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2 26/04/04 Release of ir-tcl-1.4.2
4 11/29/03 Added getXml method to retrieve XML record. (Franck Falcoz).
6 05/03/03 IRTCL.DLL is using Tcl stubs on Win32.
8 05/03/03 APDU dump : written to same file as log when DEBUG is enabled.
10 05/03/03 Sets largeSetLowerBound to 1 instead of 2 by default.
12 05/03/03 Fix bug with idAuthentication that didn't work for empty group.
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15 02/24/03 Release of ir-tcl-1.4.1
17 02/18/03 Updated for YAZ 2.0.
19 01/30/03 Bug fix: IrTcl aborted if it received "unexpected" response PDU's.
21 09/13/02 Debian package.
23 03/20/02 searchResult method (retrives USR:SearchResult-1 from
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26 12/04/01 Release of ir-tcl-1.4
28 12/03/01 Changed Implemenation strings for IrTcl.
30 12/03/01 Configure deals with Tcl layout for Debian GNU/Linux.
32 03/27/01 Fixed bug in do_responseStatus. Thanks to Rustam T. Usmanov
33 <rustam@unilib.neva.ru>
35 03/26/01 Fixed bug in ir_deleteDiags. Thanks to Rustam T. Usmanov
36 <rustam@unilib.neva.ru>
38 02/09/01 Updated for Tcl8.1 and upwards where internal encoding is UTF-8.
39 Queries and Scan star terms are converted to external encoding.
41 12/12/99 Updated list of preconfigured targets for test client.
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44 12/10/99 Release of ir-tcl-1.3
46 03/22/99 Added Z39.50 sort. The following methods have been implemented:
47 sort (sends sort PDU), sortResponse (specifies sort handle) and
48 sortStatus (returns sort status - after response).
50 03/19/99 Added support for Tk8.1/Tcl8.1.
52 06/10/98 Added ir-version command.
54 05/20/98 Updated Explain record support.
56 08/28/97 Added support for Tk8.0/Tcl8.0.
58 05/01/97 Added ir-log command.
60 04/30/97 Added shared library support.
62 04/13/97 Added ir-log-init command.
64 11/14/96 Added some Explain documentation.
66 09/03/96 Bug fix: configure script could fail if yaz couldn't be located.
68 09/02/96 Updated IrTcl to work with tcl7.6b1/tk4.2b1.
70 08/21/96 loadFile method changed to use load records previously saved
73 08/21/96 New method, saveFile, that saves DB of records to a file.
75 08/09/96 Updated IrTcl to work with tcl7.5/tk4.1 patch level 1. The
76 asynchronous I/O works much better on Windows now.
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79 07/26/96 Release of ir-tcl-1.2pl1
81 07/26/96 Bug fix: configure script didn't include library specification
82 for Tcl when linking ir-tk.
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85 07/25/96 Release of ir-tcl-1.2
87 06/27/96 Ported ir-tcl to Tcl7.5/tk4.1.
89 06/24/96 Quick reference man pages added: ir-assoc, ir-set and ir-scan.
91 05/29/96 GRS-1 record management function getGrs enhanced so that specific
92 elements can be extracted by (<tagType>,<tagVal>) - pairs.
94 05/29/96 Bug fix: Memory release of GRS-1 records was buggy.
96 02/20/96 Identification of record syntaxes, etc. are handled by the YAZ
99 01/29/96 Bug fix: cs_type member in ir-tclp.h renamed to comstackType to
100 avoid conflict with cs_type macro defined by YAZ.
102 01/19/96 Bug fix: When running in Windows NT/95 displayFormats wasn't
103 properly read from the subdirectory formats.
105 01/19/96 New feature: apduInfo - returns information about last incoming
106 APDU. Three elements returned: length offset dump.
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109 01/11/96 Release of ir-tcl-1.1
111 01/10/96 Implemented APDU specific callback handlers: initResponse,
112 searchResponse, presentResponse and scanResponse.
114 01/04/96 New setting: eventType. Returns type of last event: connect, init,
115 search, present or scan.
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118 11/28/95 Release of ir-tcl-1.0
120 11/12/95 New setting: recordElements. This is used to get a record at
121 a position with a given element specification.
123 10/16/95 New setting: ElementSetNames
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125 08/28/95 Release of ir-tcl-1.0b2
127 08/24/95 IrTcl works with tk4.0 and tcl7.4.
129 08/24/95 Modified to work with yaz 1.0b3
131 08/04/95 Requests are queued when responses are pending.
133 06/30/95 The interpretation of MARC records is a little less strict, i.e.
134 a larger set of records are treated as being MARC.
136 06/29/95 IrTcl now works with both tk4.0b4/tcl7.4b4 and tk3.6/tcl7.3
138 06/27/95 Bug fix. In client.tcl: didn't observe non-surrogate diagnostics
139 when resultCount was non-zero.
141 06/27/95 Bug fix. 'make install' fails on some systems.
143 06/27/95 Bug fix. Action loadFile didn't set record type.
145 06/27/95 Bug fix. The present response didn't always get proper
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149 06/26/95 Release of ir-tcl-1.0b1
151 06/26/95 ir-tk doesn't read client.tcl when no options are given. Instead
152 it works like wish. The demonstrating client is named 'irclient'
153 when installed in the directory with executables.
155 06/22/95 Preferred record syntax can be specified by the user in client.tcl.
157 06/22/95 Display format routines (line.tcl,medium.tcl,raw.tcl) changed
158 to handle display of SUTRS records.
160 06/22/95 SUTRS. New setting, 'getSutrs', to retrieve a SUTRS record
163 06/21/95 Install procedure change. GNU autoconf used to create the
164 Makefile. The user may type 'make install' to copy system files
167 06/21/95 Bitmaps (book[1-9]) moved to subdirectory bitmaps.
169 06/20/95 New setting: failInfo. It returns failback diagnostics.
171 06/20/95 Cancel mechanism changed in client.tcl. After a cancel, the
172 interface becomes 'ready' immediately.
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174 06/19/95 Release of ir-tcl-1.0b
176 $Id: NEWS,v 1.2 2004-04-26 09:09:06 adam Exp $