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2. Re: Euphoria version 2.1 beta-test release now available!

• Posted by LEVIATHAN <lordlev at WA.FREEI.NET> Mar 05, 1999
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• Last edited Mar 06, 1999

Robert Craig wrote:

> The beta release of 2.1 is now available.
> You can download it from:
>
>       http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/v20.htm
>
> The changes from the alpha release are described in:
>
>       http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/relnotes.htm
>
> and in plain text below:
>
>                            Euphoria 2.1 beta release
>                                    March 5, 1999
>
> * The rest of the files in the euphoria\doc directory have now been
>     converted to HTML. Every .doc file in the doc directory now has a
>     corresponding .htm file in the euphoria\html directory. Several
>     improvements and clarifications were made in the documentation.
>
>   * You will now be warned when you have code that comes immediately
>     after an exit, return or abort() statement. This code can never be
>     executed. Suggested by Gabriel Boehme.
>
>   * safe.e no longer includes graphics.e. This eliminates possible naming
>      conflicts when safe.e is substituted for machine.e.
>
>   * Using code supplied by David Guy, safe.e will now let you add or
>      remove externally-allocated blocks of memory on the "safe address
>      list". See the new library routines: register_block() and
>      unregister_block().
>
>   * message_box() now uses the handle of the active window rather than
>      NULL. This forces the user to reply to your message before he can
>      continue to interact with your program. He won't be prevented from
>      interacting with other programs. Thanks to Austin C.
>
>   * get() and value() have been sped up by a further 5% thanks to Gabriel
>      Boehme.
>
>   * exw.exe has been made less likely to crash mysteriously when attacked
>      by a virus.
>
>   * sanity.ex now checks your installation of Euphoria. You'll be warned if
>      your PATH or EUDIR variables are not set, or your ex.exe, exw.exe,
>      pdex.exe, or pdexw.exe files have been corrupted or not installed
>      correctly in euphoria\bin.
>
>   * The security of bound and scrambled programs has been tightened
>      some more. Thanks to Rusty Davis.
>
>   * To save space in euphor21.zip, the install program now generates the
>      HTML and DOC files from a common source, using Junko Miura's
>      documentation generator. In the process, the generator is deleted, but
>      you can download it from the RDS site.
>
>   * When a type_check failure occurs you'll be warned if the type
>      erroneously returned a sequence for it's "true/false" result.
>      Previously, a sequence result was simply reported as a type_check
>      failure. Suggested by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen.
>
>   * The code for demo\win32\winwire.exw was cleaned up considerably.
>
>   * The install program will warn you to change your autoexec.bat file when
>      you install a new release of Euphoria onto a different drive.
>
>   * Several bugs were fixed. The most serious ones are listed first.
>
>          * bug fixed: If you shrouded a program using shroud.bat, it would
>             probably not run using the Public Domain ex or exw, since the
>             shrouding process would make the "with xxxx" stamps in the .e
>             files in euphoria\include invalid. There was no problem with
>             binding a program.
>
>          * bug fixed: A small percentage of bound .exe files would fail to
>             run due to a bug in the security (checksum) mechanism.
>
>          * bug fixed: In some cases, Euphoria might crash the first time
>             your program tried to display the trace window. Thanks to
>             Patrick Quist and Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen.
>
>          * bug fixed: prompt_number() now uses the "%g" format. Thanks to
>             Irv Mullins.
>
>          * bug fixed: In ed, if you switched from a window where the cursor
>             was beyond 80, to another window, the other window might be
>             blanked out.
>
>          * bug fixed: Under WIN32, the safe address list in safe.e will now
>             be initially empty. It was erroneously including some low memory
>             areas that are only valid under DOS32.
>
> Registered users of 2.1 can get the new (free) beta instructions.
> Just send me an e-mail request at:
>                rds at attcanada.net
>
> Remember that anyone who registered for 2.0 (single or dual platform)
> on or after July 15, 1998 is eligible to download 2.1 for free.
>
> Regards,
>      Rob Craig
>      Rapid Deployment Software
>      http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/

 Hmm... Okay...

Rob, I just tried your site several times at 9:17pm PST, and am having no luck
to get to the V2.1 beta... did AOL just come down, or are you moving?

TIA,

-- "LEVIATHAN"