DOS ain't dead

Regina Rexx 3.9.6 was released on 5 May 2024. Download: regina396dos4gw.zip (1.0 MB) Sources: regina396.zip (3.0 MB) > Changes in this release (from 3.9.5) > ------------------------------------ > * Bugs Fixed: > - Crash with UPPER and LOWER BIFs > - #560 MAX(1m2m05,0,4) returns 5 (not what the doc says) > - #561 Crash with 10 trace off > - #564 Two STREAM QUERY EXISTS generate wrong result Rexx >= 3.7 > - #575 Parsing fails > - #581 Silly syntax typo causes Regina to CRASH > - #583 Trace "Failure" ineffective. > - #586 syssearchpath() under Windows not using updated > - #588 Configure probes for gethostbyname_r and getpwuid_r fail incorrectly with strict compilers > - #589 Translate BIF only translates aplha characters > - #593 bad format, numeric digits not honoured > - #594 FORMAT(123.4573, ,3,0,0) > * Feature Requests: > - #44 Regina pauses at execution end - installation check box pls > * Potentially improve performance by reducing initial variable pool hash size from 2003 to 227. Certainly improves rexxcps - suggested by Jake Hamby > * Add REGINA_HASHTABLELENGTH to enable initial variable pool size to be changed at runtime. This value MUST be a prime number! Use with caution. > * Add sysgetline() and sysgetlinehistory() to Regutil; implementation of GNU Readline (actually added in v3.9.5) > * Add handling support for SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 to turn on/off TRACE I > * Add ReginaGetAddonDir() API call to obtain location where Regina looks for external function packages > * Initial support for Windows ARM64 platform > * Check for Windows 11 and arm/arm64 architecture in UNAME BIF > * Add OPTION STRICT_ANSI_FORMAT_BIF to apply strict ANSI rules to the FORMAT BIF