X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201105172146.p4HLkEoi018248@delorie.com> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Readline 6.2 uploaded. Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:14:18 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline This is a port of GNU Readline and History libraries 6.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP. The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. The history facilites are also placed into a separate library, the History library, as part of the build process. The History library may be used without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - The port is based on the port of readline 2.2 and uses the termios emulation provided by it. It has been slightly adjusted to work with DJGPP 2.04. It also supports copying from Windows clipboard as the readline port from bash does. Most of the other changes are to handle DOS/DJGPP specific slash and backslash issues and to pacify the compiler. - The port will check at run time if LFN support is available or not. If available, then it will look for ".inputrc" and ".history" as configuration files. If one of them is not available then it will try "_inputrc" and/or "_history" as alternative file names. This means that if LFN support is available, the POSIX file names will always be tried before the DOS file names are tried. Of course, if only SFN support is available only the DOS versions of the file names will be tried. - The port will try to load the system wide configuration file using the file name "/dev/env/DJDIR/etc/inputrc" instead of the hard coded "/etc/inputrc". The system wide INPUTRC file is always tried to be load if the loading of "~/.inputrc" fails and before "~/_inputrc" is tried to be load on LFN systems. As usual, my changes and the rest of the djgpp specific stuff is stored in the /djgpp directory. To learn how to use the libraries please inspect the files in the /examples directory. I have not tried to configure and compile the sources on plain DOS. I assume that LFN support will be required to succesfully compile the package. I have no intentions to change this. For further information about GNU Readline please read the info docs and NEWS file. The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2011-02-16): Readline and History 6.2 libraries, headers and info format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln62b.zip GNU Readline 6.2 dvi, html, ps and pdf format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln62d.zip GNU Readline 6.2 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln62s.zip The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of djdev204 beta library. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2011-02-16): Readline and History 6.2 libraries, headers and info format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/rdln62b.zip Send GNU Readline specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel