4 Changes in this release (from 3.2)
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6 o Integration of Florian's Generic Call Interface (GCI) into Regina.
7 Supported platforms to date are Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
8 o Fixed bug with TRACE F and its "conversion" into "N" on a subsequent call
10 o Addition of Polish native language support courtesy of Bartosz Kozlowski.
11 o PARSE LOWER and PARSE CASELESS added.
12 o Major changes to EXIT handling
13 o Regina determines internal and external queues by the fact that external
14 queues MUST have a '@' in the name. Therefore any time a queue name is
15 used; in RXQUEUE or ADDRESS...WITH, then if the queue name has a '@'
16 then Regina treats this as an external queue, and requires the RXSTACK
18 o New BIF POOLID. Allows the current variable pool number to be obtained
19 (effectively the level of called subroutines).
20 o VALUE BIF allows environment to be a number corresponding to a variable
21 pool number. Therefore unEXPOSEd variables in any subroutine can be accessed.
22 o API functions Rexx*Dll() now implemented.
23 o Locale support for BIFs like TRANSLATE now supported, and can be overridden
24 from command line. (-l switch)
25 o Algorithm for determining where a Rexx program is (either from command line, or
26 a CALL statement called. Apart from a change in the precedence of directories
27 an environment variable REGINA_SUFFIXES is used to supplement the file extensions
28 that Regina uses to append to the passed file name. More details can be found in the
30 o Regina OPTIONS can now be specified as an environment variable, which will set the
31 default values for OPTIONS. The OPTIONS instruction can still be used and will
32 override the defaults.
33 o A new OPTION has been added; CALLS_AS_FUNCS to allow programs that use the non-ANSI
34 format of "CALL label(arg1,arg2)". Although this is implemented as an OPTION, it can
35 only be set via the REGINA_OPTIONS environment variable!
36 o Another new OPTION; QUEUES_301 to duplicate the behaviour of Regina queues; both
37 internal and external.
38 o Some memory leak fixes with INTERPRET and some "handle leaks" under Windows fixed.
39 o Initial support for SkyOS
40 o Fixed some old bugs: (documented in BUGS file)
41 19991216-29512, 20000319-63722, 36
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45 * Mark Hessling, M.Hessling@qut.edu.au http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/
46 * Author of THE, a Free XEDIT/KEDIT editor and, Rexx/SQL
47 * Maintainer of PDCurses: Public Domain Curses and, Regina Rexx interpreter
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