Re: slang 1.3.7 released

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday, I released version 1.3.7 of the slang library (and version
0.99-6 of jed).  The library is available from:

   ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/

and the mirrors:

   ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/misc/slang/
   ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/news/slrn/
   ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/slang/
   ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/slang/

For more information about the library and programs that utilize it,
visit the slang web site at http://www.s-lang.org.

Note that 1.3.x versions are development versions of the 1.4.x series.

This is mainly a bug-fix release.

Changes since 1.3.6 include:
1. Added a modified version of a patch from Martynas Kunigelis
   <martynas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to allow writes to the lower left
   corner.
2. SIZEOF_LONG changed to 4 for VMS alpha systems (Jouk Jansen
   <joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>).
3. MSC patches from gustav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Moore).  He also
   contributed code for listdir with MSC.
4. SLsmg.c: Background color erase tweaks for terminals that lack this
   capability.
5. Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when doing Struct_Type[2][0].
6. Added slsh/scripts/ls and slsh/scripts/badlinks.  `ls' is designed
   for non-Unix systems and `badlinks' finds all symbolic links in
   specified directories that point to non-existent files.
7. SLang_Version_String and intrinsic variable _slang_version_string
   added.
8. stat_file modified under win32 such that a trailing `\' is stripped
   if present.
9. stat_is intrinsic modified to return a character instead of an
   integer.
10. The matrix-multiplication operator `#' now performs inner-products
    on arrays, e.g.,  if A and B arrays:
         A = A_i..jk
	 B = B_kl..m
    Then, (A#B)_i..jl..m = A_i..jk B_kl..m where k is summed over.
    This means that `#' is a matrix multiplication operator for 2-d
    arrays, and acts as a dot-product operator for 1-d arrays.
    In the process, it has been extended to complex numbers.

11. _reshape intrinsic function added.  Unlike `reshape', this
    function creates a new array and returns it.
12. Array indexing via characters works again, e.g., A['a'].
   

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