Initial commit of newLISP.

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6.0.25
'find', 'replace' and 'search' now have an option for case insensitive
search, updated source and manual

6.0.26 - 6.0.27 - 11:34 AM 4/4/99
'trace' got stuck in executeCommandline() in traceExit() because an empty
 fgets() in LINUX still has a '\n'

6.0.27 - 6.0.28 - 6:30 PM 4/6/99
'import' now returns primitve address
'define' now also works like (define x y) ; as in SCHEME
'char' now defaults to 0 on offset and returns unsigned int
new 'mod' floating point modular function
new 'abs' floating point absolute value function
new 'trim' trims spaces or characters both sides

6.0.28 - 6.0.29
'filter' new primitive

6.0.29 - 6.0.30
'dump' now displays address of cell
'make-dir' mode parameter now optional defaults to 493 = drwxr-xr-x

6.0.30 - 6.0.31
fixed trim, which had all kinds of problems
new 'difference' returns set difference of two lists
new 'intersect' resturns set intersection of two lists
new 'unique' returns unique set from list (duplicates removed)
when comparing lambda expressions, now state lists also get compared

6.0.31 - 6.0.33
'match' now also works on list expressions, wildcard symbols 
can occur on different nesting levels. 
 
6.0.33 - 6.0.34 Released on www.newlisp.org
in 'substring' the length parameter is now optional 
math exception showed wrong error message 
tty setup now only when tty detected else supress buffering 
for usage with 'socker'

6.0.33 - 6.0.35 4/20/2000
inlined cleanupResults() in evaluateExpression() ca. 4% speedup !
took out all #pragma statements
took out termio stuff, works better without
new functions read-file, write-file
new functions read-process, write-process
new function error-text

6.035 - 6.0.36 4/21/2000
'char' now also can take a number as an argument converting it to a 
string of one character: 
(char 65) => "A"
(char "A") => 65
'integer' and 'float' now return 'nil' if the string passed does
not start with a number digit or +/-
strings can now encode characters in the form \nnn where nnn
is a 3 digit decimal (leading 0' if less 100) e.g.:
"\065\066\067" => "ABC"

6.036 - 6.039 4/28/2000
added 'chop', 'explode', 'get-float', 'starts-with', 'ends-with'
added 'random' 'normal'
renamed 'get-number' to 'get-integer'
added script for httpd webserver demon

6.039 - 6.043
'symbol' now takes optional context argument
'symbols' now gives error message if symbol args is not context
eliminated 'sourcePtr' which wasn't used anyway, introduced
'sourceLine' for keeping track of line-numbers in error messages
added 'encrypt' for one-time-pad encryption/decryption

6.043 - 6.044
speedup in deleteList() and copyList()

6.044 - 6.045
took out 'sourceLine', too much confusing situtations which are
unresolvable. 'eval-string' now does multiple expressions

6.045 - 6.048
put back pushResultFlag, 'eval' needed it. 
fixed bug in 'substring' for trailing 0's, changed tokeString to 
resemble split() and taking separators > 1 char.
This also changes pack/unpack in parsePackFormat() to take care of
more than one space between formats. 
After reset and execution of 'error-event' errorReg now set to 0.

6.048 - 6.049
took out executeSymbolParams modifying executeParams for optional arg
'reset' now throws 'user reset - no error' - error, so it can be handled as
a non-error in user defined error handlers, also takes now optional
symbol for 'resetEvent to be exuted after errorEvent.

6.049 - 6.051
'reset' now takes optional third parameter for stacksize. So the
syntax for reset is nor (reset [resetEventSymbol] [stacksize])

6.051 - 6.052
no length limitiation anymore for printing strings to the console
'replace-nth' new primitive

6.052 - 6.054 5/19/2000
'let' new primitive like in other Lisp but dynamically scoped
'seed' new primitive seeds random generator for rand, random, normal
now feature complete for 6.1 release

6.054 - 6.055 5/20/2000
fixed memory leek in varPrintf()
'integer' and 'float' now take optional thirsd parameter for default
return value if string cannot be parsed.

6.055 - 6.056
fixed bug in 'symbol' which would not overwrite symbols in MAIN for
symbols in other contexts so (symbol "set" 'MyContext) now works
creating a symbol 'set in MyContext.

6.056 - 6.059 5/29/2000
improved pretty printing for 'let', which takes now the same flag
as 'cond'. Improved httpd script, now sends http header for each
file.

6.059 - 6.060 5/29/2000
httpd did fail on POST on some browsers now 'upper-case' when matching
'content-length'. Alos fixed in manuual

6.060 - 6.0.61
changed 'parse' so it parses a max token length of 2048 (256 previous)
this was already changed erarlier on the Win32 versions.
The read-line limit of 16384 should be changed at some point to infinite
similar to the print buffer. At the moment cgi vi std/IO is limited by
read-line to forms no bigger than 16384.

6.0.61 - 6.0.62
varPrintf was still limited. MAX_PRINT_LEN changed to size.

6.0.62 - 6.0.63
'integer' now parses also hex strings eg: (integer "0xFF") => 255
'write-line' now retuenw nil on file errors

6.0.63 - 6.0.64
5% speedup introducing cell type masks

6.0.64 - 6.0.65
1% speedup taking out symbol in evaluateExpression

6.0.65 - 6.0.67
new 'count' counts elements of one list in another list

6.0.67 - 6.0.68
fixed error in 'reverse'

6.0.68 - 6.0.69
'parse' now without size limitations in tokens when using breakstr argument.

6.0.69 - 6.0.70
'string' now without size limitations of printing in string

6.0.69 - 6.0/71
'read-line' now without size limitations

6.0.71 - 6.0.72
'for' fixed bug when from and to where equal would run forever

6.0.72 - 6.0.73
'putenv' didn't work, fixed

6.0.73 - 6.0.75
problem with ebaluateLambda when passing (set 'p ...) to (foo p) as an argument 
for parameter p.

6.0.75 - 6.0.76
additional functions: prob-z prob-chi2 and crit-chi2. (for ...) no works with
floating point numbers. Additional module xml.lsp

6.0.76 - 6.0.77
additional function: join. Additional module mail.lsp
additional function: sequence

6.0.77 - 6.0.79
additional functions: xml-parse, xml-error
fixed buffer overflow bug in varPrintf to string device (function 'string)

6.0.79 -> 6.1.0
new function println
6.1.14 documentation

6.1.0 -> 6.1.1
new function fft and ifft
6.1.15 documentation

6.1.1 -> 6.1.2
the length parameter in 'sublist' is now optional (assumes all)

6.1.2 -> 6.1.3
fixed default for 'true' in 'case'

6.1.3 -> 6.1.4
new function 'swap' for swapping elements in a list

6.1.4 -> 6.1.5
new function 'read-url' for reading pages/files via http
revision of httpd script more RFC compliant

6.1.5 -> 6.1.6
'read-url' nl-web.c now handles proxy's if HTTP_PROXY is set to proxy URL
new functions 'collect'and 'select' for selecting multiple elements from a
list

6.1.6 -> 6.1.7 Release
'rand' now takes an optional second parameter to return a list of random
numbers (similar to 'random' and 'normal')
many formatting changes in manual.

================================================================================
6.1.7exp -> experimental '-p port' mode

6.1.7 -> 6.1.8
fixed bug in error event handling when error==0

6.1.8 -> 6.1.9
trace now is a source level debugger, similar in funcitonality to the Win32
version, but for a character console.
linking now encrypted, new functions 'betai' and 'gammaln'

6.1.9 -> 6.1.10 
fixed bug which could affect parsing \xxx in getToken() where isdigit(x)
'prob-chi2' now more precise using gammap(),
new functions 'crit-z', 'beta' and 'gammai'

6.1.10 -> 6.1.11
new 'debug-highlight' for setting pre and post string in debugger
highlighting. Eliminated example httpget because 'read-url' does
the same. 

6.1.12 -> 6.1.12
'swap' now treats negative values as the last element, consistent
with other functions, 'read-url' fix in error message text
init.lsp, mysql.lsp etc have moved to /usr/local/newlisp

6.1.12 -> 6.1.15
'read-url' now handles also redirects

6.1.15 -> 6.1.16
fixed bug in trace mode, trace stopped at all args evals in function
calls. Still stops and shows result for each 'map', which is ok, but
must be documented. Improved subroutines for handling POP3 and SMTP mail.

6.1.16 -> 6.1.17
new matrix functions 'invert', 'multiply', 'transpose'

6.1.17 -> 6.1.18
fixed dimension problem in transpose

6.1.18 - > 6.1.19
fixed missing error text for 'singular matrix' in invert

6.1.19 -> 6.1.20
ifft didn't normalize right when N not a power of 2
evaluateLambda() rewritten to store statics in a way that
anonymous lambda expressions with static data can be stored
this also gave a general speed up of about 5%.

6.1.20p2
(nth -1 lst) now returns the last element instead of nil. This
is consisten with other functions

6.1.20p4
eliminated optional parameters in reset, because never worked right.
instead the error-event can be used for code after reset and the stack
size can now be specified on the command line.

6.1.20p5
eliminated get-state and set-state as primitves, they are now written
in newLISP and part of the initialization file /usr/local/newlisp/init.lsp

6.1.20p6
new function 'regex for POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions (GNU library)
ifdef'ed readline, only works in CYGWIN, cannot figure unresolved 'tputs()' etc in
libreadline.so in LINUX, seems not to see libcurses?

6.1.20p7
cleanup makefile for different features NANOSLEEP, READLINE, REGEX
cleanup fft
took out replace-match, new function index

6.1.20p8
cleanup regex, additions changes in manual

6.1.20 -> 6.3.pre1
READLINE finally working on Mandrake missing link to 'libtermcap.so'
lots of manual changes
 
6.3.pre2
preparing to replace simple binary tree for symbols woth RB balanced tree

6.3.pre4
running RB balanced tree code

6.3.pre5
fixed bug in 'symbols for context and 'delete for context

6.3.pre6
changed httpd CHANGES
===============================================================================
6.3 Release
time-of-day new function

6.3.01
a fix for 'regex' in the CYGWIN version sent in by Steve Adams

6.3.02
additional optional parameter in 'eval-string'
streamlining code in nl-web.c, reformatting manual so it is easier converted
to PDF

6.3.04
new -p commandline parameter for TCP/IP port mode of newLISP.
Fixed format for default data type (will treat as string),
also format will permit now unlimeted size of the formatted 
output (was 2047 bytes).

6.3.05
cleanup -p with trace for rt/lf translation

===============================================================================
6.3.06 Release  July 8th, 2001
optional parameter 'nil in 'eval for silent evaluation evaulates without return
value and prompt on the console, needed for Tcl/Tk integration

6.3.07 Release
a new function 'debug (shortcut fr using trace) and various bugfixes in the
trace/debug functions. '{' and '}' characters are allowed as string delimiters
but only on the outer level, they get replaced by the parser. This allows
writing 'nicer' source for HTML and TK stuff.

6.3.08
regex now also returns sub expressions. further changes in debugger to accomodate
remote TclTk controlled debugging: (q)uit now quits execution, (c)ontinue stops
debugging but continues execution.

===============================================================================
6.3.09 Release July 16th, 2001
string now can take more than one parameters, like concat but works on different
data types

6.3.10
added symbol count to 'sys-info'
added ERR: string in error message when in trace for TclTk frontend

6.3.11
new function 'dotree' to iterate thrugh symbol trees, usefull for simulating
arrays and hashes

===============================================================================
6.3.12 Release July 30th, 2001
new function 'catch' for catching errors when evaluating expressions
fixed bug in net-connect when trying to connect to dead port

===============================================================================
6.3.14 Release August 2nd, 2001
changes in newlisp_manual.html and newlisp-tk.html
cleanup and improvment of qa file
fixed crash-bug in markReferences and saveSymbol when copying contexts
function 'args' now works also for lambda, no symbol param necessary anymore
===============================================================================
6.3.15 Release September 3rd, 2001
xml-parse now accepts empty atribute value strings e.g.: <ATAG ATT=""></ATAG>
net-lookup now works in both directions: ip->name and name->ip
===============================================================================
6.3.16 Release September 6th, 2001
float division by 0.0 now yields 'Inf', as specified by IEE 754. Before 6.3.16
it would couse a Math exception. Now all compare operations with NaN return 'nil'.
new functions 'floor' and 'ceil' and 'NaN?'.
 
Ctrl-D will now longer crash but exit newLISP

More LSB compliance in install directories used: now /usr/share/newlisp
instead of old /usr/local/newlisp

===============================================================================
6.3.17 Release September 9th, 2001
fixed a memory leak in 'regex'. The leak could not be fixed in the CYGWIN
version which uses regexp !


6.3.18
fixed rounding problem in 'sequence', Ctrl-D will not exit but only do newline
if at beginning of line, else it will behave as expected under readline, to exit
newLISP with one keystoke use Ctrl-C instead.
output cleanup in error-text and error-event
better standard behaviour of 'cond' when action clause is missing
new function 'series' for generating geometric sequences.
new function 'rotate' for rotating lists

6.3.20 Release October 22nd, 2001
bug fix in xml-parse when parsing closing tags without opening tags
bug fix memory leak in catch and eval-string uder error conditions
about 30% speedup removing copyCell/pushResult in: inc set define
manual changes and additions.
tookout net-cleanup in  network examples

6.3.21p1
bug fix in 'char' when using with floats
'integer' now also takes floats converting them into integer
also now translates "055" to 45 taking it as an octal number,
which is consistend now with the parser.
'float' now also takes integeres converting into floats

6.3.21p2
eliminated symbol->type in SYMBOL typdef, which reduces symbol memory by from 36 to 32 byte
fixed a bug where sometimes newlisp wouldn't exit after tk-frontend exited

===============================================================================
6.3.21 Release November 13th, 2001
MAX_ERROR_NUMBER was to high, parenthesis count wasn't reset when evalCatchFlag

6.3.22
fixed potential bug in join with memory intialization
fixed problem parsing URL when redirection in 'read-url'
'get-url/read-url' now also handles 205 and 307 return codes
'get-url/read-url' now always only returns header portion if "header" option is specified
new -d demon mode, like -p but newLISP stays in memory to accept a new connection
new function 'put-url' for HTTP PUT method
new function 'post-url' for HTTP POST method

===============================================================================
6.3.23 Release January 6th, 2002
new function 'binomial'

6.3.24
'exit' now closes net work connection when running in '-d' demon mode.
new function 'now' returns detailed date/time info: (y m d h m s us dy dw)
new function 'date-value' converts date/time into seconds since 1970-1-1
new financial functions 'pmt', 'nper', 'pv', 'fv', 'npv'
bug fix in 'map' which would crash when last arg was not a list (as it should be)
replaced 'MySQL:close' with 'MySQL:close-db' to avoid overwriting of close in MAIN in mysql.lsp

===============================================================================
6.4.00 Release March 20th, 2002
inclusion of BWidget set in the Win32 tk v 0.80 distibution, many manual changes

6.4.1
main-args now returns path of program as first list member
get-url "debug" option now can be specified together with "header" option
post-url content-type now is optional and defaults to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
added closing channel in get-url
fixed bug in 'join', which could crash on an empty list
httpd, finger and gettime changes for new 'main-args'
balloon help in newlisp-tk v. 081
new '(tk-args)' when running Tcl/Tk frontend returns newlisp-tk commandline args
several changes in stat.lsp/plot directing temporal files to /tmp
fixed potential crash bug in 'dotree'
Win32 installer now puts desktop icon

===============================================================================
6.4.2 Release April 22nd, 2002
'format' now for multiple args

6.4.3 development release
'parse' now correctly does handles trailing separator by returning an empty token ""

6.4.4
buffer limit in vsnprintf() was not handled correctly, putting a space limitation
on 'string' (16k), 'format' (2k) and 'C' functions depending on varPrintf(),
fixed potential buffer overflow in writeStreamStr().
'tranpose' did not check for matrix type.
experimental function 'throw'

6.4.5 Development release
starts-with, ends-with 
now are working type polymorph on strings and lists
rotate now takes negative numbers for left rotation
rearranged lambda evaluation (eval args before saving environment),
which causes 6% speed improvements
'args' only available in define-macro (again as before 6.3.14)
changed 'if', 'unless', 'while', 'until' for less CPU stack requirements

6.4.6
'nth', 'first', 'last', 'rest'
now are working type polymorph on strings and lists
'cons' works now correctly on 1 arg  (who cares? -> consistency proof)
potenial cell-memory leak on error in 'apply'

6.4.7 Development release
improved syntax for statics environment list as assoc list:
(define  (foo a b c ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))) ....)
to retrieve statics environment just do:
(last (first foo) => ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))
also improves speed of ststic processing by about 10%

===============================================================================
6.4.8 Release May 16, 2002
empty? now works on strings
fix for 'cons' when lambda expr is second argument
fix for (rest "") which now returns ""
fix for (first "") now returns nil
purelisp.lsp for prooving consistency
fix for link.lsp on CYGWIN

6.4.9 Development release May 21st, 2002
'nil' as a symbol was not always treated as nil value constant
(push exp lst) now works even if lst does not contain a list
in that case old contents of lst gets deleted and initialized
with () before pushing exp, this makes initialization of lists
to '() before pushing on it unnecessary.
'time' now works as a timer returning mseconds needed to evaluate
this is also mor compatible how other Lisp's define 'time'
an expression, for old funcitonality of 'time' use (apply date-value (now))
'sort' now takes an optional parameter '< or '> for ascending/descending
also about 30% speedup, like in: (sort myList '>)

6.4.10 Development release May 21st, 2002
correct treatment of symbol 'nil in 'and' and 'or'
eliminated orSymbol reference in soirce code
speedup parsing source
dump with parameter now returns list (cellAdress, cellType, cellNext, cellAux, cellContents)
stepsize in 'for' 'sequence' always forced to positive

6.4.11
'push' in its new form did not respect 'nil and 'true
new error message when trying to set/define/push on 'nil, 'true or context
speedup in multiple compares in nl-math.c 
speedup in upper-case, lower-case
speedup in get-char, get-string, get-integer and get-float


6.4.12
boolean types and symbols are equal
another speed improvement in lambad and expression evaluation
over all speed improvement over 6.4.8 now about 5-10% depending
on expression mix.
local iterator symbols are now handled on environment stack for
better error recovery.
new chapter "Data structure objects in lists" in docs and
many little doc changes.

===============================================================================
6.5.0 Release May 28th, 2002
no changes related to newlisp itself except for versioning
changes in httpd (see httpd file)
changes in newlisp-IDE for changes in httpd and changes for date display

6.5.1
compiles with -Wall -pedantic -Wno-uninitialized -O2 
-Wall -pedantic for better portability
-Wno-uninitialized to suppress 'fork' 'longjmp' warning in -O2
-O2 does ~25% speed and size improvement!
'let' did not handle empty parameter lists and now double fast

6.5.2 development release June 3rd
'concat' is deprecated 'append' doubles functionality of 'concat'
new individual makefiles for making newLISP on different platforms without
the need to tweak makefiles.

6.5.4
'find', 'replace' and file 'search' now can do Regular Expressions.
Regular Expressions are not dependend any more on the C-library
on the OS platform used, instead PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
is used on all platforms and the source is contained in the distribution.
Additions to INSTALL file about PCRE and localization of newLISP.

6.5.5
fix for 'replace' in regex mode

6.5.5 -> 6.5.7
changes in win32.lsp and makefile_win32
eliminated file: nl-importDM.c was already merged
new chapter 'Lambda expressions in newLISP' in newlisp_manual.html

===============================================================================
6.5.8 Released version (functionally equal to 6.5.7) June 13th 2002
#ifdef NOIMPORT instead of MAC_OSC in evaluateExpression()
spelling stuff in newlisp_manual.html

6.5.10
- incorporated nl-web.c into native win32 version to make work get-url, post-url
and put-url. Server modes -p and -d now are working too in native win32 version.

- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work with win32 because read-line/write-line don't 
work on sockets in win32. 

- writeStramChar() now works also on binary streams

- newlisp-tk.tcl changed to work on remote connection over the internet.
Shows acceptable speed on dial-up (old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted)

- 'reload last' button in newlisp-tk GUI

- dependency fix in makefile_win32


6.5.11
- moved to Borlanc C++ v5.5 compiler, gives faster and smaller executable than 
 Digital Mars compiler previously used. Now all functions of the Linux version
 also work in the Win32 version.

6.5.12
- changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for faster performance on remote and working
  reliable with win32 version. Old newlisp-tk.conf should be deleted.
  Win-tk version can now be distributed without CYGWIN DLLs using the
  Borland 'C' Win32 compile.

6.5.13
- fixed problem in 'net-receive', which was introduced in 6.5.10
  httpd now works fine with win32 compile (with change in line 147 of httpd)

- send() in net-send and win32_fprintf() now performs check and resend

6.5.14
- reintroduced writeStreamChar in 'net-receive', writeStreamChar did not zero buffer
- debug was broken with TK because of missing redefine of fgets() in nl-debug.c

6.5.15
- net-close wasn't working in win32 version, which gave problems in cgi in httpd
- new newlisp-IDE-1.3.tgz with fixes for LF -> RET/LF translation which was happening
  in win32 pipes

6.5.16
- doc changes
- took out again size-check and resend in netSend() and win32_fprintf() as it is
  not relevant in blocking sockets
- mail.lsp was broken because of change how optional parameter in 'find' works
- 'read-process' and 'write-process' collapsed to 'exec'
- match for lists now behaves like match for string returning a list of matches
  ie. (match '(I * you) '(I love you)) => (I (love) you)
  this allows easier substituting of star/* patterns in pattern matches in chat
  robots

6.5.17
- new option# parameter in 'xml-parse' 
    (a) option# 1 to surpress white-space TEXT fields (for data XMLs)
    (b) option# 2 to surpress empty attribute tags (for tags which never have attributes)
    (c) option# 4 to surpress comments
    (d) option# 8 to tanslate tag names into symbols

- new 'xml-type-tags' for definig alternative tags for "ELEMENT", "CDATA", "COMMENT"
  and "ELEMENT". Instead symbol can be defined or nil can be specified to surpress
  the type tag completely.

- the newlisp-tk_win32 version now comes with the win32 native compile

- fixed bug in 'string', which was not reentrant

===============================================================================
6.5.18 Release August 3, 2002
- fixed stream problem in 'eval-string' in Win32
- fixed openStrStream, didn't initialize stream->handle to 0

6.5.19
- doc changes, renamed mail.lsp to pop3.lsp, sendmail.lsp to smtp.lsp
- memory initialization in p_format()

6.5.20
- fixed p_format again, vsnprintf() doesn't include null-char in return count
  as advertised in GNU docs
- doc changes

6.5.21
- 'explode' now also works on binary contents
- 'file-info' modification and creation time where added
- can now specify \000 in string constants
- in imported function now up to 10 parameters (previous 8)
- odbc.lsp module for ODBC communications

6.5.22
- comparing symbols now includes the context name in their comparison
- 'name' new function to extract the name of a symbol as astring without the context
- milli second resolution in 'time-of-day', 'now' and 'time' in Win32
- newlisp_manual.book for conversion html->pdf with HTMLDOC http://www.easysw.com
  this makes a printable manual. Print double sided then cut 8.0 x 9 inch, which is
  2 from the bottom and 0.5 from the right side when printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper;
  then spiral bind (thin round spirals, not the flat once).
- post-url was never working on win32 becuase of missing win32_fwrite


===============================================================================
6.5.23 ----------- released September 17, 2002
- httpd fix for empty query string 
- newlisp-IDE-1.6.tgz now saves files up to 10k, changed POST encoding to multi part

6.5.24
- quote wil not evaluate it's argument anymore, but work like Scheme or Common Lisp
- in newlisp-tk the lisp file estension can now be configured in newlisp-tk.config
- in Win32 now line termination gets written as RT-LF, 
  change also in newlisp-tk.tcl when filling editbox
- net-read-line now protected from deletion in newlisp-tk browser
- prettyPrint will never put newline after quote
- fixed prettyPrint bug when printing empty prettyPrint constructs (while, dotimes etc)

6.5.25
- quote fixed again (quoted twice)

6.5.26
- doc fixes
- date crashed on values resulting in dates before 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00
  in the Win32 version. In Win32 now minimum value for date is 86400,
  which is safely on or after 1970-Jan-1 00:00:00 for all time zones
- NaN can now be put into a variable for comparison
- division by zero now causes a math exception also in floats (previously
  inf was returned in cygwin/Unix version and Win32 crashed)
- in mixed arithmetik using integer operators NaN is taken as 0

6.5.27
- new function 'constant' to protect symbol contents from changing
- fixed bug in newlisp-tk.tcl which was introduced after 6.5.23
  which caused problems in Mouse.lsp (_result -> result in 'tk')
- 'div' with NaN value raised exception/crashed in Win32, now
   returns NaN
- DOMAIN error messages in the Win32 versions are now silenced

6.5.28
- doc changes
- new function 'setq', both 'set' and 'setq' and now can take multiple args
  note that old init.lsp should be updated because of macro for 'setq'
- new option number 16 in xml-parse for generating SXML output

- 7.0.0 pre release
- bug fix for 'string', suppresses all pretty-print formatting
- better error reporting on pop3.lsp and smtp.lsp with debug-flag true
===============================================================================
- 7.0.1 release October 24, 2002
  merged caveGuy's pop3.lsp mail-id improvements

- 7.0.2
- readLineStream was not initizlized during program startup and caused
  'current-line' to crash if not used after a 'read-line'
- direct execution mode with new command line option -e
- in SXML parsing attribute tags where left strings instead of symbols
- 'find' now also does regex when looking up a string in list of strings

- 7.0.3
- example in newLISP for put.cgi in newlisp_manual.html
- include cgi.lsp in distribution
- the header in the SMTP interface smtp.lsp was not finished with empty line
- 'save now can save multiple contexts and/or symbols at once
- 'open now has a "append" or "a" option

===============================================================================
- 7.0.4 release February 2, 2003
  replace now gives error instead of returning 'nil when second arg not
  list or string
  new primitive 'lookup' works like assoc with extracting parameter
  fixed bug in pop3.lsp
  moved to version 5.4 of Freewrap for making the newlisp-tk.exe, which
  is now doubled in size because 5.4 doesn't compress anymore (see Freewrap
  docs).

- 7.0.5
  Manual improvements in for correct conversion with HTML2DOC
  additional hour offset parameter in 'now' and 'date'
  fixed bug in dotree which caused crashes on Windows
  'context', 'dotree' and 'symbols' now accept unquoted
  symbol if the symbols is a context.
  contexts can be deleted again when empty
  The newlisp-tk Windows version is now wrapped with freewrap v.5.5
  and based on Tcl/Tk version 8.4.1 and BWidget v.1.6
  newlisp-tk.tcl has been changed for better usage of 'context'

- 7.1.0-rc1
  PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.3
  in 'replace' now replacement pattern with back references and as 
  lisp expression. Sub expressions are stored in variable $1, $2 ... etc.
  $0 contains the whole pattern found. These variables are also filled
  in 'regex' 'find' (all functions doing regular expressions).
  The new implementation of 'replace' is also faster (about 15%).
  example: 
  (replace "%([0-9A-F][0-9A-F])" str (char (integer(append "0x" $1))) 1)
  This will do URL translation i.e.: "xxx%41xxx%42" -> "xxxAxxxB".

- 7.1.0-rc2
  'parse' can take regular expressions in sepearator when additional
  options parameter is defined (as in find, replace)  

===============================================================================
- 7.1.0 Release August 28, 2003
  'search' like 'find' and 'replace' also accepts regular expression
  when extra options parameter is given.
  [text] and [/text] can be used as string limiters for large text regions
  i.e. for HTML in cgi pages written with newLISP. Text limited this way
  stays completely unprocessed and contain any characters.
  The function 'symbol' accepts unquoted symbol for context parameter
  (like 'dotree', 'context', 'symbols')
  PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression support updated to version 4.4
  extensive manual changes formatting and PDF release  

- 7.1.1
  surpression of some compiler warnings in Mac OSX compile
  makefile for linux has strip turned on and readline support
  was not the default

- 7.1.2
  third parameter in 'symbol' for supression of symbol creation, if
  not found; return 'nil instead.
  HTML manual had formatting error, which caused all after 'regex'
  to be in curier.

===============================================================================
- 7.1.3 release September 3, 2003
  [text]...[/text] caused problems in TCP/IP communications
 
===============================================================================
- 7.1.4 release September 6, 2003
  uninitialized memory in writeStreamStr() caused problems when
  running newlisp-tk and transferring bigger string buffers.
  win32_fprintf() did not work right for buffers > 2048, which
  caused problems in browsing bigger buffers in newLISP-tk.

- 7.1.6
  new function 'process' for launching independent child processes
  (will not block), new function 'pipe' for use with child processes.

  'if' now accepts multiple condition-exp pairs and then works like a
  cond without parenthesis around condition-value. 'if' with
  condition-exp-exp or condition-exp still works like before.

  new 'net-send-udp' and 'net-receive-udp' for UDP communications
  without need of net-listen,net-accept and net-connect. 

  On Mac OSX 'import' is now enabled using to addtional files
  osx-dlfcn.n/h for compiling. This import is for '.dylib'
  libaries.
  'append' now also can append binary strings (i.e. containing 0's)
  'joint' now also can joint binary strings (including the joint string)

  if the length of a sublist in slice is 0 then sice returns the empty
  list '(), previously returned nil. This is more consistent with the
  behavior of slice on strings and at the end of lists.

  'write-buffer' now acepts both: a symbol or a string

  'send' now accepts both: a symbol or a string
  
  'symbol' pretended to create a symbol although context would not exist

  error messages now include the offending expression/parameter which
  caused the error.


- 7.1.7
  speedup in UDP communications (no session registration)
  memory leak fixed in 'net-receive-udp'

  'first' of an empty string now returns an empty string, previously nil

  improved cgi.lsp

  'reverse' now works on strings

- 7.1.8
  'throw' now is documented (actually happened in 7.1.7)

  'collect' and 'select' now also work on strings
  i.e: (collect "2001-09-20" 5 6 8 9 0 1 2 3) => "09202001"

  'slice' couldn't slice lambda's

  memory leak in searchBufferRegex() affecting 'find' and 'replace' was fixed

- 7.1.9  
  'set' with multiple args had a cell memory leak

  'transpose' had a memory leak

- 7.1.10
  logfile support for remote mode -p and -d with '-l logfilename'

  fixed bug in pretty print on command line

  fixed bug in 'save', which went into a loop when saving symbols containing
  contexts

- 7.1.12 
  logfile with string -L options also logs remote command line input
 
  'fft' and 'ifft' now can take plain numbers instead of complex numbers
  or a mixture of both

  regular expression speedup 5 to 50% by chaching the search pattern
  and avoiding recompile, speedup greatly depends on complexity of
  pattern relatively to the length of the search string

  rearranged functions in source files to make newlisp.c more manageable

  eliminated various unecessary typedefs

  Sun SOLARIS is now supported (not much tested though)

  operating system number in last position of 'sys-info'
  linux 1, bsd 2, osx 3, solaris 4, cygwin 5, win32 6

  strings containig zeros are now displayed correctly i.e. 
  (pack "c c c" 0 1 2 3) => "\000\001\002\003"

- 7.1.14
  redundancy in printString() eliminated

  memory leak in 'parse' with regex fixed

  the userdefined function for an error is now reported

  overall speedup since 7104 of about 5%

  commented out undocumented function 'symbol-dump'

===============================================================================
- 7.2.0 is 7.1.14 released October 2nd, 2003


- 7.2.1
  moved check for symbol type of lambdaFunc to errorProc for efficiency

  cleanup of unecessary defines in newlisp.h

  defined 'vasprintf()' to take advantage of vasprintf() where available

  'format' now checks for correct number of arguments and well formed
  format string, it should not crash anymore on mismatch of number
  and type of parameters

  newLISP-tk is now version 1.0 with changes for multiline 'tk' statements
  (stements containing line-breaks), this allows sending bigger Tcl/Tk
  code portions in one 'tk' statement

- 7.2.2
  force creation of $0, $1 ... in MAIN even when used in different context
  for the first time

  supress $0, $1 ... in newlisp-tk frontend in variable listbox
  (the $ would confuse tk)

- 7.2.3
  replace-assoc now also uses the system variable $0 for the old
  list, which can be reused in the replacement expression, i.e:

  (set 'lst '((a 1)(b 2)(c 3))) 
  (replace-assoc 'b lst (list 'b (+ 1 (last $0))))
  lst => ((a 1)(b 3)(c 3))

  replace-nth now also uses the system variable $0 for the old element, i.e:

  (set 'lst '(1 2 3 4))
  (replace-nth 1 lst (+ $0 1))
  lst => '(1 3 3 4)

  added new module 'ftp.lsp' for get/put ftp transfers

  updated module smtp.lsp and program spam-filter

  symbols set with 'constant' now also gets saved with 'constant'

  introduced getContext() for code savings

  added error message in 'import' for win32
  
  eliminated win32.cmd

  many documentation changes/fixes, rewritten introduction
  added chapter about deprecated functions

  changes in set/define functions for better protection and
  error messages of protected symbols

  full stack trace on error messages

- 7.2.4
  replace-assoc now returns the changed list instead of the old
  association found (which is now in $0)
  
  replace-nth now return the changed list instead of the old
  expression found (which is now in $0)
  now checks also for missing last argument

  replace now returns changed list or string
  for changed list count of replacements in $0
  count for string replacements is not available any more
  (could be handled in replacement expression)
  now checks also for missing last argument

  remove now returns the changed list
  and the number of removed elements in $0

- 7.2.5
  chop now also works on lists

  coding improvements in slice/sublist() and substring()

  newlisp-tk 1.02 now on Linux tmp directory is in the home
  directory of the user running newlisp-tk

  replace with expression in replacement would overflow CPU stack
  after 2048 replacements, now no limit

  cgi.lsp v.1.2 now lives in a context CGI for better isolation

  httpd v.3.0 with bugfixes for big POST buffers

  new module infix.lsp for parsing infix expressions

  in newlisp-tk changed /tmp to tmp for Linux/UNIX

- 7.2.6
  (new CTX 'CTX2) copies context CTX to CTX2, helps using
  contexts a objects, which can be instantiated from a template
  context

  'define' 'constant' used in contexts will always force creation
  of the symbol in that context, never overwrite definitions in
  MAIN. This is changed behaviour also be reflected in the documentation.
  The old way was leading to unexpected definitions in MAIN of symbols
  although loaded from a context. 'set' still will first look for a
  global in MAIN.

  fixed false error messaging on certain parenthesis errors

  fixed wrong error message when trying to define protected
  symbol

  error message 'parameter out of range when calling 'gammai',
 'beta' or 'gammaln' with first parameter 0.

- 7.2.7
  contexts now can be assigned to variables and referenced
  during runtime, i.e. 'contextVar:varName' with late binding
  of contextVar.  New possibilities of OO programming and lexically
  scoped programming, see new chapter in the users manual
  about 'Programming with context objects'.

  stronger separation of contexts from context MAIN, only
  primitive symbols, context symbols, true and nil are
  inherited

  'new' now returns the new context, formerly 'true'

  'set', 'setq', 'set!', 'constant' now return the value of
  the symbol set when the rvalue is missing i.e:
  (constant 'foo) will make foo a constant and return it's
  curent value

  protected all symbols in MAIN in newlisp-tk.tcl v 1.03
  against accidental overwrite

  cleaned up toal mess of tem pdir detection in unix mode

  cleaned up init.lsp

  'nth' now can take multiple indices, i.e.:
  (nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d)))) => c
  good for working with matrices or sparse matrices
  out of bounds indices return the last in dimension

  'set-nth' like former 'replace-nth' but multidimensional
  like 'nth'
  (set-nth 1 2 0 '(1 (a b (c d))) 'x) =>  (1 (a b (x d)))

- 7.2.8
  eliminated statics in lambda expression, not necessary
  anymore as we have dynamic contexts, which also
  create a lexically closure around vars

  fix in dolist, how cleanup is done

===============================================================================
- 7.3.0 Released version 2003/11/03
  (cpymen fromAddress toAdress nBytes), address may be integer
  or string, only for internal use, not documented. Could be
  used with 'dump' to hack lisp-cells and symbols-cells.
  i.e. to unprotect a symbol :
  (cpymem (pack "c c" 0 32) (last (dump 'sym)) 2)

  fixed error message reporting in 'set-nth'

- 7.3.1
  'import' was broken in Win32 native version when working
  inside contexts (odbc.lsp and mysql.lsp)

  (pretty-print line-length indent-string)
  experimental not documented yet, to change pretty printing
  behaviour, without args returns current status => (64 " ")
  64 length 1 space for indenting

- 7.3.2
  'char', 'collect', 'lookup', 'nth', 'pop', 'push', 'select', 'set-nth'
  and 'slice' now all accept negative offset which will count from the 
  end of a list i.e. (slice "newLISP" -4 2) => "LI"

  'push' and 'pop' now can take multidimensional offsets like
  'nth' and 'set-nth'

  'collect'/'select' now return the last element for offsets to big
  (formerly nil)

  'pretty-print' now tested and documented

  1.e-1 or 123. , a decimal point without following digits is
  no an accepted number format

  in newlisp-tk the windows position gets now saved when saving
  Options/Settings

  fixed bug in 'let' when returning a local var

- 7.3.3
  new 'push' changed 'nilCell'

- 7.3.4
  newlisp_manual.html with Kazemori edits
  
  'list' now accepts unlimited number of arguments

- 7.3.5
  'push' could not append to an empty list

  handling big buffers in newlisp-tk in evaluation

  common floating point exception handling on all
  platforms (BorlandC and GCC)

  block mode for remote connection starting with [cmd]
  on a line by itself and finishing with [/cmd] on
  a line by itself
 
  sets locale environment on non-US versions of an OS
  platform, this enables automatically correct character
  handling (i.e. upper-case) on non-engish character sets
 
- 7.3.7
  newlisp-tk.tcl now takes advantage of new block mode (multiple
  lines in interactive mode). This ways one of the ports in
  communication with newlisp could be eliminated and browser-editor
  buffers of unlimited length can be evaluated, preferrably in
  evaluation without printing (left of the two buttons)

  doc changes for 'silent'

- 7.3.8
  'let' now accepts also alternative syntax without the parenthesis
  around var - exp pairs: (let (var1 exp1 var2 exp2 ...) body )

  doc changes for 'let' and chapter 'Lambda expression'
  doc change new function 'set-locale'
  doc change new sub chapter 'Switching the locale' in chapter
  'Localization and customization'
  doc change new file LOCALIZATION

  'fn' may be used instaed of 'lambda' (save typing)
 
  'set-locale' changes usage: (set-locale) => return current
  setting, (set-locale "") => switches to local locale with
  all option turned on. (set-locale str int) switches to locale
  in str with category option int as speicied in "locale.h" of
  platform/OS, look for defs of LC_ALL, LC_NUNMERIC etc..
  on  startup newLISP tries to swithc to ISO "C" locale.

- 7.3.9
  'push' and 'pop' now can take the int-offsets in a list to
   work together with new 'ref' which reports the position of an
   expression in a nested list

   doc changes (sometimes only small changes)
        'push', 'pop', 'symbol?' new function 'ref'
        'save', 'set', 'Arrays and Hash Tables ...', 'close',
        'cons', 'context', 'delete', 'explode', 'fft', 'find',
        'format', 'intersect', 'lambda?', 'length', 'let'
        'make-dir', 'match', 'net-receive', 'net-select',
        'net-send', 'new'

   changed options flag will trigger recompile when caching regular
   expression patterns

   'select' evaluated args in offset list

   'join' evaluated args in string list

   'append'' evaluated the first string arg double

   all type predicates now given an error message if the
   argument is missing, previously 'nil' ('true' on atom?)

   getting an int from a 'inf' floating point crashed on  Borland Win32
   now returns 0 like on other platforms

- 7.3.10
  'remove' didn't check for list type in second arg and bombed

- 7.3.11
  new compile for Win32 DLL with makefile_win32dll
  see file win32dll.readme for unsolved issues

- 7.3.12
  (replace expr aList) now works like 'remove', but for removing
  strings the empty string "" must still be specified:
  (replace str aString "")
  'remove' is deprecated and will not be available anymore in 8.0

  new 'flat' to flatten lists complements multidimensional set
  of list functions, example:
  (set 'lst '(a (b (c d))))
  (map (fn (x) (ref x lst)) (flat lst)) => ((0) (1 0) (1 1 0) (1 1 1))

  newlisp.dll now runs qa suite

- 7.3.14
  DLL now suppresses pop up on FP domain error (thanks Steve)
  DLL now also can use print statment, output will be in return
  value.

  'replace' did not work correctly when removing multiple expressions
  at the beginning of a list

  doc changes 'replace', 'flat', chapter 'Deprecated functions'
               chapter 'DLL module ...'

  error message for "string too long" now reports shorter string

- 7.3.15
  better error reporting on some string getting functions when arg
  is missing

  doc changes license change for documentation, misc. links

  replace could not handle empty search string

  Win32 DLL no contained in Win32 distribution

  fixed error in httpd

- 7.3.16
  error messages in newlisp.dll where broken becuase of wrong makefile_win32dll

  newlisp-tk.html now reformatted to manual HTML for better maintenance/conversion

  slight optimixation in 'nth' and 'set-nth'

  fix for 'nth' on empty string

  better error messages on missing args in various functions

  link.lsp now also works on win32 DLLs but is not supported anymore
  for CYGWIN, use a win32 compiled newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll instead,
  both work fine under CYGWIN

  doc change for chapter 'Win32 DLL  ...'
 
  fixed 'silent' mode for DLL

  'float' conversion noe accepts leading . without zero like the
  internal parser

- 7.3.17
  doc changes as of Sam Cox's and Nigel's postings on 
  http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/ on 2003-12-07

  new functions 'atan2' and 'irr' and documentation

  eliminated compiler warnings for Linux GCC 3.3.1

- 7.4.0rc1
  'irr' now strips of digits less than precision 1e-5

  'set-nth' alsow works on strings (singular index)

  'swap' now works on strings, also return value changed
  from swapped pair to changes list/string

  'pretty-print' had a cell leak

  in the installation for LINUX/BSD etc. the doc directory has been
  moved from /usr/doc/newlisp to /usr/share/doc/newlisp
  newlisp-tk.tcl 1.07 changed accordingly

  upgrade to PCRE 4.5 files

  'integer' didn't truncate to -MAX_LONG

  'integer' did not truncate to MAX_LONG when feeding big
  floating point numbers, but crashed on Win32

  on Win32 float functions on NaN crashed

  doc changes: integer, NaN?, error-event, error-text, atan2

- 7.4.0rc2
  enabled error events in Win32 DLL module

  update finger example file and example in doc
  doc change 'net-connect'

- 7.4.0rc3
  floats now work in imported fuctions (tested on x86 platforms)
  and up to 14 parameters (previously 10) are accepted, floats
  count as two

  nth-set like set-nth but different return value, was in rc2
  but now documented

  doc changes: chapter 'Functions in groups', 'import', 'inc', 'dec'
              arithmetik operators +,-,*,/, 'set-nth', 'nth-set'
              'sort', '%', 'mod', '<,>,=,<=,>='

  doc new file: hacking_newlisp.html with describes previously
  undocumented features

  'for', 'dotimes', 'seqence', 'series' now return a 'invalid parameter: NAN'
  error when NaN parameters are passed

===============================================================================
- 7.4.0 release 2003/12/20
- 7.4.1
  commandline switch '-m N' where N is the max number of megabyte newLISP
  is allowed to allocate for LISP cells

  setq,set!, define (as set) did not work right with dynamic context vars

- 7.4.2
  %s format now recognizes precision i.e: (format "%5.2" "hello") => "   he"

  various doc changes

  pop3.lsp now handles pop3 servers w/o LAST command, but only on the
  functions: get-all-mail and delete-all-mail

  char did not convert the  0 correctly, now: (char 0) => "\000"

- 7.4.3
  fixed printing context name when in a context other than MAIN
  this affected the newlisp-tk frontend since v. 7.2.7

  many doc corrections, now rev 5

- 7.4.4
  (now ... ) returns an additional number 'minutes west of GMT' 
  for the timezone offset 

  the optional time ofset parameter in 'date' and 'now' must now
  be given in minutes west of GMT, was previously in hours, 
  standard when using time zone offsets

  max cell count as specified in command line swith -m now second
  number in 'sys-info' if not specified defaults to 0x10000000

  doc addition of -m commandline switch and change in 'sys-info'

- 7.4.5
  format now can take unlimited number of parameters, before 2048

  changes in stat.lsp, smtp.lsp and httpd for new 'sys-info'

- 7.4.6
  fixed problem in float -> integer conversion of big numbers

  attempt to fix for last parameter of 'now' for solaris (not tested)

- 7.4.7
  updated to BWidget-1.7 in newlisp-tk (since 7.4.6)

  timezone offset in return value for 'now' set to 0 on SOLARIS

  plotting with stat.lsp and gnuplot was messed up on Win32, now
  can also do multiple plot one after another using 'process' instead
  of exec

  eliminated 'gettime' example, as that service doesn't run on most
  computers these days

  'import' on Win32 now can use cdecl calling conventions with
  additional parameter string "cdecl" when importing functions. 
  This allows calling many third party DLLs without special wrapper DLLs
  On LINUX etc. the extra parameter is ignored.
  
  mysql.lsp version 2.0, several functions changed and offsets defined
  for MySQL v.4.0, previous versions will not work

- 7.4.8
  improved error message for missing par

  sqlite.lsp - module for SQLite datavase from http://www.sqlite.org
  
  mysql.lsp small fixes and revised test routine, tested on MySQL v. 4.0

  'transpose' now transposes any kind of matrix (previously only matrices
  containing numbers; it also rectangualarizes matrices; speed improved
  3 fold.
 
  in 'if' and 'cond': if the last condition given is the empty listy ()
  which evaluates to nil in a boolean context, and if no then/else actions
  or now cond action is given, then the empty list () is returned (previusly nil) .

  fix for 'date' which crashed at values overflowing int32 (2038 1 19 3:14:07)

  logging has been changed to a fixed filename 'newlisp-log.txt

  new command line switch -h

  better pretty printing of symbols which are constant and global

===============================================================================
- 7.5.0 RELEASE 2004-01-21
  cgi.lsp, form.html, form.cgi where missing from FILES inventory

  new 'sqlite.cgi' web script for administering SQLite database in newLISP

  eliminated various unused vars with -w8004

  fixded bug in 'global' printing
 
  changed directory structure, new dirs: doc, examples, modules 
 
- 7.5.1
  (rotate '()) crashed because of list length zero

  fixed nested catch/throw

  fixed lambda stack oberflow after 3000 catch
 
  eliminated array.lsp instead shorter hash.lsp for hash functions

  changed sqlite.lsp to version 1.6, name change for future 
  reserved word 'array' 

  dynamic context var refs now work inside contexts, this makes
  it possible to call constructors from inside the class context

  improvement of floating point speed 60% in simple arithmetik
  and 25% in most floating point functions

  (format "%d" 1.23) => "1" before this was not permitted
  (format "%5.2f" 10) => "10.00" also allowed now

- 7.5.2
  (array i j k aList), returns a 1 to 8 dimensional array and
  initializes optionally from flat list in aList 

  (array-list myArray) returns a list conversion of myArray

  (aray? expr) tests if expression is a list

  all array acces modification via nth, set-nth and nth-set

  also released benchmarks  comparing with Perl, Python and Guile,
  see at: http://newlisp.org/benchmarks


- 7.5.3
  (seek 0) now returns numbers of characters printed to stdout,
  works on BSD but on LINUX and Win32 will always return -1

  'integer' now takes additional base parameter after the
  default parameter, i.e:  (integer "1111" 0 2) => 15
  note, that hex numbers still need to be prefixed with 0x
  even when specifying base 16

  added txt2pdf.lsp as a new module in the module directory

  comprehensive manual edit by Brian Clausing (thanks!)

  new chapter about linking LISP source and executable

  all deprecated functions thrown out:
  concat, remove, replace-nth, sublist, substring, read-process
  read-url, write-process. All have replacements, see manual.

  changed cgi.lsp, stat.lsp, spam-filter for deprecated functions

  1% overall speed improvement 0.5% size reduction

  nth didn't work on lambda in 7502

  'format' increasing of ars beyond 2048 has been rolled back
  because of problems when evaluation of args is deeply nested

- 7.5.3a
  changes in newlisp-tk.tcl for deprecated 'remove'
  changes in qa for deprecated functions

 
- 7.5.4
  15% speedup in 'format'

  writeStreamStr() and readStreamText() did not handle zeros

  'source' like save on strings eliminates tmp directory in
  new newlisp-tk v.1.09

  1000+ times speedup in XML parsing of bigger files 
  changing a strncpy() to a memcpy()

- 7.5.6
  newlisp-tk 1.10 now shows message box when trying to open
  debugger with browsers at the same time

  updated FILES inventory

  logging did not work as described (was always on with -p -d)

  net-listen and net-receive-udp take as an additional optional
  parameter the address the listening socket should bind for
  computers with multiple network adapters

  optional last parameter in net-send-udp for specifying 
  broadcast mode with 'true' (or anything not evaluating to nil), 
  not necessary on wome Win OS where '255' on last address byte 
  is enough to turn on broadcast mode

  Ctrl-C handler simple on Win32 and with continue, exit, reset
  menu on LINUX/BSD (somewhat unreliable?)

  Broken Pipe on net-send now handled correctly on Linux/BSD
  is handled by socket stack on Win32

  (slice str 1 -1) does not crash anymore (length arg should
  never be negative)

- 7.5.7
  signal handlers now initialized before loading commandline
  scripts

- 7.5.8
  shorter code for swap
  
  defunct zombie child processes now cleaned up by 'process'
  on UNIXs

  fixed potential bug in regex replace when replacement expression
  evaluates to no-string

- 7.5.9
  all functions changing the contents of a symbol (destructive
  functions) will now cause an error when used on symbols protected
  with 'constant', previously it worked only with set, set!, setq
  and define, define-macro; loop variables in dotimes, for, dolist
  and dotree are protected against change by user with an error 
  message during looping and may not be constant before the looping
  starts using them
  
  new manual chapter about 'Variable names and numbers syntax"
  
  bug fixes/additions in httpd, now version 3.3
  
  fixed potential memory overwrites in nl-web.c

  error message length limited to 1024 characters

- 7.5.10
  rolled back symbol protection for dotree and dolist, which
  is not necessary

- 7.5.11
  new mode for 'open' "pipe' or "p" opens a named pipe non-blocking
  for reading

- 7.5.12
  rolled back protection for dotimes, for loop variable solving
  crash problem in different way

- 7.5.14
  documentation fixes and compiler warnings fixes

  two additional file for viewing manual in frames with index

  the Win32 installer puts entries in startmenu including an uninstall

  The WIn32 installer puts a newLISP icon in desktop and startmenu links

  protect built-in functions from overwriting with import but the 
  function can still be imported in a context different from MAIN

  eliminated "pipe" or "p" mode in 'open' instead "non-block" or "n"
  as additional option after "read" or "write" option

  net-lookup, net-select, net-send-udp, net-peek did not clear net-error

  net-select now can accept a list of sockets instead of one socket
  net-select now has a third mode "exception" or "e" to test error
  conditions on socket

  apply works reducing a list when additional reduce count is given

  load takes multiple filenames

- 7.5.15
  integer and float now return nil or the default value when type
  other than string or number is specified, previously this
  caused an error message

  expanded chapter on Tcl/Tk Variables in:
  "Writing applications with newLISP and Tcl/Tk"

- 8.0.0rc1  
  added more examples to newlisp-tk.html

  allow [cmd] tag in -d mode

  reopen mode in [cmd] section for potential memory leak after
  error conditions or on reconnect

  allow contexts to be overcopied (broke benchmarks)
 
- 8.0.0rc3
  re-fixes the memory leak for [cmd] tags

- 8.0.0rc4
  doc changes manpage

  take abs() value in -m commandline option 

  reorder help menu for logical sequence of options

  newlisp-tk 1.12 now tolerant for not finding "Fixedsys",
  "Lucida Console" or "fixed" fnt. Will take first font found
  
  newlisp-tk 1.12 now save newlisp-tk.con correctly in home directory
  of UNIX (startup dir in Win32)
  
  man page for LINUX et al, thankyou Nigel Brown 

- 8.0 released April 7 2004 ============================================
  version nunbers changed from 8.0.0 to 8.0 to distinguish
  rc versions from final version

  sys-info now returns 7 as OS number of win32dll

  corrections in MemoryManagement.html and newlisp_manual.html

- 8.0.1
  changed package version number to dotted form for compatibility with
  RPM packaging

  changed Makefile install option for RPM compatibility and added
  'make rpm' for makeing rpm package

  man page for newlisp-tk 

  array was not serialized correctly in 'source' and 'save'

  negative indices in arrays, which are too big now give out-of-bounds 
  error (previously took first element as for lists)

  now up to 16 indices can be specified, previously 8

  changes in docs for array chapter and functions

  in newLISP-tk under Linux/Unix file open dialog now starts
  with /usr/share/newlisp/newlisp-tk


- 8.0.2 Released 2004-05-02 ============================================

  httpd version 3.5
  
  doc changes

- 8.0.3
  constant did not allow multiple args

  parse now recognizes zero length token and stops parsing
  instaed of going into a loop

  fix for contextvars in tcl/tlk IDE v1.15 and p_context()

  bug fixes in cgi.lsp now v.1.5

  documentation corrections

  a bug fix in the reset routine

- 8.0.4
  fixed the fix in reset
 
  cell leaks in error messages in catch/throw situations are now avoided

- 8.0.5
  filter now filters nil symbols like nil values (like if, while, not etc)
  this effects the function index in the same way

  access system variables $0, $1 ... etc. with an index ($ 0), ($ 1) .. ($ i)
  where i is an integer

  bug fix for catch when result variable has same contents as return from
  catch statement

- 8.0.6 Released 2004-06-06 ============================================
  new env replaces deprecated environ, getenv, putenv (still available but
  to be eliminated in 8.1)

  additional paragraph about ovewriting global symbols in the chapter
  'Contexts' 

- 8.0.7
  net-receive-udp can take an additional timeout parameter 

  doc changes for net-receive-udp

  new example whitelist-filter for email filtering

- 8.0.8
  trim now can take optional second trim-character parameter:
  (trim "---HELLO===" "-" "=") => "HELLO"
  (trim "0001234" "0" "") => "1234"
  allows trimming of only one side (empty string) or different
  trimming left and right

  new functions 'utf8' and 'unicode' to convert between utf8
  and UCS-4 encoded Unicode

  UTF-8 versions of: char, upper-case, lower-case, first, rest,
                    chop, explode, last, trim, collect select,
                    nth, set-nth, nth-set

  any positions/indices in the UTF-8 versions  of char, nth
  set-nth and nth-set refer to (multibyte)character positions
  rather than byte positions

  find and regex return byte positions, slice takes byte positions
  reverse always works on byte level, to reverse utf8 strings use:
  (join (reverse (explode str)))

  changed parsing of octal numbers 090 now "0" "90"

- 8.0.9
  'source' now also working on context symbols
  fix for 'trim' in utf8 version
  fix for 'set-nth' and 'nth-set' in utf8 version
  version 3.7 httpd fixing problems with post on IE

- 8.0.10
  'net-sessions' now registers connecting peer in -p -d modes
  makefiles for MinGW compiler for newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll
  MinGW will eventually replace Borland BCC 5.5 as the default
  compiler for the Win32 binary distribution
 
- 8.0.11
  a fix for server crash in -d mode when reconnecting on Linux

- 8.0.12
  now will reset when client exits in -d demon mode (still does
  not maintain demon mode on slackware 2.4 but Debian 2.6
  Linux Mandrakae 9.2/2.4.22 and FreeBSD  4.7 are OK)

  new function (dup expr n) repeats expression n times in
  list or string
  function 'pipe' works on MinGW compiled version

- 8.0.13-14
  fix of 'test-pipe' in fle qa
  new option in Makefile: make uninstall
  /usr/share/newlisp/init.lsp now tries to load $HOME/.init.lsp
  as a user specific .init.lsp after the system wide init.lsp
  $HOME gets defined as (env "HOME") or (env "USERPROFILE") 
  or (env "DOCUMENT_ROOT")  
  whatever is available in that sequence
  fixes restart problem in demon mode

- 8.0.15
  makefiles for newlisp as a shared library on Linux and BSD:
  newlisp.so, the function to import is: newlispEvalStr

  'print' and 'println' in newlisp.dll now  are always
   returned correctly in the return value of 'dllEvaStr'
   was not working correctly before in many cirumstances

  'newlispEvalStr' will replace 'dllEvalStr' in future
   version in newlisp.dll, at the moment both work
   this change was made for consistency over platforms

   new chapter "Shared library newlisp.so on Linux/BSD" in users manual

- 8.0.16
   doc changes for 'net-receive-udp'
   'net-receive-udp' can now receive on a specific IP address, this
   was documented already but not working

   'net-connect' and 'net-listen' ca use a "udp" option to do
   nonblocking UDP data exchange with net-send and net-receive and
   without immediate closing of socket as happening using
   net-receive-udp and net-send-udp. See documenataion for
   net-listen and net-connect in the manual

   improved error message for missing parenthesis 

   newlisp.vim VIM syntax file now included in source distribution
   thanks to David from http://www.geocities.com/excaliborus/ for
   this contribution
  
   updated the CREDITS file

   all predicates, which ended in p when using HTML (i.e. listp for list?)
   have been renamed to using the '?' instead of 'p' in HTML to make
   utilities, which position in the newlisp_manual.html work

- 8.1.0rc1
   fixed memory leak in 'irr'
  
   new 'net-receive-from' and 'net-send-to' for non-blocking UDP
   communications over open connections

- 8.1.0rc2 
   an almost double speed and smaller parser for pack/unpack format strings,
   which does not need spaces in between the format specifiers

   a fix in net-send-udp not closing the socket after the new changes in rc1

   doc changes

- 8.1.0 Released version on 2004-08-10 ========================================
  two new example programs: udp-server.lsp and udp-client.lsp to demo
  non-blockig UDP communications

  merged bugfixes from dlcompat as of cvs 2004-07-12  Peter O'Gorman
  this affects only Mac OSX

  added -c option for suppressing the prompt

  added node.lsp in modules directory for building newLISP clusters.

  new versions of several modules and example files to account for
  new version numbering

- 8.1.1
  sleep now rounds to the nearest full second on systems where nanosleep()
  is not available.

  timeout option in net-receive-udp works again

- 8.1.2
  'make install_home' and 'make uninstall_home' of installations on Linux/UNIX
  in the home directory of the user in $HOME/bin and $HOME/share/

  'search' crashed on invalid filehandles

  new 'expand' for expanding variable bindings in lists

- 8.1.3
  a fix for 'get-url' on some Solaris installations

- 8.1.4 released August 21st, 2004 ==========================================
  doc changes ansd new option 'make version' for changing version numbers
  in all affected files

- 8.1.5
  nl-sock.c missed a change for Win CE, PocketPC

  qa - testfile now complete with all functions, use: ./newlisp qa to test
  without process and test functions using process, or use: ./newlisp qa ext
  to test for all function (only Win32 and Linux)

  a fix for timeout values > 1000000 usec on BSD and Solaris in net-select
  and net-receive-udp

  in net-listen and net-connect specify "multi" or "m" instead of "udp"
  for UDP Multicast mode

- 8.1.6
  'collect' and 'select' are collapsed into 'select' which is now also
  type polymorph on the second parameter.

  new makefile_solaris_utf8

  new 'fork' function for lauching a newLISP child process thread
  on Linux/UNIX only and CYGWIN on Win32.

- 8.1.7
  fixed rounding error in 'sleep' when compiled with NANOSLEEP

  improved qa routines using 'fork' on Linux/UNIX for some tests

- 8.1.8
  new 'wait-pid'for watching the status of child threads created with 'fork'
  and proccesses created with 'process'

  upgraded to PCRE v. 5.0

  more tweaks in qa file

  fixed potential memory leak in 'new'

- 8.2.0 Release September 21st, 2004 ======================================

- 8.2.1
  write-buffer can now take string instead of file handle to write
  to a string in a string growing (concatenating) fashion, this is
  much faster then doing (set 'str (append str content)) now:
  (write-buffer str content)

  'symbol' now can overwrite global symbols from MAIN (i.e. built-ins)
  i.e. (symbol "print" 'MyContext)

  'process' now ca take to addtioal pipe handle parameters, which
  get mapped to stdin and stdout for the new process:
  (map '(myin bcout) (pipe))
  (map '(bcin myout) (pipe))
  (process "bc" bcin bcout)
  (write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n")
  (read-line myin) => "7"

  'semaphore' lets you create wait and signal semaphores
  (set 'sid (semaphore)) ; aquire
  (semaphore sid -1)     ; wait
  (semaphore sid 1)      ; signal
  (semaphore sid) => 1   ; status
  (semaphore sid 0)      ; release/delete

  'share' to create shared memrory regions
  (share) => address off mmap share
  (share addr exp) => sets addr to exp for integers, floats and strings
  (share addr) => returns integer, float or string exp

  added newLISP-Excel-Import.xls example to examples/ directory
  added prodcons.lsp - demo for fork, wait-pid, semaphore and share

- 8.2.2
  'write-line' with string device like 'write-buffer', in both
  symbol is now protected if protected with constant

  share was broken for strings

- 8.2.3

  pipe is now also available on CGWIN and Borland compiled versions
  on all Win32 versions pipe can now remap std I/O like on Linux/UNIX:

  (map '(myin bcout) (pipe))
  (map '(bcin myout) (pipe))
  (process "bc" bcin bcout)
  (write-buffer myout "3 + 4\n")
  (read-line myin) => "7"

  process on Win32 can hide or minimize window:
  (process application 0 0 0) => hide app
  (process application 0 0 1) => show app
  (process application 0 0 2) => minimize app

  'share' and 'semaphore' are now also available on Win32

  improvements in qa file, now tests all functions by default w/o ext option
  better syncronization on some tests with semaphores

  'match' in list mode now only returns matched expressions

  (map set '(x y) (match '(a (? c) d *) '(a (b c) d e f)))
  x => b
  y => (e f)

  when using match with an optional third parameter 'true', it works
  in the old fashion:  (map pattern aList true) => works like before

  The context default function is a userdefined function with the same name
  as the context it resides in, i.e: (define (ctx:ctx a b) (+ a b)) and can
  be called just with the context name (ctx 3 4) => 7. 
  Default functions should only be called rom MAIN, or have already been 
  loaded or their context created before referred to in another context or
  default function.  Not yet 'official' see doc/default_functions.html

  fixed cell leak in 'match' on backtracking

  bug fix in let which did not honor protected symbols

- 8.2.4
  deprecated collect, getenv, putenv and environ completely eliminated from
  newlisp and examples, modules: httpd, cgi.lsp, sqlite.lsp

  '+' new wildcard operator 'match': take one or more

  net-error now returns error number and text separate in a list

  net-connect failure did not set net-error

  'now' has now the daylight-savings-flag 0 or 1 as last parameter

  new 'sys-error' for reporting C-library errno values

  'newlisp -e' without a command string crashed

  'push' now optimized when pushing as last element with -1

  (new ...) now will not overwrite existing symbols, to allow true
  mixins of other contexts. To overwrite symbols as before version
  8.2.4 use the true as a third parameter i.e. (new A 'B true).

- 8.2.5
  'symbol?' can now be used on dymamic context vars, i.e
  (set 'ctx MyCTX) ; MyCTX is existing context
  (symbol? 'ctx:x) ; true if MyCTX:x exists, nil if not  
  This checks the xistence without inadvertantly creating it.
  previously (symbol "x" ctx nil) had to be used.

  'replace' can now take an additional option bit 0x8000 for replacing
   only once in a string: (replace "a" "aaa" "A" 0x8000) => "Aaa"


  'define-new' copies individual funtions from
  other contexts with or without renaming them to a new function:.
  (define-new 'foo:func 'bar:func) copy to different context
  (define-new 'foo:func 'foofa) copy to current and rename

  forward referece to a symbol in symbol did not work in mixin mode
  of 'new'

  the space between optioncharacter (-s,-m,-p,-d,-e) and optionvalue
  can now be omitted, i.e. -s 10000 and -s10000, both work.

  'date' without an argument returns the character string for the current
  local time, this avoids the construct (date (apply date-value (now)))

  'date-value' without and argument returns the time of seconds
  since 1970-1-1 0:00 equivalent to (apply date-value (now))

8.2.6
  'delete' now can delete an entire context without removing conatined 
   symbols first

  serialization of contexts to a file using 'save' now is done correctly 
  when the context context contains overwrites of global symbols.

  a more flexible and faster 'symbol' function, which can take any character
  sequence and numbers, and can be used this way for hash-like associative 
  memory access. New module hash.lsp to show usage.

  'define-new' renamed to 'def-new', for shorter typing and for not 
   associating it to 'define' but rather to 'new' (was introduced in 8.2.5)

  'letn' works similar to 'let' but incrementally uses the local variable 
   bindings like multiple nested let when evaluating the initializer expressionsi
   for locals.

8.2.7
  'address' (previously only documented  in 'hacking_newlisp.html') now also 
  returns addresses to integer and double float data type, useful when passing
  int * or double * to imported functions, now documented in main manual

  'sym' is an abbreviated form of 'symbol', since 'symbol' starting in 8.2.6
  can take any sequence of characters, including strings which are illegal
  symbols in newLISP syntax, and is used for hash/dictionat like lookups, it
  is used more often, therefore this shorter form 'sym' is introduced

  added configuration variable in newlisp-tk.config to specify a newLISP
  application. See newlisp-tk.html "Delievering Applications" for details

  'apply' and 'map' now can be used on macros

  'pack' and 'unpack' have new format specifier 'b' for unsigned 8bit numbers

  'encrypt' crashed on empty strins in key

8.2.8
  'encrypt' crashed on empty key-string, now gives error message

  'int' as shorter writing of 'integer'

  'pack' now converts all types as needed, i.e. (unpack "b" (pack "b" -1.0)) => 255
  from-to integer-floats, did it before only for "f" and "lf"

  'flt' converts a number to a 32bit float repesented by an integer for usage
  in calling imported library routines, which take floats.

  'array' skipped wrong index types instead of giving error message

8.3.0 Released Nov 21st, 2004

8.3.1 Released Nov 23rd, 2004 ============================================
  'nth-set' gave error on protected symbol in index

  'apply' 'map' on macro was returned to 8.2.0 behaviour

8.3.2
   more cleanup in qa file

   cleaned up makefiles -D definitions eliminating redundant -DOPSYS

   eliminated 'break', which did not do anything after introduction
   of 'debug' in version 6.3.07

   overall speedup of about 5% by predefining system symbols
   $0 -> $15, speedup of 80% to 100% in functions using system
   symbols like set-nth, nth-set, find, parse, regex, replace

   new 'do-while' and 'do-until' check condition _after_ evaluating
   the body expressions

   new 'read-key' reads nonblocking keyboard character code
   not working on Mac OSX but all other flavors

   superflous args in user defined function call caused cell leak
   never happened, i.e.: (define (foo x) ..) and (foo a b c)

   'get-url' now handles "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" correctly

   'amb' picks an argument at random and evaluates it

   -x command line switch for server mode with handler function 
   'x-event' i.e: newlisp my-httpd -x 8080 
   my-httpd is a lisp file containing the user defined handler 
   function i.e: (define (x-event request) .....)
   this way servers for different protocols / requests can be simply
   programmed using 'print','read-line', etc., for IO to the specified
   port, the connection stays up until closed by the client.
   See chapter 'Command line options ...' in the manual

   fixed a bug in 'new' and 'def-new' when the source was MAIN 
   this fix was necessary to write a function (def-static ....)
   for writing statically scoped functions (see int the manual
   chapter 'Lexical, static scoping in newLISP', subchapter
   of 'Programming with context objects'.

8.3.3
   'debug' did not handle default functions written without colon

   'save' 'source' did not space symbols under sum circumstances

   'dolist' now double as fast and safe to break out with 'throw'

   'catch' now has an additional syntax with just one argument to write
   easier returns from functions, loops or blocks, ie:
   (catch (dotimes (x 1000) (if (x 500) (throw "fin"))) => "fin"
   returns the result  or throw argument

8.3.4
  'save' 'source' spacing-fix was incomplete

8.3.5
  If the a '!' is entered as the first character on the command line immediately 
  followed y a shell command, that command will be executed, i.e. !lsi in Unix 
  or !dir in Win32 would show a directory listing. There should be no space 
  between '!' and the shell command.

  URL length in get-url and post-url is now unlimited

8.3.6
  manual corrections, additions and new sub-chapter about XML-RPC

  BASE64 encoding and decoding with 'base64-enc' and 'base64-dec'.

  new sign-on message, and different for remote modes

  added 'xmlrpc-server' to examples directory
  added 'xmlrpc-client.lsp' to modules directory

  fix for 'Transfer-encoding: chunked' if 'Content-length:'
  is given too (which should not happen but is found occasionally)

8.4.0 Released 2005-01-18 ============================================
  added xmlrpc.cgi for handling XML-RPC requests as CGI

  fixed a file descriptor leak in -d -x modes

  after the 'debug' fix in 8.3.3 debug did not recurse into funcs

  'args' can take an index argment i.e. (args 0) (args 1) etc.

8.4.1
  fixed signon message missing 'n'ewLISP

  added UTF-8 to signon message

  added f-prob to stat.lsp (probability of F ratio for df1/def2)

  (throw-error expr) throws an error with message printed in expr
  error thrown this way can be handled like any other newLISP error
  using (catch foo 'result) or with (error-event ...)

  changed/added docs for catch, throw, throw-error and chapter:
  Integer abnd Floating point ...

  newlisp-tk.exe now wrapped with freewrap v.6.0 and Tcl/Tk 8.4.8
  suppresses occasional display of tcwish console

  added updated newlisp.jsf syntax file for JOE editor to distribution

8.4.2
  [cmd] tags did not work when compiled with READLINE option

  (args) which previously worked only in macros now too works in
  functions. The behaviour of (args) has changed: only unbound arguments
  for which there is now local variable in the macro (or function) are 
  returned in the list. This makes changes in existing macros necessary, 
  which specify both, local variables and they use args. Most changes
  lead to simpler macros or function, because (args) already contains
  only the unassigned args.

  changed macro definition of 'tk' in newlisp-tk.tcl to function

  changed plot 'macro' in stat.lsp and 'defun' in init.lsp

8.4.3 Release 2005-02-12  =================================================
  cleanup from (args) changes, protect $args from deletion

8.4.4
  misplaced paren in conditional def of defun in init.lsp

  OS number in sys-info was incrementing on every call when DLL or UTF-8

  decimal point setting from locale is now used correctly when parsing source
  i.e. after performing (set-locale "German_Germany.1252") in Germany
  1,23 will be recognized corectly as a decimal number with comma as the 
  decimal separator.

  qa_comma QA test file for German or other locales using ',' comma as
  decimal separator, qa renamed to qa_dot for decimal-dot locales.
  In comma locales both, qa_dot and qa_comma should work, in decimal
  dot countries onlz qa_dot will work.

  daylights savings field in 'now' function now shows a flag 1/0 if time
  zone may have DST at certain time of the year on Linux/UNIX. On Win32
  it shows a 'daylight minutes bias' for timezones which may have DST.
  Note that flag/bias is set through all the year even if DST is not
  in effect at a given moment. May not work on all platforms.
  
  additional format parameter in (date num offset fmt), see GNU gcc
  strftime() function for details

  Win32 installation now to $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp, which is 
  c:\Program Files\newlisp on English Windows. This defines a
  fixed location for $PROGRAMFILES/newlisp/newlisp.dll for applications
  loading newlisp.dll. 'PROGRAMFILES' is an environment variable available
  on all MS Windows installations.

  newLISP is now correctly registered in the
  'control panel/add or remove programs' applet

8.4.5
  newlisp.exe compiled on MinGW or Borland now will look for init.lsp
  in the same directory where newlisp.exe resides

  installer now sets path on Win32, this allows to import the DLL without 
  specifying the full path and allows to start newlisp or newlisp-tk from
  anywhere on Win32

  installer now allows installing without newlisp-tk

  'nth' upgraded to 16 indices (like set-nth and nth-set)

  'sort' now allows any binary operator user defined function as
  compare funtion in third parameter

  'implicit indexing' on lists, arrays and strings i.e.:
  (lst 1 3) equivalent to (nth 1 3 lst)
  (ary 0 -1) equivalent to (nth 0 -1 ary)
  ("newLISP" 3) equivalent to (nth 3 "newLISP")
  unlimited number of indices and faster than explicit form

  'pack' and 'unpack' now allow switching between little and big endian
  byte order using new format characters '<' and '>'


8.4.6
  'new' and 'def-new' did not replicate arrays, could cause crash

8.4.7
  added 'upload.htm', 'uplload.cgi' to examples directory
  minor fix in xmlrpc.cgi xmlrpc-server

  better handling of bad server responses in get/post/put-url avoiding
  an ifinite loop on some types of bad server responses

  fix for endian switch in 'unpack' which changed the original buffer

  re-arranged arrays, hashes and indexing chapters in the manual and
  enhanced hashing chapter, added Win32 trailing slash warning to
  manual entries of 'directory' and 'directory?'

  experimental implicit indexing with nrest: 
  (1 '(a b c)) => (b c)
  (1 "abc") => "bc"

8.4.8
  implicit indexing with slice:
  (3 2 '(a b c d e f g)) => (d e)
  (-4 2 "abcdefg") => "de"

  updated infix.lsp to version 1.4/5 was broken after newLISP 8.2.0
  because of change in 'symbol' functioanality

  possibility to check legality of a string as a newLISP source symbol
  with (symbol? string), i.e: (symbol? "a b") => nil

  illegal symbols are now serialized correctly in 'save' using a
  set expression with (sym str context)

  the Win32 installer now will correctly change settings in
  newlisp-tk.config when chaning the install path during installation
  will only work Windows 2000 and later

8.4.9
  did not evaluate length in implicit slice-length

8.4.10
  separated legal symbol? functionality into 'legal?' function. 'symbol?'
  back to pre 8.4.8 functionality

8.5.0 Released April 8, 2005
  '=' fixed problem when comparing strings and binary buffers

  'args' with negative index did hang

  'main-args' nor can be indexed like args, both accept negative indices

8.5.1
  newlisp-tk tripped over file spec "", changed to "." in lastLoadedFile
  on MacOSX. Changed Demo.lsp to work with TLCKAqua on MacOSX.

  new function 'factor' for factoring numbers up to 15 digits 
  (must give floats for numbers bigger max int)

  in newlisp.so and newlisp.dll main-args was initilized to nil instead of
  the empty list ()

  list in 'dolist' now safe to modify (back to 8.3.2 behaviour), but can
  leave with 'throw' without leaking cells

  signalling SIGUSR1 will perform a 'reset' but not kill newLISP

  'timer' start a one shot timer event and registers a user defined
  event handler, i.e: (define (ticker) (println (date)) (timer 'ticker 1))
  defines a self starting and retriggering ticker.

8.5.2
  added debug option to SIGINT handler, eliminated SIGUSR1 handler, because
  is redundant

8.5.3
  added 'signal' for userdefined signal handlers: (signal sig-no symbol)

  args was not reset to '() when left unused in recursion levels
 
8.5.4
  signal handler can pass the signal number as an argument (see manual)

  new makefiles for OSX/Darwin UTF-8: make 'osx_utf8' and make 'darwin_osx_utf8'
  (Darwin means: OSX + readline support)

  when compiled with readline support newLISP will now exit pressing Ctrl-D
  (Linux/UNIX)

  'net-select' crashed on an empty list

8.5.5
  fixed UTF-8 problems in file names in newlisp-tk.tcl (thanks Norman)

  UTF-8 symbols where not treated as legal symbols in 'save' , 'legal?'
  This prevented UTF-8 symbols to show up in the editor/browser listbox.
  This is now fine on all UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 version.

  UTF-8 now handled correctly in hostnames in net-xxx routines

  UTF-8 now handled correctly in 'float' and 'integer', took some
  UTF-8 characters for numbers.

  'net-connect' and 'net-select' did not accept/convert floats for 
  portnumbers/sockets

  sqlite3.lsp v.1.3 now handles FLOAT and BLOB datatypes and finds the correct
  library/location depending on the OS platform

  newlisp-tk did not save pathnames correctly in newlisp-tk.conf. New

  version newLISP-tk 1.26 now works correctly when installing on MacOSX
  use 'sudo make install' after build with 'make darwin' or 'make osx'
  needs TclTk Aqua installed with darwin port tools

8.5.6
  fixed potential problem in 'net-connect' with multicast option on
  big-endian CPUs (MacOSX)

  added broadcast option to 'net-connect' as udp mode plus broadcast specified
  with "b" or "broadcast" instead od "udp". Broadcast mode was already possible
  in 'net-send-udp'. Now broadcast can be set up in non-blocking mode on the 
  receiver side.


8.5.7
  big speedup of 'replace' with strings on a file of 100k about 30x on
  500k about 500x times speedup.

  added example/tcltk.lsp for showing how to make GUIs without newlisp-tk
  controlled from a newlisp script


8.5.8 
  added true/nil as allowed data in memory shares

  added new make flavor osx_lib for shared library newlisp.so

  MacOSX binary are smaller now because since 10.3 osx-dlfcn.o
  is not required anymore, but extra makefile_osx_10.2 for older
  Mac's

  flushing stdio after output if not in terminal mode lets newLISP
  now serve as a UNIX inetd handler 

8.5.9
  'timer' now can take fractions of a second, i.e. (timer 'alarm 0.1)
  for 100 millisec

  'read-buffer' now can take an optional wait string as 4th parameter
  similar to 'net-receive' with wait string

  added Mac OSX package preperation to Makefile

  dropped cygwin support. MinGW and Borland remain as Win32 options
  #ifdef's for cygwin are still there but have not been tested for
  several versions

8.5.10
  fixed a crash when hitting cursor-up inbetween [cmd]...[/cmd] tags

  'timer' now avalailable on Win32

  fixed a regex error, when expression found is of length 0
  only one replacement was made

  implicit indexing did not accept indices after a var-index, if
  var-index was the first.

8.6.0
 a bug fix for unpack when passing a number as an address on
 OpenBSD where virtual memory pointers may be > 0x7fffffff

 new function crc32, version: http://www.w3.org

 share on Win32 leaked memory

8.6.1
 'sql3:open' now returns nil and sets error the message when trying
 to sql3:open twice.

 'timer' now returns the elapsed time when calling just with the
  event symbol, useful for checking timer progress or programming
  timelines/schedules.

  'source' now works like 'save' and can take multiple symbols;
  context symbols are serialized including all of the contained
  symbols.

  Files are now created without execution permission with rw-rw-rw
  which results in rw-r--r-- on UNIX systems assuming a user mask
  of 0022.

  'peek' similar to 'net-peek' but for any file descriptor, returns
  number of bytes ready to read works also on std I/O 0/1. Only UNIX.

  Added gmp.lsp for GNU Multi Precision library, contains
  integer functions for arithmetik, see header of file gmp.lsp
  for details.

  optional parameter 'true' in 'difference' and 'intersect' puts
  these functions in list-mode (versus normally set-mode).

  new function 'title-case' upper-cases first character and
  optionally lowercases the rest characters

8.6.2
  changed  makefile_darwin_utf8 to work on standard 10.4 installation

  a parameter in utf8 version of upper/lower was evaluated twice 
  caused by new title-case code in 8.6.1

  fixed append mode in file 'open' which created file with ------ 
  permissions when file did not exists
 
  optional 'true' flag in net-lookup to force hostbyname() lookup
  for strings like "216.16.84.66.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org"

  huge speedup for 'difference' and 'intersect'. On a 10000 elment
  list about 100 times speedup, both functions now scale linearly
  with n+m instead of n*m, when n an m are the lenghts of the two
  lists

  speedup of 'count' for big item lists now scales m+n instead m*n
  when m is the list of items to count in list with length n

8.6.3
  'difference' did sometimes not unique, 'nil' treated incorrectly

8.6.4
  fixed problems in  'count' and 'sort' caused by changes in 'sort'
  necessary in new version of 'count', 'difference', 'intersect' and
  'unique'

8.6.5
  'catch' did not respect protection of symbols in the catch symbol
   
   make version with sed finally working on UNIX previously only
   cygwin
 
   new function 'randomize' shuffles the elements of a list

   new function 'net-eval' evaluates a batch of functions remotely
   on newlisp servers, manages Tcp/Ip communications and data collection
   with multiple servers started with: newlisp -c -d <portno>
   timeout and optional callback/idle function

   'array' with 0 length dimension crashed, now ignores 0-length

   -d mode would exit when loss of communication in multiline [cmd] mode
   now just cycles to restart

   'error-event' only worked in programs loaded interactively, now works
    also defined in scripts started on the command line

   -l and -L now usable for logging in normal console mode, -l logs only
   user input -L logs both user input and newLISP output (without prompt)
   new chapter for logging in users manual

   when evaluating multiple expressions on the command line or a batch
   of expressions enclosed in [cmd],[/cmd] tags multiple results are now 
   separated by one space.

8.6.5-7
   'ramdomize' looped on listlen 1

   'load' now throws an eror when the file cannot be found or returns
   the value of the last expression in the file evaluated. Before 'load'
   returned 'nil' when file was not found and else 'true'. Note that this
   required a change in init.lsp to catch error when trying to load
   $HOME/.init.lsp

   eliminated all sprintf() to avoid security warnings on openBSD compiles

   'erf' and 'sgn' new functions

   took out txt2pdf which is broken, will come back when fixed

   fixed leak in evluateStream introduced with 'net-eval'

8.7.0-rc1 released October 10th 2005
   'get-url' now acccepts https:// pages in main url or moved location

   'sgn' extended with optional triconditional functionality

   fixed result stack leak in 'net-eval'

   'get-url', 'post-url' and 'put-url' now can take a timeout parameter

   'read-buffer' with wait string now will put bytes read in buffer
    including when the wait string was not found. When no bytes are
    read buffer is nil.

   'date-value' returned negative numbers on dates earlier 1970, now returns
    0 on dates previous to 1970
 
    'net-eval' would loop on connection errors, more detailed error messages

8.7.0 released October 15th
    'append-file' like 'write-file' but appends

    'select' on lists with an empty selection list now returns the empty list
    previously nil.

8.7.1 RELEASE Nov 7th, 2005
    fixed bug for push -1 optimization and various doc corrections

    replaced 'integer' with 'int', 'get-integer' with 'get-int' and 'symbol'
    with 'sym' in several examples/ and modules/ files

    (nth <list> <list>) now throws error (list index only allowed in
    push/pop and implicit indexing)

8.7.2 development Release November 20th
    new (net-ping host wait-time) returns ip-no or multiple ip-no for multiple
    addresses in batch-mode or broadcast. Must have root privileges to use, or 
    set the newlisp executable set-user-ID with: chmod u+s /usr/bin/newlisp or: 
    chmod 4755 /usr/bin/newlisp; only on UNIX

    'time' now safe for midnight wrap

    'dup' with optional 'true' flag now can force list return  when a string argument
    is given; by default 'dup' concatenates the string

    sys-error now reset after readline(), which caused it set to 22

    'transpose' on empty lists segfaulted when on zero length dimension in the
    first row, now an error message will be issued if the first row is empty

    imnplicit rest failed strings when n was >= length of string

    'count', 'difference' and 'intersect' crashed when handling  identical lists

8.7.3 development release November 27th
   added "list" flag to 'get-url', which permits capturing header and page in a list.

   added custom header option to get-url, post-url and put-url

   string display translation for char > 126 to \nnn format

8.7.4 development release December 5th, 2005
   expanded functionality for 'context': (context 'CTX "symstr" value)
   adds symbol to context CTX, (context 'CTX "symstr") returns value
   this is a short form for: (set (sym "symstr" 'CTX) 123)

   expanded form of 'context?' for checking existence of a symbol

   'time' takes an additional parameter for the number of times the
   expression should be evaluated for timing

   cleanup format, file and directory routines (less code)

   the terminating character from an expression returned in the console has been
   changed from a space to a line feed

8.7.5 Development release December 23rd
   added util/newlisp.plist syntax file for OSX BBEdit or TextWrangler editors

   raw mode in 'net-eval' now documented

   recognize simple path-href in 'location:' header spec in get/post/put -url

   in 'process' on UNIX an optional pipe handle for standard error can be specified
   if not present standard error gets redirected to stdout

   allow default functions to be defined as primitives

   shortened symbol param loop in evaluateLambda and evlaluateMacro

   getContext() now safe for debug mode

   'replace-assoc' gets additional (long overdue) syntax to remove associations 

   help-option in context console menu on newlisp-tk (not working on OS X)

8.7.6 
   Help buttons now work on MacOS X in newlisp-tk

   fixed and issue with 'case' when a 'true' clause was assembled from an
   evaluated 'true

   handle some cases of self reference in set-nth/nth-set, i.e: the replacement sub
   expression itlself changes the place its supposed to be assigned:
   (set-nth i L (set-nth i L 99)) ) 
 
   : (colon) now will be returned as token even if attached to other following chars

   'parse' without regex parameter couild overrun string when it ended in \

8.7.7
   regular expression support in 'directory'

   new 'number?' works like (or (float? x) (integer? x))

   in newlisp-tk help on hightlighted reserved word now works on MacOS X bringing
   up browser with manual on right spot.   (Ctrl-Left-Button for context menu)

   new (bayes-train list-A list-B [list-C ...] context-symbol) lists contain
   string tokens; and  (bayes-query list-query context), not documented yet, 
   still testing and modifying

   memory error fix in 'get-url' for chunked pages

8.7.8 development release January 16th 2006
   'apply' now works on lists with unlimited length, no stack limit

    both Bayesan modes: Chain Bayesian and R.A. Fisher CHi2, are now supported with 
    new 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query', working and tested, see manual for
    details

    moved 'prob-chi2' and 'pob-z' in manual to "Simulation and modelling" group
    together with 'bayes-train' and 'bayes-query'

    ATTENTION:

    calling into a context now changes the current run-time context:

    (context 'FOO)
    (define (foo) (context))
    (context MAIN)

    (FOO:foo) => MAIN ; old behaviour

    (FOO:foo) => FOO  ; new behaviour

    The new behaviour is more intuitive and is what most programmers would expect.
    Only applications using 'eval-string' or 'sym' (w/o specifying a context) are 
    effected. From all apps published by newlisp.org (blog, wiki, ide) only the file
    cgi.lsp packaged with these applications is affected and should be changed to
    the new cgi.lsp v.1.9 packaged with 8.7.8.

    Users should check all applications using 'eval-string' and 'sym' (or the
    deprecated 'symbol'). Pre 8.7.8 'eval-string' and 'sym' work with the runtime-
    context beeing MAIN, the context where the program was started. Now both functions
    work with the context they are part of:
    
    (context 'FOO)
    (set 'x 999)
    (define (foo s) (eval-string s))
    (define (bar s) (eval (sym s)))
    (context MAIN)
    (set 'x 123)

    (FOO:foo "x") => 123    ; old behaviour
    (FOO:bar "x") => 123    ; old behaviour

    (FOO:foo "x") => 999    ; new behaviour
    (FOO:bar "x") => 999    ; new behaviour 

    Changes to old code:

    (1) Replace all cgi.lsp in newlisp-ide, newlisp-blog and newlisp-wiki apps.
    the replacement will also work with newLISP versions previous to 8.7.8.

    (2) Change old apps by preceding the 'eval-string' statement with (context MAIN)
    or other required context change. Most of the time it's MAIN, the context where
    th whole program was started.

    (3) Change old apps adding explicitly the desired context in 'sym' as a
    second parameter, i.e. (sym s 'MAIN) or (sym s ctx) where 'ctx' is a context
    variable.

    The new behaviour is more intuitive and will make OO based programming based
    on contexts easier, it also increases isoloation of contexts because the current
    run-time context is not dependend from where the program was started originally,
    but only on the situation internal to that context.
    
8.7.9
    added a configure script for compatibility with the popular autoconf/configure
    system. An installation of autoconf is not required but the same sequence
    of commands as on autoconf systems will work to make newLISP. newLISP's old
    ways of making newLISP will also still work:

    ./configure will just try to discover the platform and give a message
    make will try to discover the platform and make it

    if make cannot discover the platform it will give a message

    the module/context is now reported in error messages

    'load' will never cause the runtime context changed, but the same run-time
     context that was valid before the call to 'load' will be valid when 'load'
     returns

    'eval-string' now can specify the context under which it's string argument
    should be parsed and evaluated.

    'log' can be specify an additional parameter for a different base than the
    default natural log

    fixed a problem with reading very long UTF-8 source string constants

    big speedup of parse with regular expression, now scaling linear
    this enables tokenizing big documents in one piece

    args in functions should be evaluated in callers context
    (for: sym, context, eval-string)

8.7.10
    raw string ouput (upper ascii in \nnn codes) in the newLISP commandline shell
    return value only when locale is the default "C" locale.

    'trim' was changing the original string in UTF-8 mode

    'find', 'replace' and 'search' now do binary in both regex and non-regex modes
     searched buffer, key/patterns string and replacement string can all contain 
     binary 0s

8.7.11
    'string' now optimized double fast on string arguments

    getCreateContext() checking symbol protection

     'load' switches to context MAIN when loading file except if different
     context is specified in file, on return 'load' switches back to callers
     context (8.7.9)

     'reset' adds an additional parameter for restarting newLISP with same
     command line parameters with fresh memory in a new process space.

     many security improvements for OpenBSD compiles

     'reset' with optional 'true' (or non 'nil') parameter will restart
     newLISP with the same commandline parameters, reloading files etc.
     Not available on Win32 (execv() leave the system unstable when compiling
     with MinGW.

8.8.0-p1 pre-release 1
     'reset' was always exiting on UNIX after the change in 8.7.11

     text buffers returned in 'net-eval' > 2048 characters and containing zero
     characters where throwing  a 'string too long error' 

8.8.0-p2 pre-rlease 2
     Many doc corrections

         system symbols in set-nth was broken in 8.7.6

     self refs in set-nth now safe

     added  and changed some cases to qa_dot and qa_comma, now safe again
         for memory leak tests.

8.8.0 released February 20th, 2006
     large file system support for files > 2 GB can now be turned on in newlisp.h 
     specifying #define LFS. File positions > 2^31 must then be specified as
     floats up to 999999999999999.0 for 999 terabyte (TB). 'seek' will always 
     return a float, file positions should be handled as floats using
     add, sub, mul, div instead +,-,*,/

         Documentation corrections (thanks Ryon, Nigel et al.)

     moved sql.c and types.c into the util directory

     updated newlisp.vim (v1.27) and newlisp.jsf (v.1.9)

     bug fix in cgi.lsp for '=' in key value strings

8.8.1
     realloc compiler warning fix in nl-filesys.c/readBuffer()

     error-event, net-eval (edited 4/13/20060), signal and timer can now take 
     a function or lambda expression, previously only  a symbol holding a lambda: 
     (signal 2 exit) 
     (timer (fn () (println "hello")) 5)
         The old syntax still works too.

     Could not compile to a library (also fixed in re-release of 8.8.0)

     code cleanup for allocMemory() + memset() => callocMemory()

         now memory cleanup after exception in functor passed by:
     'filter', 'index', 'net-eval' and 'replace'. 

     implicit n-rest and slice on default lists and strings:
     (set 'foo:foo '(a s d f g h j))
     (2 foo) => (d f g h j)
     (-3 2 foo) => (g h)

     'save' and 'source' will always serialize from context MAIN perspective 
     (like 'load') (source reverted back in 8.8.2)

         fixed odd/even problem for 'rand' on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD

8.8.2
     'source' reverted back to 8.8.0 behaviour: serialize to current context

8.8.3
     'signal' fixed format of internal symbol when passing functions

     suppress saving/sourcing system symbols starting with '$' unless specified
     specifically

     new built-in function 'real-path' translates a relative path into an
     absolute path. (read-path) same as (real-path ".") returns the current
     working directory

8.8.4
    'real-path' now also in Win32

    handle self reference of result of while expression in condition

    allow (sys-info 3) or (sys-info -1) as with 'args' and 'main-args'

    'dup' will assume 0 for negative values

    when entering multiline expressions/definitions bracketed by [cmd] ... [/cmd]
    tags (each on a separate line] and hitting <enter><up-arrow> after the closing 
    [/cmd], newLISP compiled with lib readline support segfaulted, this long standing
    bug as finallly been fixed

    in 'xml-parse' when a closing CDATA tag was preceded by a forward slash, then
    an extra text element containing part of the closing tag was emmitted, 
    this is fixed

    support for MySQL v. 5.0 was added with mysql5.lsp

8.8.5
    'read-key' now also works on MacOS X

    a bug in the second syntax of 'context' has been fixed now can do:
    (push i (context 'CTX "foo")) which now works if CTX:foo is a list

    'load' now can take http:// (and file://) URL prefixes in filnames to retrieve/load 
    files via HTTP from remote servers

    'xml-parse' now can take a context to place symbols/tags from SXML conversion

    zlib.lsp: new module for in memory and .gz compatible file compression 

    'net-eval' idle loop did not pass parameter (broken in 8.8.1)

    fixed a cell leak caused by 'while' self ref handling in 8.8.4

8.8.6
 
    fix for error reporting of strings, which are too long

    an optional break condition in all looping constructs allows early return:
        (for (i from to step condition) ...)
        (dotimes (i N condition) ...)
        (dolist (i lst conditon) ...)
    When condition returns non-nil the loop returns with the value of the condition.
    When loop comes to end end the result of the last body expression gets returned.

    describing the effects of non-rectangular matrices in the "Data types" chapter
    and for the functions 'multiply', 'invert' and 'transpose'.

    sqlite.lsp vor SQLite v.2.x has been discontinued, use sqlite3.lsp and SQLite3

    error message was printed for each catch level where error was not caught,
    should only be printed on top level if uncatched

    new 'letex': let expression with expansion of let vars into body expressions
    before evaluation

    file open for append now atomic

8.8.7
    new 'clean':
    (clean predicate? aList) works like:
    (filter (fn (x) (not (predicate? x))) aList)

    "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" did not trigger chunked decoding
    when more than one space after the ':' before 'chunked'

    $0 counter did not count first element when in remove mode of 
    'replace'

    'unify' does Prolog like unification with occur-check
    (unify '(f (g A) A) '(f B xyz)) => ((B (g xyz)) (A xyz))

    'unify' can take additional assoc params list:
        (unify '(A (B) X) '(A (A) Z) '((A 1) (Z 4)))
    => ((A 1) (Z 4) (B 1) (X 4))
        this is useful when chanining/nesting 'unify' to pass on
    a newly bound environment

    new mode in 'expand' with parameter assoc list:
    (expand '(a (B (c) (d a B))) '((a 1) (B 2) (c 3) (d 4))) =>
        (1 (2 (3) (4 1 2))) 
    
    new mode in 'expand' without symbol or assoc list:
        (set 'X 2)
        (expand '(a ((X)) b)) => (a ((2)) b))
        expands only uppercase variables for use with the new Prolog like
    'unify' function

    added file syntax.cgi for syntax highlighting in HTML of newLISP source
    to examples directory

8.8.8
        eliminates several cell leaks in unify

        'pop' can be used on strings (pop str [pos] [len]) pos can be negative
    'push' can be used on strings (push str [pos]) pos can be negative
    'push' now will only do list mode when lst is list  or nil:
    (push new lst) lst has to be list  or nil, previous to string mode of push
    any existing datatype non-list was initializeed to () now only nil is allowed

    system var $idx contains the offset in dolist:
                 (dolist (e '(a b c d e)) (println $idx "->" e))
        0->a
        1->b etc.

    indexing mode of 'args' now works with multiple indices, i.e (args 3 -1)
    and is much faster

        implicit indexing syntax now allowed in 'nth-set' and 'set-nth':
        (set 'd '(a b c d e f g))
    (nth-set (d 3) 99) => d
    d => (a b c 99 e f g)
    or with default functor:
    (set 'db:db '(a b c d e f g))
    (nth-set (db -1) 99) => g
    db:db => (a b c d e f 99)
    This also works for strings and arrays
    
    many fixes/changes/additions in the manual and reference

8.8.9
    'net-ping' didn't work on localhost

    'nth-set/nth-set' bugfix for new feature breaking old

     complete manual pass of the first 3 chapters by Michael - thanks

8.8.10
    rotate works also on strings

    (cons item lst -1) for consing at the end of the list (undocumented)

    allow 0 length in chunked pages happening on put-url

    give error message for unterminated [text] in interactive console

8.9.0 Release June 25th
    complete pass through Users Manual by Michael Michaels

    example programs in Appendix are now syntax highlighted

    dolist $idx safe for nested loops

    member works for strings

    (starts-with s k true) should behave like the default (starts-with s k)
    same with ends-with. This bug never surfaced because nobody specified
    anything for the default of case sensitivity

8.9.1
    (rand x n) returned n+1 after fix in 8.9.0, also looped on n=-1

    new 'zero?' was broken for floats with fractional parts

    newlisp -c -d <portno> and newlisp -c controlled by inetd now understand 
    simple HTTP GET requests. This feature is mainly intended for use with
    (get-url "http://...) and (load "http://...) for retrieving or loading
    files from remote newlisp/inetd worker nodes in a distributed computing
    environment. 

    manual reviewed/edited up to and including the letter C

8.9.2

    new (find-all pattern string [func [options]]) finds all regex-patterns in a 
    string and returns a list of matching strings:
    (find-all {\d+} "asdf2kjh44hgfhgf890") 
    => ("2" "44" "890")
    (find-all {(new)(lisp)} "newLISPisNEWLISP" (append $2 $1) 1) 
    => ("LISPnew" "LISPNEW")

    the parameters in 'format' after the format string can now also be
    given in a list: (format "%d %s" '(123 "hello"))

    'read-key' did not work on SUSE Linux

8.9.3
     default values in function and macro parameters: (define (foo (a 1) (b 2)) (list a b))
    (foo) => (1 2)
    (foo 3) => (3 2)
    (foo 3 4) => (3 4)
    no performance loss for normal syntax without defaults

    format partly rewritten for better portability, 
    no tru64.c or ffi required after removing TRU64 for p_format in nl-string.c

8.9.4
    removed tru64.c and changed makefile_true64

    starts-with and ends-with can do reguluar expressions and take a regex option number, 
    the old nil-option for case insensitivity still works and is translated to regex 
    option = 1, but is deprecated and will be eliminated in the future

    member for strings can take regular expressions, the old case insensitivity option
    will not work (member for strings was introduced only recently

    'symbol' the old writing for 'sym' has been eliminated

    fixed create context bug in newlisp-tk.tcl

    (<< num) works like (<< num 1), (>> num) like (>> num 1), (div num) like (div 1.0 num)

    function 'uuid' for creating Universal Unique IDs type 1 and 4 (RFC 4122)

    -C command option for Emacs forces prompt even if in pipe mode

    manual edits up to letter J, thanks Michael

8.9.5
    type 4 UUID now closer to RFC 4122 specification

    trying to use set-nth or nth-set on an empty list corrupted the list

8.9.6
    UUID type 1 got timestamp wrong, UUID 4 always started the same sequence


-------------------------- 64 Bit Integers  ------------------------------------


8.9.7
    all integer arithmetik 64 bit

    'factor' now takes integers with  max 64 bits and is 4x faster than previously

    'import', 'pack', still take ints as 32bit, taking the least significant 32 bits
        to pack 64bits do: (pack "ldld" int64 (>> int64 32)) for little endian
        for big endian do: (pack "ldls" (>> int64 32) int64)
    
    'format' has new 64 bit formats "%lld", "%llu" "%llx" for 64bit decimals and
    hex numbers on UNIX on Win32 use "%I64d", "%I64u", "%I64x"

    'format' now also recognises 'e' and 'E' scientific folating point formatting

    32 bit format strings "%d" "%u" "%x" will truncate on int64 numbers

    in float->int conversions floats out of range are converted to min/max 64 bit int
    -9223372036854775808, 9223372036854775807 and 18446744073709551615 for unsigned

        if an int32/uint32 is required by a function int64 values overflow to 
    min/max 32 bit int -2147483648/2147483647 and 4294967295 for unsignde int

    LFS (large file support) in file operations for files opened with 'open'
    now full 64 Bits (before 40 Bits)

    (for (i from to step)...) has float in i, only when optional step value is specified 
    (sequence from to step) produces float only when optional step value is specified 
    (dotimes (i N)...) always has integer in i
    this is consistend with 'inc' and 'dec'

    net-select now can go to 68 :) years waiting time specifying 64bit  higher timeout
    values and a timeout of -1 waits forever

        'net-close' with optional parameter: (net-close sock true) will suppress shutdown()
    before closing the socket. In this case net-close will wait for undergoing traffic
    to finish

    new function (gcd x y ...) for greatest common deviser of n arguments

    (pow x) defaults to (pow x 2)

    wrong format could segfault (this bug was introduced in 8.9.3)

    when replacing the first element in an association list with 'replace-assoc' and 
    an error occured when evaluating the replacement expression a segfault occured
    (thanks to Ingo for catching this)

    Note that bits shifts <<,>> now work on 64-bit integers too (added 2006-09-12)

8.9.8
    'net-eval' now evaluates node parameters, before constants where required
    (set 'host "localhost" 'port 4711 'cmd "(+ 3 4)")
    (net-eval '((host port cmd)) 1000) = (7)

    'net-eval' if no timeout specified waits forever

    'net-eval' short form for one node: (net-eval host port cmd [timeout idle-loop])
    timeout an idle loop are optional: (net-eval host port cmd)

    Similar as for (load "http:// ...) and (get-url "http//..) in 8.9.1;
    server mode: newlisp -c with -p or -d, now understands HTTP PUT requests
    for saving/writing text files to a newLISP server node on UNIX using:
    (save "http://..." ...) and (put-url "http://...") ...)
    The server mode together with the beefed up 'net-eval', 'load', 'save'
    'get-url' and 'put-url' assemble a nice toolset for distributed applications
    with newLISP. The server node can also be started by inetd or xinetd. 
    (See manual). Must give full path-file-name in URLs i.e:
    (put-url "http://localhost:50001//Myfiles/afile.txt" (read-file "somefile"))

    newLISP server mode with HTTP capabilities in not yet available on Win32.

    target context MAIN is now disabled in 'def-new' and 'new' because it would
    cause ambigous situations when copying context vars after fixing a related
    bug: def-new and new on context-vars

    on UNIX a shared memory address obtained with 'share' can be unmapped using
    (share nil <address>)

        'put-url' with "Pragma: append\r\n" in header option appends when talking
    to newLISP server

    'read-file', 'write-file' and 'append-file' accept "http:// ..." and
    for HTTP mode and "file://..." for normal file mode.
    in HTTP mode they work exactly like 'get-url', 'put-url' and 'put-url'
    with "Pragma: append" in the header option.
 
    new QA file qa-net for testing newLISP server modes with:
    net-eval, load, save, read-file, write-file, append-file

    new QA file qa-utf8 to display UTF8 characters, this is not a test for 
    newLISP but rather the UTF8 display capabilities of the platform running on 

8.9.9
    matrix operations now can be performed on arrays (previously only lists)
    matrix operations will return the type (list or arrray) which was given
    as input. In case of mixed input (i.e. in multiply), array type is
    returned.

    new function 'det' returns the determinant of a square matrix expressed
    as a list or array.

    fixed cell leak in define-macro when exercising default values

    64-bit integers where not displayed correctly in Win32 MinGW

8.9.10
    'append', 'first', 'last', 'rest', 'slice' (and implicit slicing) now also
     available for arrays 

    (timer 'event 0) did not stop on Win32

    a fix in Curl_base64_decode() for bad base64 strings

    20% speed up for append on strings and join

8.9.11
    'append' did not append correctly to lambda lists, which lost lambda attribute

    'qa-net' fixed (this file only tests on UNIX)

8.9.12
    'int' did a signed instead of unsigned conversion

     'save' did not save global protected symbols in a way they
     could be reloaded

8.9.13
     'local' like 'let' but no initialization of locals (all nil): 
     (local (x b x) body)

     'swap' has a third syntax pattern to swap the contents of symbols: (swap x y)

8.9.14
     speedup and memory savings on 'apply'

     fixed INT64->string conversion in sym for True64/WINCC
 
     error checking on all reallocs()

     changed to realloc() in writeStream() routines

8.9.15
        (join '(1 2 3)) was hanging, instead of wrong datatype error message
        
        support "\x41\x42\xff" in string hex format equivalent to "\065\066\255"

        new 'ref-all' returns a list of index vectors for all ref's of an expression
        (ref-all 'a '(a b c (d a f (a h a)) (k a (m n a) (x))))
        => ((0) (3 1) (3 3 0) (3 3 2) (4 1) (4 2 2))

9.0.0 Release October 15th, 2006

9.0.1
    'read-file' did not read extended http:// mode parameters correctly

    new 'doargs' works like 'dolist' iterates through (args)
        (define (foo) (doargs (i) (println i)))
    (foo 1 2 3) => prints 1 2 3
    implemented on top of 'dolist' also does $idx and break-expressions 

    'explode' takes extra parameter for # of characters (works on UTF-8 too):
    (explode "newlisp" 2) => ("ne" "wl" "is" "p")

    new 'utf8len' length of a string in UTF-8 characters

    new scalar matrix operations (matrix is a 2 dimensional list or array): 
    (set 'A '((1 2 3) (4 5 6))
    (set 'B A)
    (mat + A B) => ((2 4 6) (8 10 12))
    (mat - A B) => ((0 0 0) (0 0 0))
    (mat * A B) => ((1 4 9) (16 25 36))
    (mat / A B) => ((1 1 1) (1 1 1))
    Note that all matrix operations are in floating point

9.0.2
    explode works on lists: 
    (explode '(a b c d e)) => '((a) (b) (c) (d) (e))
    (explode '(a b c d e) 2) => '((a b) (c d) (e))
    many structural transformations can be done combining 'explode' and 'transpose'

    fixed cell-leak in 'ref-all'

    in (mat <op> A B) B can be a single number: 
    (mat + '((1 2 3) (4 5 6)) 2) => ((3 4 5) (6 7 8))

    some fixes for HTTP mode on UNIX

    HTTP mode now working on Win32 but with some timing issues,
    see header of file qa-net for details

9.0.3
    $idx was broken after 9.0 starting with 1 instead of 0

9.0.4
    fixed midnight rollover in 'timer' on Win32

    new (round <number> <precision>) rounds a number to precision digits
    left (positive) or rigt (negative) of the decimal point

    new hyperbolic functions sinh cosh tanh

    fixed push -1 optimization when popping only remaining element in list

    new 'ostype' symbol holds os type string

    new 'delete-url', needs to be enabled on target www server (most aren't)
    else => "ERR: server code 405: HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed\r\n"
    and must have file permissions set accordingly on target file;
    additional parameters like timeout and custom headers are available
    exactly as in 'get-url', the feature is also available in:
    (delete-file "http://......"), similar to HTTP mode in 'read-file', 
    'write-file' and 'append-file' and is also implemented in newlisp
    server mode (not working on Win32 newlisp server mode)

    GET queries are now supported in newlisp server mode (not yet Win32)

9.0.5
    'and' and 'or' now () when failing and last evaluation was ()

     GET and POST cgi now working on UNIX and Win32 (9.0.6)

     new -w <working-directory> commandline switch 
     useful for changing working directory after newlisp startup:
         newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /Users/lutz/ide
     this is the same as going into the directory and starting newlisp
         newlisp -c -d 8080

     newlisp can now run as a webserver doing newlisp based CGI. It runs both
     newlisp-ide-x.x.tgz and newlisp-wiki-x.x.tgz, to run the ide on the local
     machine:
         newlisp -c -d 8080 -w /usr/home/www/ide
     then in a webbrowser enter the URL http://localhost:8080/
     index.cgi and index.html are looked for by default if no filename is
     specified in URL

     httpd example programm has been eliminated, because httpd mode now built-in
     into newLISP

     'file-info' now correctly reports filesizes > 2G (2147483647) bytes
     now also can index: (file-info <path-name> 0) => filesize

     the -x commandlne switch has been disabled, use newlisp server modes instead

     fixed problems with break-condition in dolist/doargs introduced in 9.0.1
     fixed problem when break-condition is the loop symbol itself 

9.0.6
     'nth' now with similar syntax options as 'net-set/set-nth'
     new in 'nth':
        (nth (L <idx1> <idx2> ...))
        (nth (L <aref>)) ; where <aref> is a list of indices
     new in 'set=nth', 'nth-set'
        (set-nth (L <aref>) <newval>)
        (nth-set (L <aref>) <newval>)

     'file-info' now distinguishes in the mode field (12th bit) between links 
     and normal files: 
        (define (link? fname) (= 0x2000 (& (file-info fname 1) 0x2000)))
     not on Win32, who knows the correct Win32 function for lstat() on MinGW gcc?A

9.0.7
     HTTP server mode looks for procedure httpd-conf for processing/transforming
     the path-file-name of the request. This way security checks, remappings etc
     can be performed. In this case a file httpd.conf containing the definition
     of httpd-conf can be loaded when starting the server:
        newlisp httpd.conf -c -d 8080 -w www/httpddocs
     if the file httpd.conf contains:
        (define (httpd-conf request) 
            (if (ends-with request ".exe") "errorpage.html" request))
     now any request for a file which finishes in .exe will be transformed into a
     request for errorpage.html containing an error message for the client.

     fixed HTTP server mode crash on LINUX

     fixed 'nth' which failed on old mode when indices where expressions

9.0.8
    new syntax of 'nth' should work on protected symbols

    new syntax of 'set-nth/nth-set' did not check for index maximum of 16

    make httpd-conf safe for non-string returns

    server mode now correctly remaps directory paths when performing CGI
    in directories not web root, i.e. http://ahost.com:/ide/ will work with CGI,
    note that directories need to end with "/" to make the resolve to index.html
    or iondex.cgi work correctly
    
    new -http flag like -c (suppressing prompts) but only allow HTTP commands
    no newLISP statements (-c allows both), this is a 'safe' HTTP mode not
    allowing 'net-eva' or other commandline protocols.
    The following configurations can be used:
        
    (1) serve HTTP requests only
        newlisp -http -d <portno> -w <www-root>
        newlisp -http -w <www-root> # started vi INIX inetd or xinetd

    (2) serve 'net-eval', HTTP and command line without prompt
        newlisp -c -d <portno> -w <www-root>
        newlisp -c -w <www-root> # started via UNIX inetd or xinetd
    this mode is useful when running newLISP server in a controlled environment
    behind a secured firewall in a distributed computing environment where 
    newLISP server must answer to both: net-eval and HTTP requests.

    Note that on Win32 a \tmp directory must be created on the same drive
    which is current for CGI processes for newLISP HTTP mode to work correctly
    for CGI processing. On UNIX /tmp is standard.

    fixed 'invert' crash (since v.9.0.2) on not-invertible matrices

    upgraded to better random number generation in 'rand' and 'random'
        (not available on Win32)

    fixed (rotate '(1) -1)

9.0.9
    another fix for 'nth' and protected symbols
        
    if 'httpd-conf' returns 'nil' nothing will be processed, this can be
    used to completely hand off CGI request processing to httpd-conf

9.0.10
    moved env variable creation of DOCOUMENT_ROOT earlier, so it is available
    in httpd-conf.lsp

    added httpd-conf.lspi to the examples directory in the source distribution,
    now filters csertain file extensions and does not allow access to files 
    outside the web directory tree specified with the -w option:
        newlisp httpd-conf.lsp -http -d 8080 -w /wwwdocs
    or outside the startup directory if no -w is given, also takes care
    of request for directories when no trailing '/' is present

    cleaned up nthArray  and implicitIndexList/array code

    trying to 'set-nth' and empty list should return the empty list not nil

    more tests in qa-dot and qa-comma for symbol protection and 'nth'

9.0.11
    rework of whole indexing area, now correctly honors symbol protection in
    all modes if symbol is nested inside an expression. The old flat mode: 
      (nth i j alist)
    is much slower, instead use one of the following modes:
      (nth (alist i j)) or (alist i j) or (nth (alist aref)) or (alist aref)
        ehere aref is a list of nymbers, i.e.: (1 2), same modes in set-nth,nth-set

    reworked nil and empty list detection throughout all files. 'nil' and the
    empty list '() are logic false, things work like this:
        (map true? '(nil () 0 "")) => (nil nil true true)
        (map nil? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true nil nil nil)
        (map not '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true nil nil)
        (map null? '(nil () 0 "")) => (true true true true)
    in v9.0.0:
        (true? '()) => true, which was wrong because also 
        (true? (not '()) => true, which is correct
    this affects filter and index usage with true? as predicate, but does not
    affect: if, unless, while, until, do-while, do-until, which always worked
    correctly assuming '() as logical false

    'name' also can take contexts i.e.: 
        (set 'L:L '(a b cd)) (set 'x L) (name x) => "L"

    now when evaluating a context by itself it returns the default symbol
    if the default symbol does not exists it gets created:
          (set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g))
          (foo) => foo:foo
          (eval (foo)) => '(a b c d e f g)
    this can be used for reference passing:
          (define (mysort ctx func) 
              (sort (eval (ctx)) func))
          (mysort foo >) => (g f e d c b a)
          foo:foo => (g f e d c b a)
    previously a passed context could only be used for functions using
    index lists and implicit indexing as in (nth-set (ctx idx) value) etc.
    now functions working on the entire list can be used with reference passed
    data. THIS FUNCTIONALITY HAS BEEN DISABLED IN 9.0.14, as a workaround
    use (sym (name ctx) ctx) to retrieve the functor

9.0.12
    the newLISP-tk installer now contains a file md5-checksums.txt with
    checksums for newlisp-tk.exe, newlisp.exe and newlisp.dll
    
    bit not ~ was still on 32 bits now 64 like all integer arithmetik since 9.0
    
    all buffer variables moved to size_t and ssize_t type in preparation for
    64-bit model LP64 compile for 64-bit memory addressing.
    
    get-char, get-int, get-float and get-string failed when using on 64-bit
    addresses, which where not truncated correctly on little-endian CPUs.
    This affected the mysql.lsp and mysql5.lsp modules when using with newLISP
    versions 8.9.7 and later and on Intel CPUs. On Mac PPC and other big-endian
    architectures this problem did not occur. All other modules where not affected
    on any architecture.
    
    <,>,<=,>=,= when given only one argument compare agains 0, "" or (),
    all other data types return true as before
       (< 1) =>nil, (= 0) =>true, (> "abc") => true, (= "") =>true etc.

    64-bit file poisitioning fixed under Win32 (now runs qa-lfs)

9.0.13
    fixed problems in the new <,>,<=,>=,= single argument feature
 
9.0.14
    further fix in 64-bit ~ function

    a context feature intoduced in 9.0.11 to extract the default functor from an 
    unknown context has been disabled, instead use the workaround:
        (set 'foo:foo '(a b c d e f g))
        (set 'ctx foo)
        (sym (name ctx) ctx) => foo:foo
        (sort (eval (sym (name ctx) ctx)) >) => (g f e d c b a)
        foo:foo => (g f e d c b a)
    a more elegant way will be supplied in the future

    both string and list versions of 'explode' now return an empty list if optional
    length <= 0

    'nt-set/set-nth' did not honor constant protection of default functors

        now compiles for LP64 64-bit memory model on 64-bit LINUX using the makefile:
       make -f makefile_linux64LP64
    or simply:
       make linux64LP64

    the old makefile for making a ILP32 32-bit newlisp on 64-bit LINUX has been
    renamed:
       make -f makefile_linux64ILP32
    or simply:
       make linux64ILP32

    tested on a AMD64 CPU with LINUX 2.6 64-bit Fedora 3

    enjoy up to 17,179,869,184 gigabytes or 16 exabytes of RAM, on AMD64
    the LP64 compiled version is 12 to 25% faster than the ILP32 version

    avoid sign extension when unpacking signed 32bit into unsigned 32bit displayed
    in 64-bit: (unpack "lu" (pack "ld" -1)) => (4294967295) ; not (-1)

    added 'get-long' and "Ld", "Lu" 64-bit packing formats 

    new 'parse-date' for parsing date strings (not yet working for Win32)

9.0.15
    more manual additions and changes, moved all predicates into own group

    fixed dynamic symbols compare

    fixed warnings fo missing -Wno-strict-alasing GCC message on older Solaris
    and BSD GCC versions

    fixed parsing of [text] tag on 64-bit compiles

    fixed 'flt' for TRU64 compile

    tried Linux debian package, Ok on Ubuntu, will be included from now on
    in newlisp.org releases, but appreciate help in getting it into Ubunto
    and Debian for inclusion into their lists

    The Tru64UNIX compile using makefile_tru64 is now a large pointer model LP64
    compile, thanks to Peter for porting and testing on an Alpha CPU

    added makefile_darwin_LP64 for 64-bit compile/link, but cannot test it
    on my  PPC-G4 (I believe I need a G5 for this)

    fixed 'char' on UTF-8, bug due to 64-bit changes

    LP64 mode for Solaris workng, use makefile_solarisLP64

    new 'make test' to run qa-dot, qa-net, qa-xml

9.0.16
    OS/2 compile flavor now part of distribution

    fix for Solaris in some networking routines broken in 9.0.2 !

    fixed: (dup x -1), which was broken since 9.0.14

    'make test' now does qa-dot, qa-xml, qa-setsig, qa-net all one after
     another. The qa-setsig script will drop out on Win32 with a message.

     A small change in the 'test-process' routine in the qa-dot script will 
     cause less failure message for 'process' on slow computers.

     qa-dot now will set to locale "en_US' when testing an UTF-8 version,
     this has been done to suppress failure messages for UTF-8 'upper-case'
     and 'lower-case' which do not work in the default 'C' locale in
     UTF-8 mode on some platforms.
     qa-comma always sets to "de_DE"

     'asinh', 'acosh', 'atanh' complete the triginometric functions

     up to 8 'callback' routines cain be defined to be called by an imported
     library, example for Glut lib:
        (glutDisplayFunc (callback 0 'draw))
        (glutKeyboardFunc (callback 1 'keyboard))
        (glutMouseFunc (callback 2 'mouse))
     up to four parameters (32-bit ints) are received by the user-defined
     callback handlers. See the file newlisp-9.0.16/examples/opengl-demo.lsp
     for details. Note that OpenGL passes floating point data, which are only
     handled correctly on x86 based platforms. On the Mac PPC this file will
     not work (although the callback interface itself does work, but no
     drawing will be visible).

9.0.17
     fixed 'non-blocking' bug for write on Linux, thanks Peter!

     number of maximum cells was not reported correctly in 64-bit newLISP

     'ref' and 'ref-all' now can take a comparison functor (like 'sort') for
     comparison: (ref-all key List func), if no func is specified
     assumes = (equal), ref-all now much faster on big lists with  many finds.

     'find' and 'replace' (both in their list forms) can take a comparison
     functor like 'sort', 'ref', 'ref-all'.
     'replace' for lists now also processes $0 (old entry) in replacement 
     expression. 

     using replace for lists with 'match' or 'unify' as comparison functor 
     makes 'replace' as powerful as 'replace for strings with regular expressions.
     This is an important new feature with many applications.  It also gives
     the much overlooked 'match' and 'unify' the more frequent usage they deserve.

     new logic functions 'exists' and 'for-all' apply a condition to each
     element in a list and return the result.

     match now will accept atoms in the entry expressions to make it usable 
     for 'ref' and 'ref-all'

9.0.18
     fixed a bug in (pop <string> <idx>)

9.0.19
     (find <str> <str> [<option>]) will do both: regex if option is a number
     (as before) and function comparison if option is a funtor or user-defined
     function.

     fixed 'pop' on an empty string

     fixed newlisp -h where new options didm't show

     'file-info' was hanging on name pipes now shows 0 for file size

     trying to start server mode with no or zero port will fail

     'array' will give error message on negative parameters, before
     they where simply skippped

     Ctrl-C signal handler crashed on Linux when in -d mode

     'explode' will take optionl 'true' to omit chunksize too short when
      chunk size is given (strings and lists)
      (explode "newlisp" 3) => ("new" "lis" "p")
      (explode "newlisp" 3 true) => ("new" "lis")

9.0.20
     -l and -L mode now always must specify a path-name for the
     log file (either attached or detached):
         newlisp -l /usr/home/www/logfile.txt
     logging is allowed in all modes. -l will only log network connections
     or commandline or net-eval requests input. -L will log also HTTP requests 
     and newLISP output from commandline and net-eval

     doc installation directory changes from /usr/share/newlisp/doc to
     /usr/share/doc/newlisp

     CodePatterns.html ammended with chapter for HTTP only server mode
     MemoryManagement.html ammended with implementation chapter

     newLISPdoc.html and inewLISP-X.x-Release.html added to install 
     in /usr/share/doc/newlisp, this file will only change on mayor
     releases

    
9.0.21
     a crash bug in 'match' introduced in 9.0.17 was fixed

     new 'curry' (curry f x) => (lambda (y) (f x y)), makes a unary opearator
     out of a binary operator, useful when using 'match' 'unify' and other 
     binary ops in: 'filter', 'clean', 'index' etc., i.e:
     (filter (curry match '(a *)) '((a 10) (b 5) (a 3) (c 8) (a 9)))
     => ((a 10) (a 3) (a 9))

9.0.22
     integrated syntax highlighting into newlispdoc, which now is part of
     installation in /usr/bin/ and with man page in /usr/share/man/man1 

     added media types for .pdf .mov. .mpg  and .mp3 in HTTP request handling
     additionally to .jpg .png .gif

     protect stack from overflow when loading huge contexts in sysEvalString()


9.1.0 Release February 15th

9.1.1 Release March 15t
     safer memory allocation for net-ping when using wildcard *

     new module crypto.lsp with md5 and sha1 hash functions

     fixed bug in Win32 version when stdout of more than 2048 chars
     in shell window

9.1.2
    net-peer, net-local and net-receive-from where dropping the third digit of the
    least siginificant IP group in the IP-string return value on 12 digit IP numbers

9.1.3
    makefile_osxLP64 produces a 64-Bit version on intel core 2 duo which passes
    'make test'. Use: make osxLP64 or: make -f makefile_osxLP64

    some cleanup in nl-sock.c

    newlisp-tk.tcl now detects default browser in Debian LINUX

9.1.4
    passed all rand() to newer, better random() in nl-math.c

    local domain UNIX sockets using: (NOTE THAT SYNTAX CHANGES IN 9.1.5)
                 (net-listen <str-path> "local") and (net-connect <str-path> "local")
    then use 'net-accept', 'net-select, 'net-send' and 'net-receive' as usual
    see also file qa-local-domain

    fixed many problems with 'net-ping' which did not work correctly on
    machines rejecting out of sequence errors in ICMP packets. Now will handle
    EHOSTDOWN and EHOSTUNREACH errors correctly

    'net-ping' now also can accept ranges, e.g: (net-ping 192.168.1.120-150) 
    additionally to the '*' star, i.e: (net-ping 102.168.1.*)
    superuser permission are required for net-ping

    added MySQL:escape to mysql.lsp (v.4) and mysql5.lsp, thanks to Jeff
    for submitting this addition

    added HTTP_COOKIE to environemnt variables set by newLISP HTTP server
    mode

    leading and trailing white space now gets removed from environment variables
    set by newLISP server mode, specifically in HTTP_HOST, HTTP_USER_AGENT and 
    HTTP_COOKIE

9.1.5
        changed the way of specifying local-domain UNIX sockets in net-connect and net-listen:
    (net-connect <local-socket-path>) ; don't specify a port
    (net-listen <local-socket-path>) ; specify socket-name instead of port)

        local domain UNIX socket support in newlisp -d server mode and net-eval:
    server mode: newlisp -d /tmp/mysocket
        client: (net-eval "/tmp/mysocket"  0 "(+ 3 4)") => 7

    speedup utf8_wlen()

    load and save do not use lisp source anymore but call getPutPostDeleteUrl() directly
    this increases speed and leaves get-url/put-url to be renamed if required

    guard against partial send()'s in net-eval and HTTP mode on Win32

    'net-eval', 'net-ping', 'net-receive-from' and 'net-receive-udp' now set
    timeout error for retrieval with 'net-error'

    'net-ping' will stop waiting for response when the number of responses
    reaches the number of pings even if no max count was not specified.

    a fix for local-domain UNIX sockets on OS/2

    reorderd "3. Functions in groups" subchapters adding group "Pattern recognition"

    now any keystroke/mouse-button will close the about windows in newLISP-tk.
    Before only <esc> worked

9.1.6
    newlisp-x.x.x/util/nclocal.c utility program similar to nc/netcat but for
    local domain UNIX sockets. 

    When deleting contexts the context symbol now will stay and not be deleted 
    but demoted to a normal unprotected symbol.

    It is now possible to create contexts on local variables in 'define', 
    'lambda' or 'local' expressions without error messages on usage of these 
    symbols/variables subsequently. After leaving the 'define', 'lambda' or 
    'local' the variable symbols will be returned to their previous status in 
    the upper scope. Before this version they staid protected. 
    Note: For efficiency reasons this coding practice is not recommended but 
    will not cause an error anymore.

        use strncmp() instead of strcmp() in netReieive() to avoid buffer overflows

    read empty [text][/text] tagged text correctly

    newlisp doc v.1.1 fixes formatting of the syntax line when parenthesized 
    expressions are part of the syntax line.

9.1.7
    a fix for ends-with when using with regular expression option (did not anchor
    correctly to the end)

    net-listen didn't evaluate the port parameter since 9.1.4 when local domain 
    sockets where introduced

9.1.8
    fixed a crash bug on Win32 when using a permission mask in make-dir

        '%%' as a last spec in format was not translated correctly

9.1.9
    when a system wide error handler defined with error-event contained 'nil
    newLISP would go into a loop caused by an error invoked by the error handler
    now an error-event defined with a symbol containing nil will simply to
    nothing.

    xml-parse now can take an optional callback functor (see manual for detail)

    on the Win32 UTF-8 versions UTF-16 file-path names now are processed
    correctly, thanks to Michael Sabin for contributing the file win32-path.c

    this is the first release containing the source of Java based GUI-server 
        in the guiserver subdirectory of the distribution. guiserver.jar is
    already prebuilt contained in the source distributin and installed
    drng the normal newlisp install. It also can be installed individually
    descending into newlisp-x.x.x/guiserver (read README.txt found there)

    new global? property function checks if a symbol is global
    new protected? property function checks if a symbol s protected

    a bug in push on strings when the index was > the length of the string
    and a fix for utf8

9.1.10
    this development release was made for additions in newLISP-GS

9.1.11
    fixed a bug in explode when specifying N > length of string

    negative second length in slicing now interpreted as offset
    from the right: (2 3 "abcdefg") => "cde", (2 -3 "abcdefg") => "cd"
    before negative length would be interpreted as going to the end

    implicit n-resting on strings was UTF-8 sensitive which it should
    not be, all implicit indexing and slice on strings is on byte borders,
    only first,last,rest are UTF-8 sensitive.

    fixed crash when net-select was interrrupted by timer, traceExit()
    was not protected from entry when signal handlers where defined

9.1.12
    newlisp invoked on the command line can take URLs for filespecs to execute
    remote programs: newlisp http://newlisp.org/example.lsp

    join now can take an extra flag to force a joint string after the last element:
    (join '("A" "B" "C") "-" true) => "A-B-C-"

9.2.0 Release August 15th, 2007

9.2.1
    rewritten 'count is about 3-4 times faster than before when counting 100 
    in 1,000,000 elements. Only on Mac OS X and other UNIX. On the older
    MinGW GCC C library the required functions tsearch() and tfind() are not
    available.
    
    fix for special characters in cookies cookies in cgi.lsp

    'pack' now can take lists for data:
    (set 'lst '("A" "B" "C"))
    (set 'adr (pack "lululu" lst))
    (map get-string (unpack "lululu" adr)) => ("A" "B" "C")
    This was imnplemented in response to a request for a (address <list-of-strings>).
    Note that the lst should not be changed and be referenced directly in 'pack'
    so the pointers passed by 'adr' are valid. 'adr' would be a 'char * adr[]' in the 
    C-programming language

    fixed cell leak in indexed sys-info and indexed file-info

    new 'dostring' iterates over a string with character values in loop variable. 
    On UTF-8 compiled newLISP UTF8 character values are returned by the loop variable

    documented 'bind' : 
    (bind '((a 1) (b 2) (c 3))) same as  (map set '(a b c) '(1 2 3))
    This function was already in earlier versions, but not documented.

    on startup NEWLISPDIR will be registered as either: /usr/share/newlisp
    on Mac OS X / UNIX as: PROGRAMFILES/newlisp on Win32, where ROGRAMFILES
    is an exisiting Windows environmnt variable. (env "NEWLISPDIR") =>

    additions in guisserver.lsp and newlisp-edit.lsp, see guiserver/CHANGES

9.2.2
    iterators segfaulted when evaluating the iterator variable was the last
    statement in the iterator body: dostring, dolist, dotree. 
    Added test-cases for this situation.

    (main-args) could be pop'ed which was due to an implementaion error, main-args
    cannot be popped any more, if necessary, assign to another variable first:
    (set 'margs (main-args)), (pop margs) etc.

    additions in guisserver.lsp and newlisp-edit.lsp, see guiserver/CHANGES

9.2.3
    addtions, changes in guiserver.lsp and newlisp-edit.lsp, see guiserver/CHANGES
    for details

    misc. code cleanups in core

9.2.4
    in 'set-nth/nth-set' when no replacement arg is given, the old value should
    be returned only as in 'set'. Was replacing with nil.

    fixed a cell-leak in 'set' when using mutliple arg pairs.

    allow symbols for the name in (context <ctx> <name> [<value>]), previously
    only strings where allowed.

    speedup in symbol deletion

    in (signal <sig-no> <handler | flag> the nil flag now specifies SIG_IGN
    and the true flag SIG_DFL. Before 9.2.4 nil would specifiy an empty newLISP
    handler and the true flag was not available.
 
    reworked 'process' now creates the new process without the previous
    time and memory overhaead (on UNIX) of an extra newlisp fork which stayed
    in memory until the newly created process had finished.
    In most cases the full path must be given for the command in 'process'.

    new 'destroy' to destroy  processes created with 'process' or 'fork'        
    see reworked docmentation for 'fork' and 'process'

    fixed a bug when sorting (ordered compare) mixed  boolean values/symbols

9.2.5
    'dup' without the repetition number parameter will assume 2, i.e:
     (dup 'x) == (dup 'x 2) => (x x) ;  Thanks to Lance Bradley for this idea.

    'find-all' will return an empty list '() when nothing is found, previously
    nil was returned.
    
        ':' now also works like a function and can be attached to symbol following
    it. The colon operator forms a context symbol from the symbol following it
    and the context symbol found as the first element of the list contained
    in the next argument.

    (define (rectangle:area p)
            (mul (p 3) (p 4)))

    (define (circle:area c)
            (mul (pow (c 3) 2) (acos 0) 2))

    (set 'myrect '(rectangle 5 5 10 20)) ; x y width height
    (set 'mycircle '(circle 1 2 10)) ; x y radius

    (:area myrect) => 200 ; same as (rectangle:area myrect)
    (:area mycircle) => 314.1592654 ; same as (circle:area mycircle)

    This can be used for simple OO programming where objects are represented 
    as lists and methods are packaged contexts / namespaces serving as object
    classes. The colon ':' operator implements polymorphism by looking up
    the class / context of the object as the first symbol in the object list.

    'integer' the long writing of 'int' will be eliminated in the next
     development version!!!
     new versions newlisp-ide-4.1.tgz and newisp-wiki-4.2.tgz have changed
    'integer' to 'int'

    better platform independent library detection routines in modules:
    crypto.lsp, gmp.lsp, sqlite3.lsp and zlib.lsp

    crypto.lsp has new 'crypto:hmac' as of RFC 2104 used for Amazon REST API

    new util/newlisp.vim, for matching .vimrc see http://newlisp.org/code/vimrc.txt

9.2.6
    Moved to MinGW 5.1.3 with gcc v.3.4.5 and eliminated declarations for
    struct timezone and gettimeofday(). Changed sleep() to Sleep().
    -> grep 3\.4\.5 *.c <- shows all changes 

    Improved random number generation with 'rand' now gives better integer quality
    random numbers on Win32, which only does 16 bits in 'C' random(), even for
    ranges close to or > 16bit.

    newLISP GS 1.07 now automatically restarts monitor shell, if required by run-command.

    newLISP GS 1.07 now loads, saves and displays UTF-8 correctly in editor and 
    interactive monitor area

    new manual chapter: "Object Oriented Programming in newLISP" explaining
    newLISP object format and how to use the new : (colon) operator.

9.2.7
    changes in newLISP-GS to automatically detect and switch to UTF-8 mode, depending
    on the newLISP executable. Edited chapter "17. Object-Oriented Programming in newLISP"
    (thanks Michael Michaels)

        In Guiserver 1.08:
    new gs:window-moved and gs:window-resized. See new demo file move-resize-demo.lsp

9.2.8
        get-url, post-url, put-url and delete-url have been extended and reworked:

    - now return extended error information if supplied by the server, before only 
    the error cocd was reported.

    - now can take a trailing "debug" in the option string, i.e."list debug" or 
    "header debug" or simply "debug" when neither "list" or "header" applies. The 
    debug option will print all outgoing info onto the console screen.

    in some situations an empty document returned was reported as "ERR: empty document"
    when ist was not an error but intended by the server.

    in some situations customheaders were only taken when the option string was
    present too. The manual showed the option-string optional, which it is.

    the server response code 204 is now handled correctly
   
    when using a custom header "Content-type:" must be defined for put-url, before
    "Content-type: text/html\r\n" was assumed. 

9.2.9
    last element speed optimization for 'last', 'nth', 'nth-set', 'set-nth' and
    implicit indexing with index -1. 

    'sort' can now be used on arrays too

    changes in newLISP-GS for editor keyboard short cuts and list-boxes, see
    guiserver/CHANGES file

    the newlispdoc utility has improved pager headers and a feature to point to
    other module collections from the index page.

9.2.10
    new functions to modify nested lists by reference via a key:

    (set-ref (L key) value)
    (ref-set (L key) value)
    (set-ref-all (L key) value)

    basically 'set-ref' and 'ref-aset' are shortcuts for doing a ref and
    using set-nth/nth-set on the result:

    (set-ref (L key) value)) equivalent to (set-nth (L (ref key L)) value)
    (ref-set (L key) value)) equivalent to (nth-set (L (ref key L)) value)

    all ref functions support either:
           (<func> (L key) [...]) or (<func> key L [...]) 
    syntax similar to nth functions working with indices instead of keys

        like with 'set-nth' and 'nth-set' L can be the context of the default
    functor L:L containing the list for passing lists by reference

    all 8 'nth' and 'ref' functions together now constitute a complete set of
    functions for indexing, referencing, accessing, modifying and search and
    replace on nested lists. All 8 functions are also capable of receiving
    lists passed by reference via context default functors, passed only by
    their context name. All functions now offer the same two syntax patterns
    with either one index and the key followed by the list:
        (<function> <idx>|<key> <list> ...)
    or the parethesized formi, which also can take contexts as default functors:
        (<function> (<list> <idx>|<key>) ...)

    on Win32 function 'directory?' now will accept training slahes '\' or '/'
    before it would always fails on trailing slashes

9.2.11
   'ends-with' with regex options failed when alternative pattersn where used
    and the succeeding pattern was last

    fixed directory? for drives on Win32

    define MY_RAND_MAX as 0x7FFFFFFF for TRU64 flavor

    added mysql51.lsp module for MySQL v.5.1

9.2.12
    indices overshooting the list at the end (too big positive index) and
    indices overshooting the list at the beginning (too big negative index)
    now cause a "list index out of bounds" error. Before the last or
    first element of a list was returned instead.

    This affects the functions: nth, set-nth, nth-set, push and pop

    If more indices are present than nesting levels, these are discarded as before.
    Popping an empty list will return nil.

    Fixed a stack overflow in the new 'set-ref-all'

    Changes in the newlisp-edit.lsp GS editor, see guiserver/CHANGES

    The environment variable NEWLISPDIR will only be created and set if it does
    not exist. An exisiting definition of NEWLISPDIR will not be overwritten.

9.2.13
    a bug fix in set-nth, nth-set, ser-ref, ref-set (in getList() ) when first 
    element in an implicit index parameter list evaluates to a context

9.2.15
    assoc, set-assoc (old replace-assoc) and new assoc-set all take mutiple keys
    for multilevel association lists

    fixed stack overflow in ref, set-ref, ref-set

9.2.16
    set-assoc and assoc-set redone, fixes for set-ref, ref-set, set-ref-all
        newlisop_manual.html updates

9.2.17
    Fixes for 'set-assoc' and 'set-ref' when using the wrong syntax

    new 'pop-assoc' for removing associations

    'find' and 'ref' put their last found expression into $0 when used with a
    cpmparison functor as parameter 

    'find-all' has two additional syntax patterns

    'process' now parses commands and args delimited by single or double quotes.
    This is necessary when using file name or argumemnts containing spaces.
    On Win32 do: (process {newlisp '"test prog.lsp"'}) 
    On Unix do: (process {newlisp 'test prog.lsp'}) ; single or double quotes work

    The octal format spcecifier (format "%o" 8) => "10" will work on many
    platforms compilers. This is now documented and useful when inspecting
    the mode number from the 'file-info' function.

9.3.0 prerelease January 28th, 2008
    fix in 'sys-info' for some 64-bit compilations, and other int -> size_t

    reset -w base directory after http requests, this is important in -c mode
    when both, http and net-eval requests may come in, so that http requests
    cannot change the current directory of the server for net-eval requests

9.3.0 final release February 1st, 2008
    a fix for newlisp server mode when using IE explorer on Win32

    documentation changes

9.3.1
    doc changes

    fixes for guiserver v.115 (see guiserver/CHANGES)

    fixed error message for unclosed curl brace

        'pop-assoc' should not set $0 as do 'set-assoc', 'assoc-set' 

        : colon operator should not evaluate args after the object

    the description - read - has been deleted, the function originally introduced
    here in 9.3.1 has been taken out in 9.3.3

9.3.2
    new compile flavor for IPv6 with the following makefiles:
      makefile_darwin_utf8_IPv6
      makefile_linux_IPv6
      makefile_bsd_IPv6

    elimnate quirky symbol syntax in 'net-send'

    functions called by dynamic symbols now switch to the dynamic
    context:
        (define (foo:foo) (context))
        (set 'ctx foo)
        (ctx) => foo
        (ctx:foo) => foo ; previously MAIN

    changed report format in 'net-ping' now includes roundtrip time in 
    micro-seconds

9.3.3
    fixed display of signon banner, which made newlisp-tk.tcl not work. Also, in order
    to make newlisp-tk.tcl work on 9.3.0 and after, the line in newlisp-tk.tcl:
                (net-send SYS:tk-sock 'result)
        should be changed
                (net-send SYS:tk-sock result)   

    in the runtk.lsp utility (see http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Tk_and_newLISP)
    the line: 
                (process "wish" tcin tcout)
        changed to:
                (process "/usr/bin/wish" tcin tcout)
        to make it work on v9.3.0 and after

    'search' has a new flag parameter to put the filepointer after the seach to either
     the beginnin (nil) or the end (true) of the searched string.

    added <hr> as a legal tag in v.1.5 newlispdoc formatted documentation 

    'xml-parse' crashed when not passing a valid symbol or context

    extra boolean flag in 'bind' forces evaluation of bound parameters:

    (bind assocList true) same as: (apply set (flat assocList))
    this enables an efficient way to define functions with names parameters:

        (define-macro (foo)
              (local (len width height)
                  (bind (args) true)
                  (println "len: " len " width:" width " height:" height)
            ))

        (foo (width 20) (height (+ 5 25)) (len 10))

      outputs -> len: 10 width:20 height:30

    a fix for 'expand' when expanding upper-case characters, now limited to 65->90
    to prevent expansion of symbils starting with special characters

    took out the 'read' from 9.3.1. Just couldn't see the benefit of it. Everything
    which can be done eoth it can be done by redefining 'define', or create other
    special def- functions which transform toplevel expressions.

    'env' now removes an enviroment variable when setting it to an empty string
        except when on Solaris, where it stays as an empty string.
    (env "VAR" "value") (env "VAR") => "value" (env "VAR" "") (env "VAR") => nil
    On Solaris (env "VAR") = ""

    fixed a memory leak on Won32 and Solaris when repeatedly setting the same 
    environment variable

    9.3.2 did not compile on Solaris, 9.3.3 now compiles on Solaris