<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE> Changes in HylaFAX v4.0beta015 </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BASEFONT SIZE=4> <B><FONT SIZE=+3>H</FONT>YLA<FONT SIZE=+1>FAX</FONT> <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> <BASEFONT SIZE=3> <UL> <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> <B>Current Version</B>: v4.0beta015<BR> <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF="v4.0beta014.html">v4.0beta014</A><BR> <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://sgi.com/sgi/fax">sgi.com (192.48.153.1), directory sgi/fax</A><BR> <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> </UL> <P> Note that this is a <STRONG>major new distribution</STRONG> and lots of things have changed. Consult the <A HREF="hylafax4.0.html">general overview</A> for a high-level description of the new functionality provided in the v4.0 software. <P> This document describes the changes made to the software between the <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. The following information is located here: <UL> <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> <LI><A HREF="#faxq">Changes to faxq</A> <LI><A HREF="#faxsend">Changes to faxsend</A> <LI><A HREF="#faxqclean">Changes to faxqclean</A> <LI><A HREF="#misc">Changes in miscellaneous stuff</A> </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> <UL> <LI>a bug that caused verifying the version of the configured TIFF software to fail on certain systems was corrected <LI>the <TT>TIFFINC</TT> and <TT>LIBTIFF</TT> configuration parameters are no longer read from the <B>config.cache</B> file <LI>the configured awk program must now support the <TT>function</TT> keyword instead of the <TT>func</TT> keyword </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> <A NAME="faxq"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES TO FAXQ:</B></A> <UL> <LI><B>faxq</B> now polls for the removal of UUCP lock files that are unexpectedly encountered when a modem is assigned to an outbound job; this corrects a problem for send-only environments where a modem used by a non-HylaFAX command would be ``lost'' by <B>faxq</B> <LI>a bug was fixed for send-only environments that caused <B>faxq</B> to stop scheduling jobs when a modem that is assigned to an outbound job is discovered to be in-use <LI>modems that are discovered in-use by a <B>faxgetty</B> process are now marked busy; this corrects a scheduling problem for servers with multiple modems <LI>a bug was fixed in the <TT>Dispatcher</TT> that caused child processes to be ``lost'' on AIX systems </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> <A NAME="faxsend"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES TO FAXSEND:</B></A> <UL> <LI>the result string from an <TT>AT+FCLASS=?</TT> query is now more carefully processed; only class values in the range 0-31 are used </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> <A NAME="faxqclean"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES TO FAXQCLEAN:</B></A> <UL> <LI>a bug was fixed that caused documents to be incorrectly removed as unreferenced when the associated job was in the <B>sendq</B> directory </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> <A NAME="misc"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN MISCELLANEOUS STUFF:</B></A> <UL> <LI>the <B>faxaddmodem</B>, <B>faxsetup</B>, <B>xferfaxstats</B>, <B>recvstats</B>, <B>mkcover</B>, <B>notify.awk</B>, and <B>faxcron</B> scripts were changed to use the <TT>function</TT> keyword when constructing awk programs <LI><B>faxmail</B> has a new configuration parameter/meta-header that can be used to substitute strings in formatted mail <LI>typos in <B>xferfaxstats</B> were corrected that broke sorting by certain keys </UL> <!--FOOTER--> <A HREF="toc.html"><IMG SRC="icons/back.gif"></A> HylaFAX table of contents.<BR> <HR> <ADDRESS> <A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A> Last updated $Date: 1999/01/10 09:50:27 $. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>