$Id: RELEASE,v 1.19 2000/09/13 16:26:50 knight Exp $

Cons 2.1.2
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This release contains a great many small changes for portability and
general clean-up, most of which should not be noticed by most users.

Visible changes include:

    --	A fix for UNC path names (\\share\dir\subdir\file) on Windows NT.

    --	A new Conscript_chdir() method that can be used to enable
	Perl file-globbing in subsidiary Conscript files.

    --	Correct exit-status reporting on Windows NT, including
	identifying failures to find a program in the search path.

    --	There is now a separate cons-tests package that contains
	the regression tests and a productized cons-test script
	for executing them.

    --	The cons and cons-test packages are now available in both
	RPM and Debian formats.

See the CHANGES file for details.

Cons 2.1.1
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2.1.1 was the first separate development release of Cons.  It was
based on Cons release 2.0 and contains the following notable changes:

    --	Fixes for the -t option.

    --	Support case-insensitive drive letters on WIN32 systems.

    --	Better error messages for some cases.

    --	Support for binary-file signatures on WIN32 systems.

See the CHANGES file for details.

General
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Thanks to Marconi Communications (formerly FORE Systems) management for
having transferred the copyright to the Free Software Foundation and for
previously having released `cons' under the GNU General Public License
(GPL) so that everyone can benefit from it.

Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for the infrastructure support for
cons.

And thanks to the members of the Cons community for the bug reports,
patches, discussion, and continued interest.

Steven Knight - Development Release Co-ordinator
Rajesh Vaidheeswarran - Maintainer
