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+2000-12-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* tests/expr-old.test:  Re-wrote Tcl's [expr rand()] and
+	[expr srand($seed)] implementations, fixing a range error
+	on some 64-bit platforms.  Added tests that detect the bug.
+	The rewrite changes the seed -> sequence map on 64-bit
+	platforms, only for seed >= 2^31, a slight incompatibility.
+	[Bug 121072, Patch 102781]
+
+2000-12-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:
+	* library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/opt/optparse.tcl:
+	* library/opt/pkgIndex.tcl: Where [uplevel] is used in a proc
+	to evaluate a Tcl built-in command in the caller's context,
+	the built-in commands are now fully namespace-qualified.  This
+	prevents problems when the caller context is in a namespace where
+	the built-in command name has been used by a command in the
+	namespace.  (For example, [::ns::set] might be called instead
+	of the intended [::set]).  [Bug #119422, Patch #102545]
+
+2000-12-09  jeff hobbs  <jhobbs@interwoven.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinTime.c (CalibrationThread): added lint return value to
+	prevent compiler warning.  [Bug #125005]
+
+	* docs/scan.n:
+	* tests/scan.test:
+	* generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): changed %o and %x to use
+	strtoul instead of strtol to correctly preserve scan<>format
+	conversion of large integers.  [Patch #102663, Bug #124600]
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Commited patch fixing
+	handling of {!<boolean>} in expressions. [Patch #102702]
+
+2000-12-08  jeff hobbs  <jhobbs@interwoven.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl: Added support for PATHEXT variable in
+	auto_execok, recognizing the proper set of executable extensions
+	on Windows.  [Patch #102719]
+
+2000-12-08  Andreas Kupries  <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (LoadTableEncoding): Changed dangerous
+	  code to something less critical. This fixes bug 119417, part A
+	  without affecting the speed when loading encodings.
+
+2000-12-08  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/open.n: Added xref to fconfigure and advice on the opening
+	  of binary files.  Should help prevent a recurrence of bugs like
+	  #124558
+
+2000-12-07  jeff hobbs  <jhobbs@interwoven.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: added note about need to updated
+	library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl with minor version increment.
+
+	* library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl: updated to use 84 version to reflect
+	the makefile.  Should probably be updated to use its real version
+	at some point. [Patch #102560, Bug #119421]
+
+2000-12-06  eric melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (attemptckalloc): Fixed typo for #define of
+	attemptckalloc (was defined to Tcl_AttempDbCkalloc, should have
+	been Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc). [Bug: 124384]
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: Added
+	TCL_MEM_DEBUG versions of Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc and
+	Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc. [Bug: 124384].
+
+2000-11-24  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Logical negation "!"
+	  can now handle string booleans, provided those values are placed
+	  in variables.
+
+	* tests/expr.test (expr-13.17): Check that [expr {!$var}] can
+	  negate the string-versions of booleans "yes", "false", etc.
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl (getMatchingFiles,
+	  getMatchingDirectories):
+	* tools/man2html.tcl (doDir): 
+	* tools/man2help.tcl (doDir): 
+	* library/package.tcl (tclPkgUnknown,tclMacPkgSearch): 
+	* library/safe.tcl (AddSubDirs): [glob] uses -directory instead of
+	  unsafe [file join] to fix Bug #123313
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c:
+	* generic/tclTestObj.c (TestindexobjCmd): Changed internal
+	  representation of index objects to fix Bug #119082; fix
+	  shouldn't be visible to outside world...
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestGetIndexFromObjStructObjCmd): 
+	* tests/indexObj.test: (indexObj-6.*) Added to test for presence
+	  of Bug #119082.
+
+2000-11-23  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Fixed memory leak from Bug
+	  #119398
+
+	* library/init.tcl (unknown): Added specific level parameters to
+	  all uplevel invokations to boost performance; didn't dare touch
+	  the "namespace inscope" stuff though, since it looks sensitive
+	  to me!  Should fix Bug #123217, though testing is tricky...
+
+2000-11-21  Andreas Kupries  <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* All of the changes below are described in TIP #7 ~ Specification
+ 	  and result from the application of the patch contained
+ 	  therein. Creator of the patch is Kevin Kenny
+ 	  <kennykb@crd.ge.com>. The patch used here is actually a bit
+ 	  different. Two MS specific constant values (format FOOui64) were
+ 	  replaced with a more portable formatting of the values and an
+ 	  additional cast to LONGLONG. My cross-compiling gcc was unable to
+	  process the original form. The SF Id of the patch is 102459.
+
+	* tclWinTime.c: Add to the static data a set of variables that
+ 	  manage the phase-locked techniques, including a
+ 	  ''CRITICAL_SECTION'' to guard them so that multi-threaded code
+ 	  is stable.
+
+	* tclWinTime.c: Modify ''TclpGetSeconds'' to call ''TclpGetTime''
+ 	  and return the 'seconds' portion of the result.  This change is
+ 	  necessary to make sure that the two times are consistent near
+ 	  the rollover from one second to another.
+
+	* tclWinTime.c: Modify ''TclpGetClicks'' to use TclpGetTime to
+ 	  determine the click count as a number of microseconds.
+
+	* tclWinTime.c: Modify ''TclpGetTime'' to return the time as
+ 	  M*Q+B, where Q is the result of ''QueryPerformanceCounter'', and
+ 	  M and B are variables maintained by the phase-locked loop to
+ 	  keep the result as close as possible to the system clock.  The
+ 	  ''TclpGetTime'' call will also launch the phase-lock management
+ 	  in a separate thread the first time that it is invoked.  If the
+ 	  performance counter is unavailable, or if its frequency is not
+ 	  one of the two common 8254-compatible rates, then
+ 	  ''TclpGetTime'' will return the result of ''ftime'' as it does
+ 	  in Tcl 8.3.2.
+
+	* tclWinTime.c: Add the clock calibration procedure.  The
+ 	  calibration is somewhat complex; to save space, the reader is
+ 	  referred to the reference implementation for the details of how
+ 	  the time base and frequency are maintained.
+
+	* tclWinNotify.c: Modify ''Tcl_Sleep'' to test that the process
+ 	  has, in fact, slept for the requisite time by calling
+ 	  ''TclpGetTime'' and comparing with the desired time.  Otherwise,
+ 	  roundoff errors may cause the process to awaken early.
+
+	* tclWinTest.c: Add a ''testwinclock'' command.  This command
+ 	  returns a four element list comprising the seconds and
+ 	  microseconds portions of the system clock and the seconds and
+ 	  microseconds portions of the Tcl clock.
+
+	* winTime.test: Add to the test suite a test that makes sure that
+ 	  the Tcl clock stays within 1.1 ms of the system clock over the
+ 	  duration of the test.
+
+2000-11-21  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/global.n: 
+	* doc/upvar.n: 
+	* doc/variable.n: Improved documentation to mention that variables
+	  so created are listed in [info locals] and added a few more
+	  cross-links between these commands.  Fixes bug #119387
+
+2000-11-17  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/safe.test: (safe-4.3):
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupVar): Changed again.  Now passes all
+	  the tests, though one needed modifying since it required the
+	  wrong answer.  (Why on earth do we have inline modification of
+	  argument strings?  This sort of thing is horrendous to debug and
+	  doesn't work well in a multithreaded environment!)  Fixes bug
+	  119192.
+
+	* tests/var.test: (var-1.19) If my attempts to fix the problem
+	  aren't right yet, my attempts to describe it look pretty good to
+	  me...
+
+2000-11-16  Andreas Kupries  <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPort.h (line 69): Changed reference to winsock2.h into
+ 	  winsock.h. This was a leftover from a foray into using winsock
+ 	  version 2 (History lesson from Scott Redman and Jeff
+ 	  Hobbs). This code was no problem when compiling Tcl itself, but
+ 	  could trip extensions. Fixes bug 122568.
+
+2000-11-15  jeff hobbs  <jeff.hobbs@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: removed bp.c references (hasn't existed in a
+	  long time).  Corrected 'make dist' to make dist with unversioned
+	  library directories (same as out of cvs), so make install works
+	  correctly with either source tree.
+
+2000-11-15  jeff hobbs  <jeff.hobbs@acm.org>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupVar): reverted fix below as it broke
+	  all other array unset error reporting.  Bug-119192 is still
+	  open.
+
+2000-11-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupVar): Changed references to part2 to
+	  use elName instead in various error message generating spots, so
+	  as to fix Bug-119192.
+
+2000-11-03  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/.cvsignore: Removed 'configure' from the glob list now
+	  that it's included.
+
+2000-11-03  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	8.4a2 RELEASE
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (install-libraries, dist): 
+	* win/makefile.vc (install-libraries):
+	* win/Makefile.in (install-libraries): updated to install
+	unversioned library directories into versioned directories.
+
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: updated for unversioning of library dirs
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: updated mkLinks with latest doc updates
+
+	* doc/Tcl_Main.3: added docs for Tcl_SetMainLoop
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls: added Tcl_SetMainLoop proc that allows people
+	to set a main loop that will run for tclsh.
+	* generic/tcl.h: added Tcl_MainLoopProc typedef
+	* generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_SetMainLoop, StdinProc, Prompt): new
+	StdinProc and Prompt static procs and Tcl_SetMainLoop stubs proc.
+	The first two handle a fileevent based prompt (taken from
+	tkMain.c).  Tcl_SetMainLoop enables the interactive setting of a
+	main loop procedure.  This enables Tk to be a loadable package.
+
+2000-11-02  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c: tclLibraryPath Tcl_Obj didn't have a way
+	to share its data among threads.  This caused Tcl_Init() to
+	always fail in threads.  Added a way to pass the data around
+	with a global char*.  [BUG: 5301]
+
+2000-11-02  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/dltest/configure:
+	* win/configure:
+	* tools/configure: checked in configure scripts so people doing
+	CVS checkouts aren't required to have autoconf.  Changes to
+	configure.in in the future will require the corresponding
+	configure script to also be re-autoconf'ed and checked in.
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tcl.m4: makefile fixes for Win64 support
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): minor cast
+	changes.
+
+2000-11-01  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: removed use of -lbsd and -ldl for AIX-5.
+
+	* tests/subst.test: added tests for non-zero return code handling
+	by subst.
+	* generic/tclParse.c (Tcl_EvalEx): corrected handling of non-zero,
+	non-error return code cases for subst. [BUG: 119829]
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (TclVarTraceExists): Corrected excessive mem
+	use when info exists was called on a non-existent array element.
+	[BUG: 119213, 119336]
+
+2000-10-30  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tcl.rc:
+	* win/tclsh.rc: Added logic to derive filenames better in the resource
+	scripts based on compile options.
+
+2000-10-30  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: added default encoding map from
+	"ja_JP.eucJP" to "euc-jp". (takahashi)
+
+	* tests/clock.test: corrected clock-2.* test numbering
+
+	* unix/configure.in (SC_TCL_LINK_LIBS): removed code that was
+	commented out (it had been moved to tcl.m4's SC_TCL_LINK_LIBS
+	already).
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: consolidated gettimeofday check for AIX.
+
+2000-10-27  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added support for AIX-5.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_NotifyChannel): removed #ifdef around code
+	for old channel structures, placed preserve/release around statePtr
+	* generic/tclIO.c (CloseChannel): the statePtr for a channel was
+	not being freed when the last channel in a stack was freed,
+	causing a mem leak.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: updated channel types to strict
+	TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 style to avoid compiler warnings.  They work
+	either way, but this avoids compiler warnings (that worries people).
+
+2000-10-27  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl: Removed a cd into the test
+	directory in runAllTests that screwed up the temporary directory
+	setting, effectively preventing users from running tests on
+	multiple platforms at the same time.
+
+2000-10-26  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpMatchFilesTypes): NULL was being set to
+	"attr" which was a DWORD.  Changed NULL to zero because a 'void *'
+	can't be set to a DWORD to avoid the compiler warning.
+
+2000-10-24  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/all.tcl: Removed support for tcltest 1.0.
+	
+	* tests/tcltest.test:
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl:
+	* library/tcltest1.0/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* docs/tcltest.n: Moved tcltest2 code so that it's the standard
+	version of tcltest.  Removed all tcltest2 files
+	(tests/tcltest2.test, library/tcltest1.0/tcltest2.tcl,
+	docs/tcltest2.n). 
+
+2000-10-20  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpMatchFilesTypes): made the stat call only
+	occur when necessary (for 'glob' command).  Significantly speeds
+	up glob command from 8.3. [BUG: 6216]
+
+2000-10-19  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest2.tcl:
+	* tests/tcltest2
+	* doc/tcltest2.n: Code and documentation cleanup.  Modified
+	-verbose to take list of keywords as well as string of letters.
+	Removed Tcl version information from tcltest. Removed
+	tcltest::grep from tcltest package. Added optional 3rd directory
+	argument to  makeFile/makeDirectory and removeFile/removeDirectory.
+
+	* tests/basic.test: Changed references to tcltest::tclVersion to
+	hardcoded numbers.
+	* generic/tcl.h: Changed reference to tcltest2.tcl and tcltest.tcl
+	in comments to tests/basic.test.
+
+2000-10-06  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c: moved Win2K bug case test with GetStdHandle()
+	from TclpGetDefaultStdChannel into Tcl_MakeFileChannel to enable
+	a more general method in detecting invalid OS handles rather than
+	just a specific known case. [BUG: 5971]
+
+2000-10-06  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: extra tests for 'file channels' that include
+	multiple interpreter tests and channel sharing
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetChannelNamesEx): corrected function (and
+	consequently 'file channels') to return channels that are actually
+	registered for this specific interp, rather than this thread.
+
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3: fixed spelling mistakes
+
+2000-09-29  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest2.tcl:
+	* tests/tcltest2.test:
+	* doc/tcltest2.n: Modified the new form of the test command to
+	accept both attribute-value pairs and command line options.
+	Updated the tests and the documentation for this new format.
+	Also changed the option names for the test command.
+
+2000-09-29  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialGetOptionProc): corrected reporting of
+	space parity on Windows (Eason) [Bug 6057].
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: commented use of TESTFLAGS
+	* unix/Makefile.in: added TESTFLAGS to test target to
+	conform with Windows makefile and TEA style.
+
+	* tests/stack.test: prevented possible crash on systems with low
+	default stacksize (Tru64, AIX) in infinite recursion test.  A
+	solution to check remaining stack space in the core is best, but
+	hard to do in a cross-platform manner.
+
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c (FLUSH_DELAY): renamed DELAY define to
+	FLUSH_DELAY to avoid defn conflict using Tru64's cc.
+
+2000-09-28  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: added tclPlatDecls.h and tkPlatDecls.h to the
+	Windows .exe install.
+
+	* tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-6.20): corrected test to remove
+	c:/tcl8975@ after creating it.
+
+	* tests/fileName.test: cleaned up the testing of glob patterns for
+	c:/globTest (Windows) to directly create/remove directory.
+
+2000-09-27  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclIO.c: updated Tcl_IsChannelShared,
+	Tcl_IsChannelRegistered, Tcl_CutChannel, Tcl_SpliceChannel,
+	Tcl_IsChannelExisting, and Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers to conform to
+	the new stacked channel implementation.  Their stub slots were
+	also moved to give preference to the new 8.3.2 stub functions.
+	This will cause an incompatability with 8.4a1 only.
+	(StopCopy): fixed a bug introduced by a partial fix in 8.3.2 that
+	didn't set nonBlocking correctly when resetting the flags for the
+	write side.  [Bug: 6261]
+
+	* doc/ChnlStack.3:
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclIO.c:
+	* generic/tclIO.h:
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* tests/iogt.test:
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in:
+	* win/tclWinChan.c:
+	* win/tclWinConsole.c:
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c:
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c:
+	* win/tclWinSock.c: Up-port of changes made in 8.3.2 to 8.4a2 code
+	base.  Most of these changes relate to the rewrite of the stacked
+	channel implementation, with a few config related fixes.
+
+	Following is an asynchronous include of the applicable ChangeLog
+	entries from 8.3.2.
+
+	********************************************************
+	** START OF ASYNCHRONOUS UP-PORT LOG (8.3.2 -> 8.4a2) **
+	********************************************************
+
+2000-08-07  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/ChnlStack.3:
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3: updated the docs to be aware of the
+	TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 style of Tcl channels.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_CreateChannel): added assertion to verify
+	that the new channel versioning will be binary compatible with
+	older channel drivers.
+
+2000-08-05  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIOGT.c (TclChannelTransform): fixed segfault that
+	would occur when transforming a channel with a proc that did not
+	yet exist. (Kupries)
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd): added some lint init'ing of
+	statePtr and chan vars.
+
+2000-07-26  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* merged core-8-3-1-io-rewrite back into core-8-3-1-branch.
+	The core-8-3-1-io-rewrite branch should now be considered defunct.
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclIO.c: moved the Tcl_Channel* macros from tcl.h to
+	tclIO.c and made them proper stubbed functions.  These are:
+	Tcl_ChannelName, Tcl_ChannelVersion, Tcl_ChannelBlockModeProc,
+	Tcl_ChannelCloseProc, Tcl_ChannelClose2Proc, Tcl_ChannelInputProc,
+	Tcl_ChannelOutputProc, Tcl_ChannelSeekProc, Tcl_ChannelSetOptionProc,
+	Tcl_ChannelGetOptionProc, Tcl_ChannelWatchProc,
+	Tcl_ChannelGetHandleProc, Tcl_ChannelFlushProc,
+	and Tcl_ChannelHandlerProc.  These should be used to access the
+	Tcl_ChannelType structure instead of direct pointer dereferencing.
+
+	* tests/iogt.test: added RCS string, marked tests 2.* to be
+	unixOnly due to underlying system differences.
+
+2000-07-25 Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* tests/iogt.test: (line 866f) New tests iogt-6.[01], highlighting
+ 	  buffering trouble when stacking and unstacking transformations.
+	  iogt-6.0 is solved, see the changes below. iogt-6.1 remains, for
+ 	  now, due to the perceived complexity of solutions.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.h: (line 139f) struct Channel, added a buffer
+	  queue, to hold data pushed back when stacking a transformation.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c:
+	  (line 91f, line 7434f) New internal function 'CopyBuffer'.
+	  Derived from 'CopyAndTranslateBuffer', with translation
+	  removed.
+	  (line 1025f, line 1212f): Initialization of new queue.
+	  (line 1164f, Tcl_StackChannel): Pushback of input queue.
+	  (line 1293f, Tcl_UnstackChannel): Discard input and pushback.
+	  (line 3748f, Tcl_ReadRaw): Modified to use data in the push back
+	  area before going to the driver. Uses 'CopyBuffer', s.a.
+	  (line 4702f, GetInput): Modified to use data in the push back
+	  area before going to the driver.
+ 	  (line 4867f, Tcl_Seek): Modified to take pushback of the topmost
+	  channel in a stack into account.
+	  (line 5620f, Tcl_InputBuffered): See above. Added
+	  'Tcl_ChannelBuffered'. Analogue to 'Tcl_InputBuffered' but for
+	  the buffer area in the channel.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: New public API 'Tcl_ChannelBuffered'. S.a.
+
+2000-07-17  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc: added tclIOGT.c to objects list to compile.
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: commented out internal decls for
+	TclTestChannelCmd and TclTestChannelEventCmd as they were moved to
+	tclTest.c.  Added new decls for TclChannelEventScriptInvoker and
+	TclChannelTransform.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (CloseChannel): stopped masking out of the
+	TCL_READABLE|TCL_WRITABLE bits from the state flags in
+	CloseChannel, instead adding extra intelligence to
+	CheckChannelErrors with a new CHANNEL_RAW_MODE bit for special
+	behavior when called from Raw channel APIs.
+
+2000-07-13  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (StackSetBlockMode): moved set of chanPtr
+	outside of blockModeProc check to avoid infinite loop when
+	blockModeProc was NULL (Kupries).  updated TransformSeekProc to
+	not call Tcl_Seek directly (Kupries).
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c: updated fileChannelType to v2 channel struct
+	* win/tclWinConsole.c: updated consoleChannelType to v2 channel struct
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c: updated pipeChannelType to v2 channel struct
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c: updated serialChannelType to v2 channel struct
+	* win/tclWinSock.c: updated tcpChannelType to v2 channel struct
+
+2000-07-11  Brent Welch	<welch@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in (TCL_LIBS): Cleaned up unix-specific
+	autoconf variables.
+
+2000-07-11  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/iogt.test: made tests [345].0 not run by default as they
+	were failing in the new design, but I'm not convinced that the
+	returned result isn't correct.
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tcl.decls: added Tcl_GetTopChannel C API that returns
+	the current top channel of a channel stack.  Tcl_GetChannel was
+	changed earlier to return the bottommost channel of a stack
+	because that is the one that is guaranteed to stay around the
+	longest, and this was needed to compensate for certain
+	operations that want to look at the state of the main channel.
+	Most channel APIs already compensate for grabbing the top, so it
+	shouldn't be needed often.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_StackChannel, Tcl_UnstackChannel): Added
+	flushing of buffers (Kupries), removed use of DownChannel macro,
+	added Tcl_GetTopChannel public API to get to the top channel of
+	the channel stack (necessary for TLS).  Rewrote Tcl_NotifyChannel
+	for new channel design (Kupries).  Did some code cleanup in the
+	transform code.  tclIO.c must still be broken into bits (separate
+	out test code and giot code, create tclIO.h).
+
+2000-07-10  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* tests/iogt.test: Reverted some earlier changes as a fix by Jeff
+	  revived the original and correct behaviour. IOW, the tests showed
+	  a genuine error and I didn't see it :(.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_Read|Write_Raw): Changed to directly use
+ 	  the drivers and not DoRead|DoWrite. The latter use the buffering
+ 	  system, encoding and eol-translation and this wreaks havoc with
+ 	  the data going through the transformations. Both procedures use
+ 	  CheckForchannelErrors and let it believe that there is no
+ 	  background copy in progress or else stacked channels could not
+	  be used for that.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (TclCopyChannel, CopyData): Moved access to the
+ 	  topmost channel from the first to the second procedure to make
+ 	  the decision about that at the last possible time (Callbacks can
+ 	  change the stacking).
+
+	test suite: failures of iogt-[345].0
+	
+2000-07-06  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/iogt.test: new tests for stacked channel stuff based off
+	new 'testchannel transform|unstack' code (Kupries IOGT extension).
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubsInit.c:
+	* generic/tclIO.c: complete rewrite of Tcl Channel code for
+	stacked channels.  Channels are now designed to work in a more
+	stacked fashion with a shared ChannelState data structure.
+
+2000-06-02  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (CloseChannel): removed the &ing out of
+	(TCL_READABLE|TCL_WRITABLE) from the flags, as CloseChannel does
+	this on the next pass through for the top channel, and it appeared
+	to be causing hangs by not allowing the final flush.
+
+2000-06-01  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (CloseChannel): Rewrote CloseChannel code to
+	unstack a channel during the close process.  Fixed a refcount bug
+	in Tcl_UnstackChannel.  [Bug: 5623]
+	(CloseChannel): further extended CloseChannel in the stacked case
+	to effect certain operations on the next channel that would have
+	been done in Tcl_Close.  Also added CHANNEL_CLOSED and removed
+	(TCL_READABLE|TCL_WRITABLE) bits from chanPtr->flags.  Changed
+	final reset of the WatchProc to check the chanDownPtr's (next)
+	interestMask.
+
+	******************************************************
+	** END OF ASYNCHRONOUS UP-PORT LOG (8.3.2 -> 8.4a2) **
+	******************************************************
+
+2000-09-20  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/socket.test: removed doTestsWithRemoteServer constraint
+	from socket-12.*.  It requires 'exec', not a remote server.
+	Cleaned up some coding errors.
+
+2000-09-20  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/pkgIndex.tcl: Updated to load tcltest 2.0.
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest2.tcl: New version of tcltest.  
+	Cleanup of command line parsing: allows users to specify command
+	line arguments through an environment variable named
+	TCLTEST_OPTIONS [RFE: 3748], does not respond to incorrect
+	arguments, and forces usage of entire flag name when using command
+	line arguments.  Defines accessor procs for all tcltest
+	variables.  Allows users to use 'return' in test scripts. Allow
+	users to specify whether test files should be sourced or run in a
+	separate process.  'all.tcl' code moved to tcltest package.
+	'test' proc modified to use attribute-value pairs.  Allow users to
+	specify what return codes, output, and errors can be compared and
+	whether these values should be compared using regexp, glob, or
+	exact matching.  makeDirectory & removeDirectory now operate with
+	respect to temporaryDirectory [Bug: 6001].  Test results from
+	tests run in slave interpreters are now included in test totals
+	[Bug: 1493].  Test files that return error values are now reported.
+	
+	* tests/all.tcl: Added code to check for the tcltest version
+	loaded; modified to figure out which tests to run based on the
+	tcltest version loaded.
+	* tests/tcltest.test: Modified to explicitly load version 1.0 of
+	tcltest.
+	* tests/tcltest2.test: New test suite for tcltest; includes all of
+	the old tests plus new ones reflecting changes made for version
+	2.0.
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: Added singleTestInterp constraint to
+	cmdAH-31.2; this test does not run if tests aren't sourced into a
+	single interpreter.
+	* tests/socket.test: Fixed two tests that were referencing
+	variables outside of scope.
+	
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: Added code to install tcltest2.tcl.
+
+	* doc/tcltest2.n: New documentation for tcltest version 2.0.
+	Removes documentation for tcltest namespace variables.  Adds
+	documentation for new tcltest procs.
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Added code to link to tcltest2.n.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Added comment to modify tcltest2.tcl as well as
+	tcltest.tcl for version changes.
+
+2000-09-19  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): When using -all, all
+	attempts after the first to match the regexp against the string
+	should include the TCL_REG_NOTBOL flag, to avoid erroneously
+	matching ^ in the middle of the string.  Added code to set this
+	flag after the first pass through the matching loop. [Bug: 6284].
+
+2000-09-19  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* doc/Eval.3:  Added a note about the script argument to Tcl_Eval()
+	should be in UTF-8 or risk implied conversion errors when possible
+	combinations of upper ascii can be valid UTF-8 special codes.
+
+2000-09-17  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/cmdIL.test: Added a test for fix for [Bug: 6212].
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): Applied patch from [Bug:
+	6212], which corrected an error in the handling of the -index option.
+
+2000-09-14  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* doc/Alloc.3: Added entries for Tcl_AttemptAlloc, Tcl_AttempRealloc.
+
+	* doc/StringObj.3: Added entry for Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength.
+	
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: Regen'ed stubs files from new tcl.decls.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: Added stubs for the Tcl_Attempt* memory
+	allocators and for Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Added #define's for attemptckalloc,
+	attemptckrealloc, which map to the Tcl_Attempt* memory allocators.
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: Added non-panic'ing versions of Tcl_Alloc,
+	Tcl_Realloc, etc.; these are called Tcl_AttemptAlloc,
+	Tcl_AttemptRealloc, etc.  These are used by
+	Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength and the string obj append functions.
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c: Modified string growth algorithm to use
+	doubling algorithm as long as possible, and only fall back when
+	that fails.  Added Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength, and modified
+	AppendUnicodeToUnicodeRep, AppendUtfToUtfRep, and
+	Tcl_AppendStringsToObjVA to support this.
+
+2000-09-07  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/.cvsignore: changed the glob patterns a bit to exclude VC++
+	project conversion backups.
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c: Stage-1 bug fix for TR#2460 "exec leaks memory".
+	Added more logic around the close-down of the pipe reader thread so
+	as to avoid, at all cost, a TerminateThread.  Most cases with exec
+	are fixed, but I don't consider 2460 done yet.  Closing down the
+	read side of a pipe before the child process, doesn't really fit
+	the windows model.  [BUG: 2460]
+
+2000-09-07  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/trace.n: minor doc cleanup
+
+2000-09-06  André Pönitz <poenitz@htwm.de>
+
+	* doc/*.n: added or changed "SEE ALSO:" section
+
+2000-09-06  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpLoadFile): added special message for
+	ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND exception in loading a dll.
+	* win/tclWinError.c: changed ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND to map from
+	ESRCH (POSIX: no such process) to EINVAL because there is no good
+	mapping for "procedure not found".
+
+	* README:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: 
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure.in: updated patchlevel to 8.4a2
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): Removed WNOHANG from
+	Tcl_WaitPid call in error case of process creation on Unix, as it
+	would lead to defunct processes. [Bug: 6148]
+
+	* tests/string.test: extended string repeat tests
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): changed STR_REPEAT to
+	preallocate the full space of the final string, avoided repeated
+	appends.
+
+	* doc/source.n:
+	* doc/Eval.3: added extra note about how to safe use ^Z in code,
+	as it is now a cross-platform (was just Windows) EOF char.
+
+2000-09-05  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclHash.c: fixed pedantic warning of incorrectly placed
+	#endif
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): INST_STR_INDEX fixed
+	pedantic cast warning.
+	Corrected support for building with -DTCL_COMPILE_STATS.
+	Added efficiency check of object equality.
+
+2000-08-29  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c: Applied patch from Gerhard Hintermayer
+	to provide a more conservative string growth algorithm for strings
+	larger than one megabyte; this allows more efficient use of memory
+	for very large strings.
+
+2000-08-25  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/trace.test: Extended array tracing tests.
+
+	* doc/trace.n: Clarified information about when array traces will
+	be fired.
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Corrected call to CallTraces
+	(for TCL_TRACE_ARRAY) to only be called when the variable is
+	either an array or is undefined, to ensure that array traces do
+	not fire for scalar variables.
+
+2000-08-24  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+	
+	* doc/man.macros: Tweaked tab settings for .SO (Standard Options) 
+	sections, based on suggestion from Peter Spjuth.
+
+2000-08-24  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/README: Update to account for removal of --enable-gcc.
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_GCC): Remove --enable-gcc option.
+	* win/README: Add note about building with Cygwin.
+	* win/configure.in: 
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_GCC): Remove --enable-gcc option.
+	Remove quick hack that provided cross compile support for
+	windows builds.
+
+2000-08-24  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	Overall change:  Added support for command rename/delete traces
+	and new trace syntax, from patch from Vince Darley.  Added support
+	for array traces for variables.  [RFE: 5048, 5967].
+
+	* doc/trace.n: Updated documentation for new syntax; flagged old
+	syntax as deprecated; added documentation for command
+	rename/delete traces and variable array traces.
+
+	* tests/trace.test: Updated tests for new trace syntax; new tests
+	for command rename/delete traces; new tests for array traces.
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Support for new trace syntax; support for
+	TCL_TRACE_ARRAY.
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls: Stub functions for command rename/delete traces.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: Support for command traces.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TclTraceVariableObjCmd): Patched to support
+	new [trace] syntax:  
+	trace {add|remove|list} {variable|command} name ops command
+	Added support for command traces (rename, delete operations).
+	Added support for TCL_TRACE_ARRAY at Tcl level (array operation
+	for variable traces).
+	
+2000-08-20  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Added check for non-arrays for [array statistics]
+	command (patch from Mark Patton).
+
+2000-08-19  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h: without a previous '#include <windows.h>',
+	tclPlatDecls.h can't be parsed due to a missing definition of TCHAR.
+	Added a check to include it when not defined.
+
+	***POSSIBLE OBSCURE BUG*** could be caused when the compile flags
+	for the core happen to be different than a project who uses these
+	publics regarding -D_MBCS and -D_UNICODE.  This added check might
+	have to be revisited later with a better understanding of the
+	reprocusions.  I think TCHAR should be replaced with it's expansion.
+
+2000-08-18  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/.cvsignore (added): provides a cleaner build environment with
+	graphical CVS clients.
+
+2000-08-15  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl: Set debug level in
+	tcltest::restoreState to 2, for consistancy with the debug level
+	in tcltest::saveState [Bug: 4505].
+
+2000-08-14  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: 
+	* win/Makefile.in: 
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Added tclPlatDecls.h to the list of installed
+	headers, for more complete stubs support. [Bug: 5241].
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Added #include "tclPlatDecls.h" to get
+	platform-specific stubs declarations (Tcl_WinTCharToUtf, etc)
+	[Bug: 5241].
+
+	* README: Updated link for instructions on compiling Tcl from
+	sources to point to correct location
+	(http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/... instead of
+	http://dev.scriptics.com/support/...).
+
+2000-08-11  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c (TclUnsetEnv): Changed declaration of length
+	variable from "unsigned int" to "int", to match usage when passed
+	to TclpFindVariable [Bug: 6126].
+
+2000-08-10  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* library/msgcat1.0/pkgIndex.tcl: Bumped version number to 1.2
+	[Bug: 6100].
+
+	* library/msgcat1.0/msgcat.tcl: Removed erroneous [package forget]
+	in msgcat namespace initializer.  Bumped version number to 1.2
+	[Bug: 6100].
+
+2000-08-10  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c: r1.15 accidentally changed a global mutex
+	name tclObjMutex to ObjMutex.  Put the correct name back.
+
+2000-08-07  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/indexObj.test: Added tests using the [testwrongnumargs]
+	command to test Tcl_WrongNumArgs.
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestWrongNumArgsObjCmd): Added test function
+	for the Tcl_WrongNumArgs function.
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_WrongNumArgs): Corrected algorithm to
+	not insert a space before the message component when objc == 0
+	[Bug: 6078].
+
+2000-07-27  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure.in: TCL_STUB_LIB_FLAG should not
+	include ${TCL_DBGX} in win/tclConfig.sh, fix that.
+
+2000-07-25  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* doc/Async.3:
+	* generic/tclAsync.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* mac/tclMacPort.h:
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
+	* win/tclWinInit.c:  Thread-safe rewrite for tclAsync.c.  Added
+	notifier alerting on all platforms as it was only working on Win
+	before.  Removed older Win hacks that would end-up waking the
+	wrong notifier in the presence of a threaded build.  All tests
+	pass as before.  New test cases will be added soon for the new
+	behavior.  [BUG: 5791]
+
+2000-07-25  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (CallTraces): Added check for VAR_TRACE_ACTIVE
+	on the array containing the variable before executing traces on
+	that array, to conform with normal variable traces and the
+	documentation, which states that while executing a trace, other
+	traces on that variable are disabled. [Bug: 6049].
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c (BuildCommandLine): Added Tcl_DStringFree call
+	to prevent potential memory leaks [Bug: 6041].
+
+2000-07-24  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* doc/msgcat.n: Added documentation about the selection of the
+	default locale on Windows.
+
+2000-07-23  Joe English  <jenglish@flightlab.com>
+	* doc/AddErrInfo.3:
+	* doc/ChnlStack.3:
+	* doc/Exit.3:
+	* doc/GetIndex.3:
+	* doc/Notifier.3:
+	* doc/Object.3:
+	* doc/RegExp.3:
+	* doc/SetResult.3:
+	* doc/SplitList.3:
+	* doc/Thread.3:  Added missing entries to NAME section.
+
+	* doc/AddErrInfo.3:
+	* doc/CrtObjCmd.3:
+	* doc/RecEvalObj.3: Changed Tcl_EvalObj to Tcl_EvalObjEx
+
+2000-07-21  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: 
+	* generic/tclObj.c: 
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclHash.c: 
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.decls: 
+	* doc/Hash.3: Reapplied patch from Paul Duffin to extend hash tables
+	to allow custom key types, such as Tcl_Obj *'s, and others.
+
+	* doc/binary.n: Noted that the example in the introduction assumes a
+	32-bit system [Bug: 6035].
+
+2000-07-21  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure.in: Define ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} like
+	unix/configure.in.  Fix or add TCL_SRC_DIR, TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE,
+	TCL_STUB_LIB_FLAG, TCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_SPEC, TCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC,
+	TCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_PATH, TCL_STUB_LIB_PATH.
+
+2000-07-20  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: 
+	* generic/tclObj.c: 
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclHash.c: 
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.decls: 
+	* doc/Hash.3: Reverted patch from Paul Duffin to extend hash tables
+	to allow custom key types, such as Tcl_Obj *'s, and others; it
+	seems to break Tk.
+
+2000-07-19  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: 
+	* generic/tclObj.c: 
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclHash.c: 
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tcl.decls: 
+	* doc/Hash.3: Applied patch from Paul Duffin to extend hash tables
+	to allow custom key types, such as Tcl_Obj *'s, and others.
+
+	* tests/pkgMkIndex.test: Added tests for pkg_compareExtension.
+
+	* library/package.tcl: Enhanced pkg_compareExtension to handle
+	Unixes which tack the version number on to the end of library
+	names (eg, foo.so.1.2); such filenames will be correctly matched.
+	(Patch from Vince Darley).
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: Applied patch from Don Porter to provide better
+	nmake support for NT/Alpha [RFE: 5938].
+
+2000-07-18  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4:
+	* win/tcl.m4: Properly quote arguments to m4 macros. This allows
+	Tcl to work with the new version of autoconf.
+
+2000-07-18  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/opt.test: Removed references to Lfirst, Lrest functions.
+
+	* library/opt0.4/optparse.tcl: Applied patch from Chris Nelson,
+	which replaces the [Lfirst] function with an inline [lindex ... 0]
+	and [Lrest] with [lrange ... 1 end], for better performance. 
+	[RFE: 6019]
+	
+
+2000-07-18  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* compat/string.h: Fixed function prototypes for strpbrk and
+	strtok [Bug: 6020].
+
+2000-07-17  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c: Win2K OS bug with
+	GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)	giving the wrong answer.  This
+	made TclpGetDefaultStdChannel grab what it thought was a valid
+	native stdout handle.  Added a new WriteFile() test to	make sure
+	it's really valid.  This OS bug doesn't affect the shells.  Only
+	-subsystem:windows (aka WinMain) application that dynamically
+	load tclXX.dll [BUG: 5971]
+
+2000-07-17  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/msgcat1.0/msgcat.tcl: 
+	* doc/msgcat.n: 
+	* tests/msgcat.test: Applied patches from Chris Nelson, to provide
+	the mcmset function, which allows the translator to set multiple
+	string translations in a single function call, rather than
+	requiring many calls to mcset. [RFE: 6000, 5993].  In addition,
+	these patches correct mcload to use utf-8 encoding on when reading
+	message catalog files, and provides for better default behavior
+	for determining the locale on a Windows system.
+
+2000-07-17  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_GCC): Don't set CC=gcc
+	before running AC_PROG_CC if CC is already set.
+
+2000-07-13  André Pönitz <poenitz@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+
+	* doc/lappend.n:
+	* doc/lindex.n:
+	* doc/linsert.n:
+	* doc/list.n:
+	* doc/llength.n:
+	* doc/lrange.n:
+	* doc/lreplace.n:
+	* doc/lsearch.n:
+	* doc/lsort.n: Added SEE ALSO sections.
+
+2000-07-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure.in: Fix definition of
+	TCL_SRC_DIR so that it matches the Unix version.
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in: Removed duplicate variables.
+
+2000-07-06  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/msgcat.test: 
+	* library/msgcat1.0/msgcat.tcl: Applied patch from Christian
+	Krone, to provide extended args support for msgcat::unknown, which
+	is used for strings without a known translation in the current
+	locale [Bug: 5984].
+
+2000-06-29  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/msgcat.n: Doc's for mcmax function.
+
+	* library/msgcat1.0/msgcat.tcl: Applied patches from Laurent
+	Duperval, to add mcmax function, which computes the length of the
+	longest of several translated strings.  Bumped version number to 1.1.
+
+2000-06-27  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/stringObj.test: Tweaked tests to avoid hardcoded
+	high-ASCII characters (which will fail in multibyte locales);
+	instead used \uXXXX syntax. [Bug: 3842].
+
+2000-06-26  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/package.n: Corrected information about [package forget]
+	arguments [Bug: 5418].
+
+2000-06-23  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/Hash.3: Added documentation patch for Tcl_Obj *'s as keys in
+	Tcl hash tables [RFE: 5934].
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tclHash.c: Applied patch from [RFE: 5934], which extends
+	Tcl hash tables to allow Tcl_Obj *'s as the key.
+
+2000-06-20  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>
+
+	* tests/opt.test:
+	* library/opt0.4/optparse.tcl: Applied patch from [Bug: 5922], which 
+	corrected an incorrect use of [string match].
+
+	* unix/tclConfig.sh.in:
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in: Applied patch from [Bug: 5921], which corrects a
+	typo in the comments in these files.
+
+2000-06-19  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/RegExp.3: Replaced instances of "Tcl_GetRegExpInfo" with
+	"Tcl_RegExpGetInfo", the correct name of the function [Bug: 5901].
+
+2000-06-13  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/tcl.m4:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in: Applied patch from [RFE: 5844], to extend
+	support for mingw compile environment on Windows.
+
+	* win/tclWinDde.c:
+	* win/tclWinInit.c:
+	* win/tclWinNotify.c:
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c:
+	* win/tclWinReg.c:
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c: Applied patch from [Bug: 5794], to fix
+	compiler warnings when using mingw on Windows.
+
+2000-05-31  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/set-old.test:
+	* doc/unset.n:
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): added -nocomplain and --
+	options to unset, to allow for a silent unset operation.
+
+2000-05-31  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Added support for regexp and
+	exact matching for [array names] command. [RFE: 3684].
+
+	* doc/array.n: Added documentation for [array names
+	-exact/-regexp/-glob] [RFE: 3684].
+
+	* tests/set-old.test: Added tests for [array names
+	-exact/-regexp/-glob] [RFE: 3684].
+
+2000-06-06  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	8.4a1 RELEASE
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode INST_STR_CMP): added
+	test of iResult return from memcmp, as memcmp isn't required to
+	return only -1,0,1.
+
+2000-06-03  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): Corrected
+	caching of the index ptr to account for offsets != sizeof(char *).
+	[Bug: 5153]
+
+2000-05-29  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/http.test
+	* doc/http.n
+	* library/http2.3/http.tcl: Fixed bug 5741, where unsuccessful
+	geturl calls sometimes leaked memory and resources (sockets).  
+	Also, switched around some of the logic so that http::wait never 
+	throws an exception.  This is because in an asynchronous geturl, 
+	the command callback will probably end up doing all the error 
+	handling anyway, and in an asynchronous situation, the user
+	expects to check the state when the transaction completes, as
+	opposed to being thrown an exception.	For the http package, this
+	menas the user can check http::status for "error" and http::error
+	for the error message after doing the http::wait.
+
+2000-05-27  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/info.test:
+	* doc/info.n:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_EvalFile):
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoScriptCmd): added ability to set the
+	info script return value [info script ?newFileName?].  This will
+	be beneficial for virtual file system programs. [Bug: 4225]
+
+2000-05-26  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): reworked to operate in
+	Unicode, tweaked for performance.
+	(Tcl_StringObjCmd) changed STR_FIRST/STR_LAST error message to
+	something more understandable, reworked STR_FIRST, STR_LAST,
+	STR_MAP, STR_MATCH, STR_RANGE, STR_REPLACE to operate in Unicode.
+	Removed inneffectual STR_RANGE "special" ByteArray support.
+	Optimized STR_MAP algorithm, especially optimized for one-pair case.
+	Fixed possible mem overrun in STR_INDEX bytearray case.
+	
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: changed INST_STREQ -> INST_STR_EQ,
+	INST_STRNEQ -> INST_STR_NEQ
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: added streq, strneq, strcmp, strlen &
+	strmatch to the compiled stats instructionTable
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: added instructions INST_STR_CMP,
+	INST_STR_INDEX, INST_STR_MATCH
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: added byte compiler support for
+	[string compare|match|index].
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	Changed INST_STR_(N)EQ to return an Int object and not bother
+	trying to reuse the top stack object.
+	Added INST_STR_CMP, INST_STR_INDEX, INST_STR_MATCH bytecode ops.
+	Extended evalstats output info with Tcl_IsShared stat info.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_DbIsShared): added support for checking
+	result of Tcl_IsShared in evalstats (TCL_COMPILE_STATS).
+
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj): removed dead code.
+	(AppendUnicodeToUnicodeRep) removed overallocation by extra
+	sizeof(Tcl_UniChar) multiplier.
+
+	* tests/string.test: added string map tests for the one-pair case,
+	corrected tests to reflect improved error messages in first/last.
+	Added tests against mem overrun in string index bytearray case.
+
+2000-05-23  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Added function prototypes for
+	TclCompileStringCmd and TclCompileReturnCmd.
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: Added definition of INST_STRLEN opcode and
+	updated LAST_INST_OPCODE value.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: Added information about TclCompileStringCmd
+	and TclCompileReturnCmd to BuiltInCmds table.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added support for the
+	INST_STRLEN opcode.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c 
+	(TclCompileStringCmd): Basic implementation of byte-compiled
+	[string] command.  Not all subcommands are implemented; those
+	that are not an out-line compiled.
+
+	(TclCompileReturnCmd): Byte-compiled implementation of [return]
+	command.  Only "simple" returns are byte-compiled; in particular,
+	if the -code, -errorinfo or -errorcode flags are used, the command
+	is not byte-compiled.
+
+2000-05-22  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/scan.n: 
+	* doc/array.n: minor doc fixes [Bug: 5396]
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c: cast cleanup [Bug: 5624]
+	* win/tclWinConsole.c: cast and header cleanup [Bug: 5625]
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c: cast cleanup [Bug: 5626]
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c: cast cleanup [Bug: 5627]
+
+2000-05-19  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* generic/tclIO.c: moved channel test commands from tclIO.c to
+	tclTest.c.
+	* generic/tclIO.h: new file, split out from tclIO.c to allow test
+	commands to be moved to tclTest.c.
+
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: removed TclTestChannel*Cmd from internal
+	stubs table and added TclChannelEventScriptInvoker to the internal
+	stubs table so it can be used from the test code.
+
+2000-05-18  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test: Added test for "2 days 2 hours ago" style
+	specifications.
+
+	* generic/tclDate.c: Regenerated from tclGetDate.y.
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Tweaked grammar to properly handle the
+	"ago" keyword when it follows multiple relative unit specifiers,
+	as in "2 days 2 hours ago".  [Bug: 5497].
+
+2000-05-18  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/{tcl.m4,Makefile.in,configure.in}: added support for mingw
+	compile env and cross-compiling. [Bug: 5499]
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (FormatClock): correct code to handle locale
+	specific return values from strftime, if any. [Bug: 3345]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetInitialEncodings): attempt to
+	correct setlocale calls for XIM support and locale issues.
+	[BUG: 5422 3345 4236 2522 2521]
+
+2000-05-17  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl (auto_import): added check to see if a valid
+	pattern was coming in, to avoid simple error cases [Bug: 3326]
+
+	* doc/regsub.n: correct regsub docs [Bug: 5346]
+
+2000-05-15  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/history.tcl: Corrected an off-by-one error in HistIndex,
+	which was causing [history redo] to start its search at the wrong
+	event index. [Bug: 1269].
+
+2000-05-10  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPosixStr.c (Tcl_SignalMsg): clarified #defines for
+	Linux on Sparc to compile correctly. [Bug: 5364]
+
+	* doc/namespace.n:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_NamespaceObjCmd): added 'namespace
+	exists' command. [Bug: 4665]
+
+	* doc/source.n:
+	* doc/Eval.3:
+	* tests/source.test:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_EvalFile): added explicit \32 (^Z)
+	eofchar (affects Tcl_EvalFile in C, "source" in Tcl).  This was
+	implicit on Windows already, and is now cross-platform to allow
+	for scripted documents.
+
+2000-05-09  Andreas Kupries  <a.kupries@westend.com>
+	operating as proxy for David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+	
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpInitLock, TclpMasterLock): Added missing
+	  initialization of joinLock.
+
+2000-05-09  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/lsearch.test: 
+	* doc/lsearch.n: 
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsearchObjCmd): Extended [lsearch] to
+	support sorted list searching and typed list searching. [RFE: 4098].
+
+2000-05-08  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/expr.n:
+	* tests/expr.test:
+	* tests/expr-old.test: added tests for 'eq' and 'ne'
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: added INST_STREQ and INST_STRNEQ opcodes
+	that do strict string comparisons.
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: added 'eq' and 'ne' string comparison
+	operators.
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (GetLexeme): added 'eq' and 'ne' expr
+	parse terms (string (in)equality check).
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LinsertObjCmd): made use of
+	Tcl_DuplicateObj where code was otherwise duplicated.  Made
+	special case of inserting one element at the end work again (where
+	index == len).
+	(Tcl_LreplaceObjCmd): moved Tcl_DuplicateObj call lower and
+	cleaned	up use of other arguments.
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_DuplicateObj): simplified code to call
+	TclInitStringRep, which the code was just duplicating in part.
+
+	* doc/Utf.3:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclUtf.c: Added new functions Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp and
+	Tcl_UniCharCaseMatch (unicode parallel to Tcl_StringCaseMatch)
+	* generic/tclUtil.c: rewrote Tcl_StringCaseMatch algorithm for
+	optimization and made Tcl_StringMatch just call Tcl_StringCaseMatch
+	* tests/string.test: extended string match tests
+
+2000-05-08  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/set-old.test: 
+	* doc/array.n: 
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Added [array statistics] command [RFE: 4557]
+
+2000-05-06  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+	operating as proxy for David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tclThreadJoin.c: Fixed several places with missing a & in
+	  arguments to calls of Tcl_Mutex(Un)lock and
+	  Tcl_ConditionNotify functions.
+
+2000-05-02  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* library/reg1.0/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl:
+	* mac/README:
+	* tools/tcl.hpj.in:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/README:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tcl.m4: updated patchlevel to 8.4a1
+
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/init.test:
+	* tests/proc.test:
+	* tests/proc-old.test:
+	* tests/rename.test:
+	* generic/tclProc.c: reworked error return for procedures with
+	incorrect args to be like the C Tcl_WrongNumArgs, where a "wrong #
+	args: ..." message is printed out with the args list.
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: add tclsh.ico and tcl.spec to dist target
+
+2000-05-02  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* Overall changes:
+	  (1) Implementation of joinable threads for all platforms.
+	  (2) Additional API's for channels. Required to allow the
+	  thread extension to move channels between threads.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls (lines 1360f): Added Tcl_JoinThread,
+	  Tcl_IsChannelShared, Tcl_IsChannelRegistered, Tcl_CutChannel,
+	  Tcl_SpliceChannel, Tcl_IsChannelExisting and
+	  Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers (slots 394 to 400).
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: Implemented Tcl_IsChannelRegistered,
+ 	  Tcl_IsChannelShared, Tcl_CutChannel, Tcl_SpliceChannel,
+ 	  Tcl_IsChannelExisting and Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers.
+	  Tcl_CutChannel uses code from CloseChannel. Replaced this code
+ 	  by a call to Tcl_CutChannel.  Replaced several code fragments
+ 	  adding channels to the channel list with calls to
+ 	  Tcl_SpliceChannel. Removed now unused variables from
+ 	  CloseChannel and Tcl_UnstackChannel.  Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers
+ 	  uses code from Tcl_Close. Replaced this code by a call to
+ 	  Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers. Removed now unused variables from
+ 	  Tcl_Close. Added the subcommands 'cut', 'forgetch', 'splice' and
+ 	  'isshared' to the test code
+	  (TclTestChannelCmd).
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThread.c: Implemented Tcl_JoinThread using the
+	  pthread-functionality.
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c: Fixed several small typos in comments.
+	  Implemented Tcl_JoinThread using a platform independent
+	  emulation layer (see generic/tclThreadJoin.c below). Added
+	  'joinLock' to serialize Tcl_CreateThread and TclpExitThread to
+	  prevent a race for joinable threads.
+
+	* mac/tclMacThrd.c: Implemented Tcl_JoinThread using a platform
+	  independent emulation layer (see generic/tclThreadJoin.c
+	  below). Due to the cooperative nature of threading on this
+	  platform the race mentioned above is not present.
+
+	* generic/tclThreadJoin.c: New file. Contains a platform
+	  independent emulation layer helping in the implementation of
+	  joinable threads for the win and mac platforms.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Added declarations for TclJoinThread,
+	  TclRememberJoinableThread and TclSignalExitThread. These
+	  procedures define the API of the emulation layer for joinable
+	  threads (see generic/tclThreadJoin.c above).
+
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc: Added generic/tclTheadJoin.o to the rules.
+
+	* mac/: I don't know to which file generic/tclTheadJoin.o has to
+	  be added to so that it compiles. Sorry.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: #ifdef'd the thread-local list of file
+ 	  channels as it prevents us from transfering channels. To restore
+ 	  this we may need an extended interface to drivers in the
+ 	  future. Target: 9.0. Found while testing the new transfer of
+ 	  channels. The information in this list for a channel was left
+ 	  behind and then crashed the system during finalization.
+
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c: Added -joinable flag to 'testthread
+	  create'. Added subcommand 'testthread join'.
+
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3: Added documentation for Tcl_IsChannelRegistered,
+ 	  Tcl_IsChannelShared, Tcl_CutChannel, Tcl_SpliceChannel,
+	  Tcl_IsChannelExisting and Tcl_ClearChannelHandlers.
+
+	* doc/Thread.3: Added documentation for Tcl_JoinThread.
+
+	* tests/thread.test: Added tests for joining of threads.
+
+2000-04-27  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/library.n: Added entries for auto_qualify and auto_import
+	[Bug: 1271].
+
+	* doc/Init.3: Manual entry for Tcl_Init [Bug: 1820].
+
+	* doc/expr.n: Added documentation for each of the math library
+	functions that expr supports [Bug: 1054].
+
+2000-04-26  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/memory.n: Man page for Tcl "memory" command, which is
+	created when TCL_MEM_DEBUG is defined at compile time.
+
+	* doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3: Man page with overall information about
+	TCL_MEM_DEBUG usage.
+
+	* doc/DumpActiveMemory.3: Man page for Tcl_DumpActiveMemory,
+	Tcl_InitMemory, and Tcl_ValidateAllMemory [Bug: 1816, 1835].
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c: Fixed some function headers.
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Regen'd with new mkLinks.tcl.
+
+	* unix/mkLinks.tcl: Fixed indentation, made link setup more
+	intelligent (only do one existance test per man page, instead of
+	one per function).
+
+	* doc/library.n: Fixed .SH NAME macro to include each function
+	documented on the page, so that mkLinks will know about the
+	functions listed there, and so that the Windows help file index
+	will get set up correctly [Bug: 1898, 5273].
+
+2000-04-26  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	8.3.1 RELEASE
+
+	* README:
+	* mac/README:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/README:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary: Updating URLs to reference dev.scriptics.com
+
+2000-04-25  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc: updated for http change and some cleanup
+	* library/http2.[13]: moved dir http2.1 to http2.3 to match version
+
+	* doc/Utf.3: clarified docs for Tcl_(UniChar|Utf)AtIndex
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: removed {}s around PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
+	[Bug: 5254]
+
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadFile): removed use of interp->result
+
+2000-04-25  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* doc/AddErrInfo.3: Added information about Tcl_LogCommandInfo
+	[Bug: 1818].
+
+2000-04-24  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Added man entry for Tcl_Ungets [Bug: 1834].
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* doc/SourceRCFile.3: Man page for Tcl_SourceRCFile [Bug: 1833].
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* doc/ParseCmd.3: Added documentation for Tcl_ParseVar [Bug: 1828].
+
+2000-04-24  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (Tcl_FinalizeNotifier, NotifierThreadProc):
+	added write of 'q' into triggerPipe for notifier in threaded case,
+	so that Tcl doesn't hang when children are still running [Bug: 4139]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_MutexLock): minor comment fixes.
+
+2000-04-23  Jim Ingham  <jingham@cygnus.com>
+
+	These changes make some error handling marginally better for Mac
+	sockets.  It is still somewhat flakey, however.
+
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c (TcpClose): Add timeouts to the close - these
+	don't seem to be honored, however.
+	Use a separate PB for the release, since an async connect socket
+	will still be using the original buffer.
+	Make sure TCPRelease returns noErr before freeing the recvBuff.
+	If the call returns an error, then the buffer is not right.
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c (CreateSocket): Add timeouts to the async
+	create. These don't seem to trigger, however.  Sigh...
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c (WaitForSocketEvent): If an TCP_ASYNC_CONNECT
+	socket errors out, then return EWOULDBLOCK & error out.
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c (NotifyRoutine): Added a NotifyRoutine for
+	experimenting with MacTCP.
+
+2000-04-22  Jim Ingham <jingham@cygnus.com>
+
+	* library/package.tcl (tclPkgUnknown): Fixed a typo in the Mac package
+	search part of tclPkgUnknown.
+
+2000-04-21  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Fixed a newly introduced bug where if
+	there's a -command callback and something goes wrong, geturl threw
+	an exception, called the callback, and unset the token.  I changed
+	it so that it will not call the callback when throwing an
+	exception (so the caller only finds out about a given error from
+	one place).  Also, fixed http::ncode so that it actually gives you
+	back the http return code (i.e. 200, 404, etc.) instead of the
+	first digit of the version of HTTP being used (i.e. 1).
+
+2000-04-21  Brent Welch <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: More thrashing with the "server closes
+	without reading post data" scenario.  Reverted to the previous
+	filevent configuratiuon, which seems to work better with small
+	amounts of post data.  
+
+2000-04-20  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclAlloc.c: wrapped caddr_t define to not be done on Unix
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: added Tclp*Alloc defines to allow the use of
+	USE_TCLALLOC on Unix. [Bug: 4731]
+
+2000-04-19  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/dde1.1/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/reg1.0/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* win/tclWinChan.c:
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c: converted CRLF to LF the */tcl.hpj.in files
+	were not converted, as it confuses hcw locally. [Bug: 5096]
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: expanded cleanup target for help files
+
+	* doc/Thread.3: minor macro cleanup
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (SplitUnixPath): added support for QNX
+	node ids.
+
+2000-04-18  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/README.binary: bumped version to 8.3.1
+
+	* win/tcl.hpj.in: updated copyright date
+
+	* generic/tclEnv.c: environment support for Mac OS/X
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: environment support for Mac OS/X
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c: new file for Mac OS/X dl functions
+	* unix/Makefile.in: added install-strip target; bindir, libdir,
+	mandir, includedir vars; tclLoadDyld.c target [Bug: 2527]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocket): force a socket back into
+	blocking mode (default state) after a -async connect succeeds.
+	[Bug: 4388]
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (TclInitSubsystems): Moved tclLibraryPath to
+	thread-local storage to prevent thread-related race condition.
+	[Bug: 5033]
+	* unix/tclAppInit.c (main): removed #ifdef TCL_TEST that sets the
+	library path as it was unnecessary and conflicts with move of
+	tclLibraryPath to thread-local storage.
+
+2000-04-18  Scott Redman  <redman@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/tcl.rc:
+	* win/tclsh.rc:
+	* win/tclsh.ico:  Modified copyright dates in Windows resource
+	files.  Added an icon for tclsh.exe.
+
+2000-04-17  Brent Welch <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h, generic/tclThreadTest.c, unix/tclUnixThrd.c,
+	win/tclWinThread.c, mac/tclMacThread.c:
+	Added Tcl_CreateThreadType and TCL_RETURN_THREAD_TYPE
+	macros for declaring the NewThread callback proc.
+
+2000-04-14  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyParseMode): Only allow setting mark/space
+	parity on platforms that support it [Bug: 5089]
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_GetVersion): adjusted use of major/minor
+	to not conflict with global decl on some systems [Bug: 2882]
+
+	* doc/AppInit.3:
+	* doc/Async.3:
+	* doc/BackgdErr.3:
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3:
+	* doc/CrtInterp.3:
+	* doc/CrtMathFnc.3:
+	* doc/DString.3:
+	* doc/Eval.3:
+	* doc/ExprLong.3:
+	* doc/GetInt.3:
+	* doc/GetOpnFl.3:
+	* doc/Interp.3:
+	* doc/LinkVar.3:
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3:
+	* doc/OpenTcp.3:
+	* doc/PkgRequire.3:
+	* doc/RecordEval.3:
+	* doc/SetResult.3:
+	* doc/SplitList.3:
+	* doc/StaticPkg.3:
+	* doc/TraceVar.3:
+	* doc/Translate.3:
+	* doc/UpVar.3:
+	* doc/load.n: removed or updated references to interp->result use.
+
+2000-04-13  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/regexp.n: doc clarification [Bug: 5037]
+	* doc/update.n: typo fix [Bug: 4996]
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): enhanced the detection of
+	pthread_mutex_init [Bug: 4359] and (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS) added
+	--enable-64bit-vis switch for Sparc VIS compilation [Bug: 4995]
+
+2000-04-12  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/dde.n: corrected dde poke docs. [Bug: 4991]
+
+2000-04-11  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c: Added "CONST" keyword to declaration of char
+	*native in TclpCreateTempFile, to supress compiler warnings.
+
+2000-04-10  Brent Welch <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Fixed Tcl_CreateThread declaration.
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl: Fixed the "mainThread"
+	initialization to work with either testthread or the thread extension
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: Fixed compiler warning when compiling
+	with -DTCL_THREADS
+
+2000-04-10  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): Added conversion of
+	contents string from UTF to native encoding [Bug: 4030].
+
+	* tests/regexp.test: Added tests for infinite looping in [regexp
+	-all].
+	
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Fixed infinite loop bug with [regexp -all]
+	[Bug: 4981].
+
+	* tests/*.test: Changed all occurances of "namespace import
+	::tcltest" to "namespace import -force ::tcltest" [Bug: 3948].
+
+2000-04-09  Brent Welch <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* lib/httpd2.1/http.tcl: Worked on the "server closes before
+	reading post data" case, which unfortunately causes different
+	error cases on Solaris, which can read the reply, and Linux
+	and Windows, which cannot read anything.  This is all in the
+	loop-back case - client and server on the same host.  Also
+	unified the error handling so the "ioerror" status goes away
+	and errors are reflected in a more uniform way. Updated the
+	man page to document the behavior.
+
+2000-04-09  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/reg.test (matchexpected): corrected tests to use tcltest
+	constraint types to skip certain tests.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_SetCommandInfo): comment fix
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_CreateThread): moved TCL_THREADS ifdef
+	inside of func as it is declared for non-threads builds as well.
+	In the non-threads case, it always returns TCL_ERROR (couldn't
+	create thread).
+
+2000-04-08  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* Overall change: Definition of a public API for the creation of
+	  new threads.
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h (line 1802f): Removed the definition of
+	'TclpThreadCreate'. (line 793f) Removed the definition of
+	'Tcl_ThreadCreateProc'.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (line 388f): Readded the definition of
+	  'Tcl_ThreadCreateProc'. Added Win32 stuff send in by David
+	  Graveraux <davygrvy@bigfoot.com> to that too (__stdcall,
+	  ...). Added macros for the default stacksize and allowed flags.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls (line 1356f): Added definition of
+	  'Tcl_CreateThread', slot 393 of the stub table. Two new
+	  arguments in the public API, for stacksize and flags.
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c:
+	* mac/tclMacThrd.c: Renamed TclpThreadCreate to Tcl_CreateThread,
+	  added handling of the stacksize. Flags are currently ignored.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: See above, but handles joinable
+	  flag. Ignores the specified stacksize if the macro
+	  HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE is not defined.
+
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c (line 363): See below.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (line 210): Adapted to the changes
+	  above. Uses default stacksize and no flags now.
+
+	* unic/tcl.m4 (line 382f): Added a check for
+	  'pthread_attr_setstacksize' to detect platforms not implementing
+	  this feature of pthreads. If it is implemented, configure will
+	  define the macro HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE (See
+	  unix/tclUnixThrd.c too).
+
+	* doc/Thread.3: Added Tcl_CreateThread and its arguments to the
+	  list of described functions. Removed stuff about not providing a
+	  public C-API for thread-creation.
+
+2000-04-07  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/binary.n: clarified docs on sign extension in binary scan
+	[Bug: 3466]
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl (initConstraints): removed win32s
+	references (no longer supported)
+
+	* tests/fCmd.test: marked test 8.1 knownBug because it is
+	dangerous on poorly configured systems [Bug: 3881]
+	and added 8.2 to keep essence of 8.1 tested.
+
+2000-04-05  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_UnstackChannel, line 1831): Forcing
+	interest mask to the correct value after an unstack and
+	re-initialization of the notifier via the watchProc. Without this
+	the first fileevent after an unstack will come through and be
+	processed, but no more. [Bug: ??].
+
+2000-03-04  Brent Welch  <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* {win,unix}/Makefile.in: added dependency of tclStubInit.c on
+	tcl.decls and tclInt.decls
+	* generic/tclThread.c: Tweak so this compiles w/out TCL_THREADS
+	* generic/{tcl.decls,tclStubInit.c}:  Just touched the tcl.decls and
+	regenerated the tclStubInit.c file
+
+2000-03-29  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: For the -querychannel option,
+	fconfigure the socket to be binary so that we don't translate
+	anything while reading the data.  This is because we determine the
+	content length of the data on the channel by using seek (to the end
+	of the file) and tell on the file handle, and we need the
+	content-length to match the amount of data actually sent, and
+	translation can affect the number of bytes posted.
+
+2000-04-03  Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* Overall change: Definition of public API's for the finalization
+	of conditions and mutexes. [Bug: 4199].
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Removed definitions of TclFinalizeMutex and
+	TclFinalizeCondition.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: Added declarations of Tcl_MutexFinalize and
+	Tcl_ConditionFinalize.
+
+	* generic/tclThread.c: Renamed TclFinalizeMutex to
+	Tcl_MutexFinalize. Renamed TclFinalizeCondition to
+	Tcl_ConditionFinalize.
+
+	* generic/tclNotify.c: Changed usage of TclFinalizeMutex to
+	Tcl_MutexFinalize.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c: 
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c: Changed usages of TclFinalizeCondition to
+	Tcl_ConditionFinalize.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Added empty macros for Tcl_MutexFinalize and
+	Tcl_ConditionFinalize, to be used when the core is compiled
+	without threads. 
+
+	* doc/Thread.3:	Added description the new API's.
+
+2000-04-03  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoVarsCmd): checked for non-NULL procPtr
+	to prevent itcl info override crash [Bug: 4064]
+
+	* tests/foreach.test:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* tests/var.test: Added lsorts to avoid random sorted return
+	problems. [Bug: 2682]
+
+	* tests/fileName.test: fixed 14.1 test fragility [Bug: 1482]
+
+	* tools/man2help2.tcl: fixed winhelp cross-linking error [Bug: 4156]
+	improved translation to winhelp [Bug: 3679]
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (MAN_INSTALL_DIR): patch to accept --mandir
+	correctly [Bug: 4085]
+
+	* unix/dltest/pkg[a-e].c: Cleaned up test packages [Bug: 2293]
+
+2000-04-03  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (SetGroupAttribute): 
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (SetOwnerAttribute): Added (uid_t) and (gid_t) 
+	casts to avoid compiler warnings.
+
+2000-03-31  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclGet.c (Tcl_GetDouble): Added additional conditions to
+	error test (previously only errno was checked, but the return
+	value of strtod() should be checked as well).  [Bug: 4118].
+
+	* tests/exec.test: Added test for proper conversion of UTF data
+	when used with "<< $dataWithUTF" on exec's.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): Added
+	Tcl_UtfToExternalDString call, so that if there is UTF content in
+	the string it will be properly converted to the system encoding
+	before being written [Bug: 4030].
+	(TclpCreateTempFile): Added a check on the return value of tmpnam;
+	some systems (Linux, for example) will start to return NULL after
+	tmpnam has been called TMP_MAX times; not checking for this can
+	have bad results (overwriting temp files, core dumps, etc.)
+
+2000-03-30  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken): Added comments
+	noting the need to pair ckalloc with ckfree. [Bug: 4262]
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c: removed TclWinSynchSpawn (vestige of Win32s
+	support).
+
+	* win/tclWinReg.c: made use of TclWinGetPlatformId instead of
+	getting info again
+
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/tcl.m4: Added support for gcc/mingw on Windows [Bug: 4234]
+
+2000-03-29  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCleanupByteCode): made ByteCode cleanup
+	more aware of TCL_BYTECODE_PRECOMPILED flagged structs (gen'd by
+	tbcload), to correctly clean them up.
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (FormatClock): moved check for empty format
+	earlier, commented 0 result return value
+
+2000-03-29  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Removed an unnecessary fileevent
+	statement from the error processing part of the Write method.
+	Also, fixed two potential memory leaks in wait and reset, in which
+	the state array wasn't being unset before throwing an exception.
+	Prior to this version, Brent checked in a fix to catch a
+	fileevent statement that was sometimes causing a stack trace when
+	geturl was called with -timeout.  I believe Brent's fix is
+	necessary because TLS closes bad sockets for secure connections,
+	and the fileevent was trying to act on a socket that no longer
+	existed.
+
+2000-03-27  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/httpd: removed unnecessary 'puts stderr "Post Dispatch"'
+
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Export): added a uniq'ing test to the
+	export list so only one instance of each export pattern would
+	exist in the list.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): optimized case for
+	the empty string in ==/!= comparisons
+
+2000-03-27  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: Added (off_t) type casts in lseek() call
+	[Bug: 4409].
+
+	* unix/tclLoadAout.c: 
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c: Added (off_t) type casts in lseek() calls
+	[Bug: 4410].
+
+2000-03-22  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Fixed a bug where string query data
+	that was bigger than queryblocksize would get duplicate characters
+	at block boundaries.
+
+2000-03-22  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Fixed bug 4463, where we were getting
+	a stack trace if we tried to publish a project to a good host but
+	a port where there was no server listening.  It turned out the
+	problem was a stray fileevent that needed to be cleared.  Also,
+	fixed a bug where http::code could stack trace if called on a bad
+	token (one which didn't represent a successful geturl) by adding
+	an http element to the state array in geturl.
+
+2000-03-21  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test: Modified some tests that were not robust with
+	respect to the time zone in which they were run and were thus
+	failing.
+
+	* doc/clock.n: Clarified meaning of -gmt with respect to -base
+	when used with [clock scan] (-gmt does not affect the
+	interpretation of -base).
+
+2000-03-19  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: geturl used to throw an exception when
+	the connection failed; I accidentally returned a token with the
+	error info, breaking backwards compatibility.  I changed it back
+	to throwing an exception, but unsetting the state array first
+	(thus still eliminating the original memory leak problem).
+
+2000-03-19  Sandeep Tamhankar <sandeep@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Added -querychannel option and altered
+	some of Brent's modifications to allow asynchronous posts (via
+	-command).  Also modified -queryprogress so that it calls the
+	query callback as <callback> <token> <total size> <current size>
+	to be consistent with -progress.  Added -queryblocksize option
+	with default 8192 bytes for post blocksize.  Fixed a bunch of
+	potential memory leaks for the case when geturl receives bad args
+	or can't open a socket, etc.  Overall, the package really rocks
+	now.
+
+	* doc/http.n: Added -queryblocksize, -querychannel, and
+	-queryprogress.  Also, changed the description of -blocksize,
+	which states that the -progress callback will be called for each
+	block, to now qualify that with an "if -progress is specified".
+
+	* tests/http.test: Added a querychannel test for synchronous and
+	asynchronous posts, altered the queryprogress test such that the
+	callback conforms to the -progress format.  Also, had to use the
+	-queryblocksize option to do the post 16K at a time to match
+	Brent's expected results (and to test that -queryblocksize works).
+
+2000-03-15  Brent Welch <welch@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: Added -queryprogress callback to
+	http::geturl and also changed it so that writing the post data
+	is event driven if the queryprogress callback or a timeout is given.
+	This allows a timeout to occur when writing lots of post data.
+	The queryprogress callback is called after each block of query
+	data is posted.  It has the same signature as the -progress callback.
+
+2000-03-06  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/package.tcl: Applied patch from Bug: 2570; rather than
+	setting geometry of slave interp to 0x0 when Tk was loaded, it now
+	does "wm withdraw .".  Both remove the main window from the
+	display, but the former caused some internal structures to get
+	initialized to zero, which caused crashes with some extensions.
+
+2000-03-02  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/package.tcl (tclPkgUnknown): extended to allow
+	recognizes changes in the auto_path while sourcing in other
+	pkgIndex.tcl files
+
+	* doc/FindExec.3: fixed doc for declaration of Tcl_FindExecutable
+	[Bug: 4275]
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_TranslateFileName): Applied patch
+	from Newman to significantly speedup file split/join on Windows
+	(replaces regexp with custom parser).  [Bug: 2867]
+
+	* win/README.binary: change mailing lists from @consortium.org
+	to @scriptics.com [Bug: 4173]
+
+2000-02-28  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test: Added test for ISO bases < 100000
+
+	* generic/tclDate.c: (generated on Solaris)
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Changed condition for deciding if a number
+	is an ISO 8601 base from number >= 100000 to numberOfDigits >= 6.
+	Previously it would fail to recognize 000000 as an ISO base.
+
+2000-02-14  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Added rpm target to generate Tcl binary RPM.
+
+	* unix/tcl.spec: RPM specification file for a Tcl binary RPM for
+	Linux.
+
+2000-02-10  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	8.3.0 RELEASE
+
+	* changes: updated for 8.3.0 release
+
+	* doc/load.n: added notes about dll load errors on Windows
+
+	* unix/README:
+	* unix/Makefile.in (dist): removed porting.notes and porting.old
+	from distribution and CVS.  The information was very outdated.  Now
+	refer to http://dev.scriptics.com/services/support/platforms.html
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test: fixed japanese LANG encoding test [Bug: 3549]
+
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: correct CFLAG_WARNING setting,
+	fixed gcc config for AIX,
+	added -export-dynamic to LDFLAGS for FreeBSD-3+ [Bug: 2998]
+
+	* win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpLoadFile): improved error message for load
+	failures, could perhaps be even more intelligent.
+
+2000-02-09  Jim Ingham	 <jingham@cygnus.com>
+
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c: Don't panic when you get an error closing an async 
+	socket.	 This doesn't seem to hurt anything, and we return the error so
+	the caller can do the right thing.
+
+	New Files:
+	* mac/MW_TclHeader.h:
+	* mac/MW_TclTestHeader.h:
+	* mac/MW_TclTestHeader.pch:
+	* mac/MW_TclAppleScriptHeader.h: More convenient to use .h prefix files
+	in the preference panels...
+
+	The above are curtesy of Daniel Steffen (steffen@math.mq.edu.au)
+
+2000-02-08  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test: Added tests for "next monthname" constructs.
+	* generic/tclDate.c: 
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y (Message): Added a grammar rule for "next
+	monthname" so that we can handle "next january" and similar
+	constructs (bug #4146).
+
+2000-02-08  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* generic/tcl.h (TCL_RELEASE_SERIAL): Moved to 8.3.0 patchlevel
+
+	* doc/library.n:
+	* library/auto.tcl: fixed crufty puts code and docs [Bug: 4122]
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl: correctly protected searchDirectory
+	list to allow dirnames with spaces
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: changed all -fpic to -fPIC
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls: change Tcl_GetOpenFile to use decl of 'int
+	forWriting' instead of 'int write' to avoid shadowing [Bug: 4121]
+
+	* tests/httpold.test: changed test script to source in the httpd
+	server procs from httpd instead of having its own set.
+
+	* tests/httpd: improved query support in test httpd to handle fix
+	in http.tcl. [Bug: 4089 change 2000-02-01]
+
+	* unix/README: fixed notes about --enable-shared and add note
+	about --disable-shared.
+
+2000-02-07  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/package.test: 
+	* library/tclIndex: 
+	* library/package.tcl: Renamed ::package namespace to ::pkg.
+
+2000-02-03  Eric Melski <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/Package.n:
+	* doc/packagens.n: Renamed Package.n -> packagens.n because Windows 
+	can't deal with case-sensitive names.
+
+2000-02-02  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/regexp.test: added tests for -all and -inline switches
+	* doc/regexp.n: added docs for -all and -inline switches
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): added extra comments for
+	new -all and -inline switches to regexp command
+
+2000-02-01  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl: Applied patch from rfe 1734 regarding
+	auto_load errors not setting error message and errorInfo properly.
+
+2000-02-01  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in (install-*): reduced verbosity of install
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_JoinPath): improved support for special
+	QNX node id prefixes in pathnames [Bug: 4053]
+
+	* library/http1.0/http.tcl:
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: The query data POSTed was newline
+	terminated when it shouldn't be altered [Bug: 4089]
+
+2000-01-31  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/package.test: 
+	* library/tclIndex: 
+	* library/package.tcl: Added ::package namespace and
+	::package::create function.
+
+	* library/init.tcl: Fixed problem with auto_load and determining
+	if commands were loaded.
+
+	* library/auto.tcl: "Fixed" issues with $ in files to be auto indexed.
+
+	* doc/Package.n: New man page for package::create function.
+
+	* doc/pkgMkIndex.n: Added additional information.
+
+	* doc/library.n: Added additional qualification regarding auto_mkindex.
+
+2000-01-28  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/pkg/magicchar2.tcl: 
+	* tests/autoMkindex.test: Test for auto loader fix (bug #2480).
+
+	* library/init.tcl: auto_load was using [info commands $name] to
+	determine if a given command was available; if the command name
+	had * or [] it, this would fail because info commands uses
+	glob-style matching.  This is fixed.  (Bug #2480).
+
+	* tests/pkg/spacename.tcl: 
+	* tests/pkgMkIndex.test: Tests for fix for bug #2360.
+
+	* library/package.tcl: Fixed to extract only the first element of
+	the list returned by auto_qualify (bug #2360).
+
+	* tests/pkg/magicchar.tcl: 
+	* tests/autoMkindex.test: Test for fix for bug #2611.
+
+	* library/auto.tcl: Fixed the regular expression that performs $
+	escaping before sourcing a file to index.  It was erroneously
+	adding \ escapes even to $'s that were already escaped,
+	effectively "un-escaping" those $'s.  (bug #2611).
+
+2000-01-27  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/autoMkindex.test: 
+	* library/auto.tcl: Applied patch (with slight modification) from
+	bug #2701:  auto_mkIndex uses platform dependent file paths.
+	Added test for fix.
+
+2000-01-27  Jennifer Hom  <jenn@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/tcltest1.0/tcltest.tcl: Changed NormalizePath to
+	normalizePath and exported it as a public proc.  This proc 
+	creates an absolute path given the name of the variable containing
+	the path to modify.  The path is modified in place.
+	* library/tcltest1.0/pkgIndex.tcl: Added normalizePath.
+	* tests/all.tcl: Changed code to use normalizePath.
+
+2000-01-27  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/pkg/samename.tcl: test file for bug #1983
+	
+	* tests/pkgMkIndex.test: 
+	* doc/pkgMkIndex.n: 
+	* library/package.tcl: Per rfe #4097, optimized creation of direct
+	load packages to bypass computing the list of commands added by
+	the new package.  Also made direct loading the default, and added
+	a -lazy option.
+	Fixed bug #1983, dealing with pkg_mkIndex incorrectly handling
+	situations with two procs by the same name but in different
+	namespaces (ie, foo::baz and bar::baz).
+
+2000-01-26  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: Undid fix for #956, which broke backwards
+	compatibility.
+
+	* doc/variable.n: 
+	* doc/trace.n: 
+	* doc/namespace.n: 
+	* doc/info.n: Added further information about differences between
+	"namespace which" and "info exists".
+
+	* doc/SetErrno.3: Added descriptions of ErrnoId() and ErrnoMsg()
+	functions.
+
+2000-01-25  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: modified EXTRA_CFLAGS to add -DHAVE_TZSET for
+	OSF1-V* and ULTRIX-4.* when not using gcc.  Also added higher min
+	stack size for OSF1-V* when building with threads. [Bug: 4063]
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c (FormatClock): inlined resultPtr, as it
+	conflicted with var creation for HAVE_TZSET #def [Bug: 4063]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd): fixed potential leak
+	when calling lsort -command with bad command [Bug: 4067]
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_JoinPath): added support for special
+	QNX node id prefixes in pathnames [Bug: 4053]
+
+	* doc/ListObj.3: clarified Tcl_ListObjGetElements docs [Bug: 4080]
+
+	* doc/glob.n: clarified Mac path separator determination docs.
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: added some support for building helpfile on Windows
+
+2000-01-23  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl (auto_execok): added 'start' to list of
+	recognized built-in commands for COMSPEC on NT. [Bug: 2858]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h: moved include of <utime.h> lower since some
+	systems (UTS) require sys/types.h to be included first [Bug: 4031]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (CreateSocketAddress): changed comparison
+	with -1 to 0xFFFFFFFF, to ensure 32 bit comparison even on 64 bit
+	systems. [Bug: 3878]
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: improved guessing of path separator
+	for the Mac. (Darley)
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls: moved Tcl_ProcObjCmd to stubs table [Bug: 3827]
+	and removed 'register' from stub definition of
+	Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj [Bug: 4038]
+
+2000-01-21  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* doc/GetHostName.3: Man page for Tcl_GetHostName (bug #1817).
+
+	* doc/lreplace.n: Corrected man page with respect to treatment of
+	empty lists, and "prettied up" the page. (bug #1705).
+
+2000-01-20  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/namespace.test: Added test for undefined variables with
+	namespace which (bug #956).
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: Added check for undefined variables in
+	NamespaceWhichCmd (bug #956).
+
+	* tests/var.test: Added tests for corrected variable behavior 
+	(bug #981).
+
+	* doc/upvar.n: Expanded explanation of upvar behavior with respect to
+	variable traces.  (bugs 3917 1433 2110).
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Changed behavior of variable command when name
+	refers to an element in an array (ie, "variable foo(x)") to always
+	return an error, regardless of existance of that element in the
+	array (now behavior is consistant with docs too) (bug #981).
+
+2000-01-20  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoBodyCmd): made [info body] return a
+	string if the body has been bytecompiled.
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_EvalObjEx): added pedantic check for
+	originating proc body of bytecompiled code, #def'd out as the
+	change for [info body] should make it unnecessary
+
+	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c (Tcl_InitNotifier): added cast for tsdPtr
+
+	* tests/set.test: added test for complex array elem name compiling
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSetCmd): Fixed parsing of array
+	elements during compiling, and slightly optimised same [Bug: 3889]
+
+	* doc/tclvars.n: added definitions for tcl_(non)wordchars
+
+	* doc/vwait.n: added notes about requirement for vwait var being
+	globally scoped [Bug: 3329]
+
+	* library/word.tcl: changed tcl_(non)wordchars settings to use
+	new unicode regexp char class escapes instead of char sequences
+
+2000-01-14  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/var.test: Added a test for the array multiple delete
+	protection in Tcl_UnsetVar2.
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Added protection in Tcl_UnsetVar2 against
+	attempts to multiply delete arrays when unsetting them (bug
+	#3453).  This could happen if there was an unset trace on an array
+	element and the trace proc made a global or upvar link to the
+	array, and then the array was unset at the global level.  See the
+	bug reference for more information.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c: New clock format format.
+
+	* compat/strftime.c: New clock format format.
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: New clock scan format.
+
+2000-01-13  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* changes: updated changes file to reflect 8.3b2 mods
+
+	* README:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure.in: updated to patchlevel 8.3b2
+
+	* generic/regexec.c: added var initialization to prevent compiler
+	warning
+
+2000-01-13  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/cmdIL.test: Added tests for lsort -dictionary with
+	characters that occur between Z and a in ASCII.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: Modified DictionaryCompare function (used by
+	lsort -dictionary) to do upper/lower case equivalency before doing
+	character comparisons, instead of after.  This fixes bug #1357, in
+	which lsort -dictionary [list ` AA c CC] and lsort -dictionary
+	[list AA c ` CC] gave different (and both wrong) results.
+
+2000-01-12  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test: Added tests for "next <day-of-week>" and
+	"<day-of-week>"
+	Added tests for "monday 1 week ago", etc, from RFE #3671.
+
+	* doc/tests/clock.test: Added numerous tests for clock scan.
+
+	* doc/generic/tclGetDate.y: Fixed some shift/reduce conflicts in
+	clock grammar.
+
+	* doc/doc/clock.n: Added documentation for new supported clock
+	scan formats and additional explanation of daylight savings time
+	correction algorithm.
+
+2000-01-12  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* tests/unixFCmd.test:
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: added support for symbolic permissions
+	setting in SetPermissionsAttribute (file attr $file -perm ...)
+	[Bug: 3970]
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c: fixed support for 64bit handling of clock
+	values [Bug: 1806]
+
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c: upped a buffer size to hold double
+
+	* tests/info.test:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: fixed 'info procs ::namesp::*' behavior (Dejong)
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: made imported commands also import their
+	compile proc [Bug: 2100]
+
+	* tests/expr.test:
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: recognize strtod bug on Tru64 v5.0 [Bug: 3378]
+	and added tests to prevent unnecessary chmod +x in sources while
+	installing, as well as more intelligent setsockopt/gethostbyname
+	checks [Bug: 3366, 3389]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c: added compile time support (through use of
+	the TCL_THREAD_STACK_MIN define) for increasing the default stack
+	size for a thread. [Bug: 3797, 1966]
+
+2000-01-11  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Added comments for the Convert function.
+	Added a fix for daylight savings time handling for relative time
+	spans of days, weeks or fortnights. (bug 3441, 3868).
+
+	* generic/tclDate.c: Fixed compiler warning issues.
+
+2000-01-10  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>
+
+	* compat/waitpid.c: use pid_t type instead of int [Bug: 3999]
+
+	* tests/utf.test: fixed test that allowed \8 as octal value
+	* generic/tclUtf.c: changed Tcl_UtfBackslash to not allow
+	non-octal digits (8,9) in \ooo substs. [Bug: 3975]
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: noted need to change win/tcl.m4 and
+	tools/tclSplash.bmp for minor version changes
+
+	* library/http2.1/http.tcl: trim value for $state(meta) key
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c: fixed signature style on functions
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: made sure tcl.m4 would be installed with dist
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added ELF support for NetBSD [Bug: 3959]
+
+2000-01-10  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: Added rules for ISO 8601 formats (BUG #847):
+	CCYY-MM-DD
+	CCYYMMDD
+	YY-MM-DD
+	YYMMDD
+	CCYYMMDDTHHMMSS
+	CCYYMMDD HHMMSS
+	CCYYMMDDTHH:MM:SS
+	Fixed "clock scan <number>" to scan the number as an hour for the
+	current day, rather than a minute after 00:00 for the current day
+	(bug #2732).
+
+2000-01-07  Eric Melski  <ericm@scriptics.com>
+
+	* generic/tclClock.c: Changed switch in Tcl_ClockObjCmd to use
+	enumerated values instead of constants. (ie, COMMAND_SCAN instead
+	of 3).