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 Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002
        Tama Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.

 This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
 unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
 modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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ChangeLog about GNU GLOBAL

July 4 2002, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@gnu.org>

	* gctags.c: allows second argument in *ENTRY for 4.3BSD.
	* split.c: splitting function added.
	* strlimcpy.c: replaced strcpy() and strncpy() with strlimcpy().
	* strbuf.c: strbuf_putn() added.
	* conf.c find.c: shut buffer overflow.
	* gtags, htags: './' removed from path name in verbose message.
	* *.c, *.h: copyright year fixed.
	* configure.in: macro AG_BYTE_ORDER recovered.
	* htags: sort command replaced with gtags --sort in makedupindex()
	  so that sort can treat smaller number of tag lines.
	* htags: makedupindex() rewritten for performance.

March 30 2002, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@gnu.org>

	* conf.c: added GPATH,GTAGS,GRTAGS,GSYMS,tags,TAGS,ID to DEFAULTSKIP.
	* find.c: decreased dependency on find(1).
	  removed length argument from find_read().
	* global.texi: documentation reconstucted.
	* globash.rc: --no-wait option added to emacsclient.
	* gozilla: gozilla directory added.
	* abs2rel.c: added for path conversion. pathfilter with sed(1)
	  is replaced gtags(1) --relative or --absolute.
	* global: use lid(1) rather than gid(1).
	* usable.c: locate command for BINDIR before PATH.
	* htags: bless.sh remove cgi-bin/global.cgi because it is not needed.
	* htags: changed open into 'open + exec' to avoid command substitutions
	  in pattern.

January 22 2002, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@gnu.org>

	* htags: build trouble fixed.
	  global.cgi wasn't generated correctly.

January 10 2002, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@gnu.org>

	* DJGPP support code added.
	  Jason Hood ported Global-4.0.1 into DJGPP environment.
	  I have merged his code into this version.
	* gtags.pl added.
	* Convert.pl added. From now on, usage, help, man, info are
	  generated automatically by this script from */manual.in files.
	* gtags, global: make exit code rule:
	  0:normal, 1:exception, 2:usage, 3:GTAGS not found.

November 23 2001, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* gtags: format char for strftime() changed (%e -> %d).
	* gtags: the path of gctags changed from 'gctags' to '$bindir/gctags'.
	* htags: use gtags --date and gtags --pwd instead of date and pwd.
	  Above changes are for Windows 32 environment.
	* rename file: pathop.[ch] -> gpathop.[ch].
	* rename functions: pathxxx -> gpath_xxx, gtagsxxx -> gtags_xxx.
	* rename functions: ffindxxx -> find_xxx, gfindxxx -> gfind_xxx.
	* libglibc/snprintf.c added.
	* move gfind_xxx from libutil/find.c to libutil/gpathop.c.

July 31 2001, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* VERSION: removed.
	* compat.h: moved to libdb/.
	* machine/: removed.
	* htags: WWW link in hypertext was modified.
	* gtags.c, global.c: rewrite code for putenv(3) using malloc(3).

July 12 2001, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* config variable HAVE_SNPRINTF and AC_FUNC_ALLOCA added.
	* stop using MAXENVLEN because it brings buffer overflow.
	* htags.pl: the value of id changed from src directory
	  to HTML directory.
	* libutil/conf.c: error check added.
	* libutil/gtagsop.c: replace notnamechar() with isregex().
	* put '#assert' into reserved word.
	* reconf.sh: command for generating configure added.
	* Copyright notice added for short files that are not important
	  enough to worry about copylefting.
	* libdb/db.h: typdefs pgno_t, indx_t and recno_t changed into macros.
	* gctags/{C.c,Cpp.c}: memory violation fixed.
	* libutil/getopt* and libregex/* moved to new libglibc/ directory.

September 26 2000, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* htags.pl: use generated path of perl for global.cgi.
	* global.1, htags.1, btreeop.1: fix missing .El.
	* make version number 'major.minor.fixed'.

September 3 2000, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* license changed from BSD-style to GPL.
	* now generated automatically by automake and autoconf.
	* nvi-1.79-gtags.diff: put into the public domain.
	* htags.pl: command path in global.cgi becomes generated
	  at execution time. usable() changed to return path.
	* htags.pl: optimized about temporary database.
	* htags.pl: most code which depend on javascript are removed
	  because most of browsers don't support the language.
	* mgets.c: now belongs strbuf.c as strbuf_fgets().
	* strbuf.c: new argument 'initial buffer size' of strbuf_open().
	* global.conf: one line script for ctags-exuberant fixed.
	* Cpp.h, java.h: MAXCLASSSTACK changed from 10 to 100.
	* use snprintf(3) instead of sprintf(3). 
	* replace Henry Spencer's regex(3) with GNU's one.
	* gctags/C.c: ignore 'extern' to treat 'extern func() { ...}'. 
	* global.c: use grep(1) if grep and xargs(1) are available.
	* global.c: use find(1) if find is available.
	* gtags.el: reimplement as a minor mode (gtags-mode) and
	  a major mode (gtags-select-mode) to work with other major mode
	  like c-mode.
	  prefix 'gtags-' added to all functions to avoid conflicts with
	  other packages..

December 23, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* htags.pl: change the process of removing cache file.
	* global.c, gtagsop.c, dbop.c: processing of regular expression
	  is moved from command level (global.c) to library level
	  (gtagsop.c) for optimizing -s option.
	* find.c: gfindopen(), gfindread(), gfindclose() added for
	  optimizing -g option.

November 3, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* htags: stop memory cache.
	* token.c: change buffer type from char to unsigned char.

September 17, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* compat.h: macro for solaris added.
	* Makefile.bsd: delete libregex.a target because BSD has it in libc.

August 29, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* gozilla: add DDE communication code in Windows 32.

August 26, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* Cygwin support code added.
	  David Aspinwall ported Global-3.44 into cygwin32 environment.
	  I refered his code but I didn't use it in as is style, because it
	  conflicted against Dan Fandrich's Windows 32 code. I wrote new
	  code for cygwin32 borrowing David's idea.
	  So any bugs in this area are therefore my fault, not David's.
	* htags: stop using cp(1).

August 23, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@tamacom.com>

	* Windows 32 support code added.
	  Dan Fandrich ported Global-3.44 into Windows 32 environment.
	  I have included his code into this version (3.5) and altered them
	  for some (mainly licensing) reasons, so any bugs in this area
	  are therefore my fault, not Dan's.
	* copyright notice of Tama Communications Corporation added.
	* Henry Spencer's regex(3) imported.
	* gtags.el: now detect XEmacs.
	* htags: rewrite header #!/usr/bin/perl -> #!/usr/bin/env perl
	* find.c: USEFIND undefined by default.

March 22, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* htags: internal path changed for ISO9660 file system.
	* htags: --action=url, --id=id and --nocgi options added to realize
	  Ron Lee's htmake. (internal use only - undocumented)
	* Makefile.generic: DESTDIR macro added.
	* db(3) 1.85 imported to keep machine independency in generic make.
	  'dbpatches' already has been applied.

January 20, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* wrong copyright notice fixed. (regents -> author)
	* gtags.el: stop auto execution of gtags-make-complete-list.
	* gtags: prohibit user from using a path including blanks.
	* gozilla: path conversion rule added.(It will be used in the future.)
	* htags: META TAG added to reject robots.

January 8, 1999, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* 'void main()' changed into 'int main()'.

December 10, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* rename db_XXX to dbop_XXX because some of them conflict against
	  functions in db-2.X.
	* nvi-1.79-m17n.diff: deleted because it is hard for me to maintain
	  it. Sorry.

November 8, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* global: --filter option added. (internal use only - undocumented)
	* htags: tabs parameter added in global.conf to change tab stop.
	* Makefile.generic: make sub makefiles inherit the macros from
	  the root Makefile.

September 13, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* Makefile: library name changed from libutil.a to libgloutil.a
	  becase that conflicts against other library.
	* gctags: rewritten completely.
	  Thanks to Ken Arnold and the other people who developped BSD ctags(1).
	  Without it, GLOBAL had never been here.

August 31, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* nvi-1.79-m17n.diff: patch for multilingual nvi added.
	* nvi-1.66.diff: patch for nvi-1.66 added.
	* nvi-1.34.diff: deleted because it is old enough to support.
	* gozilla/Imakefile: make it possible to build gozilla alone without
	  building libgloutil.a.

August 4, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gtags: --find option and --expand option added.
	  (internal use only - undocumented)
	* global.conf, lib/conf.c: 'CVS/' added to 'skip' parameter.
	* gtags.conf: 'reserved_words' variable for htags(1) deleted.
	  It is now hard coded.
	* find.c: dirent version added.

July 5, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* fixed warning by -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes.

June 25, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags, gtags: -c option moved from gctags to gtags.
	  (It is needed for supporting plugged-in parser.)
	* htags: URL of GLOBAL home page changed.
	* gtags.c: replace "%+" of strftime with "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y".
	  for Debian GNU linux 1.3.1.

January 13, 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags/Makefile, gctags/Makefile.generic, gctags/ctags.h:
	  definitions of GLOBAL and YACC moved from Makefile to ctags.h.

December 11, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* lib/Makefile.generic:
	  change MANDIR definition from /usr/share/man to /usr/man.
	  replace `lorder $(OBJS) | tsort -q` to already sorted list
	  for S.u.S.E Linux 5.1.
	* gtags, lib/test.c: a few changes for Solaris environment.
	* htags/Makefile, systags/Makefile:
	  rewrite ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin to ${DESTDIR}${BINDIR}.

December 7, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* global,gtags,gozilla: rewritten with C for performance.
	* htags: shape up anchor database.

November 7, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* Makefile.generic: a few change for Debian GNU/Linux.

September 20, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags, btreeop: remove <err.h> for portability.
	* btreeop: 'detab() + fprintf' is replaced with 'detab_print()'.
	* gtags, htags, global: don't restrict PATH to '/bin:/usr/bin'
	  like version 1.9 and the former.
	* htags: shut a security hole.
	* all command: description of exit code in online manual fixed.
	* gozilla: support X-property communication to mozilla.
	  See http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html.

July 7, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* htags: tuned for performance.
	* gtags, gctags: move some code for assembler source from gtags
	  to gctags.
	* gtags, htags, global: restrict PATH to '/bin:/usr/bin'.
	* nvi-1.76.diff: deleted because it is old enough.

April 21, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags, btreeop: a few changes for SunOS 4.1.3.
	* global: 'format version record' implemented.
	  (It will be used in the furture.)
	* htags: use temporary directory specified by TMPDIR environment
	  variable.
	* nvi-1.79.diff: added for nvi-1.79.

April 5, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags, btreeop, Makefile: a few changed for Linux and Solaris.
	* htags: changed internal separator from '|' to ' ', because some OS
	  cannot treat '|' in a path.
	* gctags, htags: regard 'entry' as a reserved word.

February 17, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* htags: htags no longer makes frame.html. index.html includes frame.
	* htags: tuned for performance.

January 21, 1997, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@wafu.netgate.net>

	* gctags: import ctags.c and apply ctags.diff for generic UNIX.
	* htags: cease using <BLOCKQUOTE> because lynx doesn't understand it.
	* global,htags: replace 'sort -u' with 'sort | uniq' for compatibility.
	* nvi-1.76.diff: added for nvi 1.76.

October 26, 1996, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@ca2.so-net.or.jp>

	* ctags.diff: now search all part of a yacc file for C functions.
	  (original only 3rd part)
	* ctags.diff: no longer consider a yacc rule to be an object.

June 7, 1996, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@ca2.so-net.or.jp>

	* use bsearch(3) for searching reserved words.

April 21, 1996, Shigio Yamaguchi  <shigio@ca2.so-net.or.jp>

	* global.pl, gtags.sh, btreeop.c, ctags.diff, Makefile.
	* only support FreeBSD 2.0.5R, 2.1R and 2.1.5R.
