
                            WinXs Version 1.2
                      Copyright (C) 1995 Mick Meaden
                           All Rights Reserved

       This file contains a summary of new features in each release
       of WinXs since version 1.0:

       VERSION 1.2

          - Introduced a 32-bit version  specifically  for  Windows
            95.   All  other  changes noted below apply to both the
            16-bit and 32-bit versions of the product.

          - Added a POSIX.2 compatible implementation of the sed(1)
            stream editor.

          - Sed scripts.  Added cat-s.sed which  squeezes  multiple
            adjacent blank lines in its input files, and diff-e.sed
            which generates a sed script from WinXs diff output.

          - Filename expansion.  Tools that accept file  specifica-
            tions  possibly containing DOS wild-card characters are
            extended to  accept  a  list  of  space-separated  file
            specifications;   double-clicking  a  filename  in  the
            directory listbox associated with these  tools  appends
            the selected filename to the end of the input file list
            rather than over-writing its existing  contents.   This
            change  affects  cat,  col, compress, dos2unix, expand,
            file, fmt, fold, grep, grex, sed,  strings,  tail,  tr,
            uncompress,  unix2dos and wc.  Note, however, that this
            feature is only supported in registered copies  of  the
            software.

          - A View item is added to the File menu of diff, grep and
            the  General  Utilities applete.  This allows filenames
            appearing anywhere in the display window to be selected
            and passed to more for viewing.

          - Du.  An option is added to display a space  utilization
            figure after block counts, as a percentage of used file
            space versus allocated file space.  This is useful  for
            checking  how  much  disk  space  is  being wasted as a
            result of your disk partition layout (see Du  help  for
            more information).

          - Setup.  New options are added to set  more.exe  as  the
            default text file viewer and/or text file print program
            in the Windows registration database.   This  is  espe-
            cially  useful for integration with Explorer in Windows
            95.  An uninstall option is also added.

          - Grex.   Fixed  a  problem  in  end-of-line  processing,
            whereby  the program looped if '$' was specified as the
            search pattern.

          - Gzip and Gunzip.  In previous  versions,  the  filename
            for  the  gzip executable was hard-wired into gzip.pif.
            This  is  changed  to  use  the  setting  of  Gzip   in
            winfile.ini,  thus  correctly  tracking the location of
            gzip.exe, which by implication can now be located  any-
            where on the system (i.e., not necessarily in the WinXs
            directory)..

          - Numerous minor bug fixes to  the  documentation  (typos
            etc.).

       VERSION 1.1

          - Added the utilities cat(1), col(1), expand(1),  fmt(1),
            fold(1), grex(1), head(1), tail(1) and tr(1).

          - File(1).  An option is added to  change  the  order  in
            which  the  Windows registration database and the magic
            number database are scanned.

          - Grep(1).  New options are added (a) to recursively des-
            cend subdirectories, and (b) to display unmatched lines
            rather than matched lines.

          - More(1).  The following fixes and improvements are made
            in this version: (a) a bug in version 1.0 tab expansion
            is fixed,  (b)  backspace  sequences  are  now  handled
            correctly,  and (c) text can be selected for copying or
            marking using the mouse.

          - UNIX eXchange.  The dos2unix(1) and unix2dos(1) filters
            will now convert files in-situ.

          - The syntax of regular expressions is extended to accept
            '\t'  (horizontal  tab)  as  a single-character RE that
            matches the code value 0x09.  Because  Windows  dialogs
            use  this  character  to move to the next field, it was
            not possible on v1.0 to specify a tab  character  in  a
            regular expression.

          - To help reduce the size of the  product,  a  number  of
            separate  programs  in  v1.0 are combined into a single
            program in this release.  It is recommended, therefore,
            that  anyone  upgrading  from  v1.0 should delete their
            v1.0  installation  and  re-install  the  product  from
            scratch.
