based platforms.

A-Shell Release Notes Version 7.0.1770.1 (09 March 2025)

1770.1.1

Fix

INFLD timer bug fix: close a loophole in which the INFLD timer would fail to start until a character was entered, if the previous keyboard operation involved a multi-character translation sequence such as a function key.

1770.1.2

EIR

Compiler edit 1064: The :OUTPUTONLY qualifier on a DYNSTRUCT parameter no longer defeats the autobinding when the caller passes a DEFSTRUCT to it.

A-Shell Release Notes Version 7.0.1770.0 (27 February 2025)

1770.0.1

New

New dot function added in compiler edit 1062:

.ISBOUND(ds)

The function returns .TRUE if the specified variable is a DYNSTRUCT that has been bound to a defined structure.

1770.0.2

EIR

Compiler edit 1063: updates to ordmaps during iteration are now treated as errors.

1770.0.3

EIR

Runtime refinement to trigger Basic error 67 (invalid collection operation or reference) when an ordered map key-value pair is deleted during iteration.