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Version 4.3.16
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- Minor fixes and updates.


Version 4.3.15
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- MIME-PACK, B-MIME-PACK, MIME-UNPACK, B-MIME-UNPACK - new user
  defined commands that pack/unpack mime files.  The corresponding key
  bindings are: ^Ck, ^Cbk, ^CK and ^CbK.  The mpack package should
  be installed in order for these to work.

- MIME-MAIL, B-MIME-MAIL - new user defined commands that can send
  files by mail as mime messages.  The corresponding key bindings are:
  ^C2m and ^Cb2m.  The mpack package is required for these ones as well.

- FAST-DIFF - new user defined command (on ^Cfd).  Calls diff -r -q
  and reports differences between directories in terms of files that
  differ, but does not report the actual differences between them.

- Added support for *.mov to gitaction.

- Added support for bin packing (i.e. packing files in the smallest
  number of bins).  See the info documentation for details.

- Some user defined commands now protect "weird" file names with the
  POSIX specified `--' argument that terminates all options.  Thus for
  some commands the errors that used to occur when dealing with file
  names beginning with a hyphen are now fixed, depending on whether or
  not that particular command supports the `--' argument.  For the
  ones that don't (emacs, ghostview, tar, basename, ar, xv, xanim,
  xfig, lynx, mpeg_play, zip/unzip, ispell, etc), there is nothing I
  can do.  git cannot check whether or not programs actually do
  support this POSIX feature.

- `git' now works with gzip only.  Support for `compress' as an
  alternative has been removed.  Most archives today are in `gzip'
  format anyway.

- Multiple patterns are accepted on `select-files-matching-pattern'.
  The patterns are separated by spaces.  Spaces and \s should be
  escaped with a \ if part of the pattern.

- Bug fixes.


Version 4.3.14
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- Added support for exec_prefix.

- Added support for make prefix=...

- Added support for most of the commands provided in the mtools
  package.  See the ^Cm prefixes in term/.gitrc.common.

- File comparison is now built-in (on ^C B, as usual).  gitcmp is gone.

- Added support for the xhost command on ^X H.

- Bug fixes.


Version 4.3.13
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- Ported to AT&T 3B2 systems, thanks to	Gaylen Miller <gaylen@proaxis.com>.

- Under RedHat Linux 4.0 the rxvt terminal emulator exports TERM=xterm-color
  which makes it possible to figure out that we have color support.
  GIT now supports xterm-color as well.

- M-. (ESC .) works better in the sense that it goes up to the
  previous directory and automatically positions on the entry
  corresponding to the old directory.

- ^CI installs the RPM package under the cursor.
  ^Ci uninstalls the RPM package under the cursor.
  ^CN upgrades the RPM package under the cursor.
  ^Cq queries the `rpm' package manager.
  These commands also have background versions: ^CbI, ^Cbi and ^CbN.

- Tested on NetBSD 1.2.

- Fixes to make git compile cleanly to some new architectures thanks to
  Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>.

- Minor changes/fixes.


Version 4.3.12
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Added recursive context diffs on ^Cd and ^Cbd (background).  See the
documentation for details.

^G behaves better as an interrupt key.

Added support for meta keys with the 8th bit set.

The commands binded on the function keys are now to the M-number (ESC
+ number) key sequence as well.  ESC + 1 and ESC + 2 which used to
chdir to the /mnt/fdX directories have been moved on ESC ESC 1 and ESC
ESC 2.

`git' can now compare directories: ^Ccq will quickly compare the file
names, sizes and time stamps while ^Cct will thoroughly compare the
contents of each file with the contents of its couterpart (if any)
from the other panel.

`name-upcase' & `name-downcase': New builtin functions for renaming
the selected entries to uppercase & lowercase.

`git' compiles out of the box under the Hurd.

Many minor fixes.


Version 4.3.11
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An installation problem has been fixed.  GIT no longer attempts to
change the permissions of directories.

backward-kill-word is now on ESC Ctrl-H as well.

The `install' rule now depends on `all', which means you can type
`make install' and get the entire package compiled and installed.

There is now a separate rule called install-only that you can use to
install git without re-checking the dependencies.

The install_strip rule has been renamed to install-strip.


Version 4.3.10
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Ported to qnx 4.22 thanks to Michael Hunter <mphunter@qnx.com>.

Ported to B.O.S 02.01 (Bull Operating System - m68k-bull-sysv3).

Panels are no longer redrawn immediately after commands started from
the command line or by pressing RETURN on the executable.  Most users
seem to prefer it this way.

Ported to Next Step 3.2 - m68k-next-nextstep3:
  NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993;
  root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
  Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
thanks to Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu>

The file system free space is displayed in a more intuitive way, i.e.
8,881,152 instead of 8881152.  The same thing holds for the sum of
selected files.

Bug fixes.

Support for the AIX hft teminal, thanks to Andrei Caraman <xax@pub.ro>.

New inputline functions (inspired from the emacs counterparts):

FUNCTION		BINDING		ACTION
=======================================================================
kill-word		ESC d (M-d)	delete next word
downcase-word		ESC l (M-l)	convert next word to lower case
upcase-word		ESC u (M-l)	convert next word to upper case
capitalize-word		ESC c (M-l)	capitalize next word

Unfortunately, this has lots of side effects:

  - panel-display-* names & the corresponding bindings have been changed:
	- ESC e a	= panel-enable-all
			  (previously called panel-display-all)
	- ESC e d	= panel-enable-date-time
			  (previously called panel-display-date-time)
	- ESC e f	= panel-enable-full-name
			  (previously called panel-display-full-name)
	- ESC e m	= panel-enable-mode
			  (previously called panel-display-mode)
	- ESC e o	= panel-enable-owner-group
			  (previously called panel-display-owner-group)
	- ESC e s	= panel-enable-size
			  (previously called panel-display-size)

  - conform-*-directory names & the corresponding bindings have been changed:
	- ESC a c	adapt-current-directory
			(previously called conform-current-directory)
	- ESC a o	adapt-other-directory
			(previously called conform-other-directory)

  - the user defined UMOUNT bindings have been changed:
	- ESC r a	remove (umount) /dev/fd0
	- ESC r b	remove (umount) /dev/fd1
	- ESC r t	remove (umount) the fs under the current directory

As you can see, 4 lines of new features, 11 of side effects.  Sorry
about this changes, but at the time I decided to use the previous
bindings I had no idea how wonderful emacs is :-).


Version 4.3.9
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A bug introduced in 4.3.8 has been fixed.

Better handling of `aixterm' terminal emulators under AIX.


Version 4.3.8
.............

A few bugs have been fixed and some slow algorithms have been speed
up.

I have tested git on our recently installed NFS volume and tried to
fix the related problems.  I don't know whether or not I have fixed
all of them.  Please let me know if it works for you.

The default ANSI colors are correctly restored under color_xterm, rxvt
and most likely under any other (bug free :-) ANSI capable terminal or
terminal emulator.

New commands in .gitrc.common.

Fti matching is delayed until needed.

gitrgrep & Co. use 'find' to walk through the file system tree.

gitregrep and gitfgrep will call egrep and fgrep recursively.

The clock is gone.  There were too many races.  Sorry guys :-(  Type
^XT to get the current date/time (DATE).

Better terminal optimizations and terminal I/O.  It should work a
faster on almost every terminal.

The gitaction script has been improved.  It is now able to handle
compressed movies and accepts uppercase extensions for all image
types.  Also, all the actions on C, C++, PGP, LEX, YACC, make files
have been removed.  Compiling the current file was a little bit silly
since most .c files are part of bigger projects and compiling them
separately is useless.

Many new file types are now detected in the [GIT_FTI] section. If git
seems slow due to the fact that about 300 file patterns are matched
for each file entry displayed, consider setting TypeSensitivity to OFF
or removing some of the unnecessary patterns from .gitrc.common's
[GIT-FTI] section.  However, 4.3.8 should work much better than 4.3.7
since the patterns are matched only when necessary and no more than
once.

The ./configure option for requesting the terminfo library is now
--with-terminfo.  The previous option (--enable-terminfo) is no longer
supported.

A bug preventing users from defining their own colors in the [GIT-FTI]
section of their ~/.gitrc.TERM file has been fixed thanks to Marian
Ciobanu <ciobi@liis.sfos.ro>.

The delay at the end of the file type sensitive action executed by the
gitaction script has been removed.  This was annoying, especially
under X when starting viewers in background.

Even though the default .gitrc.xterm is still configured with
AnsiColors = OFF, it is highly recommended to set it to ON on terminal
emulators that have ANSI colors support (aixterm under AIX, xterm
under ULTRIX, color_xterm & rxvt under Linux).

git no longer attempts to execute empty commands at the command
prompt (that is, commands that contain only spaces and semi-columns.
This is not a bug, is a feature :-)

Philippe De Muyter ported GIT 4.3.7 to sysV68 R3V7.1 (m68k-motorola-sysv).
I have integrated his patch into 4.3.8.


Version 4.3.7
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Few improvements, mostly fixes.  All the compilation/installation
problems reported in 4.3.6 have been fixed (I hope :-).

RUMORS, RUMORS, RUMORS, .... it've heard that newer Linux systems use
"linux" instead of "console" for the TERM environment variable.  Due
to this, I've linked .gitrc.linux to .gitrc.console.  I'm not sure if
it will really be useful, but it won't hurt.

git can now display files using different colors, depending on their
types as specified by the [GIT-FTI] section (FTI stands for file type
information). See .gitrc.common for more details.  If you don't
want/like colors, they can be disabled by setting the TypeSensitivity
variable to OFF.  Note that I've considered more important to
emphasize the file type and *NOT* the fact that it is compressed.
That means that foo.c and foo.c.gz will be displayed using the same
color.  Of course, this approach can be changed by modifying the
configuration file...

GIT_PAGER is a new environment variable that replaces "more" in all
the user defined commands described in the configuration files.  If
your system has "less", just add GIT_PAGER=less to your environment.
By default GIT_PAGER='more'.  gitaction & .gitaction use GIT_PAGER
too.

conform-current-directory & conform-other-directory now save the new
directory into the directory history.

Faster startup.

^C= now performs recursive diff.

`flip' is the default action for *.fli and *.flc. See gitaction for
details.

tty.c now uses /dev/vcsa to dump/restore the screen.  The ioctl()
system call is no longer used.  You should have the right to r/w the
corresponding /dev/vcsaX since I don't like setuids, and I also think
that the appropriate permission/owner should be set by the login
utility in the same way as for /dev/ttyX.  Until then, if you are on a
single-user machine or you don't care much about security, you can
give unrestricted r/w permission on /dev/vcsaX.


Version 4.3.6
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Added scroll step. A new built-in function (set-scroll-step) lets you
modify the panel scroll step.  It is also possible to set it in the
configuration file using the StartupScrollStep variable.  The built-in
function set-scroll-step is binded on ^XP.

Added incremental search. The built-in functions isearch-backward and
isearch-forward are mapped on ^S and ^R (as in emacs).  If the
hardware doesn't let you change the default meaning of ^S, you can use
the alternate key sequences ^Xs and ^Xr.  Wrapped isearch is also
provided.

select-file has been moved on ^T since ^R is now used for
isearch-backward.  You can also use Ctrl-\ (^\) for select-file (if
available). Sorry, I promise that this is the last time I am moving
this one :-). Anyway, if you are using Linux, you can continue to
press the 'Insert' key.

Verdoolaege Sven has contributed an enhanced gitaction script.
Default actions are now available for many new file extensions: zip,
arj, rar, mod, s3m, voc, wav, lsm, jpeg, mpg, ps, dvi and tex.  I also
added support for compressed and uncompressed manual pages.

A bug in getting the size of symbolic links has been fixed.  Only
symbolic links with no target have been affected.

It is now possible to have a command with no body, still being able to
chdir to the directory specified in the configuration line.  You can
switch between directories much faster.  A command name is still
required.

	- M-/ (ESC-/, Alt-/ under Linux) goes to /
	- M-. (ESC-., Alt-. under Linux) goes to ..
	- M-h (ESC-h, Alt-h under Linux) goes to $HOME
	- M-i (ESC-i, Alt-i under Linux) goes to /usr/include

Han Holl made gitrgrep work on SCO 3.2 V 4.2.  He also reported some
other problems under SCO.  See the PROBLEMS file.

Alexander Jolk <p6mqt001@cicrp.jussieu.fr> requested that the
Makefiles makes no provisions in order not to display the commands.
Done.

Preformatted manual pages are no longer part of the distribution.  In
fact, manual pages have not been updated in this version.  The GNU
projects seems to consider them obsolete, and I think that updating
only the info file will be enough.  Each release will have a decent
set of manual pages, but only to figure out what it is all about, not
as a reliable source of information about GIT.

A directory history is provided, making it easy to switch between
directories within a given set.  If you change the current directory
with ^Xd or you specify a new-dir field to a command, the directory is
added to the directory history.  You can switch to the previous
directory with ^X^P, to the next directory with ^X^N and you can reset
the entire directory history with ^X^R.  After reseting the directory
history, the current directory is automatically added to it.

A new variable (ConfirmOnExit) has been added to the [GIT-Setup]
section, allowing you to specify if you want to be asked for
confirmation at exit.  The default is not to be asked for
confirmation.

Added tilde expansion on 'copy' and on 'move'.  It should have been
there from the very beginning.

make-directory no longer expect a base-name.  The directory name is
tilde_expand()-ed and then created, if possible.

The FIND function no longer asks for the start directory.  It simply
ask the file name and starts searching it from the current directory.

It is now possible to select directories and delete / copy / move them
using the same builtin functions used in the previous versions for
file only operations.  Since it is inherently dangerous to delete
directories, if the directory to be deleted is not empty, the user is
prompted twice, in order to reduce the possibility of an error.
Briefly, you can use the same key binding for both file and
directories common operations (i.e. pressing F8 or ^C D will delete
the current file (or directory) if there are no selected files /
directories, or all the selected files and directories otherwise).
You should pay attention because directories are deleted recursively.
---- Also note that the select-all built-in function doesn't select
directories.  You should select them "by hand".  Just for safety...

Most file commands have been changed in order to act on the selected
files.  As an example, if you select some files in a panel and then
start the COMPRESS command, git will compress all the selected files,
not only the current one.  If the command used (gzip in our case)
exits successfully, all the selected files will become unselected.
However, if an error occur, git will *not* unselect the selected files
since there is no way to tell (in general) which files have been
successfully processed.

An utility for wiping files is provided.  Its name is (of course)
gitwipe and is binded on ^C W. gitwipe overwrites the file contents
with a random sequence of numbers and then calls sync().  Note that
gitwipe does *not* delete the file since (under Linux at least) the
sync() system call might return before actually writing the new file
contents to disk.  Deleting the file might be dangerous because some
file systems can detect that the blocks in the file are no longer used
and never write them back to disk in order to improve performance.  It
is up to you to delete the file(s) at a later moment.

A new scheme is used for the configuration files.  Since most of the
key bindings are common to all the terminal types and only a few are
really terminal specific, a new configuration file called
.gitrc.common is used to keep the 'common' ones.  This new confi-
guration file contains only the [GITxxx-Keys] sections.  Terminal
specific key bindings can be defined as usual in the .gitrc.TERM files
and, if a conflict occurs, the .gitrc.TERM definition is used, giving
the user the possibility to overwrite a 'common' key binding if it
wishes to do so.

The configuration files commands have been enhanced with a new format
specifier:

	'%?{confirmation}'

  This format specifier only asks for confirmation before expanding /
executing the current command.  The 'confirmation' string is displayed
and if the user doesn't confirm, the command is aborted.  Otherwise,
%?{...} expands to a null string and the command is expanded /
executed normally.

A separate history is kept for each command.  This is true for both
built-in and user-defined commands.  For example, if you search a file
using the user-defined FIND command and, later, you call the FIND
function again, you can walk through the file names history using the
arrow keys or ESC p / ESC n (M-p / M-n in emacs).

Three built-in functions have been added:

	enlarge-panel		- binded on ^X1 (C-X 1)
	enlarge-other-panel	- binded on ^X0 (C-X 0)
	two-panels		- binded on ^X2 (C-X 2)

enlarge-panel will maximize the current panel, enlarge-other-panel the
other one.  One of the panels will become invisible.  However, *all*
the operations can still be performed.  The invisible panel will
remain the default destination for copy/move operations.  TAB will
also continue to work.  two-panels will restore the original two
panels mode.

A new display mode, suitable for enlarged panels, is provided.  This
new mode combines all the other modes, displaying the owner, group,
date, time, size and mode of a file.  It is automatically selected by
enlarge-panel and enlarge-other-panel but can be changed afterward, by
pressing ^] (C-]).

A 'lock' built-in function has been added.  It is binded on ^X p (C-x
p) and locks the terminal until the password typed at lock time is
correctly retyped.

The git panels are no longer deleted/restored when a background
command is started.

A .gitrc.sun configuration file has been added.  It is a link to
.gitrc.generic.

New Linux kernels seem to use the /dev/vcs devices to dump the screen
contents.  I dont' have access to such a kernel right know, but I will
fix this in the next release.  See the file PROBLEMS for details.

The texinfo documentation has been rewritten from scratch.  It is
better organized and has many new additions.  It also contains an
exhaustive description of all the default key bindings.  There are
still many things that can be done, though.

A dvi Makefile target has been aded. Type 'make dvi' if you want to
create the git.dvi file from git.texinfo.  After that, you should be
able to get a PostScript documentation using dvips.

A last minute Minix 1.6.25.1 port.  Works fine, has colors.  A
.gitrc.minix has been added to the distribution.


Version 4.3.5
.............

Owner and group names are now being cached using hash tables in order
to increase the directory reading speed.

GIT is now able to display the file system free space on many
systems. GIT 4.3.4 was only able to do this under Linux, using the
statfs() system call. GIT 4.3.5 uses a modified version of the
fsusage.c file from the GNU fileutils 3.2 package.

^H (8), ^I (9), ^J (10), ^M (13), ^SPC (0) and BACKSPACE (127) can be
configured in the configuration files.

The interrupt & quit characters are both ^G now. You can exit from GIT
with ^X^C (this is the default binding but you can change it, of
course :-) ).

The entire set of default key bindings has been changed.  I have tried
to make them be more emacs-like (where possible). Since it is
impossible to use 'z' to compress a file or 'Z' to uncompress it as
emacs does in the 'dired' mode because 'a', 'A', ... 'z', 'Z', etc are
used to enter commands in the input line, I have decided to use the ^C
prefix key for file operations.  Background commands are prefixed with
^Cb. You should read the configuration files for more details.

GIT now has an editable input line.  Most emacs-like editing functions
suitable for editing one line of input are now available:

	Function:		    GIT style:	    Emacs style:

	backward-char			^B		C-b
	forward-char			^F		C-f
	backward-word			^[b		M-b
	forward-word			^[f		M-f
	beginning-of-line		^A		C-a
	end-of-line			^E		C-e
	delete-char			^D		C-d
	backward-delete-char		^_		DEL
	backward-kill-word		^[^_		M-DEL
	kill-line			^[k		C-k
	kill-to-beginning-of-line	^U
	kill-to-end-of-line		^K
	just-one-space			^[^@		M-SPC
	delete-horizontal-space		^[\		M-\
	action				^M		RET
	set-mark			^$		C-SPC
	kill-region			^W		C-w
	kill-ring-save			^[w		M-w
	yank				^Y		C-Y
	exchange-point-and-mark		^X^X		C-x C-x

Since the entire input line code has been  changed / improved,  the
2048 bytes length limit no longer exist. The input line can hold as
many characters as you want.

All the built-in command names have been changed in order to match the
emacs style function names: <ChangePanel> has become change-panel. By
convention, built-in commands are now lowercase while user defined
commands are uppercase.

When copying files that are longer than 32 Kb, the copied percent is
displayed on the status bar.

The copy_files built-in command can be interrupted in the middle of a
file copy action. If the operation is interrupted in the middle, the
incomplete file is deleted.

The configuration files are using now shell environment variables to
call the shell, editor, mail reader, compress and virtual memory
status utility. That means that if you set GIT_SHELL, GIT_EDITOR,
GIT_RMAIL, GIT_COMPRESS or GIT_VMSTAT to some value, that value will
be used instead of the default one. The defaults are:

	GIT_SHELL='/bin/sh'
	GIT_EDITOR='vi'
	GIT_RMAIL='emacs -f rmail'
	GIT_COMPRESS='gzip -9'
	GIT_VMSTAT='free'

If GIT_SHELL is not defined but SHELL is, GIT_SHELL will be set to
that value.

If GIT_EDITOR is not defined but EDITOR is, GIT_EDITOR will be set to
that value.

History expansion has been added. GIT now takes advantage of the full
power of the history library.  Each command entered at the prompt is
expanded and added to the history.  !!, !?, !-n, ...  are now
available. See the history library documentation for more details.

The package can be compiled in a different directory, keeping the
source tree unmodified.  You should be able to make an empty
directory, chdir to it and start git-4.3.5/configure, then make.

The distribution has been split into three directories: src, man and
info.

GIT has been tested on IRIX 4.0.5F. It works. It also works on SunOS
4.1.3, Solaris 2.3 and Irix 5.2 according to Eric Jaron Stieglitz
<ephraim@ctr.columbia.edu>.

make install creates a symbolic link from $(libdir)/.gitrc.xterm to
$(libdir)/.gitrc.xterms in order to avoid problems on systems that
have the TERM environment variable defined as xterms instead of xterm.

A script doing recursive grep (gitrgrep) has been added to the
distribution. It might be useful.


Version 4.3.4
.............

Richard Stallman saw it and agreed to be part of the GNU project.

The package is no longer called 'UNIX Interactive Tools'.  I've
changed its name to 'GNU Interactive Tools'.

GIT is now able to correctly restore the terminal foreground and
background under X. The previous version had a problem with this
because there is no way to find out the terminal colors at startup.
The [Setup] section of the configuration file specifies the colors
that GIT should set at exit.

If gcc is detected at configure time, -Wall is added to CFLAGS.

A bug in Makefile.in has been fixed.

Two gitps bugs have been fixed.

Better ^Z (suspend) management. GIT doesn't wait any longer for a key
to be pressed after the 'fg' command is entered at the shell prompt.

The hpterm terminal emulator support works better. It is far from
being perfect, but it works better than the previous versions.

Added support for System V and BSD terminal interfaces.

Added support for AIX aixterm terminal emulator.

If a .gitrc.TERM file cannot be found for a specific terminal, a
generic configuration file (.gitrc.generic) is used.

Tested on a Bull computer running AIX.

Tested on some BSD 4.3 systems at FSF.

Tested on a Sun running SunOS 4.0.3 at FSF.

A better Sun port thanks to Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer.

A better Alpha port thanks to Dan Pop.

Added some emacs-like key bindings. There will be more in the next
version.

Code cleanup.


Version 4.3.3
.............

Added support for moving files on MS-DOS file systems.

Added support for terminals that can't write on the last character of
the screen without scrolling the entire screen.

Alt-k starts diff with the two panels current files as arguments.

Cosmetic changes.

Bug fixes.


Version 4.3.2
.............

A lot of work has been done to make the UIT package compile with
traditional K&R compilers. I've successfully compiled it with such a
compiler on our HP-UX 9000/715.

The installation procedure has been simplified: UIT 4.3.2 uses the
'configure' script! The 'configure' script was generated from the file
configure.in (available in the package) using the autoconf utility
version 1.11. To install the UIT 4.3.2 package just type:

	./configure
	make
	make install

The configure script first check for the termcap library.  If the
termcap library is not found, some terminfo libraries will be
searched: ncurses, curses, termlib, tinfo, terminfo. If you want to
change this default behavior and search for terminfo libraries before
searching the termcap library, run

	./configure --enable-terminfo
instead of
	./configure

UIT now understands some symbolic key names in the configuration
files: F0, F1, F2, ... F10, UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT, INS, DEL, HOME,
END, PGUP, PGDOWN. You can still specify a key sequence, but, for the
function & cursor keys, it's a better idea to get them from the
termcap/terminfo database if they can be found there. So, the command
for the F1 key on the Linux console (the configuration file is
.uitrc.console) can be:

	F1  = UIT-HELP; man uit
or
	^[A = UIT-HELP; man uit

If some key doesn't have a termcap/terminfo description (like the
F11/F12 keys on the Linux console) you can specify the key sequence in
the usual way.

The UIT package will use the GNU readline library if available.  If
this library is not installed on your system, uit will use the sources
for the history and tilde expansion included in the package.  For
Linux systems, the DLL readline library version 2.0.1 is available at
sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/libs.  The package name is
librl-2.0.1.tar.gz. This package also includes a readline linked ftp,
bash-1.14.1 and gdb-4.12 binaries.  The bash binary is about 60k
smaller that the SLACKWARE 2.0.0 version and, hold your breath..., the
gdb binary is about 500k smaller too. So, if you really want things to
work better, install this DLL readline library.  UIT will work just
fine without it, but using a shared library generally means shorter
binaries ...

Changes in the configuration files:
	- ^De starts the editor sending the selected files as para-
	meters. So, if you want to edit  multiple  files  at  once,
	select them, then press ^De . The default  editor  is  joe,
	but you  can  use  any  other  editor  if  you  change  the
	corresponding line in the configuration file.
	- ^Dd starts the 'more' viewer sending the  selected  files
	as parameters. See above.
	- ^Du displays on the status bar the result of the  'du -s'
	command
	- ^Df displays on the status bar the  result  of  the  'df'
	command, one line at a time
	- ^Dm displays on the status bar the result of the  'mount'
	command, one line at a time
	- ^Dv displays on the status bar the result of  the  'free'
	command, one line at a time
	- ^Dw displays on the status bar the result of the 'whereis'
	command, one line at a time
	- ^DW displays on the status bar the result of the  'which'
	command, one line at a time
	- ^Dh displays on the status bar the result of the  'users'
	command, one line at a time

The file and path names copied to the command line are now quoted
because files residing on ISO9660 CDs may contain ';' and the shell
will fail to expand the resulting string.

Three new default actions have been added to the uitaction script for
*.texi, *.texinfo and *.man. See the uitaction script for more
details.

3 bugs have been fixed.


Version 4.3.1
.............

UIT now uses the GNU history library. The default history file is
~/.uithistory.

The number of files in a panel is no longer limited to 1024.  If you
have enough memory, UIT can now display all the files in the
directory, even if the directory is a very big one. UIT dynamically
allocates memory for the directory data so UIT 4.3.1 needs about
120k-140k of memory less than UIT 4.3 (for usual directories).

UIT can move files between file systems by copying the source file to
the destination file and then removing the source file.

The source files termcap.l and termcap.h have been removed.  UIT 4.3.1
now use the standard termcap library. If you want to use a local
termcap database (like .termcap), you can do it by setting the TERMCAP
environment variable to point to it:

	TERMCAP = /home/joe/.termcap

UIT 4.3.1 needs only the 'cm' and the 'cl' terminal capability.  If
available, 'me', 'md', 'mr', 'vi' and 've' are also used.

Using the standard termcap database has some advantages:
	- UIT 4.3.1 now does padding (if padding is required)
	- UIT 4.3.1 can  handle any kind of  parameterized terminal
	  capabilities.
	- uit, uitps, uitview are smaller
	- no more problems with different versions of lex/flex ...

UIT has now terminfo support. You can choose between termcap and
terminfo at compile time.

The selected files are marked with a '*' in the right side.  This can
be useful if your terminal doesn't know about brightness (the me & md
terminal capabilities).

The current file of the current panel is marked with a '>' in the left
side.

The current file of the other panel is marked with a '*' in the left
side. You can see this way which is the current file of the other
panel.

UIT is able to run a command sending to it the selected file names as
parameters. This is done using the new %i and %I parameters available
in the formatted string. Suppose the current directory test_dir
contains the files foo, bar, tutu and gogu, and foo & tutu are
selected, the following command

	^Wyt = TAR; tar cf %b.tar %i;;;;y

will be expanded as

	tar cf test_dir.bar foo tutu

Thus, you can make your favorite commands act only on the selected
files.

A new builtin command (<CopySelectedFilesToCmdLn>) is available.  This
command lets you to insert all the selected files names into the
command line. I've mapped it on ^Kg. If there is no selected file,
only the current file name is copied.

Changes in the configuration files:
	- the archive (.tar.gz) created with ^Wz get its name  from
	  the directory under the cursor.
	  So, in the configuration files,
	  ^Wz = tar cf - * | gzip -9cf > %b.tar.gz    is now
	  ^Wz = tar cf - %d | gzip -9c > %d.tar.gz
	- elm can be started with ^Ke
	- the shell can be started with ^Kj
	- as explained before, I've added ^Kg & ^Wyt

A new utility (uitkeys) is provided to help users to set up the
configuration files .uitrc.TERM.

If uit/uitps/uitview doesn't find a local configuration file
.uitrc.TERM, it tries to use the global version (usually found in the
/usr/local/lib directory). This way, users are able to run uit/
uitps/uitview without having to copy the configuration file(s) in
their home directory.

uit now understands '~' in the 'newdir' field, in the <ChangeDir>
builtin command, etc ...

The procedure of setting up colors has been simplified. If you want to
try to run UIT with colors, just set AnsiColorSequences to ON in the
configuration files.

MS-DOS files are copied without the __x bits.

UIT can now display the host-name, system type, machine type and the
current date on the status bar using the following escape sequences:
	\h	->	the host name
	\s	->	the system type
	\m	->	the machine type
	\t	->	the date
Please read the configuration files for more details.

For the sake of readability, in the configuration files '1' and '0'
have been replaced by 'y' and 'n'.

The size of the command line has been increased to 2k.

alloca.c is now included in the distribution. You should be able to
compile the UIT 4.3.1 package even if the target system does not
support the alloca() function. For such systems, define in the
Makefile ALLOCAOBJ = alloca.o .

A better Makefile:
	- you can uninstall the UIT package using 'make uninstall'
	- you can build a distribution file using 'make dist'

A *MUCH* *MUCH* *MUCH* better code.

N bugs have been fixed :-( .


Version 4.3
...........

A new script that executes a different action for each file type
specified. If you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.c" file, UIT will compile
it, if you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.tar.gz" file, UIT will list the tar
archive contents, if you press the same keys on a "*.gz" file UIT will
display its uncompressed contents on the screen, etc ...  By default
uitaction checks for the following patterns:

"*.cc" "*.c" "*.l" "*.y" "*.h" "*.s" "*.S" "*.o" "*.a" "*.sa"
"Makefile" "makefile"
"*.tar.gz" "*.tgz" "*.tar.z" "*.tar.Z" "*.taz" "*.tar" "*.gz"
"*.z" "*.Z"
"*.doc" "*.txt"
"*.gif" "*.jpg" "*.tif" "*.bmp"

And acts as appropriate. If no pattern is found, the file is displayed
using more. Feel free to change this.

If you press F2 or ^Kz on a "*.gif" file or a "*.jpg" file and you
have the zgv utility installed, you will be able to see it. If you
want to change the gif/jpeg viewer, all you need to do is to change
its name in the uitaction script. I don't know a "*.bmp" or "*.tif"
viewer. Feel free to add one in the uitaction script.  The script can
be easy enhanced.  Just read it.  You can have a local version of this
script (in the current directory). Please read the manual page for
more details.

UIT 4.3 was tested on DEC OSF/1 operating system.

Enhanced configuration files:
	- uitaction (F2 or ^Kz)
	- grep (^Vr)
	- ispell (^Vi)
	- ' | more' added to finger, w, ...
	- reset (terminal reset) (^WR)
	- mv (you can now change a file name even if the two panels
	  don't show the same directory) (^Vr)
	- chmod for a group of files (^Wlm)
	- chown for a group of files (^Wlo)
	- chgrp for a group of files (^Wlg)
	- conform  the   current  directory   to  the  other  panel
	  directory (Alt-c c, ESC c c, ^[cc) - <ConformCurrentDir>
	- conform  the other panel directory  to  the current panel
	  directory (Alt-c o, ESC c o, ^[co) - <ConformOtherDir>
	- tar + gzip in one shot (^Wz).  Something  like   that   is
	  executed: tar cf - * | gzip -9cf > %b.tar.gz
	- the background version of the previous command (^Wbz)
	- gunzip + un-tar in one shot (^Wv). Something  like that is
	  executed: gzip -dc %f | tar xf -
	- the background version of the previous command (^Wbv)
	- copy the other panel path to the command line (^Ka)

Enhanced manual pages.

A better Makefile

3 bugs have been fixed.

Better error checking on directories.

^H support (treated as backspace).

The ASCII documentation has been removed. I think that every modern
UNIX system should have the man utility.


Version 4.2c
............

UIT 4.2c was tested on HP-UX operating system.

UIT 4.2c implements a curses-like algorithm to prevent useless screen
refreshes. *NOTHING* will be displayed on the screen if it is already
there. This will speed up UIT when working on terminals.  To force a
screen refresh you can use ^Wr ( <HardRefresh> ).

UIT 4.2c is able to select/unselect files using a pattern matching
method. You can now select something like *.c, *.h or unselect *.o .
This is done with ^Vs (select) / ^Vu (unselect).

The configuration files .uitrc.TERM where enhanced.  You can now start
tar xf, tar cf, gzip, gunzip, uuencode, uudecode as foreground or
background commands.  This is done with ^Wx / ^Wbx, ^Wt / ^Wbt, ^Wc /
^Wbc, ^Wu / ^Wbu, etc.  There is also possible to directly send by
mail a file to someone as an ASCII file (^Va) or as an uuencoded
binary file (^Vb).

Bug fix: UIT 4.2c now correctly stops when it is started as a
background job.

Files can be sorted in 9 different ways.  The most important sorting
methods are "by name", "by extension", "by size" and "by date".

A new script uitmount which allows you to mount any block device
without specifying the fs type.  You may now insert the floppy in the
drive and type 'uitmount fd0' and the first floppy will be mounted in
the directory /mnt/fd0. Under Linux just press F11 or F12.  You don't
need to know the fs type anymore.  The directories /mnt/fd0 and
/mnt/fd1 must exist.  If you want to use uitmount with the block
device /dev/xxx then the directory /mnt/xxx must exist.

You can now install uit with 'make install'

A new feature has been added to the command line: pressing Alt-h you
can delete the last command line word. The built-in command name is
<DeleteCmdLnWord>.  I now that the command line is not very flexible
and I'll probably change it in the future.

<ChangeDir> can now use ~ as home directory specification.

<ChangeDir> can now be canceled with TAB.

UIT 4.2c is now able now to display up to 99G of free file system
space. Big enough, I suppose :-) .


Version 4.2b
............

UIT 4.2b now contains info format documentation.

UIT 4.2b has separate configuration files for each type of terminal.

An ASCII version of the manual page (uit.doc) included for those who
can't read neither the nroff version nor the info version.

New built-in function for changing the current panel directory.

uit, uitps and uitview are a little bit smaller than the previous
versions (uitcmp was small enough :-) ).

UIT 4.2b package now correctly runs under X (in an xterm window).
Previous versions did not due to a bug in handling the ioctl() call to
get the screen contents.

UIT 4.2b now supports full configurable key sequences.  The key
pressed is identified faster.

5 minor bugs have been fixed.  See the ChangeLog file for details.


Version 4.2a and older
......................

UIT 4.2a has been tested with Linux 1.0 and ULTRIX V4.2A.

As to Linux 1.0 you can't do a screen dump if you are not super user
so the <ShowTty> command is no longer completely supported for the
normal users. Even if you are not super user, <ShowTty> is still
useful because you can see the result of the latest command.

As to Linux 1.0 MS-DOS files are all executable (__x__x__x).  UIT now
checks the file system type and ignores the executable bits if the
current directory belongs to a MS-DOS file system.

UIT 4.2a can now display longer file names (with the 'FullName'
FileDisplayMode value).

UIT 4.2a can now display setuid, set group id attributes and the
sticky bit.

Lots of optimizations have been made to speed up UIT when working with
terminals.

Filenames containing control characters are correctly displayed.
(control characters are displayed as '?')

New options in the configuration file permitting to increase the
displaying speed on very slow terminals.

An interactive process viewer / killer utility is provided.

An interactive HEX/ASCII file viewer is now available.


Notes
-----

1. Starting with version 4.0, this program is no longer named PSH.
PSH was the name used until version 3.2b.

2. Please read the INSTALL file before starting UIT 4.3.

Tudor & Andi
