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+2001-12-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl: make sure env(COMSPEC) on Windows is executed
+	with the right case, as it may otherwise fail inexplicably.
+
+2001-12-28  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c (MemoryCmd, TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem):
+	Added the [memory onexit] command, intended to replace [checkmem].
+
+	* doc/DumpActiveMemory.3: 
+	* doc/memory.n: Updated documentation for [memory] and related
+	matters.  [Bug 487677]
+
+	* mac/tclMacBOAMain.c (Tcl_Main, CheckmemCmd): Removed all the
+	machinery for the [checkmem] command that is completely duplicated
+	by code in generic/tclCkalloc.c.
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c:
+	* generic/tclListObj.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c: Removed references to [checkmem] in
+	comments, referencing [memory active] instead, since it is
+	documented.
+
+2001-12-28  Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* mac/tclMacInit.c:
+	* mac/tclMacTclCode.r: synced up tclInit features to unix/win:
+	implemented TclSetPreInitScript support, use of existing tclInit 
+	proc if defined, check of default encoding dir if set. Changed
+	script library resource names to lowercase (i.e. same as
+	corresponding files). Used Tcl_JoinPath instead of string append.
+	Check that system encoding could be loaded before utf translating
+	the LibraryPath.
+	* mac/tclMacApplication.r:
+	* mac/tclMacLibrary.r:
+	* mac/tclMacOSA.r:
+	* mac/tclMacResource.r: minor version resources cleanup
+
+2001-12-21  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG, SC_PATH_TKCONFIG):
+	Search for config file using exec_prefix instead of
+	prefix when no --with-tcl or --with-tk argument is used. [Bug 492418]
+
+2001-12-21  Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: fixed incorrect SHLIB_LD_LIBS
+	setting for MacOSX / Darwin.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/mkLinks.tcl: improved case-insensitive
+	filesystem support.
+	* unix/mkLinks: Regen.
+
+2001-12-19  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (dist): corrected use of eolFix.tcl on
+	working files.  It should operate on distributed files.  [Bug 495120]
+
+2001-12-19  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: Fix for #495120.  tcl.wse.in was
+	stored in cvs with improper <eol>.  This resulted in
+	corrupted <eol> when checked-out on translating CVS
+	clients such as windows (CRCRLF) and mac (CRCR).
+
+2001-12-19  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Update
+	SunOS 5.[0-6] target so that correct linker
+	options are passed to gcc or ld. [Tk Bug 220863]
+
+2001-12-19  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/README: Update to account for changes
+	in the unix/dltest directory, the way autoconf
+	is run, and the new "make shell" target.
+
+2001-12-19  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Rename dltest to dlpkgs to
+	fix problem where lib files were not getting
+	built because dltest/ directory already existed.
+
+2001-12-19  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCheckProc): corrected time
+	calculations to be unsigned. (schroedter)
+
+2001-12-18  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Define new dltest target that
+	simply does a cd to dltest/ before running make.
+	There is no need for the separate configure
+	script that was previously being used.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Subst into dltest/Makefile.
+	* unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Define LIBS using
+	DL_LIBS, LIBS, and MATH_LIBS variables instead
+	of TCL_LIBS variable from tclConfig.sh.
+	* unix/dltest/README: Update readme to account for new
+	configure free implementation.
+	* unix/dltest/configure: Removed.
+	* unix/dltest/configure.in: Removed.
+
+2001-12-18  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (TCL_STUB_MAGIC): Added cast to force type to be
+	an int and get rid of a persistent and pointless warning with
+	SunPro compiler.
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c (Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc,Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc): 
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_AttemptDbCkalloc,Tcl_AttemptDbCkrealloc):
+	Made the file parameters to these functions into CONST char *,
+	like they always should have been to match the other Tcl*Db* API
+	functions.
+
+2001-12-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* Applied #219311 on behalf of Rolf Schroedter
+	  <schroedter@users.sourceforge.net> to prevent fcopy on serial
+	  ports from flooding the event queue.
+
+2001-12-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/CrtInterp.3:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: docs and comments corrections [Bug 493412]
+	Bug & patch by Don Porter.  
+
+2001-12-14  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_FinalizeNotifier): Stop Tcl on Windows
+	from crashing when shutdown from a non-Tcl thread. Fixes Bug
+	#217982 [orig. 5804] reported by Hugh Vu and Gene Leache.   I'm
+	not convinced that the shutdown process is right even with this,
+	but it was definitely wrong without...
+
+2001-12-13  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* win/tclWinSock.c (TcpGetOptionProc): Fix for tcl bug item
+	  #478565 reported by an unknown person. Bypasses all calls to
+	  "gethostbyaddr" for address "0.0.0.0" to prevent delays on
+	  Win/NT.
+
+2001-12-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/Preserve.3: doc'd TCL_DYNAMIC use. [Patch #483989] (porter)
+
+2001-12-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_GetsObj): Applied patch for bug #491341 as
+	  provided by Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>. Fixes the
+	  assumption of having an empty Tcl_Obj to work with.
+
+2001-12-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: consistency patch, to make all
+	  instructions that pop a variable number of Tcl_Obj's off the
+	  execution stack take the number of popped objects as first
+	  operand. Modified *only* the new instructions
+	  INST_LIST_INDEX_MULTI and INST_LSET_FLAT, so this has no effect
+	  on bytecodes generated up to tcl8.4a3 inclusive.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: fix debug messages in INST_LSET_LIST. 
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileLindexCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (CompileMathFuncCall): removed the last
+	  two overestimates of the necessary stack depth for bytecodes in
+	  the fix of [Bug 483611].
+
+2001-12-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateProcess): Applied Don Porter's
+	  patch fixing bug #437489.
+
+2001-12-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:
+	* tests/event.test: fix background error reporting in the absence
+	of a bgerror proc [Bug 219142].
+
+2001-12-10  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/Access.3:
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3:
+	* doc/DString.3:
+	* doc/ExprLong.3:
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* doc/GetStdChan.3:
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3:
+	* doc/StdChannels.3:
+	* doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3:
+	* doc/Tcl_Main.3:
+	* doc/Utf.3:
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* doc/tclsh.1:  Several typo and formatting corrections discovered
+	during conversion to TMML.  Thanks to Joe English.  [Patch 490514]
+	* unix/mkLinks: 'make mklinks'
+
+2001-12-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c: fixed the calculation of the maximal stack
+	depth required by bytecodes [Bug 483611].
+
+2001-12-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: 
+	* tests/trace.test: restored consistency in refCount accounting by
+	array traces [Bug #4484339], submitted by Don Porter. 
+
+2001-12-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/parseExpr.test, tests/for.test, tests/expr.test:
+	* tests/expr-old.test, tests/compile.test, tests/compExpr.test
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test: Kept up to date with syntax errors.
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (ParsePrimaryExpr): Rewrote to give even
+	better syntax errors in the fairly common case of an identifier
+	without decorations by guessing based on the currently available
+	functions.  Also made messages consistent between memdebug and
+	ordinary builds.
+
+2001-12-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: 
+	* tests/trace.test: new algorithm for [array get], safe when there
+	are traces that modify the array [Bug #449893]. 
+
+2001-12-04  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/compExpr-old.test, tests/compExpr.test, tests/compile.test: 
+	* tests/expr-old.test, tests/expr.test, tests/for.test: 
+	* tests/while.test, tests/if.test: Rewrite to handle more specific
+	syntax errors.
+	* tests/parseExpr.test: Rewrite to get rid of dup test numbers and
+	handle more specific syntax errors.
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (LogSyntaxError): Added a detail message
+	argument to help explain what the syntax error is.
+	(Tcl_ParseExpr, ParseCondExpr, ParsePrimaryExpr): Added detail
+	messages.
+	(UNKNOWN_CHAR): New lexeme for characters that are always illegal
+	in expressions outside strings.
+
+2001-12-03  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/expr.n: Various documentation improvements in relation to
+	the function calls.  Includes fix for Bug #487704 submitted by
+	Devin Eyre.
+
+2001-12-03  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: Some install target bugs repaired along with
+	$(TCLSTUBLIB) added to the dependencies rather than implicit through
+	the dde and reg extensions which don't happen to always require it
+	for some build types.
+
+2001-11-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Tcl_Preserve'ing VarTrace structures to avoid 
+	memory corruption. Patch for [Bug: 484334] provided by Don Porter 
+
+2001-11-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/namespace.test: modified namespace-41.2, added 41.3
+	{knownbug} after discussion with Don Porter and Kevin Kenny.
+
+2001-11-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/namespace.test: added namespace-41.2, a simpler test for
+	[Bug: 231259]
+
+2001-11-29  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c (BINARY_SCAN_MAX_CACHE, Tcl_BinaryObjCmd,
+	ScanNumber): Added caching scheme to reduce number of object
+	allocations when doing scans of large repetitive binary strings.
+	See comments in file for reasoning behind implementation.
+	Suggested by Miguel Sofer in Patch #429916, but independently
+	implemented.
+
+2001-11-28  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/regsub.n, doc/regexp.n: Converted dangling references to
+	METASYNTAX section into references to the re_syntax manual page.
+
+2001-11-27  D. Richard Hipp   <drh@hwaci.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c: Fix a coredump in the filename normalizer
+	code for Win95/98.
+
+2001-11-27  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: Removed the Tk reference for the 'winhelp' target.
+	Converge at install will need to be the solution for Tk and all other
+	extensions.
+
+2001-11-27  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test (cmdAH-24.2): Made test less sensitive to OS
+	preemption, but perfection isn't practical [Bug 463189, reported
+	by Don Porter.]
+
+	* tests/switch.test (switch-9.*): Added tests to exercise more of
+	the argument checking.  (switch-7.2,switch-7.3): Test changed
+	behaviour slightly.
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SwitchObjCmd): Reworked argument parsing
+	to be stricter about what it accepts.  This should make uses of
+	the [switch] command be more maintainable.  [Bug 475397, reported
+	by Don Porter.]
+
+2001-11-26  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h: 'make genstubs' after changes
+	in 2001-11-23 commit from Daniel Steffen.
+
+2001-11-24  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Add comments to better describe
+	TCL_EXE and when it should be available.
+	* win/Makefile.in: Add TCL_EXE variable to be used
+	by rules like `make genstubs`. Don't set TCL_LIBRARY
+	before running `make genstubs` since we will be running
+	with a tclsh from the PATH not the one we build.
+
+2001-11-24  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add comctl32.lib
+	to wish link libs. This change was originally added
+	to Tk on 2001-11-09 but was not committed to Tcl.
+
+2001-11-23  Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/install-sh:
+	* unix/mkLinks:
+	* unix/mkLinks.tcl:
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c:
+	* unix/tclMtherr.c: Mac OSX support: build system, dynamic code loading
+	and support for case-insensitive filesystems in mkLinks (patch #435258)
+
+2001-11-23  Daniel Steffen <das@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Up-port to 8.4 of mac code changes for 8.3.3 & various new
+	changes for 8.4, some already backported to 8.3.4 (patch #435658)
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c: added #include to fix missing prototype errors
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: MAC_TCL: addition of ConditionalMacros.h and use of
+	DLLIMPORT and DLLEXPORT like on other platforms.  ( => no longer need
+	the .exp files and can remove use of #pragma export that never worked
+	well)
+	removed line continuation in #if clause as this breaks the mac
+	resource compiler (note that *.r files include tcl.h)
+
+	* mac/tclMacFile.c: fixed bug in permission checking code
+
+	* mac/tclMacLoad.c: corrected utf8 handling, comparison of
+	package names to code fragment names changed to only match on the
+	length of package name, this allows for fragment names with version
+	numbers appended
+
+	* mac/tclMacInt.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* mac/tclMacTime.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: moved declaration of TclpGetGMTOffset()
+
+	* mac/tclMacShLib.exp:
+	* mac/tclMacOSA.exp:
+	* mac/tclMacMSLPrefix.h: removed files
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: removed reference to .exp files
+
+	* mac/MW_TclBuildLibHeader.h:
+	* mac/MW_TclBuildLibHeader.pch:
+	* mac/MW_TclHeaderCommon.h:
+	* mac/MW_TclStaticHeader.h:
+	* mac/MW_TclStaticHeader.pch: new precompiled header files
+
+	* mac/MW_TclAppleScriptHeader.pch:
+	* mac/MW_TclHeader.pch:
+	* mac/MW_TclTestHeader.pch:
+	* mac/tclMacCommonPch.h: revised precompiled header handling: now
+	include a common header file 'MW_TclHeaderCommon.h' from all .pch
+	files, the .pch files themselves now only setup #defines (e.g.
+	BUILD_tcl, STATIC_BUILD, TCL_DEBUG, TCL_THREADS) like in makefiles on
+	other platforms.
+
+	* mac/tclMac.h:
+	* mac/tclMacPort.h:
+	* mac/tclMacInt.h: use of BUILD_tcl and TCL_STORAGE_CLASS like on other
+	platforms, standardize #include'd files to what's done on other
+	platforms, removed use of #pragma export.
+
+	* mac/tcltkMacBuildSupport.sea.hqx: new archive of mac build support
+	files & suggested build environment directory hierarchy: 
+	'Building MacTclTk' & 'CW Pro6 changes' readme's.
+	projects for MoreFiles 1.5.2 static & shared libraries.
+	project & sources for 'pseudoCarbonSupport', see below.
+	included XML versions of the projects for CW Pro5 or Pro7 users.
+
+	* mac/tclMacProjects.sea.hqx: updated mac build project files:
+	build support for CodeWarrior Pro6, UnivIntf 3.4 & shared runtime
+	libraries: the MSL libraries and MoreFiles are no longer compiled into
+	Tcl.shlb, all non-static binaries now use the Pro6 shared runtime
+	libraries and MoreFiles.shlb.  These shlbs are merged into the standard
+	Wish and TclShell, but 3rd party applications linking with Tcl.shlb or
+	Tk.shlb need to setup access to them.  (see the "(sh-ppc)" targets
+	for how to do this.)
+	included XML versions of the projects for CW Pro5 or Pro7 users.
+	use compat/strtod.c instead of MSL's strtod()
+	use WASTE versions of MSL for tcl test target to avoid text buffer
+	cutoff at 32k.
+	Merging the full MSL.shlb and the other shlbs into Wish & TclShell
+	makes them a bit larger than before, use unmerged binaries to avoid
+	copying the shared code with every application, e.g. when deploying
+	numerous Wish based droplets.
+	Note that using CW Pro5 to compile extensions is in principle still
+	possible, but need to link with Pro6 runtime libraries.
+	Tclapplescript now loads and runs on CFM68k.
+	Highly experimental "pseudoCarbon" support for Tcl only on OS 8/9:
+	binaries in "Build:(Carbon):" link against CarbonLib instead of
+	InterfaceLib, however the actual code has not been carbonized! i.e. it
+	will not run on OSX and may not even run properly with CarbonLib. 
+	This should in principle allow you to build & test OS9 CFM Carbon
+	binaries that need to link with Tcl.shlb.  On OSX you can use the
+	native Tcl.framework, but you have to build a MachO binary as there
+	is no CFM glue lib for Tcl.framework.
+	the library pseudoCarbonSupport.shlb manually loads the symbols
+	from InterfaceLib that are not in CarbonLib but are needed by the
+	uncarbonized code in Tcl.shlb and TclShell.
+
+	* generic/tclMain.c: MAC_TCL: workaround for broken/non-standard isatty
+	on MW Pro6, #include <unistd.h> instead of defining isatty
+
+	* mac/tclMacPort.h: MW Pro6 changes for MSL fcntl.h, stat.h & isatty
+
+	* mac/tclMacAppInit.c: add EXTERN to InstallConsole to enable DLL
+	export via the TCL_STORAGE_CLASS mechanism.
+
+	* mac/tclMacFCmd.c: fix for FSpDirectoryCopy API change
+
+	* mac/tclMacLibrary.c: emit compile time error when
+	TCL_REGISTER_LIBRARY and USE_TCL_STUBS are both defined at the same
+	time in an extension, this use is not currently supported and will
+	result in a crash when dynamically loading the extension.
+
+	* mac/tclMacApplication.r:
+	* mac/tclMacLibrary.r:
+	* mac/tclMacOSA.r:
+	* mac/tclMacResource.r: fixed obsolete copyrights/dates in version
+	strings; updated version strings to standard usage; added support for
+	'(Support Libraries)' subfolder for shared runtime libraries in
+	unmerged binaries; commented out demo setting of "Tcl Environment
+	Variables"; reorganized resources among these files to avoid 
+	multiple copies in applications and shared libraries, the script
+	libraries are now no longer duplicated in Tclsh but are only included 
+	in the resources of Tcl.shlb.
+
+	* mac/tclMacChan.c:
+	* mac/tclMacSock.c: cast for *BlockMode
+
+	* mac/tclMacUtil.c:
+	* mac/tclMacMath.h: removed obsolete hypot() definition
+
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* mac/tclMacNotify.c:
+	* mac/tclMacOSA.c:
+	* mac/tclMacUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c: renamed routines conflicting with standard
+	Apple or MoreFiles headers (at compile or link time):
+	GetGlobalMouse         -> GetGlobalMouseTcl
+	FSpGetDirectoryID      -> FSpGetDirectoryIDTcl
+	FSpOpenResFileCompat   -> FSpOpenResFileCompatTcl
+	FSpCreateResFileCompat -> FSpCreateResFileCompatTcl
+	NewThread              -> NewTestThread
+	the renamed MoreFiles *Tcl routines are just wrappers calling into the
+	MoreFiles DLL.
+
+	* mac/tclMacCommonPch.h:
+	* mac/tclMacThrd.c:
+	* mac/tclMacPanic.c: removed OLDROUTINENAMES define, renamed obsolete
+	apple API names to modern equivalents; UH3.4 support: added #include
+	<ControlDefinitions.h>, updated New*Proc() calls to New*UPP().
+
+	* mac/tclMacUnix.c: added missing (Tcl_Obj ***) cast to
+	Tcl_ListObjGetElements call
+
+	* mac/tclMacAlloc.c: modernized TclpSysAlloc() to use temporary
+	memory instead of system heap memory when available (MacOS
+	>= 7.5 and possibly earlier, use of system heap has been
+	discouraged for a long time and has many disadvantages, e.g. memory
+	isn't paged out, and errors can very easily bring the system down);
+	fixed crashing bug in TclpSysRealloc() and CleanUpExitProc() where
+	memory was being accessed after having been deallocated; fixed
+	memory leak in (de)allocation code (for every block ever allocated
+	with TclpSysAlloc, a Ptr was leaked), if temporary memory is
+	available, don't track allocated memory, instead use
+	RecoverHandle() to get Handle from Ptr, otherwise use doubly linked
+	list to correctly track memory and free all allocated memory; added
+	new option for ConfigureMemory: MEMORY_DONT_USE_TEMPMEM, disables
+	use of temporary memory even when it would be available, only
+	necessary when writing e.g. a driver (using tcl??); increased
+	fraction of application heap reserved for OS routines to 512K
+
+	* compat/strftime.c: 
+	* mac/tclMacTime.c:
+	* mac/tclMacPort.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: 
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: timezone support for mac via 
+	TclpGetTZName() like on windows, using an inverse timezone table
+	adapted from tclDate.c to map gmtoffset in seconds gotten from
+	the MacOS APIs to a  timezone string, as there is no good way to get
+	this info from MacOS. I had to make up some unusual timezones and
+	arbitrarily decide on the most standard of the multiple choices
+	available for every timezone.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: workaround for a MSL bug/misfeature: for
+	very small floats, MSL can return errno ERANGE but a
+	non-zero value ( < LDBL_MIN however)
+	
+	* mac/tclMacAppInit.c: support for WASTE text library using
+	temporary memory, setting has no effect if WASTE is not used.
+	
+	* mac/tclMacPanic.c: removed duplicate code from generic/tclPanic.c
+	and added that file to projects instead.
+
+	* tests/all.tcl: set tcltest::singleProcess 1 as multiple processes
+	are not available on the mac.
+	
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: access time not available on the mac, skip the 
+	atime touch test
+	
+	* tests/appendComp.test:
+	* tests/cmdMZ.test:
+	* tests/compile.test:
+	* tests/exec.test:
+	* tests/fileName.test:
+	* tests/lset.test:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* tests/tcltest.test: added missing cleanups/tests/catches that
+	caused tests to fail on the mac.
+
+	* doc/tclvars.n: doc bug, env(PWD) should be env(HOME) [Bug 463834]
+	
+2001-11-21  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/trace.test (trace-8.8): Corrected test for Bug 219393.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken,CallCommandTraces):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ>c (Tcl_UntraceCommand):  Added Tcl_Preserve and
+	Tcl_Release calls to prevent deletion of CommandTrace structures
+	until all callers are done using them, preventing memory corruption.
+	[Bug 453805]
+
+2001-11-20  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/GetTime.3 (Tcl_GetTime):
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetTime):
+	* generic/tclClock.c (Tcl_ClockObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclCleanupByteCode, TclInitByteCodeObj):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TimeObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclpGetTime):
+	* generic/tclTest.c (GetTimesCmd):
+	* generic/tclTimer.c (Tcl_CreateTimerHandler, TimerSetupProc,
+	TimerCheckProc, TimerHandlerEventProc):
+	* mac/tclMacNotify.c (Tcl_SetTimer):
+	* mac/tclMacShLib.exp (Tcl_GetTime):
+	* mac/tclMacTime.c (Tcl_GetTime):
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TclUnixWaitForFile):
+	* unix/tclUnixEvent.c (Tcl_Sleep):
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_ConditionWait):
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c (Tcl_GetTime):
+	* win/tclWinNotify.c (Tcl_Sleep):
+	* win/tclWinTest.c (TestwinclockCmd):
+	* win/tclWinTime.c (TclpGetSeconds, TclpGetClicks, Tcl_GetTime):
+	Changed all uses of TclpGetTime to Tcl_GetTime.  Added Tcl_GetTime
+	to the Stubs table and the library documentation.  Added a
+	TclpGetTime in tclUtil.c for backward compatibility of
+	extensions. [Patch #483500, TIP#73]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_TimeObjCmd): Corrected an error in the
+	[time] command that caused incorrect results to be returned if the
+	total duration of all iterations exceeded 2**31 microseconds.
+	[Bug #478847]
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.h: Reran 'make genstubs'
+	
+2001-11-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: 
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: moving all code relative to bytecodes from
+	tclBasic.c to tclExecute.c - the functions RecordTracebackInfo and
+	Tcl_ExprObj went to tclExecute.c, and new interface function was
+	defined (TclCompEvalObj).
+	The final objective of this sequence of moves is to provide a
+	clean, clear-cut interface between Tcl's core and the
+	compiler/engine subsystem.  
+
+2001-11-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: 
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: factoring out of common code in tclBasic.c
+	(new function TclInterpReady defined: it resets the interp's
+	result, then checks that it hasn't been deleted and that the
+	nesting level is acceptable). Passed the responsibility of calling
+	it to the *callers* of TclEvalObjvInternal.
+
+2001-11-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: a better variant of the previous-to-last
+	commit (restoring numLevels computations). The managing of the
+	levels now has to be done by the *callers* of TclEvalObjvInternal  
+
+2001-11-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: missing variable declaration under
+	TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG. 
+
+2001-11-20  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c: restoring the computations of iPtr->numLevels
+	to the original logic (previous to buggy modifs on 2001-11-16).
+
+2001-11-20  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tools/eolFix.tcl (new-file):
+	* unix/Makefile.in: added EOL correction for Windows bat files to
+	dist target. [Bug #219409] (davygrvy)
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpSetInitialEncodings): update of patch
+	from 2001-11-16 that uses the old Tcl encoding check mechanism as
+	a fallback to the original.  Also added a TCL_DEFAULT_ENCODING
+	#define (defaults to iso8859-1).  Tcl will first try setlocale and
+	nl_langinfo, and if that fails, guess based on certain LANG|LC_*
+	env vars. [Patch #418645]
+
+2001-11-19  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/buildall.vc.bat:  Added useful comments.
+
+2001-11-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/compile.test: added a test for bug [Bug 483309]
+
+2001-11-19  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c:
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c:
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c:
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: improved speed of file normalization
+	for Win95/98, and clarified docs on differences in file
+	normalization between NT/2000 and the older operating systems.
+	Added test to ensure normalization is correct.
+	
+2001-11-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclParse.c: Code reorganisation. Moved all evaluation
+	functions from tclParse.c to tclBasic.c, so that now tclParse.c
+	deals exclusively with parsing and all evaluations are done by
+	code in tclBasic.c. The functions moved are: TclEvalObjvInternal,
+	Tcl_EvalObjv, Tcl_LogCommandInfo, Tcl_EvalTokensStandard,
+	Tcl_EvalTokens, Tcl_EvalEx, Tcl_Eval, Tcl_EvalObj and
+	Tcl_GlobalEvalObj. 
+
+2001-11-19  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/trace.test (trace-8.8): Added adapted version of Bug
+	#219393 as new test; the test won't reliably show up the old
+	problem unless it is being run under something like Purify, but
+	something is better than nothing...
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_TraceVar2, Tcl_UntraceVar2): Added missing
+	mask bits for trace result type and a check for a nonsense flag
+	combination.
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarProc): Added missing test for NULL
+	when deleting a trace that doesn't cause an error.
+
+	* doc/TraceVar.3: Added documentation for change due to TIP#68.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (TraceVarInfo): Removed problematic errMsg
+	field from structure.
+	(TraceVarProc): Removed references to errMsg field and changed
+	handling of errors so that they returned a Tcl_Obj* containing the
+	error string.  This minimizes the number of calls to the memory
+	management subsystem.
+	(TclTraceCommandObjCmd, TraceCommandProc): Removed references to
+	errMsg field which was never used in command traces in any case.
+	(Tcl_TraceObjCmd, TclTraceVariableObjCmd): Removed references to
+	errMsg field and made variable traces register with
+	TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT bit set.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (TCL_TRACE_RESULT_DYNAMIC,TCL_TRACE_RESULT_OBJECT): 
+	New constants to define how to handle the strings returned from
+	trace callbacks [TIP#68]
+	* generic/tclVar.c (CallTraces, Tcl_GetVar2Ex, TclGetIndexedScalar,
+	TclGetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_SetVar2Ex, TclSetIndexedScalar,
+	TclSetElementOfIndexedArray, Tcl_UnsetVar2, Tcl_ArrayObjCmd,
+	TclDeleteVars, TclDeleteCompiledLocalVars, DeleteArray,
+	TclVarTraceExists): Support for those new trace flags.
+
+2001-11-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: patch for [Bug 483309] (petasis).
+
+2001-11-16  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c: removed a C++-style comment that
+	  was inadvertently left in the source code.
+
+2001-11-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/interp.test: 
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (SlaveObjCmd): Corrected argument checking
+	for '$interp alias|aliases|issafe'. [Patch #479560] (thoyts, hobbs)
+
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: added HAVE_LANGINFO code block.
+	* unix/configure: regened
+	* unix/configure.in: added SC_ENABLE_LANGINFO call
+	* unix/tcl.m4: made SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}' for FreeBSD* (meyer)
+	Added modified version of Wagner patch to make use of nl_langinfo
+	where possible to determine Unix platform encoding, instead of the
+	inflexible built-in system.  This is used by default when
+	possible, and can be disabled with --enable-langinfo=no.
+	[Patch #418645] (hobbs, wagner)
+
+2001-11-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c: moved Tcl_GetCommandFromObj and all defining
+	code for tclCmdNameType objects to tclObj.c (from tclExecute.c). 
+	This code has nothing to do with bytecodes.
+
+2001-11-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclParse.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* tests/stack.test: consolidation of duplicated code (in
+	TclExecuteByteCode and EvalObjv); renaming of EvalObjv to
+	TclEvalObjv as it is not static anymore; restored consistency of
+	level counts between compiled and directly evaled code.
+	[Bug 480896]
+
+2001-11-12  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/rules.vc:  Small bug fixes.
+
+	* win/README: added some docs pointing to the docs in makefile.vc
+	for it's use.
+
+2001-10-17  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/lappend.n:
+	* doc/lindex.n:
+	* doc/linsert.n:
+	* doc/list.n:
+	* doc/llength.n:
+	* doc/lrange.n:
+	* doc/lsearch.n:
+	* doc/lset.n (new-file):
+	* doc/lsort.n:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (builtInCmds, Tcl_EvalObjEx):
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LindexObjCmd, Tcl_LindexList):
+	(Tcl_LindexFlat, Tcl_LsetObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (Tcl_CompileLindexCmd, Tcl_CompileLsetCmd):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (TclLsetList, TclLsetFlat, TclSetListElement):
+	* generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem):
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclTestObj.c (TestobjCmd):
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex, SetEndOffsetFromAny):
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_LappendObjCmd):
+	* tests/lindex.test:
+	* tests/lset.test (new-file):
+	* tests/lsetComp.test (new-file):
+	* tests/obj.test:
+	* tests/string.test:
+	* tests/stringComp.test:
+	Reference implementation of TIP's #22, #33 and #45.  Adds the
+	ability of the [lindex] command to have multiple index arguments,
+	and adds the [lset] command.  Both commands are byte-code compiled.
+	[Patch #471874] (work by Kenny, commited by Hobbs)
+
+2001-11-12  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/buildall.vc.bat(new):
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Small fix with deriving the "OriginalFilename"
+	string in the .rc scripts.  Added a quick batchfile for building
+	the entire thing.
+
+2001-11-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* doc/tcltest.n: converted use of \' to more reasonable format.
+
+2001-11-10  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in: Add "make gdb" target. This target
+	can run tclsh inside either gdb or insight.
+
+2001-11-10  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Added a check to make sure one runs the makefile
+	from the /win directory only.
+
+	* win/mkd.bat:
+	* win/rmd.bat:  Changes from Llyod Lim for better stability.
+	[Patch #456759]
+
+2001-11-09  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* win/tcl.dsp:  winhelp target fixes for non-NT systems.  It
+	seems NMAKE under these remembers changed directories during
+	commands.   A new tcltest feature from Peter Spjuth 
+	<peter.spjuth@space.se> to specify a pattern file from the
+	commandline and redirecting output to a file when not under
+	NT with it's scrollback console.  Then it replays it, piped
+	through more.  Added 2 new static "configurations" to tcl.dsp.
+	I could keep adding more, but I think we should leave it up to
+	the user for customizing it.
+
+	Sticky-points left:  'profile' option.
+
+2001-11-09  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* doc/StdChannels.3:
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* doc/tcltest.n:
+	* tools/man2help.tcl: 
+	* tools/man2help2.tcl: fixed winhelp generation problems
+	[Patch #480268]
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added -lc to AIX libs, fixed path to ldAix
+
+2001-11-09  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/var.test:
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Corrected bug in [global] when dealing
+	with variable names matching :*.  [Bug 480176]
+
+2001-11-08  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Fixup stack size under OSF1. [Tcl patch 474790]
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Add HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE define
+	to EXTRA_CFLAGS to adjust initial stack size.
+
+2001-11-08  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Enable thread support under FreeBSD. [Tcl bug 473708]
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_THREADS): Check for pthread functions
+	in libc_r and enable thread support if found.
+	* unix/dltest/Makefile.in: Set SHLIB_LD_LIBS and use it in
+	the Makefile to properly link a shared library.
+
+2001-11-08  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* unix/dltest/Makefile.in:
+	Avoid adding libc to the LIBS variable since it
+	is not needed when linking with CC. If required
+	when linking with LD it should be done on a case
+	by case basis in tcl.m4.
+
+2001-11-08  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/rules.vc:
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Fixed install target to adjust for the
+	different build types.  Added a 'linkexten' option to link the
+	win extensions inside the shell when built static.  Placed
+	win/tclAppInit.c patch in SF patch DB for approval. 'profile'
+	option not hooked in yet.  Everything else know is done.
+
+	* win/tcl.dsp(new):
+	* win/tcl.dsw(new):  Simple MsDev stub project files that calls
+	makefile.vc.  Will help run Tcl in the debugger easier without
+	confusing MsDev for where the .pdb files are.
+
+2001-11-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	Print a message indicating that the user should
+	run "make genstubs" when the generated tclStubInit.c
+	file is out of date. We can't regenerate automatically
+	since there may be no tclsh on the system and that
+	would cause bootstrap problems. [Tcl bug 465874]
+
+2001-11-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC in tclConfig.sh. It should be
+	included by extensions that need to find Tcl include
+	headers in the install location. The user can override
+	the include install dir with --includedir so we need
+	to record this information for extensions. [Tcl bug 421835]
+	
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC.
+	* unix/tclConfig.sh.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC.
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in: Define TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC.
+
+2001-11-07  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/rules.vc:
+	* win/makefile.vc: Dropped the NOMSVCRT macro and put it on the
+	option list instead.  It makes more sense to me this way as
+	NOMSVCRT=0 would only be the valid setting.  Fixed the dde and reg
+	extension for building static.  Improved, but not perfected, the
+	winhelp target.
+
+2001-11-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/README: Change minimum VC++ version to 5.X since
+	4.X is known not to work.
+	Indicate that Mingw is required and building with Cygwin
+	gcc is not supported. Include instructions that indicate
+	how to install Mingw and what URLs folks should use to
+	download the supported version of Mingw.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Error out if user tries to compile the
+	Windows version of Tcl with Cygwin gcc. Users should compile
+	with Mingw gcc instead.
+
+2001-11-06  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (ReadChars): Fixed bug #478856 reported by
+	  Stuart Cassoff <stwo@users.sourceforge.net>. The bug caused loss
+	  of fileevents when [read]ing less data from the channel than
+	  buffered. Due to an empty input buffer the flag
+	  CHANNEL_NEED_MORE_DATA was set but never reset, causing the I/O
+	  system to wait for more data instead of using a timer to
+	  synthesize fileevents and to flush the pending data out of the
+	  buffers.
+
+2001-11-06  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/rules.vc (new):
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Complete over/under rewrite to support numerous
+	build options all from the commandline itself without needing to
+	edit the makefile.  Now requires vcvars32.bat to be run prior to
+	running nmake for bootstraping the environment.  Fully doc'd usage
+	for it is in makefile.vc.  Commentary welcome.  Sticky points left
+	are:
+
+	1) winhelp target shows errors in the converting script.
+	2) .rc scripts aren't getting the right #defines to build the correct
+	   "OriginalFilename" strings. (have patch, won't commit yet)
+	3) Naming convention with suffixes describing the buildtype are 'tsdx'
+	   which will need public acceptance. ie. tclsh84tsx.exe is a (t)
+	   threaded shell (s) statically linked to the core and (x) uses
+	   msvcrt instead of libcmt.
+
+2001-11-04  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/init.tcl: made filesystem fallback proc
+	::tcl::CopyDirectory more robust to vagaries of non-native
+	filesystems.
+	
+2001-11-02  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: updated documentation and comments
+	to clarify behaviour of 'file copy' wrt soft links.
+	
+2001-10-29  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: fix to '-types {f r}' bug in
+	TclpMatchInDirectory (which could cause a UMR, as well as
+	returning wrong results).  Also improved API for 'stat'
+	to resolve [Bug#219258].
+	* win/tclWin32Dll.c
+	* win/tclWinInt.h: addition of improved stat API to internal 
+	lookup table.
+	* tests/fileName.test: two new tests for the above bug.
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: some cleanup of comments and #ifdefs
+	
+2001-10-29  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory): Argument to access()
+	was entryPtr->d_name instead of nativeEntry which failed when
+	trying to check access for files in other than the current
+	directory. [Bug 475941, reported by Georgios Petasis]
+
+2001-10-25  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: Added stateUpdated member to struct TtyState.
+	(TtyCloseProc,TtySetOptionProc,TtyInit): Use stateUpdated member
+	of TtyState to decide whether it is necessary to reset a serial
+	port when Tcl closes it.  Blindly resetting can cause Tcl to be
+	sent an unexpected SIGTSTP when it is executing in the background
+	[Bug 471374, reported by Chris Nelson]
+
+2001-10-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* doc/ObjectType.3: Minor documentation fix, reported by David
+	  N. Welton <davidw@users.sourceforge.net> directly to me.
+
+2001-10-22  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c: fix to stop test suite from hanging process
+	under some versions of WinNT. [Bug #466102] (Kevin Kenny)
+	
+2001-10-18  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-8.1): 
+	* generic/tclDate.c (RelativeMonth): 
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y (RelativeMonth): corrected off-by-one-day
+	error in clock scan with relative months and years during swing
+	hours. [Bug #413397, Patch #414024] (lavana)
+
+2001-10-18  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: fix to bug in Tcl_FSChdir shown up
+	by recent tclkit builds.
+
+2001-10-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (PipeInputProc, PipeOutputProc): do immediate
+	retry when error is returned with errno == EINTR.
+	[Bug #415131] (leger)
+
+2001-10-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tclLoadAout.c (TclGuessPackageName): removed unused vars
+	and fixed warnings. [Bug #446622] (lim)
+
+2001-10-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c: changing a memcmp to strncmp to avoid a memory
+	error detected by purify (thanks Jeff); modify style to agrre with
+	the style guide. 
+	
+2001-10-15  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls (TclExpandCodeArray,TclGetInstructionTable):
+	  Added to internal stubs table. Tclcompiler (Tclpro project)
+	  needs them if used as loadable package under Windows. Changed
+	  signatures. We don't want to describe compiler internal
+	  structures in "tclInt.h".
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: S.a. Removed function declarations.
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: S.a. Adapted to changed signatures.
+
+2001-10-15  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: 
+	* unix/configure.in: 
+	* win/configure: 
+	* win/configure.in: 
+	* win/tcl.m4: reworked to be a little cleaner in comparison to
+	each other, and to AC_SUBST even empty vars for win/tclConfig.sh
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: minor code cleanup
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: moved #define of WIN32 to tcl.h where __WIN32__
+	is defined and added #ifndef check.
+
+	* doc/open.n: moved all fconfigure option docs to fconfigure.n
+	* doc/fconfigure.n: added serial config options
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c: added TIP #35 Windows enhancements for
+	serial configuration. [Patch #438509] (schroedter)
+
+2001-10-15  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c: fix to memory leak in TclFileDeleteCmd on
+	certain error conditions.
+	* doc/FileSystem.3: fix to typo.
+	
+2001-10-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/encoding/ebcdic.enc:
+	* tools/encoding/ebcdic.txt: EBCDIC charset mapping.
+	[Patch #219323] (nijtmans)
+
+	* library/encoding/tis-620.enc:
+	* tools/encoding/tis-620.txt: TIS-620 charset mapping.
+	[Patch #467423] (poonlap)
+
+	* tests/http.test: added removeFile for outdata
+
+	* tests/ioCmd.test: added catch around file removal, as Windows
+	file locking throws errors.
+
+	* tests/socket.test (socket-7.2): corrected to work on Win2K.
+
+2001-10-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* tests/compile.test: new tests for [Bug 467523]; they are only
+	effective if TCL_MEM_DEBUG was set during compilation.
+
+2001-10-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c (TclReleaseLiteral): insured that
+	self-referential bytecodes are properly cleaned up on interpreter
+	deletion [Bug 467523] (Ronnie Brunner)
+
+2001-10-10  David Gravereaux  <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:  #include <winsock2.h> needed to get moved
+	to after #include <windows.h> or wierd misunderstandings took
+	place when -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 is set for outside code that
+	requires knowledge of Tcl innards.  General header macro magic
+	applied liberally...
+
+2001-10-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test:	Corrected restore of ::env(LANG).
+
+2001-10-09  Jeff Hobbs	<jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_SplitPath): corrected mem leak
+	intro'd with VFS code where the result obj from Tcl_FSSplitPath
+	was not getting freed.
+
+2001-10-09  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c: (TclReleaseLiteral) reverted previous
+	patch for [Bug 467523] - cure is worse than the illness.
+
+2001-10-05  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* generic/tclLiteral.c: (TclReleaseLiteral) insured that
+	self-referential bytecodes are properly cleaned up on interpreter
+	deletion [Bug 467523] (Ronnie Brunner)
+
+2001-10-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tools/configure:
+	* tools/configure.in: noted 8.4 as default Tcl version
+
+	* library/encoding/cp936.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp949.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp950.enc:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-16.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macCroatian.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macCyrillic.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macGreek.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macIceland.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macRoman.enc:
+	* library/encoding/macTurkish.enc:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1250.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1251.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1252.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1253.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1254.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1255.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1256.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1257.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp1258.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp874.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp932.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp936.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp949.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/cp950.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-1.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-10.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-13.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-14.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-15.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-16.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-2.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-3.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-4.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-5.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-6.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-7.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-8.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-9.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/koi8-r.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macCentEuro.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macCroatian.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macCyrillic.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macGreek.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macIceland.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macRoman.txt:
+	* tools/encoding/macTurkish.txt:
+	Updated encodings with latest mappings from www.unicode.org.  This
+	did not include some Mac encodings that have special multi-unichar
+	translations now (like symbols, dingbats and japanese).  Also does
+	not include big5, gb or euc* as those have different formats in
+	the latest Unicode version that need new conversion tools.  Not
+	all related .enc files changed as some had been updates separately.
+
+2001-10-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_FinalizeThread): moved freeing of
+	tclLibraryPath to before the thread exit handlers are called.
+	Slight modification to change on 2001-09-24.
+
+2001-10-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/configure: regen'ed
+	* win/tcl.m4:
+	* win/makefile.vc: added Win64 SDK RC1 compilation support
+	* win/Makefile.in: added $(LDFLAGS_CONSOLE) to TCLSH, TCLTEST and
+	PIPE_DLL_FILE targets to get the link flags
+
+	* win/tclWinInit.c: minor 64bit casts
+
+2001-10-01  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c: removed unnecessary inclusion of
+	tclCompile.h and made a small modification in (InfoBodyCmd) to
+	improve the isolation of the compiler/engine subsystem.
+
+2001-09-29  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* doc/FileSystem.3: corrected and clarified documentation
+	for 'Tcl_FSListVolumes(Proc)'.  No code changes.
+	
+2001-09-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/FindExec.3: added a comment not to change the working
+	directory before calling Tcl_GetNameOfExecutable [Bug 219215] 
+
+2001-09-28  Kevin Kenny   <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: added two more '(ClientData)' casts
+	on calls to Tcl_Preserve and Tcl_Release -- ones that
+	Vince apparently missed.
+	
+2001-09-28  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/lsort.n: Improved doc...
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd, SortCompare): Made
+	offset-from-end indexing work, and factored out some "magic
+	numbers" for easier understanding.  [Bug #465674]
+	* tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-1.26): Added test for offset-from-end
+	indexing for lsort.
+
+2001-09-28  Vince Darley  <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c:
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: fix to performance issue reported
+	by jcw in which 'access("")' is called unnecessarily when
+	normalizing any absolute path.
+	* generic/tclIO.c: added '(ClientData)' cast to calls to
+	Tcl_(Preserve|Release) newly introduced, fixing compile
+	error on Windows.
+	
+2001-09-27  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/FileSystem.3 (Tcl_FSLoadFile):
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_FSLoadFile):
+	* generic/tcl.h (Tcl_FSLoadFileProc):
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclpLoadFile):
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSLoadFile):
+	* generic/tclLoadNone.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestReportLoadFile):
+	* library/ldAout.tcl:
+	* mac/tclMacLoad.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadAix.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadAout.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadDld.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadDyld.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadNext.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadOSF.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* unix/tclLoadShl.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* win/tclWinLoad.c (TclpLoadFile):
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c (DoRemoveJustDirectory):  More CONST poisoning
+	fixes from the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes.  CONST-ified
+	Tcl_FSLoadFile and TclpLoadFile.  Report and patch from Kevin
+	Kenny. [Bug 465833]
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (ChannelTimerProc):  Added Tcl_Preserve()
+	and Tcl_Release() to fix segfault introduced by the 2001-09-26
+	changes.  [Bug 465494]
+
+	* doc/TCL_MEM_DEBUG.3:  Updated out-of-date reference to
+	#define GUARD_SIZE.
+
+	* doc/UpVar.3 (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2):
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2):
+	* generic/tclInt.decls (TclFindProc,TclGetFrame):
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclFindProc,TclGetFrame,TclLookupVar,
+	  TclPrecTraceProc,TclProcInterpProc}):
+	* generic/tclProc.c (TclGetFrame,TclFindProc):
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UpVar,Tcl_UpVar2,MakeUpvar):  Updated APIs in
+	generic/tclProc.c and generic/tclVar.c according to the guidelines
+	of TIP 27.  [Patch 465442]
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs
+
+2001-09-26  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* doc/fileevent.n: Accepted [Patch #465279] adding an example to
+	  the fileevent manpage. Minor modifications to get a better
+	  formatting. Report and patch by David N. Welton
+	  <davidw@users.sourceforge.net>.
+
+	* The changes below fix [Bug #462317] where Expect tried to read
+	  more than was in the buffers and then blocked in the OS call as
+	  its pty channel driver provides no blockmodeproc through which
+	  the OS could be notified of blocking-behaviour. Because of this
+	  the general I/O core has to take more care than usual to
+	  preserve the semantics of non-blocking channels.
+
+	  The problem was reported by "Kevin O'Gorman"
+	  <kevin@kosmanor.com>.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_ReadRaw): Do not read from the driver if
+	  the channel is non-blocking and the fileevent causing the read
+	  was generated by a timer. We do not know if there is data
+	  available from the OS. Instead of going to the OS for more and
+	  potentially blocking we simply signal EWOULDBLOCK to the higher
+	  levels to cause the system to wait for true fileevents.
+	  (GetInput): Same as before.
+	  (ChannelTimerProc): Added set and clear of CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.h (CHANNEL_TIMER_FEV): New flag for channels. Is
+	  set if a fileevent was generated by a timer, the channel is not
+	  blocking and the driver did not provide a blockmodeproc. In that
+	  case the I/O core has to be especially careful about going to
+	  the driver for more data.
+
+2001-09-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/SplitPath.3 (Tcl_GetPathType):
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetPathType):
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_GetPathType):
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpMatchInDirectory, NativeStat):  Vince
+	Darley reports the 2001-09-24 TIP 27 changes left the win
+	directory CONST poisoned.  These changes should fix that.
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: make genstubs
+
+2001-09-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/GetInt.3:
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclGetLong deleted):
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclGet.c:  Updated APIs in generic/tclGet.c
+	according to the guidelines of TIP 27.  [Patch 464674]
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs
+
+2001-09-25  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: removed comments referring to unused flag
+	TCL_PARSE_PART1. 
+	
+2001-09-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/Concat.3:
+	* doc/DString.3:
+	* doc/SplitList.3:
+	* generic/tclInt.h (TclCheckBadOctal):
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c (OpenEncodingFile):
+	* generic/tclMain.c (Tcl_Main):
+	* generic/tclUtil.c:
+	* unix/tclLoadDl.c (TclpLoadFile):  Updated APIs in 
+	generic/tclUtil.c according to the guidelines of TIP 27.
+	[Patch 464553]
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: make genstubs
+
+2001-09-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* The change below fixes [Bug #464380]. The bug was reported by
+	  Ronnie Brunner <rbrunner@users.sourceforge.net>. He also
+	  provided the patch.
+	
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): Moved release of
+	  'tclLibraryPath' to Tcl_FinalizeThread.
+	  (Tcl_FinalizeThread): See above, new place for release of
+	  'tclLibraryPath'.
+
+2001-09-24  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/encoding/cp1252.txt: File was missing part of the encoding
+	  [euro, ZCaron and zcaron].
+
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Add docs for Tcl_OutputBuffered; remove some
+	  old changebars.
+
+2001-09-21  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): corrected
+	  INST_STR_CMP else case for strings to pass true utf char length
+	  to Tcl_UtfNCmp.
+
+2001-09-20  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinInit.c: added extra processor definitions. (mstacy)
+
+	* win/tclWinSock.c (SocketThread): corrected pointer cast for _WIN64.
+
+	* win/tclWinNotify.c: removed unnecessary winsock include (it is
+	  already in from tclWinPort.h).
+
+	* win/tclWinPort.h: changed winsock.h include to winsock2.h.
+	  Reverses change from 2000-11-16, but is necessary for WIN64.
+	  Extensions should comply with defined OS words, or use #ifndef.
+
+2001-09-20  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/socket.test: removed dependence on being run from same dir
+	  as remote.tcl, which only now needs to be in the same dir as
+	  this file.  [Bug #219326]
+
+2001-09-19  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestcmdtokenCmd): corrected pointer
+	  storage/retrieval for 64bit machines.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c (Tcl_FormatObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclScan.c (Tcl_ScanObjCmd): corrected handling of format
+	and scan on 64-bit machines. [Bug #412696] (rmax)
+
+	* unix/configure: regen'ed
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added --enable-64bit support for HP-11 with the
+	64-bit kernel.
+
+	* tests/basic.test:
+	* tests/cmdInfo.test: improved skip reporting of missing commands
+
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: simplified error check for winFCmd-7.9
+
+	* tests/winPipe.test: removed obsolete cat16 tests
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed invalid usage
+	of valuePtr in TRACE_WITH_OBJ in INST_EVAL_STK case. [Bug #462594]
+	Changed INST_STR_CMP instruction to promote to Unicode strings
+	only when one of the strings is already of Unicode type.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode):
+	* generic/tclCompile.c (instructionTable):
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): INST_STR_MATCH -
+	Updated to Int1 instruction type and added special case to use
+	INST_STR_EQ instead when no glob chars are specified in a static
+	string.
+
+	* tests/{for.test,foreach.test,if.test,while.test}:
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileForCmd, TclCompileForeachCmd,
+	TclCompileIfCmd, TclCompileWhileCmd): Corrected the overaggressive
+	compiling of loop bodies enclosed in ""s.  [Bug #219166] (msofer)
+
+2001-09-19  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: insured that execution stack errors are
+	also detected at abnormal returns.
+
+2001-09-19  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/socket.n: Added documentation to mention what happens when a
+	server socket is created with port=0.  Removed an old change bar,
+	and no new change bar because Tcl has always behaved this way as
+	it is really a poorly-documented standards-defined OS feature.
+
+	* tests/util.test (util-8.1): Test derived from code to detect the
+	problem, but the test always works in the C locale, so beware if
+	you are maintaining the code.
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclNeedSpace): Rewrote to be UTF-8 aware.
+	[Bug 411825, but not that patch which would have added extra
+	spaces if there was a real non-ASCII space involved. ]
+
+2001-09-18 Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> 
+
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_PutsObjCmd): Rewritten to have saner and
+	  faster argument handling.  Fixes bug #123552. Patch provided by
+	  Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>: #402564.
+
+2001-09-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): On Linux, disable inlining when
+	one of the compat/*.c routines is to be linked in. [Patch 440891]
+
+2001-09-17  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: removed forced #define USE_TCLALLOC 1 for
+	Windows.  This means the native system allocator will be used by
+	default.  This should be binary and source compatible with
+	extensions, as Tcl_Alloc is a properly stubbed function.
+
+2001-09-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: corrected small bug in [Patch 456668] -
+	the varFramePtr was not restored in one possible exit.
+
+2001-09-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	
+	* doc/tclvars.n:
+	* generic/tclCompile.c:
+	* generic/tclCompile.h:
+	* generic/tclExecute.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c: disabled all compile and execution tracing
+	functionality in standard builds; TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG is now
+	necessary to enable it. [Bug 451858]
+
+2001-09-14  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/gets.n: 
+	* doc/read.n: 
+	* doc/puts.n: 
+	* doc/flush.n: 
+	* doc/fconfigure.n: 
+	* doc/flush.n: 
+	* doc/eof.n: 
+	* doc/seek.n: 
+	* doc/tell.n: 
+	* doc/close.n: 
+	* doc/fileevent.n: Added references to the Tcl standard
+	  channels. Item [219250], reported by David LeBlanc
+	  <whisper@oz.net>. Thanks to Christopher Nelson
+	  <chris@pinebush.com> for doing editorial work.
+
+2001-09-13  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/configure.in:
+	* win/makefile.bc:
+	* win/makefile.vc:
+	* library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl: Fixed version numbers from bogus tcl
+	  versions to independent versions for dde and registry packages.
+
+2001-09-13  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/regexp.test (regexp-20.1):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): had to adjust fix from
+	2001-08-06 to actually duplicate the objects in certain cases.
+	This is really a place where feather would have been essential.
+	[Bug #461322]
+
+	* generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfPrev): corrected to return the proper
+	location when the middle of a UTF-8 byte was passed in.
+	[Tk Bug #450504]
+
+	* ChangeLog.1999:
+	* ChangeLog: broke changes from 199x into ChangeLog.1999 to reduce
+	  size of the main ChangeLog.
+
+2001-09-13  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/ioCmd.test: Changed the computation of the result for
+	  iocmd-8.1[123] so that the tests work for single- and
+	  multi-process execution of the testsuite. Depending on the
+	  choice of the user stdout is a tty or not and thus reports
+	  different channel options. Fixes [460993] reported by Don
+	  Porter.
+
+2001-09-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/ParseCmd.3:  
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObjCmd):
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclParse.c:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* tests/parse.test: Deprecate the use of Tcl_EvalTokens, replaced
+	by the new Tcl_EvalTokensStandard. The new function performs the
+	same duties but adheres to the standard return convention for Tcl
+	evaluations; the deprecated function could only return TCL_OK or
+	TCL_ERROR, which caused [Bug 219384] and [Bug 455151].
+	This patch implements [TIP 56].
+	
+2001-09-12  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Invert the logic that checks for $GCC.
+	Instead of checking for "$GCC" = "no" we check for
+	"$GCC" != "yes" or simply swap the true and false
+	blocks of code in an if statement. That way if
+	GCC is set to "" everything will still work. [Bug 460991]
+
+2001-09-12  Don Porter <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/appendComp.test:
+	* tests/lsearch.test:
+	* tests/namespace.test:
+	* tests/rename.test:
+	* tests/split.test:  Corrected tests to better isolate tests in
+	one file from influencing tests in other files.  [Bug 460591]
+
+2001-09-12  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls: reserved stub #481 for the implementation of
+	[TIP 56]
+
+2001-09-11  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3: Added documentation for Tcl_WriteRaw and
+	  Tcl_ReadRaw [#414929].
+	
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3: Added documentation for Tcl_ChannelBuffered
+	  and Tcl_GetTopChannel [#414929].
+
+	* The changes below are a fix for [219253].
+
+	* tests/socket.test: Removed _most_ instances of hardwired port
+	  numbers for listening sockets. Remaining are the ports in all
+	  tests with constraint 'doTestsWithRemoteServer'. These seem to
+	  be designed for a more controlled environment and are usually
+	  skipped when running the testsuite.
+
+	* tests/io.test: Removed all instances of hardwired port numbers
+	  for listening sockets.
+
+2001-09-10  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (TclInExit): Corrected handling of tsd in
+	late stages of finalization.  [Bug #419449] (darley)
+
+	* tests/stack.test:
+	* generic/tclInterp.c (AliasObjCmd): Check the numLevels to ensure
+	that we aren't hitting some alias loop condition.  [Bug #443184]
+
+2001-09-10  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't include . characters
+	in the Tcl library name when building on FreeBSD 3.X and later
+	systems. [Patch 450725]
+
+2001-09-10  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/tclsh.1:
+	* doc/Tcl_Main.3: 
+	* doc/CrtChannel.3: 
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3: 
+	* doc/GetStdChan.3: Enhanced the manpages with cross-references to
+	  the new manpage and more explanations how these functions deal
+	  with the standard channels in various situations.
+
+	* doc/StdChannels.3: New manpage describing handling of the
+	  standard channels by the Tcl library [402725].
+
+2001-09-10  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks (Tcl_FSLink): Updated to reflect 2001-08-23
+	file system changes.
+
+	* unix/tclLoadShl.c:  Added #include of tclInt.h; access to Tcl
+	internals, notably TclpUnloadFile(), is required.  Thanks to
+	Bob Techentin for report and patch.  [Bug 459305]
+
+	* generic/tclInitScript.h (initScript):
+	* win/tclWinInit.c (TCL_REGISTRY_KEY, TclpSetVariables):  Removed
+	vestiges of Tcl's old initialization from registry variables.
+	[Bug 455645]
+
+2001-09-10  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: Also added 'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to
+	  the internal platform specific stub table.
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjStat): Now added the call to
+	  'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels' to this function. I don't know where
+	  my head was last thursday (2001-09-06), but the call was
+	  actually added to 'TclpObjChdir', i.e. the implementation of
+	  [cd]. Corrected this now. Thanks to Vince Darley for spotting
+	  this.
+
+2001-09-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* tests/proc.test: made [proc] bytecompile a no-op for procs
+	defined with _args_ as single argument and an empty body.
+	[FQ 451441] 
+	
+2001-09-09  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in: Use () around variable name
+	instead of {}. Use TCLTEST variable directly
+	instead of depending on the tcltest alias.
+
+2001-09-09  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:  Reminder from David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
+	that I hadn't finished the Borland compatibility stuff.
+	[Patch: 436116]
+
+2001-09-09  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: Modify cmdAH-20.5 and cmdAH-24.8
+	to display the file atime or mtime results if
+	the test fails.
+
+2001-09-08  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/mkd.bat:
+	* win/rmd.bat: made these text files, text files again.
+	[Patch: 451333]
+
+2001-09-08  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/mkd.bat:
+	* win/rmd.bat:
+	Apply binary property (cvs admin -kb) to files and convert
+	to CRLF linefeed format to fix the VC++ build. [Bug #219409]
+
+2001-09-08 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c:
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: removed Tcl_FSCopyFile fallback
+	to channel copying, since the channels will not have
+	access to interpreters and the channel copying currently
+	requires an interp.  Code which required cross-platform
+	copies always has interpreters, so that solves the problem.
+	Fixes bug in TclKit.
+	
+2001-09-07  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/tcl.m4: Added -link50compat option so a VC6 linker makes
+	a VC5 (pre sp3) compatible import library.
+	[Bug: 219257]
+
+2001-09-07  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpThreadExit): Cast status argument to
+	_endthreadex to unsigned instead of DWORD to match the Win32
+	function prototype.
+
+2001-09-06  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* All the changes below serve to fix bug [219148] which reports a
+	  80x performance hit for file I/O on Win* systems. On my system
+	  it was closer to a 120x hit. Problem report by Uwe Traum <no
+	  email address available>.
+
+	  The fix goes like this: The obstacle is 'FlushFileBuffers',
+	  executed whenever Tcl writes data to the OS, as Tcl has to wait
+	  for the disk to complete I/O, and disks are slow. We remove that
+	  obstacle. This opens another problem, [file size] reports back
+	  wrong numbers. So for [file size] we add the call back in. As
+	  optimization we keep track of the channels which were written to
+	  and flush only these.
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpObjStat): Added a call to
+	  'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels'. This ensures that [file size] and
+	  related commands report the correct size of a file even if Tcl
+	  has recently written to it. Unixoid OS's always report the
+	  correct size even for files with pending data, but Win*
+	  syssystem don't. They only report what is actually on disk.
+
+	* win/tclWinInt.h: Added declaration of
+	  'TclWinFlushDirtyChannels', making it available to other parts
+	  of the tcl core.
+
+	* win/tclWinChan.c (TclWinFlushDirtyChannels): New, internal,
+	  procedure. Goes through the list of open file channels and
+	  forces the OS to flush its file buffers for all which were
+	  written to since the last call of this function. This is an
+	  expensive operation as Tcl has to wait for the OS to complete
+	  actual writes to the disk.
+
+	  (FileInfo): Added dirty flag required by the procedure above.
+
+	  (FileOutputProc): Removed flushing of file buffers, setting the
+	  dirty flag instead. This means that the previously incurred
+	  delays do not happen anymore.
+
+	  (TclWinOpenFileChannel): Added initialization of 'dirty' flag.
+
+2001-09-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* doc/http.n: noted -binary, charset and coding state keys.
+	* tests/http.test:
+	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/http/http.tcl (geturl): correctly get charset parameter
+	and convert text according to specified encoding (if known).  RFC
+	iso8859-1 is used by default.  Also recognize Content-encoding to
+	see if we should do binary translation.  Added a CYA -binary
+	switch for the cases that were missed. [Bug #219211 #219399]
+
+	* tests/ioUtil.test: changed to make better use of constraints and
+	remove knownBug constraints that weren't valid.
+
+2001-09-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-3.2): Updated test to support
+	  newer HP-UX releases that properly report euc-jp as the system
+	  encoding for Japanese.  Bug report and patch verification by Bob
+	  Techentin.  [Bug 453883]
+
+	* doc/http.n:
+	* library/http/*.tcl:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* tools/tclmin.wse:
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/{Mm}akefile.*:  Updated http package to version 2.4,
+	reflecting the new features just added.
+
+2001-09-06 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c: tests of old-fs hooks no longer cause problems
+	in threaded builds.  Also removed unused unload proc.
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclIOUtilc: added Tcl_FSMountsChanged so that a vfs
+	can inform the filesystem that the filesystem epoch must be
+	changed (since cached filesystems may now be incorrect).  Fixes
+	problem running tclvfs extension.
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: if tests aren't in a native
+	filesystem, then don't use pipes to run them. [Bug 458741]
+	
+2001-09-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls (479 generic): 
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_Seek,Tcl_Tell,Tcl_OutputBuffered): Added
+	public function to return the size of the output buffer and
+	reworked other channel functions to use this shared functionality
+	and that of Tcl_InputBuffered() too. [TIP#49, Rolf Schroedter]
+
+2001-09-05  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:  Another small trim finalizing Borland
+	support.
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:  More Borland compatibility fixes.  Changed
+	EDQUOT #define from 49 to 69.  Borland had a clash as it was already
+	using this number.  Upon advice from Helmut Giese, EDQUOT has been
+	found in other header files #defined as 69.
+	[Patch: 436116]
+
+	* win/.cvsignore:  A few more glob patterns added.
+
+	* win/makefile.bc (new):  Borland lives once more! rejoice..
+	* generic/tclAlloc.c: Small Borland compatibility fix.
+	* win/tclWinTime.c:  More Borland compatibility fixes.
+	[Patch: 436116]
+
+2001-09-05 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: made notWin2000 constraint false if not
+	running on Windows at all.
+	
+2001-09-04  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c:  Revisited _beginthreadex() stuff.  Instead
+	of assuming a c-runtime implimentation of _beginthreadex normal,
+	I reversed the logic to not assume, and use when is by explicitly
+	needing to add runtimes that support it such as Borland.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:  Borland compatibility change so
+	ClientData was properly typed as a void* and TCHAR would not be
+	defined twice.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:  Removed a small mistake from before.  Changes to
+	the EXTERN macro for proper Borland compatibility will have to see
+	a TIP.  What's this with the MS compiler:
+
+		__declspec(dllexport) int func (int a, int b);
+
+	will have to be this with Borland:
+
+		int __cdecl __export func (int a, int b);
+
+	The order of the attribute needs to be after the return type.
+
+2001-09-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* compat/strtod.c (strtod):  Fixed failure to handle expressions
+	like 3eq2 and failure to set errno on overflow.  [Bug 440894]
+
+2001-09-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* tests/proc.test: made [proc] check that formal args have
+	simple names [Bug 458548] 
+
+2001-09-04 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Minor bug fixes in filesystem, plus small vfs changes as a 
+	result of enabling the test filesystem to work properly.
+	* tests/fileName.test: ensure new test cleans up after itself
+	* doc/filename.n: 
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: improved Mac path handling and document
+	why [Bug: 421842] on Windows handling of UNC paths is not valid.
+	Documentation and code now much clearer on what is and is not a 
+	UNC path.
+	* doc/FileSystem.3:
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: fixed error message, fixed [Bug: 453512]
+	about dangerous use of tmpnam, replaced with mkstemp.  
+	Documented all the changes.
+	* generic/tclTest.c: made test vfs fully functional as a 
+	'reporting filesystem'.
+	* generic/tcl.stubs:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* doc/file.n:
+	* various platform-specific 'TclpLoadFile': fixed comments about 
+	unload behaviour, and completed objectification of loading.
+	Required change to Tcl_Filesystem lookup table, so incompatible
+	with 8.4a3, but not older versions of Tcl.  The change also
+	allows 'link' and 'reporting' filesystems to function correctly
+	when loading files.  Implementation of 'file delete -force'
+	copes with case where cwd is inside the directory.  Moved
+	overlooked Tcl_FSGetPathType from internal to external API.
+	Made sure filesystems which are registered and then unregistered
+	are only freed when all references to them are gone.
+	Documented changes.
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: when deleting directories recursively,
+	make sure permissions are ok.  Together with the above, this
+	fixes [Bug: 219139]
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: differentiated test results for win2k 
+	versus not.  This fixes [Bug: 219239]
+	* tests/fCmd.test: added tests for 'file delete -force' where
+	the cwd is inside, and when permissions are inadequate.
+	
+2001-09-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: fixed incorrect operands for INST_LIST
+	[Bug: 458241] (David Cuthbert, dacut@users.sourceforge.net)
+
+2001-09-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): fixed missing comma
+	in debug macro.
+
+2001-09-03  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/ExprLongObj.3: Fixed error in documentation of argument type
+	to Tcl_ExprObj [Bug: 457435]
+
+2001-09-02  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c:  Portability fix for Cygwin who's c-runtime,
+	not surprisingly, doesn't have the MSVCRT specific _beginthreadex /
+	_endthreadex pair.  This might have to be revisited for proper
+	Borland, lcc32, Watcom and other support as well.
+	[Patch: 444255]
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c:  Moved FinalizeConditionEvent() proto to within
+	the main #ifdef TCL_THREADS block to avoid mingw warning about it
+	being there but unused.
+
+	* win/makefile.vc:  Added -Zl (zee el) to tclStubLib.c compile line
+	to make sure the tclstub84.lib static library is built without
+	requiring a specific C-runtime library at link-time for the end-use
+	developer.  It has been noted on c.l.t that this trips many first
+	time users trying to make extensions.
+	[Patch: 403533]
+
+2001-08-31  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h: added TclCompileListCmd header
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: added TclCompileListCmd compile proc
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileListCmd): function to compile
+	the 'list' command at parse time.
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): definition of
+	INST_LIST bytecode.
+
+	* doc/StringObj.3: added words of warning to use Tcl_ResetResult
+	with the Tcl_Append* functions.
+
+	* tests/compile.test: added compile-11.* interp result checks
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclGetIntForIndex): added Tcl_ResetResult
+	before Tcl_AppendStringsToObj to prevent shared object crash when
+	called from bcc instruction.  The Tcl_Append* calls that append to
+	the result object that are invoked by bcc insts must remember to
+	call Tcl_ResetResult because the bcc doesn't do this for us.
+	[Bug #456892]
+
+2001-08-30  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c: fixed some casting problems that upset
+	Crays. [Bug #419528] (andreasen)
+
+2001-08-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Silence warning from Sun compiler. [Bug 454374]
+
+2001-08-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: allow cached fully-qualified command names
+	to be usable from different namespaces within the same interpreter
+	without forcing a new lookup. This speeds up scripts that pass
+	command names in variables ("this" in some OO packages).
+	[Patch 456668]. 
+
+2001-08-30 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Further fs updates.  After examining the most common Tcl
+	extensions (TclX, BLT, Tk, TclPro, Mktclapp), it has been
+	determined that only TclpGetCwd and the Access/Stat/Open
+	insert/delete hooks of the internal fs functions are ever used.
+	The remaining functions from Tcl's internal interfaces have
+	therefore been removed, since Tcl now exports a more suitable
+	public API (Tcl_FS...)
+	
+	* generic/tclInt.stubs:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: updated for removed internal functions.
+	Some new internal functions have been put in tclInt.h (and
+	not exported in the stub table because good public equivalents
+	exist).
+	* generic/tclTest.c: some test functions used the internal private 
+	APIs.  These tests have been retained, but modified to use 
+	public APIs.  Also objectified the internal filesystem tests.
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: removed TclpStat, TclpAccess and refactored
+	code to use NativeAccess, NativeStat.  This should speed up
+	stat, access and glob commands.
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c: removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete 
+	File/Directory string-based procedures which aren't used any more.
+	Improved efficiency of some other procedures. Ensure that filename
+	conversions with a NULL interp do not crash Tcl.
+	* mac/tclMacFCmd.c: wrapped long lines and cleaned up
+	TclpObjNormalizePath, removed all TclpCopy/Rename/Delete 
+	File/Directory string-based procedures which aren't used any more.
+	* mac/tclMacFile.c: removed obsolete TclpStat, TclpAccess, TclpChdir,
+	etc.
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: removed use of TclpAccess, removed all
+	TclpCopy/Rename/Delete File/Directory string-based procedures which
+	aren't used any more.
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c: removed obsolete TclpStat, TclpAccess, TclpChdir,
+	etc.
+	* tcl(Unix|Mac|Win)Chan.c: objectified TclpOpenFileChannel.
+	* various 'load' implementations all objectified.
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: removed redundant code.
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: removed TclStat, TclAccess, TclpListVolumes.
+	Fix to MatchInDirectory at the root of a volume.  Also improved
+	some documentation, and improved default path joining behaviour
+	for virtual filesystems, especially regarding '~'.
+	* tests/fileName.test: added tests to check for bugs fixed above.
+	* doc/FileName.3: improved documentation
+	
+2001-08-30  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* generic/tclAsync.c:
+	* generic/tclEvent.c:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Improper cleanup of asyncMutex in tclAsync.c
+	repaired.  TclFinalizeSynchronization() was trying to remove a
+	registered mutex that was dumped earlier when the TSD it was stored
+	in was cleared. This was only surfacing on *nix.  Windows was being
+	masked by mutexes not actually being returned to the system!  That
+	was repaired in a previous patch.  Needed to add a private
+	TclFinalizeAsync() to tclAsync.c and called from Tcl_FinalizeThread().
+	Pheww..  Is this done yet?
+	[Bug: 414419] requested by Rob Ratcliff <rrr6399@futuretek.com>
+
+2001-08-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclPushVarName): noted 'static' defn.
+	[Bug #453872]
+
+2001-08-26  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/auto.tcl (tcl_findLibrary):
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.{1,9}):
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):
+	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):  Corrected 
+	inconsistency between  the search path for script libraries and
+	the directory name $DISTNAME into which distributions built
+	by 'make test' unpack.  [Bug 455642]
+
+2001-08-24  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/stringComp.test: added string-1.3
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): changed to return
+	TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE instead of TCL_ERROR when compiling and an
+	unknown string method is called.  This is necessary as the string
+	command may be never called, or not until 'string' is redefined.
+
+2001-08-24 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/glob.n: documented windows-style path issue with glob.
+	[Bug: 219392]
+	* doc/filename.n: documented windows path/file length limitation.
+	[Bug: 454597]
+
+2001-08-24  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9): Corrected expected result
+	to match Tcl's quirky construction of its init library path.
+
+2001-08-23  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c (BuildCommandLine): Fixed tcl Bug
+	  [432499]. Part of the code used the non-absolute path to the
+	  executable to determine quoting. This failed if the absolute
+	  path contained spaces, but the application name itself not. This
+	  bug caused no trouble on Win NT 5, but does for other variants
+	  in the Win* family. Report and fix due to Ken Poole
+	  <kenpoole@users.sourceforge.net>.
+
+2001-08-23  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added QNX-6 build support. [Bug #219410] (loverso)
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: corrected minor compiler warnings.
+
+2001-08-23 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Variety of small filesystem and vfs issues fixed or improved.
+	The new fs code allows many new opportunities for efficiency
+	improvements through the objectified API. The main changes
+	integrated here are such efficiency improvements.  Some
+	limitations of the original implementation have also now been
+	lifted.  Meanwhile a variety of fs bugs (some old, some new)
+	have also been fixed.
+	
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: Made Tcl_FSSplitPath more efficient, 
+	and removed some static string-based procedures which are no 
+	longer used.  Much more objectification.  Tcl_FSJoinPath
+	is now very efficient and more aware of virtual filesystems.
+	Clarified where the Mac-specific code attempts to interpret
+	Unix-style paths.  Modified TclDoGlob to use lstat not
+	access to fix [Bug: 434876, L. Virden]
+	* tcl(Win|Unix|Mac)FCmd.c:
+	* tcl(Win|Unix|Mac)File.c: replaced TclpListVolumes with
+	TclpObjListVolumes with different signature, updated code due
+	to more efficient signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath.  Used
+	cached native paths where possible to improve efficiency --
+	this was completed on MacOS, but on Unix and Win the traversal
+	functions make the task much more complex, so there are still
+	some improvements possible there.  Removed unused 
+	TclpNormalizePath which had been left in tclWinFCmd.c.
+	Objectified all 'file attributes' functions.  Fixed the new
+	[Bug:451571, Bruce Stephens] which is most obvious on Unix, 
+	but could occur on MacOS or Windows.  This bug actually existed
+	in Tcl 8.3.x but was only made obvious by the recent filesystem
+	overhaul when the code was exercised more heavily.  
+	* tests/fileName.test: Three new tests to exercise the above bug,
+	and make sure it is fixed correctly.
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c: avoid panic in glob when a link
+	doesn't point anywhere.  It would probably be good to define
+	exactly what Tcl should do in circumstances like these, and
+	make sure mac/win/unix all behave accordingly. [Bug: 417111, 
+	Hemang Lavana]. Also fixed misleading/obsolete comment in the code.
+	* generic/tcl.stubs: changed signature of Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath
+	and added Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath.
+	These changes allow further optimisations in the FS code.
+	* generic/tcl.h: changed signature of Tcl_FSListVolumes so that 
+	it doesn't require a Tcl interpreter plus result.  Renamed 
+	Tcl_FSReadLink to Tcl_FSLink with additional argument so
+	we can support making links in the future. [Patch: 450340]
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	added declaration for TclpObjListVolumes.  Objectified 
+	internal call signatures for 'file attributes' functions, and
+	added an internal objectified get path type function.
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: added the moved function TclpListVolumes 
+	which calls platform specific code (needed for backwards 
+	compatibility), and improved efficiency of parts of the FS
+	(particularly file normalization).  Much less copying and
+	memory allocation is required now.  added new GetPathType 
+	so that changes in 'file volumes' can actually affect files'
+	types, and objectified more code.  Made current code work
+	with test suite artificially changing current platform.
+	Added 'static' keywords where required.
+	* generic/tclIO.c:
+	* generic/tclTest.c: Added 'static' keywords, fixing 
+	[Bug: 453872, Bob Techentin]
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c: file command implementation updated for 
+	API changes, removed unnecessary special-case SplitPath static
+	function, since it no longer helps prevent code duplication.
+	Moved setting of interpreter result to each individual location
+	that actually required it, to avoid very large code separation
+	between reading and setting the result.
+	* doc/FileSystem.3: updated documentation for the new or 
+	changed APIs, and clarified some issues.
+	* doc/SplitPath.3: added pointer to newer APIs in FileSystem.3
+	* doc/filename.n: clarified current implementation of tilde
+	support on Mac/Win.  [Bug:453514, Sergey Kuzmin]
+	* doc/glob.n: improved documentation for '-directory' and '-path' 
+	options.
+	
+	There are now many private, obsolete, platform-specific 'Tclp' 
+	string-based filesystem APIs which could be removed.  We should
+	check whether any of these are used by extensions and, at least
+	in Tcl 9, remove them.
+	
+	The above changes signify a ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** 
+	with 8.4a3, since signatures of two functions in the new API 
+	have changed, but not with older versions of Tcl.
+
+2001-08-23  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclBinary.c (FormatNumber): Extract a long from the
+	object and not an int, to stop [binary format] from being unable
+	to format some input numbers on architectures where sizeof(int) is
+	less than sizeof(long) (particularly Alpha.)  [tiprender Bug #441861]
+
+	* tests/format.test: Converted conditional execution of tests into
+	a test constraint.
+
+2001-08-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in:
+	* win/makefile.vc: updated install target for dde1.2
+	* doc/dde.n: fixed dde man page (which was totally incorrect).
+	* tests/winDde.test:
+	* win/tclWinDde.c (Tcl_DdeObjCmd): added -binary option to dde
+	request command to allow for returning binary data. [Bug #227482]
+	Updated dde to 1.2
+
+	* tests/tcltest.test: added unixExecs constraint to files that
+	used 'grep' in the test. [Bug #453143]
+
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl: fixed stdio constraint test.
+	[Patch #454050] (stanton)
+	Simplified unixExecs constraint test. 
+	
+2001-08-22  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/ioUtil.test (ioUtil-3.*): Corrected errors in tests
+	revealed by fix of overagressive compiler.  [Bug 451200]
+
+2001-08-21  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:
+	* tests/compile.test: Fixed overagressive compilation of [catch]:
+	it was catching errors at substitution time. [Bug #219184]
+	
+2001-08-21  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/tcltest.test (tcltest-12.2): fixed test that would break
+	when env vars weren't Tcl list friendly [Patch #454046] (stanton)
+
+2001-08-20  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/http/http.tcl (geturl): added port number to Host:
+	header to comply with HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 2068).  [Bug #452217]
+
+2001-08-16  David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
+
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* tools/tcl.hpj.in:
+	* win/tcl.hpj.in:  Removed -kb storage in CVS to ensure these text
+	files are checked-out in the translation mode CVS is in.  Setting
+	these as binary as part of an effort to make sure they are always
+	in CRLF, no matter what the CVS translation, is bypassing how CVS
+	works and is confusing.
+
+	* tools/genStubs.tcl:  Removed LF-only output.  Having to reconvert
+	back to CRLF before committing to CVS was giving me a headache.
+	[Bug: 451333]
+
+	* win/makefile.vc: replaced $(WINDIR) with $(include32) for the
+	.rc.res inference rule.  winver.h wasn't getting included.
+	[Bug: 445630]
+
+2001-08-14  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: make the intial maxNestingDepth of an
+	interpreter be MAX_NESTING_DEPTH instead of a hardwired value
+	[Bug: 232564]
+
+2001-08-13  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/trace.test: Corrected test numbers [Bug: 449794] 
+
+2001-08-12  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Use GCC variable set by AC_PROG_CC instead
+	of defining our own using_gcc variable.
+
+2001-08-11  Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Variety of small issues introduced by the vfs code fixed:
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: uninitialised read.
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c: possible memory leak in file delete 
+	with error condition.
+
+2001-08-10  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c: 
+	* tests/trace.test: Insure that [array] traces work correctly for
+	undefined variables [Bug: 449094] 
+
+2001-08-09  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Delete the unused getcwd.o
+	target. This fixes bug #440942.
+
+2001-08-08  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/dde/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/http/http.tcl:
+	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl:
+	* library/msgcat/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/opt/optparse.tcl:
+	* library/opt/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/reg/pkgIndex.tcl:
+	* library/tcltest/tcltest.tcl:
+	* library/tcltest/pkgIndex.tcl: Added checks for package dependencies.
+	Bumped patchlevels of changed packages:  http 2.3.2, msgcat 1.2.2,
+	opt 0.4.3, tcltest 2.0.1.  [Patch 448931]
+
+	* README:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/configure.in:
+	* unix/tcl.spec:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* win/configure:
+	* win/configure.in: Bumped up patchlevel to 8.4a4 to distinguish
+	CVS snapshots from the 8.4a3 release.  This does not necessarily
+	mean there will be an 8.4a4 release.  [Bug 448938].
+
+2001-08-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	8.4a3 RELEASE
+
+	* changes:
+	* README:
+	* mac/README: 
+	* unix/README:
+	* win/README.binary: updated for 8.4a3 release
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (Tcl_FSSplitPath): update to Tcl style
+	guide.
+
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c (FileCopyRename): fixed mem leak in
+	introduction of vfs code where a new Tcl_Obj wasn't freed.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd, Tcl_RegsubObjCmd):
+	reordered the retrieval of arguments to avoid shimmering bug when
+	the pattern and string referenced the same object.
+
+	* unix/configure: regenerated
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added GNU (HURD) configuration target. (brinkmann)
+	[Patch: #442974]
+
+	* win/README: made note of URL for Windows compilation notes
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpFinalizeMutex, TclpFinalizeCondition):
+	added DeleteCriticalSection calls for cleanup [Patch: #419683]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): fixed use of tmpnam,
+	which is dangerous. [Patch: #442636] (lim)
+	The use of tmpnam in TclpTempFileName must still be changed.
+
+	* tests/http.test (http-4.14): fixed variable error return.
+	[Bug: 424252]
+
+2001-08-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/configure: regenerated
+	* win/tcl.m4: fixed DLLSUFFIX definition to always be ${DBGX}.dll.
+	This is necessary for TEA compliant builds that build shared
+	against a static-built Tcl.
+	* win/Makefile.in ($(TCLSH)): added $(TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE) to build
+	target, otherwise it wouldn't get generated in a static build.
+
+2001-08-06  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_GetsObjCmd): Applied patch from SF item
+	  [442665] to fix the bug reported by it. The function can corrupt
+	  a freed object if it is called with objc == 3. This is because
+	  it retrieves resultPtr and does not increment its reference
+	  count, but then calls Tcl_ObjSetVar2, which causes the retrieved
+	  resultPtr object to be released.
+	
+2001-08-06  Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/tclsh.1:  Added note that the tclsh program is frequently
+	installed with the Tcl version numer as part of the name.
+	[Patch 402725]
+
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* tests/pkg.test:  [package forget] now forgets all of the
+	package arguments it receives, not stopping when a package is
+	not found.  [Bug 415273]
+
+2001-08-02  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c (Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory): corrected
+	uninitialized value.
+
+2001-08-02  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:
+	Revert <tchar.h> related changes made to improve
+	Cygwin support on 2001-07-18. This change ended
+	up breaking the VC++ build because of conflicts
+	between Windows APIs and internal Tk APIs.
+
+2001-08-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: minor casts to eliminate warnings. (lim)
+	[Patch: #440218]
+
+	* tests/parseOld.test: changed some tests that required
+	testwordend to exist to skip in a proper tcltest manner.
+	[Bug: #442663]
+
+	* library/http/http.tcl (http::mapReply): the regsub'ing of \n and
+	\t to escape them was unnecessary.
+
+2001-07-31  Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	Changes from TIP#17 "Redo Tcl's filesystem"
+	The following files were impacted:
+	* doc/Access.3: 
+	* doc/FileSystem.3: 
+	* doc/OpenFileChnl.3: 
+	* doc/file.n: 
+	* doc/glob.n: 
+	* generic/tcl.decls: 
+	* generic/tcl.h: 
+	* generic/tclCmdAH.c: 
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: 
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c: 
+	* generic/tclDate.c: 
+	* generic/tclDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tclEncoding.c: 
+	* generic/tclFCmd.c: 
+	* generic/tclFileName.c: 
+	* generic/tclGetDate.y: 
+	* generic/tclIO.c: 
+	* generic/tclIOCmd.c: 
+	* generic/tclIOUtil.c: 
+	* generic/tclInt.decls: 
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: 
+	* generic/tclLoad.c: 
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: 
+	* generic/tclTest.c: 
+	* generic/tclUtil.c: 
+	* library/init.tcl: 
+	* mac/tclMacFCmd.c: 
+	* mac/tclMacFile.c: 
+	* mac/tclMacInit.c: 
+	* mac/tclMacPort.h: 
+	* mac/tclMacResource.c: 
+	* mac/tclMacTime.c: 
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: 
+	* tests/event.test: 
+	* tests/fCmd.test: 
+	* tests/fileName.test: 
+	* tests/io.test: 
+	* tests/ioCmd.test: 
+	* tests/proc-old.test: 
+	* tests/registry.test: 
+	* tests/unixFCmd.test: 
+	* tests/winDde.test: 
+	* tests/winFCmd.test: 
+	* unix/mkLinks: 
+	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c: 
+	* unix/tclUnixFile.c: 
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c: 
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c: 
+	* win/tclWinFCmd.c: 
+	* win/tclWinFile.c: 
+	* win/tclWinInit.c: 
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c
+
+2001-07-24  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c (Tcl_CreateThread): Close Windows
+	HANDLE returned by _beginthreadex. The MS documentation
+	states that this handle is not closed by a later call to
+	_endthreadex.
+
+2001-07-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/pkgMkindex.n:
+	* library/package.tcl:  Corrected documentation and usage
+	message of [pkg_mkIndex].
+
+2001-07-18  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* generic/tclPlatDecls.h: Define TCHAR by including
+	windows.h instead of tchar.h since Cygwin does not
+	support the tchar.h header. Include CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS
+	logic from tclWinPort.h.
+	* win/tclWinPort.h: Remove CHECK_UNICODE_CALLS logic.
+	Remove include of windows.h since this now done it
+	tclPlatDecls.h.
+	* win/tclWinReg.c: Remove duplicate include of windows.h.
+
+2001-07-18  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: Aftermath to [SF #427196]. Squash empty buffers
+	  if they are smaller than the requested buffersize, to prevent
+	  reusage of old buffers and to honor changes in the requested
+	  buffersize made by the user.
+
+2001-07-17  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinFile.c (TclpReadlink): Add Cygwin specific definition
+	for the TclpReadlink function. This method implements reading of
+	symbolic links when build with Cygwin.
+
+2001-07-17  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPort.h: Add Cygwin specific defines for environ
+	and timezone variables.
+
+2001-07-17  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (GetInput): Fixed [SF #427196]. Memory was
+	  overwritten because a buffer was used after a change of the
+	  requested buffersize together with that requested buffersize and
+	  not its actual size, which was smaller. Note that the continous
+	  reuse of the smaller buffer negatively impacts performance. The
+	  system never allocates a buffer with the newly requested bigger
+	  buffersize.
+
+2001-07-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h: Define __WIN32__ when
+	__CYGWIN__ or __MINGW32__ is defined.
+	* generic/tclAlloc.c: Define caddr_t when
+	compiling with VC++ or mingw. This type is
+	already defined when compiling with Cygwin.
+
+2001-07-16  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinConsole.c:
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h:
+	* win/tclWinSerial.c:
+	* win/tclWinThrd.c:
+	Remove unnecessary #includes of dos.h, direct.h,
+	and tchar.h. This will help the Cygwin porting
+	effort since these headers do not exist under Cygwin.
+
+2001-07-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* win/tclWinPipe.c (PipeClose2Proc): constrained the mutex lock to
+	just the TerminateThread call and waiting for termination. (jsmith)
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c: Removed extra copy of the SCAN_* macros
+	#defined in generic/tclScan.c. (porter) [Bug 441230]
+
+2001-07-12  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8): Added extra constraint,
+	notInstalledInTmp, to stop this test from damaging installations
+	in /tmp; not much fun to have to reinstall the Tcl library every
+	time you run the test suite!
+
+	* tests/subst.test (subst-10.*): Updated tests to check new
+	behaviour for 'break' in command substitutions.
+	(subst-1.2,subst-7.1): Error messages changed.
+	* doc/SubstObj.3: New file, to document Tcl_SubstObj.
+	* doc/subst.n: Improved and updated documentation for 'subst' to
+	help support the changed behaviour.
+	* generic/tcl.decls (generic-437): Declaration for Tcl_SubstObj
+	* generic/tcl.h (TCL_SUBST_*): Added flags for Tcl_SubstObj.
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SubstObj,Tcl_SubstObjCmd): Divided into
+	two parts to allow people to access the innards of 'subst' and
+	changed the behaviour when command substitutions do a 'break' to
+	be different from 'continue'.  Also now works with objects, which
+	allows for some nifty optimisations with variable substitutions
+	and a slight improvement with command substitutions.  [TIP#36]
+
+2001-07-10  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Add AR variable for use in STLIB_LD.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Use STLIB_LD when defining MAKE_LIB
+	and MAKE_STUB_LIB. Subst RANLIB and AR.
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Add doc comment about
+	STLIB_LD command. Check ${AR} env var when setting
+	STLIB_LD and delay evaluation until make time.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Delay evaluation of
+	${AR} in STLIB_LD and add flags to better match the
+	Unix implementation. Don't bother defining AR when
+	using VC++ since it is not used.
+
+2001-07-06  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Pass -e _WinMain@16 in
+	addition to the -mwindows flag to work around a problem
+	with ld when it incorrectly use main() as the executable
+	entry point when both WinMain() and main() are available.
+
+2001-07-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/cmdAH.test: Added leading zero to file modes to work
+	around fault in HPUX strtol() which ignores the base parameter
+	[Bug #438808]
+
+2001-07-05  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Subst DEPARG directly instead
+	of relying on a variable. This will make Cygwin
+	builds faster since an extra exec will be avoided.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Subst DEPARG.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Move AC_MSG_CHECKING
+	after the AC_CHECK_PROG so that status messages do
+	not get mixed together. Set DEPARG based on the
+	results of the cygpath check so that we avoid using
+	an extra exec when it is not needed. Use ac_cv_cygwin
+	status flag instead of looking at the output of
+	gcc -v, which works in the case where -mno-cygwin is
+	set in the CFLAGS.
+
+2001-07-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* mac/README:
+	* unix/README:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary: updated READMEs with purls
+
+2001-07-03  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Remove PATHTYPE variable.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Don't subst PATHTYPE.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Remove PATHTYPE
+	variable. Set CYGPATH to "cygpath -w" if the
+	cygpath executable is found on the path. This
+	approach works for native Cygwin builds and
+	cross compiles.
+
+2001-07-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/var.test:
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_VariableObjCmd): added patch to check for
+	number of args. [Patch #426038]
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_GetVar2Ex): added ability to recognize
+	TCL_TRACE_READS flags to cause creation of part1 in TclLookupVar
+	to make sure newly created array will get read traces triggered
+	appropriately.  This is called by Tcl_ObjGetVar2, Tcl_GetVar, and
+	Tcl_GetVar2.
+	(TclSetIndexedScalar, TclSetElementOfIndexedArray): added read
+	trace triggering for lappend case.
+	(Tcl_LappendObjCmd): pass TCL_TRACE_READS to Tcl_ObjGetVar2 to
+	trigger possible read traces for new arrays.
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): added TCL_TRACE_READS
+	flag to INST_LAPPEND(_ARRAY)_STK case to trigger read traces for
+	newly created arrays.  Removed unnecessary #ifdef for
+	TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG in INST_LOAD_SCALAR1 case.
+
+	* tests/append.test:
+	* tests/appendComp.test: added tests for read trace triggering for
+	append and lappend.
+
+2001-07-03  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* tests/clock.test (clock-2.5): Adjust test so that it passes
+	when the time slice is 60 msecs, now passes under Windows 98.
+
+2001-07-03  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't pass the v flag
+	to ${AR} when using gcc, verbose output is not needed.
+
+2001-07-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8):  Changed test back to using
+	installation layout, adding comments explaining why the test writes
+	to the directories it does, and checks to avoid destroying other
+	files in /tmp.
+
+2001-07-03  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): Fixed faults reported in
+	Bug#438070 - well, at least enough to work on Solaris - and added
+	comments that should make what is going on in the test clearer.
+
+2001-07-02  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/util.test: added util-4.6
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj): Corrected walking backwards
+	over utf-8 chars. [Bug #227512]
+
+2001-07-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.8):  Corrected test for all
+	absolute pathnames in library path when executable is installed
+	near root directory to use correct development directory layout.
+	[Bug 438014]
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-2.9):  
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):
+	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):  Corrected buggy
+	construction of search path entries relative to executable.
+	Added test for bad construction.  [Bug 438014]
+
+2001-06-28  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: Correction to faulty patch from [Bug: 231259] 
+
+2001-06-28  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2): Modified so as not to
+	require a local echo service, which fails on many systems which
+	have that turned off for security reasons...
+
+2001-06-27  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* unix/Makefile.in: added a -DPURIFY mode that makes Tcl_Obj's
+	allocated and free singularly (instead of in alloc in blocks and
+	never free) to allow checkers like Purify to operate better.
+
+	* library/encoding/koi8-u.enc: added koi8-u (Ukranian variant)
+	encoding.
+
+	* tests/subst.test:
+	* generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfBackslash): Corrected backslash
+	handling of multibyte utf-8 chars. [Bug #217987]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoProcsCmd): fixed potential mem leak in
+	info procs that created objects without using them.
+
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileStringCmd): fixed mem leak when
+	string command failed to parse the subcommand.
+
+	* doc/interp.n:
+	* doc/unknown.n: updated notes about what is in a safe interp.
+	[Bug #218605]
+
+2001-06-27  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/event.test (event-11.5): Removed hard-coded port number
+	which could fail on some systems.  [Bug #436727]
+
+2001-06-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in:
+	* win/Makefile.in: Add `make shell` target. This target
+	will set the proper env vars before invoking tclsh
+	from the build directory.
+
+2001-06-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/Makefile.in: Use : to separate VPATH entries. This
+	works for both Cygwin builds and cross builds, the VPSEP
+	variable is simply unneeded complexity.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Don't subst VPSEP.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Remove VPSEP variable.
+
+2001-06-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Fix last checkin by removing
+	export since that only works in bash.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Ditto.
+
+2001-06-26  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Set CFLAGS to "" if the user
+	did not set CFLAGS in the env. This keeps AC_PROG_CC
+	from adding "-g -O2" to the CFLAGS by default.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Ditto.
+
+2001-06-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Use RC_DEFINE flag from tcl.m4.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Set RC_DEFINE
+	flag based on the compiler in use.
+	
+2001-06-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Link to the
+	imm32 library when building with mingw gcc.
+
+2001-06-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): When building with
+	gcc, don't attempt to link with LD or support dllwrap.
+	Simply require a recent version of Cygwin gcc or Mingw
+	gcc that supports -shared. When linking, use gcc instead
+	of ld since gcc automatically includes libs like -lmsvcrt.
+
+2001-06-22  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Add resource compiler fix from
+	8.3.3 to fix compiling with mingw.
+
+2001-06-22  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4: Fix silly typo in last checkin.
+
+2001-06-22  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@.
+	Set LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@. Add LDFLAGS_DEBUG
+	and LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to match the way CFLAGS_DEFAULT works.
+	This will support user set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Don't set CFLAGS to CFLAGS_DEFAULT, instead
+	subst CFLAGS_DEFAULT into the Makefile. Add AC_SUBST for CFLAGS_DEFAULT,
+	LDFLAGS_DEFAULT, LDFLAGS_DEBUG, and LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE.
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that
+	it uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT.
+	* win/Makefile.in: Set CFLAGS to @CFLAGS@ and @CFLAGS_DEFAULT@.
+	Set LDFLAGS to @LDFLAGS@ and @LDFLAGS_DEFAULT@.
+	This will support user set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS at configure time.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Don't set CFLAGS or LDFLAGS, instead subst
+	CFLAGS_DEFAULT and LDFLAGS_DEFAULT into the Makefile.
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_ENABLE_SYMBOLS): Modify LDFLAGS_DEFAULT so that
+	it uses a Makefile variable just like CFLAGS_DEFAULT.
+
+2001-06-22  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* win/configure:
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS): Don't set LDFLAGS_DEBUG
+	to -g or LDFLAGS_OPTIMIZE to -O when compiling with gcc.
+	These flags are not needed and can cause problems with
+	the Cygwin version of ld.
+
+2001-06-18  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test (unixInit-1.2,unixInit-2.8): Added test for
+	code described below, and fixed a couple of errors that caused
+	problems during testing; the code to determine the installedTcl
+	constraint was wrong, and test unixInit-2.8 assumed that /tmp/lib
+	was free for use and could be deleted, which clashed nastily with
+	my installation and made other tests fail unnecessarily!
+
+	* unix/tclUnixChan.c (TtyInit,TclpOpenFileChannel,
+	Tcl_MakeFileChannel,TclpGetDefaultStdChannel): Alterations so that
+	the standard channels - stdin, stdout and stderr - have the
+	correct type and fconfigure options.  This required making the
+	initialisation of serial lines a little more sophisticated to
+	make the console behave correctly in interactive mode... [Bug
+	#219137 and duplicates]
+
+2001-06-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: 
+	* generic/tclPanic.c (Tcl_PanicVA):
+	* mac/tclMacAppInit.c (main):
+	* mac/tclMacPanic.c (TclpPanic):
+	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:
+	* win/tclWinPort.h: Replaced TclMacSetPanic with TclpPanic
+	for setting a platform-specific panic handler.  TclpPanic
+	is NULL on Unix and Windows.  Fixes broken wish on Mac due
+	to earlier patches.  [Patch 415648]
+	
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: `make gentubs` after above changes.
+
+2001-06-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* mac/tclMacAppInit.c (main, Macintosh_Init):
+	* mac/tclMacBOAAppInit.c (main):
+	* mac/tclMacPanic.c: Applied patches from Dan Steffen correcting
+	problems on the Macintosh in the 2001-06-08 changes.
+
+2001-06-12  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/regexp.test (regexp-18.12): 
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegexpObjCmd): Fixed so that submatches
+	that do not match always have index pair {-1 -1} [Bug #219232]
+
+2001-06-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclPanic.c: Added CONST to Tcl_*Panic* public interfaces.
+	[Patch 415648, TIP 27]
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* mac/tclMacAppInit.c (main):
+	* mac/tclMacBOAAppInit.c (main):
+	* mac/tclMacPanic.c: Modified special Mac implementations of
+	Tcl_*Panic* to be exact copies of the generic implementations.
+	Added TclMacSetPanic.  The generic implementations should be
+	used directly, rather than copies, but that requires further
+	changes by someone familiar with the Mac build systems.
+	[Patch 415648]
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclIntPlatDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c: `make gentubs` after above changes.
+
+	* doc/Panic.3:
+	* unix/mkLinks:  New file documenting Tcl_*Panic* public interfaces,
+	followed by `make mklinks`.  [Patch 415648, Bug 219170, Bug 414936]
+
+2001-06-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_DStringAppendElement): patch to save an
+	extra strlen call.  [Bug #428572]
+
+2001-05-30  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Added two casts to
+	INST_STR_CMP implementation to get rid of a couple warnings from
+	the SUNWspro C compiler.
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo,Tcl_ListMathFuncs): 
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_InfoObjCmd,InfoFunctionsCmd): 
+	* generic/tcl.decls (generic table, positions 435+436): 
+	* tests/info.test: 
+	* doc/CrtMathFnc.3: 
+	* doc/info.n: Changes due to TIP #15 "Functions to List and Detail
+	Math Functions"
+
+2001-05-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/init.tcl (unknown): removed errant " in error message
+
+2001-05-27  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/regc_locale.c: updated character class range data for
+	Unicode v3.1.0 compliance.
+	* generic/tclUniData.c: regenerated from Unicode v3.1.0 data file
+	(new as of 2001-05-16).  This brings Tcl to current unicode
+	compliance.
+
+	* tests/utf.test: added tests to check unicode 3 compliance
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (tclUtf.o): added tclUniData.c dependency.
+
+	* tools/uniClass.tcl: added comments to output format and the
+	script for clarification.
+
+	* tools/uniParse.tcl: corrected filename output and GetDelta macro
+	to use 'info' as param (was 'infO')
+
+2001-05-26  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (tclArraySearchType,SetArraySearchObj,
+	ParseSearchId): Added code to speed up array searching by reducing
+	the amount of parsing needed for searchIds.
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (TclInitObjSubsystem): 
+	* generic/tclIndexObj.c (Tcl_GetIndexFromObjStruct): 
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (TclInitNamespaceSubsystem): 
+	* generic/tclInt.h: Moved some Tcl_ObjType initialisation to
+	TclInitObjSubsystem to be with the bulk of the rest.
+	[Patch 424851] Committed by Miguel Sofer <mig@utdt.edu>
+
+2001-05-23  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/io.test: changed io-52.[9-11] to not be platform sensitive
+	with EOL translation.
+
+	* library/encoding/cp1250.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1251.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1252.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1253.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1254.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1255.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1256.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1257.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp1258.enc:
+	* library/encoding/cp874.enc:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-6.enc:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-7.enc:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-8.enc:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-10.enc (new):
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-13.enc (new):
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-14.enc (new): updated encoding tables
+	based on http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/. (kuhn)
+
+2001-05-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_TCLCONFIG): Fix comments,
+	and typo in cached variable name.
+
+2001-05-23  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_LOAD_TKCONFIG):
+	Remove use of undefined TCLCONFIG variable and
+	call AC_MSG_RESULT to print the checking result.
+	* win/tcl.m4: Ditto.
+
+2001-05-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclObj.c (TclAllocateFreeObjects): simplified
+	objSizePlusPadding to use sizeof(Tcl_Obj) (max)
+	Corrected use of tclObjsAlloced/Freed/Shared in TCL_MEM_DEBUG
+	compile.
+
+2001-05-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: removed Tcl_DuplicateObj in INST_DUP 
+
+2001-05-21  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/tcltest.test (tcltest-19.1): fixed failing test that was
+	getting affected by Windows env handling of empty valued elements.
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: added more common install directories in which to
+	search for *Config.sh [Bug #419812]
+
+	* tests/cmdMZ.test (cmdMZ-1.4): added notLinux constraint to test
+	to prevent failure message on Linux due to OS caching bug.
+
+	* tests/httpd (httpdRespond): added response to timeout value in
+	query string.
+
+	* tests/http.test: removed unused notLinux constraint setting
+
+	* generic/tclRegexp.c (Tcl_RegExpExecObj): added use of
+	Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj.
+
+2001-05-19  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* Note that "tclbench" (see project "tcllib") was extended with
+	  performance benchmarks for [fcopy] too.
+
+	* doc/fcopy.n: Updated to reflect the extended behaviour of 'fcopy'.
+
+	* tests/io.test: Added tests 'io-52.9', 'io-52.10' and 'io-52.11'
+	  to test the handling of encodings by 'fcopy' / 'TclCopychannel'
+	  [Bug #209210].
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c: Split of both 'Tcl_ReadChars' and
+	  'Tcl_WriteChars' into a public error checking and an internal
+	  working part. The public functions now use the new internal
+	  ones. The new functions are 'DoReadChars' and 'DoWriteChars'.
+	  Extended 'CopyData' to use the new functions 'DoXChars' when
+	  required by the encodings on the input and output channels
+	  [Bug #209210].
+
+2001-05-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* library/history.tcl (tcl::HistAdd): prevent empty calls from
+	being added to the history (arndt)
+
+	* tests/error.test: updated error-1.3 message to account for
+	string index being compiled at toplevel.
+	* tests/appendComp.test:
+	* tests/stringComp.test: new files for extended bytecode testing
+
+	* generic/tclBasic.c: added new CompileProc invocations to basic
+	command initialization.
+	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: added new compile commands for append,
+	lappend, lindex and llength.  Refactored set and incr compile
+	commands to use new TclPushVarName function for handling the
+	varname component during compilation (also used by append and
+	lappend).  Changed string compile command to compile toplevel code
+	as well (when possible).
+	* generic/tclCompile.c: added new instruction enums
+	* generic/tclCompile.h: added debug info for new instructions
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): moved elemPtr to
+	toplevel var (oft-used).  Added definitions for new bytecode
+	instructions INST_LIST_INDEX, INST_LIST_LENGTH, INST_APPEND_SCALAR1,
+	INST_APPEND_SCALAR4, INST_APPEND_ARRAY1, INST_APPEND_ARRAY4,
+	INST_APPEND_ARRAY_STK, INST_APPEND_STK, INST_LAPPEND_SCALAR1,
+	INST_LAPPEND_SCALAR4, INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY1, INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY4,
+	INST_LAPPEND_ARRAY_STK, INST_LAPPEND_STK.
+	Refactored repititious code for reuse with INST_LOAD_STK (same as
+	INST_LOAD_SCALAR_STK), INST_STORE_STK (same as
+	INST_STORE_SCALAR_STK).
+	Updated INST_STR_CMP with style of fix of 2001-04-06 Fellows
+	[Bug #219201] as that fix only affected the runtime eval'ed
+	"string" (string compare is normally byte-compiled now).  We
+	may want to back these out for speed in the future, noting the
+	problems with \x00 comparisons in the docs.
+	* generic/tclInt.h: declarations for new compile commands.
+	* generic/tclVar.c: change TclGetIndexedScalar,
+	TclGetElementOfIndexedArray, TclSetElementOfIndexedArray and
+	TclSetIndexedScalar to use flags.  The Set functions now support
+	TCL_APPEND_ELEMENT and TCL_LIST_ELEMENT as well.
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: minor signature changes for above.
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c: made use of new Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj.
+
+2001-05-16  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/console.n: Deleted.  Put it in the wrong source tree!  D'oh!
+
+2001-05-15  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclStubInit.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj): new function to
+	parallel Tcl_GetStringFromObj (fix of an API oversight).
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c: updated pipeChannelType to
+	TCL_CHANNEL_VERSION_2 type specification.
+
+	* tests/fileName.test: corrected tests not to fail on win when a
+	C:/test dir exists.
+
+	* generic/tclFileName.c (ExtractWinRoot): corrected ABR error
+
+2001-05-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/lindex.test: added test for nested braces [Patch: 423617]
+
+2001-05-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.h
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: invalidate all bytecodes in a namespace if
+	a new command shadows a bytecoded command.
+	* tests/namespace.test
+	Patched from [Bug: 231259] 
+
+2001-05-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/console.n: Created.  It seems very odd to me that the
+	console implementation is part of the Tcl distribution and not
+	part of Tk, but given the location of the source, the
+	documentation must obviously match up...
+
+2001-05-14  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): 
+	* tests/string.test (string-4.14): Negative string indices should
+	not be added as offsets to the result of [string first] but
+	instead be treated as referring to the start of the string.
+	[Bug: 423581]
+
+2001-05-11  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Add a LDFLAGS variable to the
+	Makefile instead of directly substing @LDFLAGS@.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name
+	of a Makefile variable is passed as @CFLAGS@.
+	* win/Makefile.in: Move the setting of CFLAGS
+	higher up in the Makefile.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/configure.in: Use dnl to comment out macros
+	so that they are not accidently expanded.
+	* win/tcl.m4: Fix CFLAGS_DEFAULT so that the name
+	of a Makefile variable is passed as @CFLAGS@.
+
+2001-05-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: insure different rand() seeds in different
+	threads [Bug 416643]
+
+2001-05-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* tests/tcltest.test: removed extraneous 'c' (doh!) [Bug: 414031]
+
+	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: removed use of 'exec' for portability
+	and fixed up code.
+
+2001-05-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/library.n:
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tests/autoMkindex.t*: Modified [auto_import] to apply
+	pattern matching in the [namespace import] style.  [Bug 420186]
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** for any callers of [auto_import]
+	from outside Tcl that expect the pattern matching to be like that
+	of [string match].
+
+2001-05-03  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclParse.c: 
+	* tests/namespace.test: Insure consistent behaviour of the
+	[unknown] command: when a command is unknown, it is always
+	processed by [::unknown], ignoring any namespace proc which
+	happens to be called "unknown" [Patch #421166, Bug #420507]
+
+2001-05-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tools/genStubs.tcl: Add a package require of Tcl 8
+	at the beginning of the script so that the script
+	will print a descriptive error message when run
+	in an old Tcl 7 shell.
+
+2001-04-27  Kevin Kenny	<kennykb@crd.ge.com>
+
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h:
+	* generic/tclCmdIL.c:
+	* generic/tclProc.c:
+	* generic/tclVar.c: Added another collection of missing CONSTs
+	related to TclGetNamespaceForQualName.
+	* generic/tclIntDecls.h: Regenerated.
+	
+2001-04-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Subst TCL_THREADS into tclConfig.sh.
+	* unix/tclConfig.sh.in: Add TCL_THREADS variable.
+	* win/configure: Regen.
+	* win/tcl.m4: Subst TCL_THREADS into tclConfig.sh.
+	* win/tclConfig.sh.in: Add TCL_THREADS variable.
+
+2001-04-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Use $@ in MAKE_LIB and MAKE_STUB_LIB
+	commands instead of using a delayed subst variable. Replace
+	instances of STUB_LIB_FILE with TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE.
+
+2001-04-25  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in: Use TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE instead of STUB_LIB_FILE.
+	* unix/configure: Regen.
+	* unix/configure.in: Don't subst STUB_LIB_FILE, use TCL_STUB_LIB_FILE
+	instead.
+
+2001-04-25  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-15.txt:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-15.enc: Oops! Got the full encoding
+	wrong.  Should be fixed now...
+
+	* tools/encoding/iso8859-15.txt:
+	* library/encoding/iso8859-15.enc:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in: Added ISO 8859-15 (a.k.a. Latin-1 + Euro
+	currency symbol) support.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclRenameCommand): Missing CONST from
+	several declarations relating to use of TclGetNamespaceForQualName
+
+2001-04-24  Kevin B. Kenny    <kennykb@acm.org>
+	* doc/AssocData.3:
+	* doc/CrtCommand.3:
+	* doc/CrtMathFnc.3:
+	* doc/CrtObjCmd.3:
+	* doc/ExprLong.3:
+	* generic/tclBasic.c:
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
+	* doc/CrtSlave.3:
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclInt.decls:
+	* generic/tclInt.h: (TIP #27) Another round of CONST changes, this
+	time adding CONST to the API's exported from tclBasic.c.
+	[Patch #415179]
+	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 8.4a2, in which Vince
+	Darley's changes to command tracing were added.  A const has been
+	added to the type signature of one of the parameters to
+	Tcl_CommandTraceProc.
+
+2001-04-10  Kevin B. Kenny    <kennykb@acm.org>
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c: Altered code to use memcpy instead of
+	structure assigments in an effort to achieve better K&R
+	compatibility.
+	
+2001-04-10  Kevin B. Kenny    <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/tclUnixTime.c: Fixed silly typo in calls to 'gmtime' and
+	'localtime' that broke the Linux build.
+
+2001-04-09  Kevin B. Kenny    <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/tclLoadShl.c: Added DYNAMIC_PATH to the load flags so that
+	the SHLIB_PATH will be searched for other libraries.  [Bug #219140]
+	
+2001-04-09  Kevin B. Kenny    <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* unix/tcl.m4: Added _REENTRANT to Solaris build so that thread
+	safe library routines are included.
+	* unix/configure: Re-ran 'autoconf' with changed tcl.m4
+	* tclUnixTime.c: Modified for thread safety of 'gmtime' and
+	'localtime' system calls [Bugs #219136 and #232558]
+	
+2001-04-09  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/expr.test (expr-21.*): Tests to check below fix.
+	* generic/tclParseExpr.c (GetLexeme): Now recognises the
+	non-numeric boolean literals for what they are. It no longer makes
+	sense for anyone to create functions with the same name as one of
+	them, but this was true in 7.* as well [Bug #217777; finally!]
+
+2001-04-07  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c: Avoid panic when there are extra items in
+	  the tcl stack [Bug #406709, Patch #414470]
+	* tests/foreach.test: test to exercise the patch
+
+2001-04-07  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/namespace.n: document correct functionality
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c: corrected behaviour of [namespace code]
+	(Bug #219385, Patch #403530)
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tests/namespace-old.test: test correct functionality
+	* tests/namespace.test: test correct functionality
+
+2001-04-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/Makefile.in (checkdoc): New target, checking the
+	  definitions as found in the compiled library against the
+	  manpages to find undocumented public functionality.
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Updated to include the new manpage.
+
+	* doc/UniCharIsAlpha.3: New manpage documenting the Unicode
+	  character classification APIs [Bug #218720].
+
+2001-04-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Updated to incorporate the changes below.
+
+	* doc/StringObj.3: Added 'Tcl_AttemptSetObjLength' to the NAME
+	  section. [Bug #414435].
+
+	* doc/Alloc.3: Added both 'Tcl_AttemptAlloc' and
+	  'Tcl_AttemptRealloc' to the NAME section. [Bug #414435].
+
+	* doc/Utf.3: Added both 'Tcl_UniCharCaseMatch' and
+	  'Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp' to the NAME section. [Bug #414435].
+
+2001-04-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/init.tcl:
+	* tests/init.test:  Modified processing of $::errorInfo by
+	[unknown] when the auto-loaded command throws an error to better
+	cover the tracks of auto-loading.  [Bug 219280, Patch 403551]
+
+2001-04-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/read.n: Added section on "USE WITH SERIAL PORTS" to resolve
+	[Bug #219402]
+
+	* tests/string.test (string-2.30): Test for this case
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd, STR_COMPARE branch): Fixed
+	problem caused by Utf-rep of \x00 being more than Utf-rep of \x01
+	fooling memcmp by forcing everything through Utf-based
+	comparisons.  Added optimizations for case where objects have a
+	string/unicode-rep or a bytearray-rep (i.e. where we can perform
+	comparisons on fixed-size units.) [Bug #219201]
+	* generic/tclUtf.c (Tcl_UtfNcmp): Corrected seriously erroneous
+	comment.
+
+2001-04-05  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* doc/Macintosh.3: Removed duplicates from .SH line
+	  [Bug #413983]. 
+
+2001-04-05  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): Fixed so will compile
+	with K&R compilers [Patch #413844, Bug #413847]
+
+2001-04-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclMain.c:  Patch from Kevin Kenny to restore support of
+	  pre-ANSI compilers.  [Bug 413846, Patch 413842]
+
+2001-04-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Updated to contain the new manpage.
+
+	* doc/Environment.3: New manpage, describes Tcl_PutEnv
+	  [Bug #219171]. 
+
+	* doc/Macintosh.3: New manpage describing the macintosh specific
+	  parts of the public API [Bug #219169].
+
+2001-04-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: extended test of termios vs. termio vs. sgtty to
+	better detect result on Linux and when certain configure
+	redirections are being used. (max) [Patch #402923; Bug #227412,
+	#219194]
+
+2001-04-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c:
+	* tests/io.tests: TIP #10 followup correcting a problem with the
+	  original patch because of the lack of 'testthread id' for a
+	  non-threaded compilation.
+
+2001-04-04  Kevin Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* doc/ByteArrObj.3:
+	* doc/DumpActiveMemory.3:
+	* doc/InitStubs.3:
+	* doc/PkgRequire.3:
+	* doc/StringObj.3:
+	* generic/tcl.decls:
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* generic/tclBinary.c:
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c:
+	* generic/tclDecls.h:
+	* generic/tclListObj.c:
+	* generic/tclObj.c:
+	* generic/tclPkg.c:
+	* generic/tclStringObj.c:
+	* generic/tclStubLib.c:
+	  (TIP#27) Changed a number of Tcl API's to accept "CONST char*"
+	  in place of simple "char*". (kennykb) [Patch #404026]
+
+2001-04-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclListObj.c (Tcl_SetListObj): set objPtr->length = 0 in
+	empty object case to maintain sanctity of Tcl_Obj bytes/length
+	pairing. (porter) [Patch #405998]
+
+2001-04-03  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* unix/mkLinks: Added 'Signal.3', 'Tcl_WaitPid'.
+
+	* doc/DetachPids.3: Added description of 'Tcl_WaitPid' [Bug #219173].
+
+	* doc/Signal.3: New man page describing the public API procedures
+	  'Tcl_SignalId' and 'Tcl_SignalMsg' [Bug #219172].
+
+2001-04-02  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary: further notes corrections.
+
+	* win/configure:
+	* win/tcl.m4 (SHLIB_LD):  added -incremental:no. [Bug #219381]
+
+2001-04-01  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* README:
+	* mac/README:
+	* win/README:
+	* win/README.binary:
+	* unix/README: updated patchlevel information to 8.4a3 and
+	updated links and notes.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h:
+	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
+	* win/configure.in (VER):
+	* win/configure:
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/configure.in (VER):
+	* unix/tcl.spec: updated patchlevel information to 8.4a3
+
+2001-03-30  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+	* generic/tclCkalloc.c (TclFinalizeMemorySubsystem): set curTagPtr
+	to NULL to allow for reuse.
+	* generic/tclEvent.c (Tcl_Finalize): moved the tsdPtr
+	initialization inside the subsystemsInitialized check to prevent
+	it potentially getting called twice during finalization.  (wu)
+	[Patch #403532, Bug #219391]
+
+	* generic/tclThreadTest.c (Tcl_ThreadObjCmd): cast fixes
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd): added cast to mollify
+	Windows debug build.
+
+	* win/tclWinSock.c (SocketEventProc): Fixed race condition in
+	readability of socket on Windows.
+	[Patch #410674, Bug #219205 #219333]
+
+	* win/tcl.m4: added imm32.lib to LIBS_GUI for Tk IME support.
+
+	* win/Makefile.in (install-libraries): removed extra \s that broke
+	the target.
+	(install-doc): improved install-* targets to use their base build
+	dependency.
+
+2001-03-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* All of the changes below belong to TIP #10 [Tcl I/O Enhancement:
+	  Thread-Aware Channels]. See also [Patch #403358] at SF.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.h (struct ChannelState, line 236f): Extended the
+	  structure with a new field of type 'Tcl_ThreadId' to hold the id
+	  of the thread currently managing all channels with this state.
+
+	  Note: This structure is shared by all channels in a stack of
+	  transformations.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_CreateChannel, lines 1058-1065): Modified
+	  to store the Id of the current thread in the 'ChannelState' of
+	  the new channel.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_SpliceChannel, lines 2265-2270): Modified
+	  in the same manner as 'Tcl_CreateChannel' as the channel will be
+	  managed by the current thread afterward.
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c   (Tcl_GetChannelThread, lines 1478-1503):
+	* generic/tcl.decls (Tcl_GetChannelThread, lines 1504-1506): New
+	  API function to retrieve the Id of the managing thread from a
+	  channel. Implementation and declaration.
+
+	* generic/tclTest.c (TestChannelCmd, lines 4520-4532): Added
+	  subcommand 'mthread' to query a channel about its managing
+	  thread.
+
+2001-03-29  Mo DeJong  <mdejong@redhat.com>
+
+	* tests/interp.test: Print out warning when
+	testinterpdelete command is not defined.
+	Add tests that checks to make sure a
+	child interp inherits the parent's cwd.
+
+2001-03-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@gimlet.activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/tcltest.n: corrected incorrect macro usage.
+
+	* doc/lsort.n: corrected unbalanced nroff macros.
+
+	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c (TclpCreateTempFile): prevent potential race
+	condition and security leak in tmp filename creation.
+	(max) [Patch #402924]
+
+	* unix/configure:
+	* unix/tcl.m4: corrected IRIX-5.x config to not use -n32.
+	(english) [Patch #403626]
+
+	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (Tcl_ConditionWait): fixed handling of
+	timeout for threads (corrects excessive CPU usage issue for Tk on
+	Unix in threaded Tcl environment). (ruppert) [Bug #411603]
+
+2001-03-29  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/lsort.n: Added some notes that clarify the behaviour of
+	[lsort] as well as a whole bunch of examples.  [Bug #219202]
+
+2001-03-27  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@gimlet.activestate.com>
+
+	* doc/Alloc.3: corrected docs to note that Tcl_Attempt* return
+	char *'s, not ints. [Bug #411388]
+
+	* tests/regexp.test (regexp-19.1):
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_RegsubObjCmd): fixed handling of nulls
+	in subspec value.
+
+2001-03-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclDecls.h (Tcl_InitCustomHashTable):  Correction to
+	patch from 2001-01-18;  tclDecls.h was not generated using
+	'make genstubs'.
+
+2001-03-26  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* win/tclWinInt.h (tclWinTCharEncoding): Removed as now a static
+	variable in win/tclWin32Dll.c instead.
+
+2001-03-23  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@activestate.com>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_ArrayObjCmd): Corrected retrieval of
+	resultPtr to prevent possible corruption.
+
+	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_Import): Correctly freed a DString.
+	(lavana) [Patch #403755]
+
+2001-03-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/set-old.test (set-old-7.2): Changed error behaviour of
+	[unset] to agree with documentation, so must change test as well.
+
+2001-03-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* library/package.tcl (pkg_mkIndex):  Added patch from Vince
+	Darley to make [pkg_mkIndex -verbose] even more verbose.
+	[Bug 219349, Patch 403529]
+
+2001-03-13  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/info.n: Improved documentation for [info hostname].
+	[Bug #403840]
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Made command behave as
+	documented [issue remaining from bug #405769]
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_StringObjCmd): A missing
+	{return TCL_OK;} was causing memory corruption.  [Bug #408002]
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclDeleteExecEnv, GrowEvaluationStack,
+	TclExecuteByteCode): Added some casts to ClientData that are
+	apparently needed on some architectures.
+
+2001-03-12  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/string.test: Fixed some test numberings and added a test.
+	[Patch #403229]
+
+2001-03-06  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclVar.c (Tcl_UnsetObjCmd): Rewrote argument parser to
+	avoid a read off the end of the argument array that could occur
+	when executing something like [unset -nocomplain] was executed.
+	Improved the error message given when too few arguments are given
+	(-nocomplain should obviously be *before* --, not after it) and
+	also modified the test suite to take account of that and the
+	documentation to use the same improvement. [Bug 405769]
+
+2001-03-02  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclExecute.c (TclExecuteByteCode): Fixed bug that could
+	pass pointers to freed memory to command implementations, which
+	most obviously caused some weird behaviour with [info level], but
+	could have caused problems with user code and command traces too.
+	[Bug 404865, Patch 405436]
+
+2001-02-23  msofer  <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>
+	* no changes; fixing up the missing comment in the previous one.
+	Sorry.
+
+2001-02-23  msofer  <msofer@ant.utdt>
+
+	* /cvsroot/tcl/tcl/tests/execute.test:
+	added test for evaluation of an expression in a variable; evals once
+	by compiling, second time using the previous compilation
+
+2001-02-18  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>
+
+	* doc/clock.n: Updated documentation to reflect the addition of
+	compat/strftime.c, including the correct formatting of
+	ISO-8601:1988 fiscal week number (%V).
+	
+2001-02-15  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* generic/tclCmdMZ.c (Tcl_SplitObjCmd): Improved efficiency of
+	splitting strings into individual characters by adding hash so
+	that only one Tcl_Obj per character is created.  Improves
+	performance of splitting of short strings and makes a huge
+	difference to splitting of long strings, such as is done in the
+	mime package in tcllib.  [Bug #131523]
+
+2001-01-31  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* win/makefile.vc (install-libraries):  Corrected misdirected
+	install directory for the msgcat 1.2 package.
+
+2001-01-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Moved code that updates the count
+	of how many bytes are left to copy.  Corrects bug that when
+	writing occurs in the background, the copy loop could be
+	escaped without updating the count, causing CopyData() to try
+	to copy more bytes than the toRead value originally passed to
+	TclCopyChannel(), leading to hangs and misreporting of number
+	of bytes copied. [Bug 118203, Patch 103432]
+
+2001-01-18  Andreas Kupries  <a.kupries@westend.com>
+
+	* Everything below belongs together, it fixes bug #123153.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (line 342): A bit more explanation about the
+	  default value for TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATABILITY.
+
+	* generic/tcl.h (line 1208): Define the macro 'Tcl_InitHashTable'
+	  only when TCL_PRESERVE_BINARY_COMPATIBILITY is not set
+	  as it kills binary compatibility to 8.3 and earlier
+	  versions. This is the main part of the patch/change.
+
+	* generic/tcl.decls (line 1469):
+	* generic/tclHash.c (Tcl_InitHashTable):
+	* generic/tclHash.c (Tcl_InitHashTableEx):
+	* generic/tclObj.c (Tcl_InitObjHashTable): Changed
+	  'Tcl_InitHashTableEx' to 'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'. This change
+	  is more of an estethical nature, replacing the ubiquitous 'Ex'
+	  suffix with a more meaningful name. The introduced binary
+	  incompatibility is deemed acceptable as it is between alpha
+	  versions.  Updated callers.
+
+	* doc/Hash.3:
+	* unix/mkLinks: Changed 'Tcl_InitHashTableEx' to
+	  'Tcl_InitCustomHashTable'.
+
+2001-01-10  Donal K. Fellows  <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+	* tests/winPipe.test (winpipe-1.20): 
+	* tests/winDde.test (createChildProcess): 
+	* tests/pkgMkIndex.test (pkgtest::createIndex):  Removed
+	assumption that paths contain no spaces which causes problems with
+	both [eval] and [open |...] due to the well-known differences
+	between lists and strings.  Fixes bug #119406
+
+2001-01-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* tests/unixInit.test:
+	* unix/tclUnixInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):
+	* win/tclWinInit.c (TclpInitLibraryPath):  Several entries in
+	the library path ($tcl_libPath) are determined relative to the
+	absolute path of the executable.  When the executable is
+	installed in or near the root directory of the file system,
+	relative pathnames were being incorrectly generated, and in
+	the worst case, memory access violations were crashing the program.
+	[Bug 119416, Patch 102972]
+
+	******************************************************************
+	*** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 2000 IN "ChangeLog.2000"             ***
+	*** CHANGELOG ENTRIES FOR 1999 AND EARLIER IN "ChangeLog.1999" ***
+	******************************************************************