diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/CHANGES2.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/CHANGES2.3 | 458 |
1 files changed, 458 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CHANGES2.3 b/docs/CHANGES2.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..574ea29 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CHANGES2.3 @@ -0,0 +1,458 @@ +--- RELEASE of 2.3 (19-May-1994) --- +5-19-94 +* Better memory allocation routines used for some VMS systems. +5-19-94 +* Non-interactive (-source) access to documents requiring access authorization + not allowed to avoid crashes. +3-30-94 +* Lynx exports the environment variable LYNX_VERSION on UNIX systems + with the current version number as the value. +3-29-94 +* added "action=" handling to ISINDEX tags. (Is that in the spec?) +3-27-94 +* fixed Telnet security problem +3-19-94 +* added .mailcap and mailcap support as well as mime.types support + for the configuration of viewers and extension mappings. + The test command is now implemented so that viewers can be conditionally + setup. +3-17-94 +* Revamped the FTP code to recognize different server types and to parse + full directory listings (LIST output). File types, sizes and dates + are displayed when possible. +3-16-94 +* added transparent support for mosaic bookmark files. Just point + Lynx at your existing default mosaic bookmark file and Lynx will + handle the rest. Viewing, addition, and removal are supported. +3-15-94 +* added second line of reverse video to show multiline links better. +3-10-94 +* added configurable MIME types and viewers to lynx.cfg. MIME types + and VIEWERS can be configured by following the instructions within + the newest lynx.cfg file. +3-?-94 +* added second %s argument to PRINTER and DOWNLOADER definitions. + If a second %s is present in the command definition it will be + filled in by a suggested filename which is derived from the URL + of the document. See lynx.cfg for more details. +3-?-94 +* got code from CERN to fix HTBTree FTP bug. Large ftp lists should + not crash anymore. +3-9-94 +* added no_proxy environment variable. set it to a comma delimited list + of domains or hosts that should not be proxyed. (Thanks CERN :) + USAGE: (UNIX) + setenv no_proxy "domain1.dom, domain2.dom, domain3, etc" +3-?-94 +* Fixed Referer: field handling so that it doesn't crash on really + long URL's +3-?-94 +* True popup menus are now supported for non-multiple SELECT lists. +2-28-94 +* fixed the delete-a-bookmark command and bound it to 'r' for remove. + (thanks to David Trueman for the fix) + +---------- RELEASE of 2.2 ------------------ +2-9-94 +* added 'd' for download current link. Can be used to force a download + of any file. +* 'r' removed as a comment key. Use 'c' or reconfigure your keys to + add 'r' back in. (I would like to use 'r' in the future to mean + remove current bookmark link) +* Found the bug in the HTTP redirection code that was causing it + not to work. So HTTP redirection appears to work now! +* Added Referer: header to HTTP requests to list the URL of + the document listing the requested URL. Here's an extract from CERN: + This optional header field allows the client to specify, + for the server's benefit, the address ( URI ) of the document + (or element within the document) from which the URI in the + request was obtained. + + This allows a server to generate lists of back-links to documents, + for interest, logging, etc. It allows bad links to be traced + for maintenance. + +2-8-94 +* changed novice line to be displayed on bottom two lines with the + status line moved up two lines. +1-27-94 +* Made configurable keymappings a reality. Keys can be remapped in + the lynx.cfg file. (diffs from David Trueman) +* Got code from Foteos to make 'a' work for VMS connection interrupts. +1-24-94 +* Moving closer towards configurable keymappings. New keyhandleing + code will make it very easy to implement. (diffs from David Trueman) +1-14-94 +* Lynx FTP now supports PASV code. (fixes to CERN (Dave Raggert?) PASV code + from John Ellson) It is not enabled by default. Line 43 in + WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFTP must be commented out for + PASV code to be used. This was done because not all FTP sites + can support PASV FTP. +1-13-94 +* slight change in forms user interface. For the better, I hope you will + agree. Text input fields are now active as soon as the cursor pointer + is over them. Therefore you may begin typing into the text field + as soon as you come to it. Tab, and up and down arrow keys will + move off of the text input field. The only problem with this is as + follows. If you are in the habit of using the number keys (keypad) + the or h,j,k,l vi keys, as soon as you move over the text link + you will begin seeing numbers or hjk or l show up in the text field. + In other words, your movement commands are now broken :( You must + use true arrow keys or the tab key to move off of the text field. + I've tried this out and it seems to work alright. I don't think + that users unfamiliar with this will have too hard a time figureing + it out. Once you see numbers or letter appearing it becomes fairly + obvious what's going on. I'll put a message at the bottom of the + screen saying "use tab or arrow keys to move off of link." +* added mods by David Trueman to implement -restrictions commandline + option. -restrictions allows a list of services to be disabled + selectively. -restrictions takes the form of + "lynx -restrictions=[default],[all],[inside_telnet],[outside_telnet],[shell],\ + [editor],[bookmark],[option_save],[print],[file_url],[download],[exec]" + + all restricts all options. + default same as commandline option -anonymous. Disables + default services for anonymous users. Currently set to, + all restricted except for: inside_telnet, outside_telnet, and + goto. Defaults settable within userdefs.h + inside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from inside your + domain. + outside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from outside your + domain. + shell disallow shell escapes + editor disallow editing + bookmark disallow changing the location of the bookmark file. + options_save disallow saving options in .lynxrc + print disallow most print options + goto disable the 'g' (goto) command. + file_url disallow using G)oto to go to file: URL's + download disallow saving binary files to disk in the download menu. + exec disable execution scripts + exec_frozen disallow the user from changing the execution link + setting in the O)ptions menu. +1-12-93 +* added new more informative messages for form links. +1-11-93 +* fixed -dump and -source options so that they work for + binary files now. +* Interruptible I/0 now completely works for UNIX systems. + VMS is next. Just hit an 'a' for abort anytime during a + transfer to abort. If there is a partial file to show, it + will be shown. +* Added command line option -show_cursor. If enabled the cursor + will not be hidden in the right hand corner but will instead + be positioned at the start of the currently selected link. + show cursor is the default for systems without FANCY_CURSES + capabilities, and the default configuration can be changed in + userdefs.h +1-9-93 +* Added NNTP posting capabilities. Currently uses external inews + program which will be included in the utils directory. + Would someone like to patch in some freeware inews code, or + send me some? +1-7-93 +* fixed bug in password handling which caused it to be displayed + accidentally :( (Danny Mayer) +1-6-94 +* bold and emphasis now use curses underlining to represent + emphasized text. The use of _underline_ chars before and after + the text is now removed. +1-5-94 +* Added configurable download menu so that binary files may + be downloaded using any protocol. Download menu is displayed + after selecting a non-displayable file. +* Added exec links. 4 types currently defined: + files ending in: .csh, .ksh, .sh, (for UNIX) and .com (for VMS); + Use exec link controls to turn on and off exec links. +* Gopher menus are now within PRE so that spaces are not + collapsed in menu entries. +* added configurable character sets. Can be set in lynx.cfg + by the user in the options screen or in the users .lynxrc file + current sets are: ISO Latin I, IBM PC Character set, & 7 bit + approximations. New sets can be added to src/LYCharSets.c + +----------RELEASE of Lynx 2.1 and 2.1.1---------------------- +-grey area- +* Ability to FTP to VMS systems. (Foteos Macrides) +* Fixed lots of display and interrupt problems (Foteos Macrides) +* The Lynx Bookmark file is now interpreted as an HTML document. + Old Lynx bookmark files must be converted using the lynx2html + program or deleted. +* HTML+ forms as implemented by XMosaic now work. + fill in the empty spaces and press the submit button to + submit the form. +* The TEXTAREA tag isn't done yet. It will currently only + give a one line text area. The next version of Lynx will + include a true textarea implementation once I figure out a + reasonable interface. +* Incorporated WWWlib 2.14 and fixed up the descrip.mms files. + Foteos Macrides made VMS port changes and wrote a really nice + build.com script to make compilation on VMS systems really easy. + Foteos also ported Lynx to OpenVMS for alpha axp systems. +* 's' now means search a searchable indexed document through the + server, and can no longer be used to search for strings within + the displayed document. +* '/' now only searches through the current displayed document for + strings and can not be used for searchable index documents. +* Capital 'Q' now quits without asking for confirmation. +* 'm' for Main Menu now asks for confirmation and does NOT clear + the history stack. +* Blockquote style changed slightly. +* fixed bug with A and other tags messing up formatting + within PRE segments. +* Verbose Gopher option removed, verbose gopher functionality + is now set permanently on. +* Default editor is now configurable in the lynx.cfg file. +* Default bookmark file is now configurable in the lynx.cfg file. + +12-15-93 +* ownership is no longer inherited. +* link rev="owner" href="mailto:ADDRESS" now accepted as well as + link rev="made" href="mailto:ADDRESS" to define the URL of the + owner or person responsible for the info. +* 's' now only searches ISINDEX server documents. +* '/' always means search within the document. + +-grey area- +* still doing massive rewrite. Debugging!! + +11-30-93 +* anonymous users cannot change the bookmark page! (thanks to Jyrki Kuoppal for + pointing out a security hole) + +-grey area- +* massive rewrite. Removed all Lynx internal format code and + restructured all the source files. + +11-8-93 +* added (non-breaking space),   and   + +---------- RELEASE of 2.0.12 ----------------- +11-1-93 +* Change HTInit.c so that unsupported types are not sent out + in accept parameters. For non X screen only text/html and + application/octet-stream are sent. + +10-26-93 +* descriptive title added to files mailed from lynx + +10-25-93 +* disabled FTP connection caching to help fix multiple FTP problems + +10-23-93 +* added preliminary level 1 forms support. + +10-20-93 +* fixed a bunch of gopher holes +* gopher lists are turned into URL's now instead of lynx + internal format document links +* local documents ending in .html can now be referenced with + just a filename and/or path from the command line. + +10-19-93 +* Added preloaded searches to gopher URL's. They previously + didn't work. This is readily apparent as preloaded CSO + searches, which a lot of people wanted. +* removed old hytelnet compatibility code which looked in + multiple directories to find the correct file. If you still + need this capability talk to me. + +10-12-93 +* The users specified editor is now spawned for mail messages. + If no editor is defined or if the user is anonymous, the built-in + lynx mail sender is used. + +10-11-93 +* changed all static data structures to be dynamic + This was a pretty major change of code which may add several + bugs. +* rewrote parse_links routine to make it more efficient and to + work with dynamic structures. + +10-6-93 +* added progress messages to HTTP transfers. + +10-5-93 +* added -cache=# command line option to specify the number + of WWW documents cached in memory. + +9-28-93 +* added VMS port fixes from Foteos Macrides. Lynx now + compiles and works on VMS! +* fixed ftp bug in WWWlib that didn't de-escape URL's before + sending request to FTP server. + +9-21-93 +* fixed coredump bug for some files with no links. + +9-3-93 +* Moved many configuration options including printer setup to + lynx.cfg file. The default placement of the lynx.cfg file + will be /usr/local/lib & sys$public + +9-1-93 +* Removed STARTDIR variable from userdefs.h STARTDIR is now inferred + from the STARTFILE. + +8-30-93 +* Fixed bug with only one link selectable out of many on the last line + of the display. +* Ported to SVR4 courtesy of Nickolay Saukh (from Russia, Wow this is + really getting around!) +* Uneditable documents don't get refetched. (Nickolay Saukh) +* National language support through LOCALE + (instead of ISOLATIN1), protected by #ifdef LOCALE (Nickolay Saukh) + +------Release of Lynx 2.0.11-------------------------------- +8-27-93 +* Caused major international incident when a large bug was discovered after + release. :) +* Fixed internal document hypertext references with URL's. '#selector' + strings now work again. + +8-24-93 +* When files come through on pre HTTP/1.0 servers they are now + recognized by their file extensions + +8-23-93 +* Lynx can now speak to old NCSA pre HTTP/1.0 servers +* fixed ALT bug that had to do with style changes not + happening before the alt was printed. + +8-21-93 +* updated the man file lynx.1. + +8-19-93 +* updated help and converted it to HTML. Made a new help location and + server. The new default help file is + http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html + +8-15-93 +* changed '\' to toggle between source and no source. When you press + '\' while viewing a rendered HTML document you will get the HTML source + when you press '\' while viewing HTML source you will get the + rendered HTML. +* Added ALT attribute to IMG tag. When ALT is available the contents + are displayed. When ALT is missing [IMAGE] is displayed. When + ALT="" nothing is displayed. + +8-14-93 +* Added document reload command. CTRL-R when pressed will reload + the document into memory and redisplay it, clearing the screen. + This is very useful when editing documents, outside of Lynx while + using Lynx for rendering. +* Added source view mode. '\' when pressed will reload the document + and display the HTML source. (doesn't work for gopher directoryies right + now, but gopher isn't HTML anyways) +* fixed bug in LibWWW that caused it not to be able to convert to + www/source. +* fixed bug in LibWWW that caused most binary file transfers to fail +* added binary file transfer ability. When binary files are selected + the user is prompted for a file name to save to. The default directory + is the one the user started in. +* Lynx now reloads local HTML files and re-renders them after editing. + +??-??-?? +* At some point I added the ability to edit HTML files on the local + machine. + +8-12-93 +* Added Nested Lists, up to six levels, with different bullets + for each level. +* Due to the fact that nearly everyone seems to use P to mean + two returns within the same style, and Mosaic has been kind + enough to support this meaning, :( :( :( I have changed + the P tag to reflect this interpretation. P can be used + anywhere and will mean insert two returns. (i.e., two BR tags) + +8-11-93 +* Made the default Mime type for unknown file types on ftp servers + to be text/plain. Previously the WWWLibrary had the default + as application/octet-stream which meant that most files could not + be viewed. +* Changed the ADDRESS style to be more like XMosaic + Left flush, newline top and bottom +* The Statusline now displays the URL when retrieving files. +* added BR (linebreak) tag! + The BR tag inserts a line break and maintains the current style! + The BR tag may be used anywhere. +* added HR (horizontal rule tag!) + The HR tag puts a horizontal line separating two bodies of text. + The HR tag may be used anywhere. + +8-8-93 +* All spaces, tabs and returns are now collapsed down do one + space. +* fixed bug whiched caused certain links beginning at the + beginning of a line to be bad. +* added '*' (stars) to unordered lists and numbers to ordered + lists. +* changed dir lists to be more like menu lists. +* all emphasis, physical and symantic, now have _underlines_ + around them to show emphasis. + + +RELEASE OF VER 2.0.10 ----------------------------------------------- + +7-8-93 +Added [IMAGE] in all places where IMG tags appear. +added WWW_HOME environment variable support. +fixed searching in WWW. +removed tildas from mail messages for security reasons. +added emacs-like key defs. +changed gopher dir routines and Verbose format of directories + +6-30-93 +Forgot to put all kinds of bug fixes and stuff in here during the +past month. I have been working on upgrading to the 2.X WWWlibrary +Today I changed 'g' to mean goto a url, and 'v' to be view the +bookmark page. + +5-30-93 +Fixed problem with ftp: URL not being recognized and not working. + +5-28-93 +Tried to remove the use of tabs and replace them with appropriate +spaces. This was done to support brain dead curses packages that +don't handle tabs. (like linux) + +5-20-93 +Fixed socket problem which was causing a problem with telnet's +connecting + +5-18-93 +Fixed SUN curses problem, now works with the /usr/5lib routines + +4-9-93 +Added an option to turn on link numbering + +4-7-93 +Fixed read_rc() bug which caused .lynxrc files to be read incorrectly +Fixed file caching bug which only allowed searching to be performed +once. (it cached the answer and displayed that each time a new +search was requested) + +4-2-93 +Fixed VMS I/O bug and TCP routines. + +4-1-93 +Ported 2.0 to VMS + +3-17-93 +Fixed a bug: Multiply defined procedure async_abort in +the files get_file and get_bin_file + +3-16-93 +Optimized Gopher TCP routines, increased speed by a factor of 10! + +3-9-93 +Added WWW support by integrating the WWWlib1.4 + +2-10-93 +Added home page support and append features. + +12-22-92 +Added support for Image types using xloadimage for X-terminals. + +12-1-92 +Added gopher binary file types |