Imported from ../bash-2.05a.tar.gz.

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,96 @@
+This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-2.05a since
+the release of bash-2.05.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
+the place to look for complete descriptions.
+
+1.  New Features in Bash
+
+a.  Added support for DESTDIR installation root prefix, so you can do a
+    `make install DESTDIR=bash-root' and do easier binary packaging.
+
+b.  Added support for builtin printf "'" flag character as per latest POSIX
+    drafts.
+
+c.  Support for POSIX.2 printf(1) length specifiers `j', `t', and `z' (from
+    ISO C99).
+
+d.  New autoconf macro, RL_LIB_READLINE_VERSION, for use by other applications
+    (bash doesn't use very much of what it returns).
+
+e.  `set [-+]o nolog' is recognized as required by the latest POSIX drafts,
+    but ignored.
+
+f.  New read-only `shopt' option:  login_shell.  Set to non-zero value if the
+    shell is a login shell.
+
+g.  New `\A' prompt string escape sequence; expands to time in 24 HH:MM format.
+
+h.  New `-A group/-g' option to complete and compgen; does group name
+    completion.
+
+i.  New `-t' option to `hash' to list hash values for each filename argument.
+
+j.  New [-+]O invocation option to set and unset `shopt' options at startup.
+
+k.  configure's `--with-installed-readline' option now takes an optional
+    `=PATH' suffix to set the root of the tree where readline is installed
+    to PATH.
+
+l.  The ksh-like `ERR' trap has been added.  The `ERR' trap will be run
+    whenever the shell would have exited if the -e option were enabled.
+    It is not inherited by shell functions.
+
+m.  `readonly', `export', and `declare' now print variables which have been
+    given attributes but not set by assigning a value as just a command and
+    a variable name (like `export foo') when listing, as the latest POSIX
+    drafts require.
+
+n.  `bashbug' now requires that the subject be changed from the default.
+
+o.  configure has a new `--enable-largefile' option, like other GNU utilities.
+
+p.  `for' loops now allow empty word lists after `in', like the latest POSIX
+    drafts require.
+
+q.  The builtin `ulimit' now takes two new non-numeric arguments:  `hard',
+    meaning the current hard limit, and `soft', meaning the current soft  
+    limit, in addition to `unlimited'
+    
+r.  `ulimit' now prints the option letter associated with a particular
+    resource when printing more than one limit.
+
+s.  `ulimit' prints `hard' or `soft' when a value is not `unlimited' but is
+    one of RLIM_SAVED_MAX or RLIM_SAVED_CUR, respectively.
+
+t.  The `printf' builtin now handles the %a and %A conversions if they're
+    implemented by printf(3).
+
+u.  The `printf' builtin now handles the %F conversion (just about like %f).
+
+v.  The `printf' builtin now handles the %n conversion like printf(3).  The
+    corresponding argument is the name of a shell variable to which the
+    value is assigned.
+
+2.  New Features in Readline
+
+a.  Added extern declaration for rl_get_termcap to readline.h, making it a
+    public function (it was always there, just not in readline.h).
+
+b.  New #defines in readline.h:  RL_READLINE_VERSION, currently 0x0402,
+    RL_VERSION_MAJOR, currently 4, and RL_VERSION_MINOR, currently 2.
+
+c.  New readline variable:  rl_readline_version, mirrors RL_READLINE_VERSION.
+
+d.  New bindable boolean readline variable:  match-hidden-files.  Controls
+    completion of files beginning with a `.' (on Unix).  Enabled by default.
+
+e.  The history expansion code now allows any character to terminate a
+    `:first-' modifier, like csh.
+
+f.  New bindable variable `history-preserve-point'.  If set, the history
+    code attempts to place the user at the same location on each history
+    line retrived with previous-history or next-history.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-2.05 since
 the release of bash-2.04.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
 the place to look for complete descriptions.
@@ -87,7 +180,7 @@ e.  The `help' builtin has a `-s' option to just print a builtin's usage
     synopsis.
 
 f.  There are several new arithmetic operators:  id++, id-- (variable
-    post-increment/decrement), ++id, --id (variabl pre-increment/decrement),
+    post-increment/decrement), ++id, --id (variable pre-increment/decrement),
     expr1 , expr2 (comma operator).
 
 g.  There is a new ksh-93 style arithmetic for command: