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§ Internationalized day and month names: New functions \fdayname() and \fmonthname() to supply the name of the day of the week or month of the year that corresponds to a given date, a day or month number, or the current date, in the language and character-set of the current locale. HELP FUNCTION DAYNAME and HELP FUNCTION MONTHNAME for details.

§ Disabling the locale features. To return Kermit to its previous anglocentric behavior, you can (a) start it with a special command-line option, (b) define a certain environment variable, or (c) give a SET LOCALE command at the C-Kermit> prompt (see documentation).

§ New CHANGE command, to change strings in text files. For example, suppose you manage a website with thousands of files in a directory tree, many of which link to an offsite page whose URL has just changed. Now you can fix them all with a single C-Kermit command:

change /recursive ~/web/*.html www.oldname.com www.newname.com

 /after:         /dotfiles       /modtime:       /not-before:
 /before:        /except:        /nodotfiles     /recursive
 /case:          /larger-than:   /norecursive    /simulate
 /count:         /list           /not-after:     /smaller-than:

§ Added GREP /ARRAY:&a to get the names of all the files that contain text that matches a given pattern into an array, which can be looped through later to take any desired actions with the files: moving them, renaming them, transferring them, etc. The GREP command has lots of options, too, like CHANGE and TOUCH do, for file selection, recursion, what to do with results, etc.

§ Added a new \fcvtdate() format code, 5, which produces a result in fully-delimited numerics: yyyy:mm:dd:hh:mm:ss, so individual fields can be easily picked out; for example, with \fword(), e.g.:

\fword(\fcvtdate(today,5),3) (third word of today's date, day of month)

§ Added a way for a Kermit script to test whether a file is text or binary: IF BINARY filename, IF TEXT filename. Also the new \ffileinfo() function now returns a more detailed result, which gives some more detail about the encoding if it's a text file: 7-bit, 8-bit, UTF-8, UCS-2.

§ New IF conditions for lexical comparisons: NEQ, LLE, LGE. Previously these could only be done with IF NOT EQU, IF NOT LGT, IF NOT LLT.

EXIT 1 "File not found"

(2) Made a new function \ffileinfo(name,&a) that populates the specified array with 7 or 8 (or 9) elements:

1. the file's name;
2. the full path of the directory where the file resides;
3. the file's modification date-time yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss;
4. platform-specific permissions string, e.g. "drwxrwxr-x" or "RWED,RWE,RE,E";
5. platform-specific permissions code, e.g. an octal number like 40775;
6. the file's size in bytes;
7. file type: 1=regular file; 2=executable; 3=directory; 4=link; 0=unknown.
8. (if filename is link) name of linked-to file.
9. (in Dev.06) "binary" or "text:xxx", where xxx is 8bit, 7bit, utf8, etc.

if > \%a 3000000001 ...

(this didn't work before).

I fixed \fkeywordvalue() to allow for values comprised of more than one word, and I added \v(lastkeywordvalue) to represent the keyword most recently processed by \fkeywordvalue(). I changed \f_status(\%c), when the argument was not defined, to behave the same as if it contained a channel number of a file that was not open. This makes it possible to write commands lines like this:

if \f_status(\%c) fwrite /line \%c blah blah blah...

without having to worry about whether we have opened the file yet. What else... I fixed \fstripb() to not dump core if called without the optional second argument. Added \fgetpidinfo(n) to get information about Process ID n; currently only for Unix, returns 1 if the process is alive; 0 if the process does not exist.

Also: New invisible WDIRECTORY command = DIR /SORT:DATE /REVERSE. And new /TOP:n DIRECTORY command switch says to show only the top n lines of the listing.

Other changes in Dev.11:

• New command FSEEK /FIND:pattern, seeks to the first line in an FOPEN'd file containing the given string or matching the given pattern.
• FSTATUS can now be given without a channel number if only one file is FOPEN'd.
• Another correction to the pattern matcher involving clists; if match index.html [a-hj-z]* succeeded when it should have failed.
• Got rid of LONGLONG feature test, we don't need it.
• Made command error messages less verbose - no more dumping the command stack unless you request it.
• Fixed WRITE SESSION to report success when it succeeds.
• Copyrights updated to 2006.

• Does the SEND command work for regular files as well as long files?
• Can both regular and long files be received?
• Do versions that do not support long files properly refuse to receive them?
• On the file-transfer display screen, do all the numbers look right?
• Do numbers look right in debug and transaction logs?
• Does the DIRECTORY command show the correct file size for all files?
• Can you use FOPEN and FSEEK on both regular and long files?
• What are the results of the following S-Expressions?
  (^ 2 30) (^ 2 31) (^ 2 32) (^ 2 62) (^ 2 63) (^ 2 64) (^ 2 99)
• Do all your scripts still work?
• etc. etc.

When building, use "make linux" to build any Linux version. This should automatically include LFS support on Linuxes that include it. I haven't been able to find any Linux platforms that don't, but in case it causes trouble, use "make linuxnolfs". For Solaris, use "make solaris9lfs" or "make solaris10lfs". I didn't make this the default for Solaris yet because I don't seem to have access to the i386 version of Solaris any more to make sure it works there too (Sun cc or gcc). For Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, use "make macosx10.4".

Adding LFS to other builds on other platforms that support it should be easy: just do this:

make clean
make xxx "KFLAGS=-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"

where xxx is any makefile target. If you do this, let me know the results. Other changes in this edit are:

• Fixed S-Expressions in the Mac OS X version.
• Added HTTP support to FreeBSD and OpenBSD versions.
• Added a new switch, /EXCEPT:pattern, to the GREP command.

\flopx(sesame.cc.columbia.edu) = edu
\flopx(sesame.cc.columbia.edu,,2) = columbia.edu

Laid some more groundwork for hybrid 32/64-bit builds (to allow "long" files to be transferred on 32-bit platforms that supply an appropriate API).