2010-01-10 Bill Poser <poser@bill-laptop>
* msort.c:
Now use new function names with prefix tre_ exported by libtre.
2009-08-23 Bill Poser <poser@bill-laptop>
* msort.c:
Removed unnecessary conditioning of Hybrid mapping code on LOCALE_SORT_ORDER.
2009-05-30 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Now reverse digits of Unix time before using as random number
seed so as to make the seed change visibly from run to run.
2009-01-26 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Changed type of ExclusionTables, fixing a bug
in the reporting of exclusions and saving considerable
memory when exclusions are used.
2009-01-13 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl:
Labelled algorithm choices as stable and unstable.
* msort.c:
Added -Z option for copying the first record to the output without
sorting it. This is useful for files with a header.
Added a regression test for this option.
2008-12-05 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release 8.52.
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Don't bother to extract and store field if comparison type for key
is random since we aren't going to use it. This saves a little time
and possibly a good bit of storage.
* RegressionTests
Separated the tests whose success depends on locales
from the rest. The main set are run by "make test" as before.
To run the locale-dependent tests, type "make localetest".
The results appear in LocaleTestResults.
2008-11-02 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* input.c (ReportReadError):
Changed stray explicit calls of gettext to calls
to macro _, which is properly conditioned.
2008-10-27 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Added regression test for more complex substition.
2008-10-20 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl (GetLogInfo):
Modified to accomodate modifications to msort.log.
* msort.c:
Corrected format specifier from d to u for printing number of records.
Moved closing of log to very end, avoiding problem of early closing,
and moved this into function CloseLog, which adds log-termination.
2008-10-19 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
If one or more records have been discarded due to problems in key
extraction but the run is otherwise successful, the exit code is
now RECORDEXCLUDED rather than BADRECORD.
* misc.c:
Modified GetISO8601Key to handle an optional leading sign and
moved it into iso8601.c.
2008-10-18 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Made error-checking and reporting finer-grained in GetMonthNames.
Split time and iso8601 date/time regression tests so as not to
mix data with and without time zone offsets since mixing them causes
tests to fail if executed in some time zones.
2008-10-11 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.51.
* msg.tcl:
Added setting of random number generator seed.
Added regression test for angles.
Added regression tests for collating sequences.
2008-10-08 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Moved completion log time stamp ahead of other information so
that it immediately follows start time stamp, facilitating comparison.
2008-10-05 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Moved initial log time stamp and key description to just before
point at which records are read.
2008-09-30 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Added -P option for setting randomization seed so that runs
will be reproducible.
Now report the randomization seed used in the log for future reference.
2008-09-28 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.50.
* msort.c:
Fixed bug in which compound positional keys (those involving portions of more
than one field) were not properly null terminated, resulting in various sorts
of errors, including crashes.
Key specifications with a character offset of zero are now treated
as fatal errors and reported to the user.
Added 17 more regression tests.
2008-09-26 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* configure.ac:
Made failure of check for libintl non-fatal.
* msort.c:
Made report of failure of key extraction on one or more records
subject to Verbose flag.
Added ISO8601 time/date stamps to beginning and end of log.
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Now trap fields with empty value, which previously
could cause segfaults.
2008-09-24 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.49.
* RegressionTests
Added nine regression tests.
* README:
Added section on Dependencies, discussing use of non-standard
libraries and how to build the simplest configuration.
2008-09-22 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c:
Eliminated direct call to libgmp, which should simplify installation.
Now get gmp version info from function in libuninum.
2008-09-21 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* configure.ac:
Added check for libintl.
* msort.c:
Eliminated printing of message "Consult the log for details" if
logging is not enabled.
* strs.c (ws2u8):
Fixed bug resulting from allocation of insufficient memory.
* msort.c (GetWhiteSpaceDefinition):
Removed debugging line inadvertently left in.
(GetSubstitutions):
Removed inappropriate free of stack storage.
2008-09-20 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.48.
* misc.c (GetISO8601Key):
Fixed bug that caused inappropriate return of error
if no numerical time zone offset is present.
(GetTimeKey):
Fixed bug that caused inappropriate return of error
from well-formed ISO8601 times.
(GetDateKey):
Fixed a bug that caused a segmentation fault if
an attempt was made to analyze as a date a string not
containing the expected first date component separator.
2008-09-19 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (CaseFoldTbl):
Updated case folding to Unicode 5.1.
* msort.c (DescribeKeys):
Added indication of use of only first character if that option is selected.
2008-07-30 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c (ShowVersion):
Added information about system and machine type.
2008-07-14 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Added option for lexicographic sorts of using only the
first character (after subs, exclusions, etc.). This
emulates pre-modern alphabetization practice.
2008-07-10 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* unicode.h:
Changed UTF32 etc. from standard types (unsigned long etc.) to
minimum size types (u_int32_t) for portability.
2008-06-30 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.47.
* msort.c (ConstructSortOrder):
Fixed storage allocation bug when using utf8proc as per
patch by Steve Tinney.
2008-05-28 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Modified domain name processing to handle optional protocol
segment, which is treated as lowest priority component like
the username in an email address.
2008-05-23 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.46.
* msort.c (ReverseDomainComponents):
Fixed bugs in rearrangement of email addresses.
2008-05-18 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (MapHybrid):
Fixed potential malloc bug (inconsistent use of long and int)
2008-05-14 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Fixed small bug in Turkic case folding.
2008-04-19 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* manual.tex
Filled in missing text at end of section 10.7 (IP address
example).
2008-04-10 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl:
Now check for Tk 8.5 and adapt font sizes accordingly.
2008-04-09 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Fixed ValidateCRange so as not to detect error when
first index of a character range is positive but second
index is negative, fixing bug reported by Jeppe Oland.
* misc.c:
Added ifdef for include of uninum.h as per patch
by Jeppe Oland. This eliminates a problem compiling
without libuninum if libuninum's header files are not
installed.
2008-01-27 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c:
Moved include of nsdefs.h within ifdef for uninum
as per patch by Steve Tinney.
2007-10-05 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Changed license to GPL3.
Eliminated printing of version info when called with no arguments.
2007-10-02 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Added command-line options for specifying input and output
files. Also, if the specified input and output files are
the same, the input is now overwritten.
Added option of suppressing log.
Refactored so most writes to log are via PrintLog and wPrintLog.
2007-09-04 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c (ShowVersion):
Now print version of glibc if present.
2007-09-02 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c (GetTimeKey, GetISO8601Key): :
Added code for handling ISO 8601 time zone info.
Also, modified GetISO8601Key so that, like GetTimeKey,
it works on a UTF8 string.
The separators in ISO time-date strings are now optional,
as per the standard.
2007-09-01 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c:
Added function TimezoneOffset for use in normalizing times
to UTC.
2007-06-08 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Now increase number of records by InitialMaxRecords
rather than half that number.
2007-03-28 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Now flush log during startup to preserve info on crashes.
2007-03-23 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.40
* msort.c:
It is now possible to choose between the utf8proc and icu
libraries for normalization.
2007-03-21 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release of version 8.39.
* msort.c:
Added conditionals so that it is possible to use an
option to configure to compile msort without
libuninum or libgmp. This simplifies installation for those
who do not need this capability.
* misc.c (OpenFile):
Inability to open a file now causes an error exit.
2007-03-20 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (main):
Added unicode normalization of input records.
Added unicode normalization of tag regexps.
Added unicode normalization of exclusions read from files.
Added unicode normalization of exclusions read from command line.
Added unicode normalization of sort order file.
Added unicode normalization of substitutions.
Added unicode normalization of record separator.
Added unicode normalization of field separators.
* misc.c:
Renamed IdentifySelf to ShowVersion for consistency with other programs.
Added ICU version info to ShowVersion.
* uniio.c:
Unified uout.c and UTF8in.c into uniio.c.
2007-03-04 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Month names may now be used in the month field of dates,
with their ordering determined as with independent month names.
* misc.c (GetDateKey):
Added stricter error checking on number conversion so as
to reject ill-formed numbers in dates like "4b".
2007-02-28 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* misc.c (GetDateKey):
Added ability to handle day of year keys.
2007-02-07 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl (ExplainEndOfLineMarker):
Adapted list of number systems to livuninum version 2.1.
* info.c:
Adapted ListNumberSystems to libuninum version 2.1.
2007-01-26 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* info.c (PrintLimits):
Made thousands separation consistent and ifdefed for C libraries that
do not support it.
* limits.h:
Abstracted multigraph numbers and improved comments.
* misc.c (IdentifySelf):
Version info now provides the version of all three of the
non-standard libraries used.
2007-01-25 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Release 8.36.1
* configure.ac:
Changed AC_FUNC_MALLOC in configure.ac to AC_CHECK_FUNCS([...malloc...])
since on Ubuntu malloc apparently fails the GNU test of returning non-null
when passed an argument of zero. This causes the compilation to fail
on unresolved references to rpl_malloc.
* info.c misc.c:
Added includes of <uninum/unicode.h>.
2007-01-24 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Adapted to version 2.0 of libuninum by changing NS_RETURN_*
to NS_TYPE_*.
2007-01-12 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* configure.ac:
Added configuration option --disable-comparisoncount
which removes the code that reports the number of comparisons.
This speeds things up a little bit for sorts involving a lot
of comparisons.
2007-01-09 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Version 8.35 released.
* msort.c (main):
Added checks to several key-specific options to ensure that a key has
been specified earlier on the command line. This eliminates segfaults
when such incorrect command-lines are encountered. All key-specific
options are now covered. For some reason this check was missing
from a few of them. Also made error message more informative and
moved the check into a function.
* Makefile.am (AM_LDFLAGS):
Force linkage with gmp library. Apparently this is not taken care
of by the autoconf process on Mac OS X and OpenBSD.
2007-01-05 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
Version 8.34 released.
* msg.tcl:
Modified GUI to accomodate number system specification for
numeric string keys.
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Added support for number system specification for numeric string keys.
2006-12-31 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Modifed to use libuninum for non-Western numeric keys.
2006-12-29 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c input.c:
Modified input routines to make more informative reports on
input errors including bad UTF-8.
2006-12-25 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl (SetupKey):
Added support for writing system specification for numeric keys.
2006-12-24 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Added ability for numeric keys to use pretty much any number system,
with -y flag for specifying number system.
2006-12-18 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* sorts.c (Compare):
Fixed bug that caused segfaults on numeric keys.
2006-12-17 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c sorts.c:
Fixed subtle bug in multigraph mapping (MapNonHybridLI).
Redid the handling of non-locale-dependent hybrid keys,
which required modifications of both Compare and
GetKeys. This eliminates occasional, apparently random,
segfaults.
Corrected storage allocated for tmp in ExtractNum and ExtractTxt.
2006-12-10 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c info.c:
Separated listing of informational options from other general
options in order to shorten the latter listing.
2006-12-09 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Modified domain name comparison to handle email addresses
as well, that is, domain names with a leading component separated
from the domain name by an at-sign.
Improved description of keys in log and added logging of domain name
comparison type.
2006-11-29 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Added domain name sort type.
2006-11-24 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (main):
The report of the command line by which msort was invoked is now indented slightly.
2006-10-09 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* info.c (PrintDefaults):
Added default algorithm to list of defaults.
* info.c msort.c (PrintGNUEquivalences):
Added command line option -G which prints GNU sort equivalences.
* msort.c:
Added ifdef for alloca.h which fixes build problem on FreeBSD.
2006-09-17 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl (PopupIPAEntryC):
Fixed non-functional uvular trill button.
2006-09-06 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (DescribeKeys):
Fixed Debian bug 383230 as per patch by celelibi@gmail.com
(key index i instead of 0).
(main):
Fixed Debian bug 383232 as per patch by celebi@gmail.com.
(Extra fclose on log.)
2006-08-10 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
Updated case-folding to Unicode 5.0.
2006-08-09 Bill Poser <poser@khunekcho.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
If there is only one record, we still mention that there
is no point in sorting only one record but we now
exit successfully after writing out that record.
This is necessary for non-interactive use.
2006-07-06 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* input.c strs.c:
Modified to use new prefixed UTF8 error codes.
* Get_UTF32_From_UTF8i.c:
Patched to handle read interrupted in middle of UTF-8 sequence.
2006-05-22 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msg.tcl (About):
Changed help popups to toggle.
Made various sections of pages roll-up, reducing footprint.
2006-05-20 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Updated case-folding to Unicode 4.1.
Added the option of Turkic case-folding.
2006-05-18 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c sorts.c record.h:
Revamped hybrid locale comparison, eliminating bugs.
2006-05-13 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Eliminated small memory leak (LocaleTempKey).
2006-05-12 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msg.tcl:
Added explanatory popups for conversion of stylistic variants and enclosed forms,
and stripping of diacritics.
* conversions.c:
Added Hebrew presentation forms to ConvertStylistic.
This required storage reallocation.
* msort.c (main):
Added option of just checking whether the input is sorted.
2006-05-12 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a>
* conversions.c:
Corrected a bug that erroneously converted "9" to "y"
when the option for converting stylistic equivalents
is used.
Superscript and subscript forms are now converted
to their plain equivalents.
2006-05-06 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* info.c (PrintUsage):
Updated usage message to reflect split between help for global and
key-specific options.
2006-05-05 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c:
Added support for month names.
Now distinguish count of well-formed records from count of input records,
which corrects record numbers output with error messages.
*passim:
Sorted out configuration conditions into three groups, LOCALE_SORT_ORDER,
LOCALE_MONTH_NAME, and LOCALE_GETTEXT, so that we now check for just
the right combinations.
2006-04-28 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
Added options for treating certain classes of characters as their "basic" counterparts:
(a) strip diacritics;
(b) treat enclosed characters as basic.
(c) treat stylistic variants as basic.
At present this includes the stylistic variants of the ASCII characters,
the Latin but non-ASCII symbols, the Arabic positional variants,
the half-width CJK punctuation, the half-width kana, and the half-width
hangul.
2006-04-21 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* misc.c:
Eliminated minor memory corruption arising in DelimitNumber.
* msort.c:
Eliminated significant memory leakage from GetKeys.
Neatened up info generated about dynamic memory, comparisons, and record count.
2006-04-11 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* info.c
Split PrintFlags into PrintGeneralFlags and PrintKeySpecificFlags.
2006-04-10 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c (main):
Added long options if supported.
2006-04-08 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* msg.tcl:
Changed 0xff to 255 in three color default settings
as a workaround to a bug in some MS Windows implementations
of Tcl.
2006-04-03 Bill Poser <poser@khunekyaz.khunek.poser.org>
* msort.c:
If the argument to the -s flag is a locale name, the rules
of that locale are now used. If the argument to the -s
flag is "current" or "locale", the rules of the current
locale are used.
Added record of amount of memory dynamically allocated to log.
2006-03-26 Bill Poser <poser@S010600023f310f85.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c:
Fixed bug that prevented multigraph mapping from affecting
string length.
2006-03-09 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c:
In atofwc now strip space characters so as to prevent
strto(l)d from reporting an error due to, e.g., a newline
following the number when records are not lines and fields
are not lines.
2006-03-05 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* configure.ac:
Added check for libtre so that absence will be detected prior to
compilation.
2006-02-25 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
passim:
Added option of numeric string comparison.
2006-02-17 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
passim:
Key selection by position has been extended to allow keys to span
contiguous fields from one position to another, where a position
consists of a field number and a character offset. This makes key
selection by position approximately the same as in GNU sort. One
difference is that unlike GNU sort, msort permits field numbers to be
negative, indicating a count from the end. The other is that in msort
if only a single position is specified only that field is included in
the key, whereas in GNU sort the key extends from the specified
position to the end of the record.
2006-02-11 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
passim:
Adds to the permitted format for angles the sexagesimal format in which
the components are separated by whitespace rather than colon.
Fixes a bug affecting negative angles.
2006-02-08 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* misc.c (GetAngleKey):
Added GetAngleKey.
msort.c:
Added support for angle key.
info.c:
Added info about angle key.
2006-02-05 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c:
Moved the four sort functions, ancillary routines, and Compare
into sorts.c This required moving some definitions out of msort.c
into header files, including the creation of comparisons.h and keys.h.
* info.c:
Added command line option for fixed length records to option summary.
* msort.c:
Added support for fixed length records.
Fixed bug that added extra newlines to output.
* input.c:
Added GetFixedLengthRecord().
2006-02-04 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c (main):
Added check of whether input is restricted to BMP if -B option is specified.
Added choice of algorithm, and added Mergesort and InsertionSort as possible algorithms.
Also added a configure option --(dis|en)able-allocaok, which controls
whether alloca is used in Mergesort. By default it is, but storage may be
allocated on the heap instead if alloca is buggy, as it is on some systems.
2006-01-17 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c misc.c record.h:
Now use long double internally for numeric keys rather than double
if machine supports it.
Version 8.11
2006-01-17 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* info.c (PrintLimits):
The maximum length of a numeric key is now listed as a limit.
2006-01-17 Bill Poser <poser@S010600e0185aee1a.ca.shawcable.net>
* msort.c (GetKeys):
Now check the conversion of numeric strings to internal floats for errors.
Fixed bug in which msort segfaulted if given a very long numeric string
as key.
Version 8.9
Carried out a thorough code-cleanup. Ran gcc with -Wall -pedantic and eliminated
all but 2 warnings.
Eliminated the restriction on number of keys.
Fixed a bug that made the widget for inserting characters
by their Unicode codepoint insert them into itself.
Version 8.8
Modified msort to make inability to open log file non-fatal.
It now tries to open a log in /tmp. Only if that fails
does it exit.
Updated msg to use improved font control panel.
Updated character entry widgets.
Updated configuration system.
Incompatibilities: character entry widget definition format
Boolean command names
Added binding on <<B3>> to all scrollable windows in which a significant number of
lines might appear that scrolls in larger increments than the left mouse button.
version 8.7
Added hybrid sort type.
Added random sort type.
Positional key field now defaults to key number.
Improved log/stderr info output.
Changed ComparisonCnt to long long to prevent overflow.
Right-click in trough of scale now changes font size by increment of five.
Improved the font control panel in various ways.
version 8.6.1
Fixes a bug in the exclusion entry widget in the GUI.
version 8.6
Added the ability to configure msg via an initialization file.
Added the ability to select fonts interactively.
Moved the toggle for balloon help from the Help menu to the
new Configure menu.
Considerable cosmetic improvement to the GUI.
Lines beginning with crosshatch in substitution files are now comments.
Fixed a bug in GetSubstitutions that truncated long substitutions.
Made a change that may result in browser execution working under MacOSX .
Minor tweaking of info messages.
version 8.5.1
Added include of stdlib to dstr.c in response to report of compiler warnings.
version 8.5
Added character ranges as keys to msort and msg.
Added regular expression substitution on keys.
Fixed a bug in Unicode case folding.
Added ability to specify CR (0x0D) as end-of-line character instead of LF (0x0A).
Rearranged General page.
Removed unused images and conditionals for using them.
Updated manual.
Removed DOS stuff from manual.
version 8.4
Fixed serious bug affecting numeric keys.
Fixed bug in msort that garbled copy of bad record when key extraction failed.
Improved detection of OS and base graphics system by msg.
Fixed bug in msg that triggered an error when the "How to Use this Program" popup
was popped up.
Added missing balloon help for save and cancel buttons of sort order file separator
control panel.
The Tk-Aqua adaptation of msg was improved. The command buttons are now positioned at the
top of the window and are available at all times, not just when the General page is selected.
2005/07/26 Bill Poser version 8.3
The GUI does a better job of identifying the operating system.
The GUI's adaptation to Tk-Aqua under Mac OS X has been improved.
2005/07/24 Bill Poser version 8.2
Added -W flag to allow the user to set which characters are treated
as separators in the sort order file.
Improved error messages regarding invalid UTF-8 input.
Modified msg to handle -W flag.
Fixed bug with optional keys.
Fixed bug in sort order specification in msg.
Fixed a bug in ASCII case-folding.
Updated manual page and reference manual.
2005-07-21 Bill Poser version 8.1
Fixed a bug that interfered with use of multigraphs.
Adds a modified configuration of msg adapted to the Aqua implementation of Tk.
msort can now be conditionally compiled without the internationalization and
localization libraries that are not available under Mac OS X.
2005-07-20 Bill Poser version 8.0
msort now accepts UTF-8 Unicode.
The command line flag -B was added.
This flag, if present, restricts the characters in the input
and sort order specifications to the BMP.
The command line flag -p was added.
This flag instructs msort not to make internal use of the
Unicode Private Use areas.
In GUI added character entry tools.
Replaced Henry Spencer regexp with TRE in msort.
Added help link for regular expression syntax.
Instead of just trying to use the default browser, msg now
works through a list of browsers, trying each in turn.
2005-05-20 Bill Poser version 7.1
It is now possible to reorder keys by dragging one button over the other.
Miscellaneous improvements in error-handling and error-reporting in msg.
2005-04-25 Bill Poser version 7.0
Eliminated the restriction of exclusions to lexicographic and string length keys.
Added iso8601 date/time combinations as a key type.
Added gui msg.tcl.
2005-04-24 Bill Poser version 6.20
Added case-folding option.
Changed default date format to International Date Format (y-m-d).
2005-04-22 Bill Poser version 6.19
Correct manual, man page, and option printout
to show date format as a key-specific option.
2005-02-03 Bill Poser version 6.18
Improved man page and reference manual.
2005-01-21 Bill Poser version 6.17
Eliminated -a option since it was not useful.
2003-12-15 Bill Poser version 6.14
Changed MAXMULTIGRAPHS in limits.h to 65279 from 65280. The maximum value now fits
within an unsigned short, as it should.
2003-11-19 Bill Poser version 6.13
Fixed bug in error message for bad position code in GetExclusions.
2003-11-14 Bill Poser version 6.12
Fixed bug in allocation of temporary storage and cleaned up a bit.
2003-11-11 Bill Poser version 6.11
Now allocate temporary storage for tag strings dynamically, eliminating
unlikely but possible overflow bug.
2003-02-27 Bill Poser version 6.10
Added test for field reduced to zero length by exclusions. If the field is
optional, such a field is treated as an optional field that was missing outright.
If not, the error is reported and execution aborted.
Also corrected error in Compare() that reversed the intended semantics of the
arguments to -o.
2003-02-24 Bill Poser version 6.9
Fixed bug that caused a crash when -t flag was used.
2003-02-22 Bill Poser version 6.8
Added comma delimitation of comparison count to make more readable.
2003-02-21 Bill Poser version 6.7
Fixed serious bug in storage reallocation for InputText.
2003-02-19 Bill Poser version 6.6
Now catch and abort on field numbered 0.
2003-02-18 Bill Poser version 6.5
Eliminated limit on record size by allocating dynamically.
Eliminated associated command line flag B.
2003-02-17 Bill Poser version 6.4
Eliminated external sort option.
Eliminated DOS-related conditional code.
2003-02-17 Bill Poser version 6.3
Added ability to sort on key size.
Added count of number of comparisons, which is useful for understanding what
is happening.
Added logging-report of global inversion of order.
2003-02-16 Bill Poser version 6.2 = RCS version 1.10 of msort.c
Modified DescribeKeys to produce more readable description of positional keys.
2003-02-16 Bill Poser version 6.1
Fixed bug that allowed no keys to be specified without specifying sort on whole record.
This resulted in a non-sort since the key count was 0.
Fixed bug that resulted in presence of keys not being correctly detected in
Compare due to reversed test.
2002-12-23 Bill Poser version 6.0
Added argument to -o flag for specifying missing key comparison.
Added field to keyinfo structure to store this.
Modified comparison code to test for missing keys and handle them
as specified by the argument to -o.
2002-12-22 Bill Poser version 5.23
Increased 8-bit MAXMULTIGRAPHS to 65,279, which is the maximum possible.
all values above 0xFF are available as codes for multigraphs.
That is 2^16 - 2^8 = 65,280.
2002-11-16 Bill Poser version 5.22
Added X flag to permit context-free exclusions to be specified on command line.
2002-06-02 Bill Poser version 5.21
Eliminated log entry of what file exclusions were read from.
2002-05-05 Bill Poser version 5.20
Added more specific information to log entry regarding ill-formed keys.
Previously this information was written on stderr, but the log only
received a copy of the ill-formed record.
2002-05-03 Bill Poser version 5.19
Increased number of digits for count of records processed.
Also increased REPORTINTERVAL since machines have gotten so much faster.
2000-05-18 Bill Poser version 5.18
Now don't print warning about singleton record if not verbose.
2000-01-03 Bill Poser version 5.17
Eliminated limit on length of sort order file line by allocating
dynamically
1999-04-04 Bill Poser version 5.16
Eliminated error exit on fewer than two records. A warning is still
printed, but the run is completed. This facilitates use in shell scripts.
1998-12-21 Bill Poser version 5.15
Fixed bug in DescribeKeys.
Improved information about command line flags.
1996-11-14 Bill Poser version 5.14
Eliminited limit on length of input file name by allocating
dynamically.
1996-06-30 Bill Poser version 5.13
Eliminated limit on number of field delimiter characters by allocating
dynamically.
1996-01-19 Bill Poser version 5.12
Eliminated limit on length of tag regexp by allocating dynamically.
1995-12-23 Bill Poser version 5.11
Eliminated limit on maximum number of fields per record by allocating
storage for pointers dynamically.
1995-08-20 Bill Poser version 5.10
Improved format of report of exclusions and eliminated report
on stderr of reading exclusion file.
1995-05-16 Bill Poser version 5.9
Eliminated elapsed time computation and report.
1994-12-18 Bill Poser version 5.8
Now allow spaces as separators in sort order file, with backslash
escape when space is to be entered in sort order.
1994-09-23 Bill Poser version 5.7
Increased DEFMAXCHUNK.
1994-09-22 Bill Poser version 5.6
Fixed bug in -o flag.
Eliminated typo in usage.
1994-06-21 Bill Poser version 5.5
Added initial newlines to error reports from PutExtRecord.
1994-04-26 Bill Poser version 5.4
Moved description of exclusions into DescribeKeys so as to associate
with appropriate key.
1994-04-05 Bill Poser version 5.3
Slightly modified report of elapsed time and time per record.
1994-04-3 Bill Poser version 5.2
Corrected size of ymdinfo.fmt.
1994-03-24 Bill Poser version 5.1
Added specification of separators to date format.
1994-03-19 Bill Poser version 5.0
Increased maximum number of keys to 16.
Moved limits into limits.h and made it unnecessary to transfer
information manually into PrintLimits().
Generalized forward-inverse option so as to apply to textual
keys as well as numeric ones.
Added separate -i flag for setting inversion. Renamed
old -i flag, which specified global inversion, -I.
Removed -N flag and added -c flag with argument to specify
comparison type.
Added time key type.
Eliminated multigraph count in DescribeKeys if count is 0.
Added date key type, with date format info in keyinfo and init,
and -f flag for setting date format.
Added -o flag for making key optional instead of using ? before key spec.
Eliminated option of writing on file.
1994-03-10 Bill Poser version 4.13
Eliminated dump of sort order in log, which was once useful for
debugging but has little use now.
1994-03-03 Bill Poser version 4.12
Fixed bug in DescribeKeys when sorting on whole record.
1994-02-08 Bill Poser version 4.11
Now allow numeric key field specification to be negative,
interpretated as counting from end of record.
1994-01-20 Bill Poser version 4.10
Now allocate MapTable dynamically, when needed, saving a fair
amount of space when a key does not use any multigraphs.
Added log entries regarding dynamic memory usage.
Now allocate numeric keys dynamically. This makes numeric comparisons
very slightly slower and wastes 4 bytes per record per key for numeric
keys, but it saves 4 bytes per record per key for textual keys,
which are far more common in the intended applications of this
program.
1993-12-21 Bill Poser version 4.9
Reserved highest rank table slot for default key, reducing
number of multigraphs permitted by one.
Added copy of command line to log.
Fixed small bug in exclusion code.
1993-12-19 Bill Poser version 4.8
Fixed bug in default key for records without optional key.
Changed reports of records processed and written to in place.
1993-11-28 Bill Poser version 4.7
Inlined comparisons, saving a little code space and maybe some time.
1993-11-27 Bill Poser version 4.6
Reduced size of each record slightly (typically 4 bytes) by making
file position and text pointer a union.
1993-11-27 Bill Poser version 4.5
Rescinded replacement of lexicographic keys with ranks, which was
buggy and not worth fixing since the speedup was so small.
Now use quicksort instead of shellsort for large numbers of records.
Added -a flag to warn that input is almost in order, in which case
shellsort is used for any number of records.
Also changed report of time per record to integral milliseconds.
1993-10-28 Bill Poser version 4.4
Replaced lexicographic keys with ranks.
1993-10-27 Bill Poser version 4.3
Added reversal of key field, for producing reverse dictionaries.
Changed max record flag to -M so as to use -R for this.
1993-07-05 Bill Poser version 4.2
Made key code type compile time option. If only 7-bit ASCII
input is desired and 128 multigraphs are sufficient, msort can
be compiled with SEVENBIT defined and will use half the space for
textual keys.
1993-07-04 Bill Poser version 4.1
Modified format of elapsed time report and moved into library functions.
1993-06-26 Bill Poser version 4.0
Added exclusions.
Reduced other memory usage, mostly by allocating RankTables only
as needed.
1993-06-20 Bill Poser version 3.3
Sent info on flags, defaults, and limits to log as well as stdout.
Sent ill-formed regexp to log, and copy of beginning of overlong
record.
Fixed bug in bug fix in version 3.2 in report of ill-formed keys.
1993-06-15 Bill Poser version 3.1
Add information to log.
Improved formatting of summary of keys.
1993-06-19 Bill Poser version 3.2
Fixed bug that led to incorrect reports of ill-formed keys
on external sorts.
1993-06-12 Bill Poser version 3.0
Implemented optional keys.
Added information to log.
Fixed bug fixed in version 1.6 and re-introduced in version 2.2
that prevented a string from sorting before a string of
which it is a prefix.
1993-06-10 Bill Poser version2.4
Improved correspondance of output to input.
Fixed bugs in input routines.
1993-05-30 Bill Poser version2.3
Made minor modifications to PrintDefaults and PrintFlags.
1993-05-19 Bill Poser version 2.2
Added backslash escapes to sort order file, -d and -r flags.
Added logging to msort.log.
Arranged for characters for which no rank is specified to
be ranked after all others, in ASCII order.
1993-05-17 Bill Poser version 2.1
Added specification of record separator.
1993-05-17 Bill Poser version 2.0
Added subsorts.
1993-04-24 Bill Poser version 1.6
Fixed bug in ConstructSortOrder. Strings are now guaranteed
to sort after prefixes to them.
1993-04-16 Bill Poser version1.5
Fixed bug in ConstructSortOrder. Spaces are now handled properly.
1993-04-12 Bill Poser version 1.4
Changed tag specification from strings to regular expressions.
Improved formatting of record processing progress report.
Added progress report on write-out of sorted records.
1993-04-11 Bill Poser version 1.3
Eliminated limitation on number of records.
1993-04-10 Bill Poser version 1.2
Added listing of multigraphs.
Added numerical sort option.
Rationalized flags.
1993-04-05 Bill Poser version 1.0
