From 6a4f45d2b7e47c168f8bfe7ac2626f365ac4b7d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Hanson Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:30:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for release 7.5.16. --- v7/doc/user-manual/user.texinfo | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/v7/doc/user-manual/user.texinfo b/v7/doc/user-manual/user.texinfo index d4069cf34..dca1bd708 100644 --- a/v7/doc/user-manual/user.texinfo +++ b/v7/doc/user-manual/user.texinfo @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ @iftex @finalout @end iftex -@comment $Id: user.texinfo,v 1.85 2001/03/08 21:24:08 cph Exp $ +@comment $Id: user.texinfo,v 1.86 2001/03/20 04:30:51 cph Exp $ @comment %**start of header (This is for running Texinfo on a region.) @setfilename user.info @settitle MIT Scheme User's Manual @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Free Documentation License". @titlepage @title{MIT Scheme User's Manual} -@subtitle Edition 1.85 -@subtitle for Scheme Release 7.5.15 -@subtitle 9 March 2001 +@subtitle Edition 1.86 +@subtitle for Scheme Release 7.5.16 +@subtitle 19 March 2001 @author by Stephen Adams @author Chris Hanson @author and the MIT Scheme Team @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ To install the software in @file{/usr/local}, do the following cd /usr/local rm -f bin/scheme bin/bchscheme rm -rf lib/mit-scheme -gzip -cd scheme-7.5.14-ix86-gnu-linux.tar.gz | tar xvf - +gzip -cd scheme-7.5.16-ix86-gnu-linux.tar.gz | tar xvf - @end group @end example @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ First unpack the distribution: @example mkdir temp cd temp -gzip -cd scheme-7.5.14-ix86-gnu-linux.tar.gz | tar xvf - +gzip -cd scheme-7.5.16-ix86-gnu-linux.tar.gz | tar xvf - @end example @item @@ -527,10 +527,10 @@ itself, clear the screen, and print something like this: @example @group -Scheme saved on Wednesday February 28, 2001 at 11:53:16 PM - Release 7.5.14 - Microcode 14.2 - Runtime 14.186 +Scheme saved on Monday March 19, 2001 at 5:18:49 PM + Release 7.5.16 + Microcode 14.3 + Runtime 14.188 @end group @end example @@ -4711,6 +4711,19 @@ The Algorithmic Language Scheme}. These are the changes since release 7.5.0: @itemize @bullet +@item +Release 7.5.16 fixes two limitations in email support. First, the +mail-sending interface has been reworked to generate the formatted +message to a temporary file rather than a buffer. This allows sending +very large attachments. Second, IMAIL's handling of file-based folders +has been reworked to store a copy of the file in an "external string" +The in-heap data structures no longer contain excerpts from the file, +but instead keep indexes into the file and extract the excerpts on +demand. This allows reading very large mail files with reasonably-sized +heaps (however it does require enough virtual memory to hold an image of +the file). The actual in-heap storage is quite small, approximately 100 +bytes per message. + @item Release 7.5.15 has no user-visible changes. The crypto code in the system has been re-engineered so that it can be dynamically loaded on -- 2.25.1