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Please send mdk bug reports to bug-mdk@gnu.org.
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-* Version 1.1 ()
+* Version 1.1 (12/06/04)
** The typewriter device (19) is now input/output, so that you can
- read characters from standard input in your MIXAL programs.
+ read characters from standard input (mixvm) or a popup dialog
+ (gmixvm) in your MIXAL programs (see samples/echo.mixal for a
+ simple usage sample).
+
+** Input character device files may now contain lines with less than the
+ required block size; the virtual machine pads the missing
+ characters in memory using 0 (MIX char 'space').
+
+** The paper tape device (20) was incorrectly defined as an output
+ device. It is now an input char device (cf. TAOCP vol.1 p. 133,
+ where it is mentioned as the 'paper tape reader'; thanks to Michael
+ Talbot-Wilson).
** Listings produced by mixasm improved: better layout, and correct
identification of 'CON' instructions added by the compiler as a
@@ -43,8 +54,6 @@ Please send mdk bug reports to bug-mdk@gnu.org.
** Bug fix: LDAN, LDXN and LDiN always negate the result, even if zero
(thanks to Ruslan Batdalov; closes Debian's #247392).
-** Correctly detect guile's presence in ./configure (closes #5521).
-
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* Version 1.0.1 (09/06/03)
@@ -395,4 +404,4 @@ Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.48 2004/06/09 23:03:22 jao Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.49 2004/06/12 02:34:39 jao Exp $