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# ChangeLog for lesspipe.sh						   #
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Version 1.54 Jul 25, 2008
- improved support for mp3 files using id3v2 (hint from Markus Meyer)
- added tests for mp3 files with id3 v1 and v2 tags
- correctly recognize version of file command
- prefer links over lynx for html display
- add support for binary plist files (Mac OS X) (Peter D. Barnes Jr.)
- add support for gpg encrypted files (Daniel Risacher)
Version 1.53 Apr 11, 2006
- support for Openoffice documents (Florian Cramer, Vincent Lefevre)
- support for RAR archives (suggested by Cindy Leonhardt)
- support for 7-zip archives, UTF-16 text (proposed by Vincent Lefevre)
- support for image formats (png, gif, jpeg and others)
- small shell syntax fix (reported by Andrew Barnert)
- better test to recognize tar and dvi files
- do not include the full path for commands if they are in the search PATH
- avoid "file -" command, relax requirements for "file", Solaris now ok (Ken)
- display debian files without dpkg (hint by Juergen Kahnert)
- mention in BUGS that syntax highlighting is an experimental feature
- require at least version 1.0 of bzip2
- updated documentation
Version 1.52 Jul 19, 2005
- variable replacement pattern containing % causes hang in AIX, escape % char
- the output of the file command can contain file names, make it harder to
  mislead the file type recognition logic
Version 1.51 May 26, 2005
- fix typo in Makefile (PREFIX instead of prefix in configure)
- change consistently test syntax to be compliant to more shells
- display command to set LESSOPEN env variable when called without args
- fix a few cases where filenames containing space were not treated properly
- add a manpage for lesspipe.sh
Version 1.50 Apr 12, 2005
- major changes in the processing of file names, thus allowing the display
  of files with white space in the name even if they are contained in archives
- display of "perl storable" (see perldoc Storable) files by Slaven Rezic
- many changes to get rid of minor bugs related to syntax highlighting and
  the display of files contained in archives
- lesspipe.sh successfully tested to also work with pdksh (tested with v. 5.2)
- added test suite, commands listed in TESTCMDS, test files are in testok and
  testnok. Can be started with make test
- improved configure script and documentation enhancements

Version 1.44 Dec 14, 2004
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- fixes in configure script (Slaven Rezic)
- fixes for ksh syntax by <Jens.Schleusener AT t-systems-sfr.com>

Version 1.43 Dec 09, 2004
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- fixes for Cygwin by Slaven Rezic <slaven at rezic.de> and for FreeBSD
  by Ben Kibbey <bjk AT arbonet.org>
- better recognition of perl files in code2color (Slaven Rezic)
- treat Active State's PPD files as XML files (proposed by Sren Adersen
  <perlspinr AT att.net>)
- syntax highlighting has to be enabled explicitly when calling configure
- fixed bug in trap statement when using /bin/sh as shell

Version 1.42 Apr 15, 2004
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- add support for Microsoft cabinet files through cabextract (v1.0 required)
- correct bug (less -F was not working if used with lesspipe)

Version 1.41 Apr 01, 2004
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- speed up lesspipe considerably for viewing large files (hint by Istvan Marko
  <mi AT imarko.dhs.org>)
- rework the syntax highlighting code (should now be compliant to more
  OS flavors, patches by Remi Mommsen <remigius.mommsen AT cern.ch> and WF)
- support for MacOS X archives and bom files (request by Remi Mommsen)

Version 1.40 Mar 21, 2004
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- introduce syntax highlighting (through 'syntax', a perl helper script)
- ATTENTION: it will work only with less -r or less -R
- deactivated perl support again, perldoc -m otherwise not working properly
- display contents of iso images (proposed by ...)

Version 1.37 Aug 08, 2003
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- perl support was not working under all circumstances

Version 1.36 Aug 08, 2003
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- add new option --default in configure script
- add support for perl files containing pod documentation

Version 1.35 Jan 06, 2003
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- prefer pstotext over ps2ascii if available
- prefer html2text over lynx if available 
- show the contents of mp3 files (with mp3 tags) using mp3info
- for unknown (binary) data display the contained ASCII strings
- support for ASCII-art (2nd version, very experimental, commented out)
  most of the changes proposed by Florian Cramer <cantsin AT zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- corrected minor bugs in the configure script

Version 1.34 May 16, 2002
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- forgotten #endif in configure
- use /usr/bin/env perl to process the configure script

Version 1.33 Mar 12, 2002
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- enhanced output for .deb files (proposed by Carl Greco <cgreco AT ieee.org>)
- default script language is bash on linux systems, ksh on all other platforms
- search GNU file also under the name gfile

Version 1.32 Jan 17, 2002
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- add support for Postscript and DVI format
- enhance the processing of *roff files (.me and .ms files, respect LANG=jp)
- added support for the files compressed with pack
- minor change in RPM output
  (changes inspired by lessopen.sh in SuSE Linux 7.3)
- change in configure script to check more precisely for shell versions

Version 1.31 Dec 12, 2001
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- add option --yes to configure to allow for unattended installation
- more generic Makefile (both by Philippe DEFERT <philippe.defert AT cern.ch>)
- corrected a bug that prevented HTML filtering for (t)csh users

Version 1.30 Nov 21, 2001
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- add support for Rich Text Format (RTF).
- modify the highly experimental support for ASCII-art (still commented out)
  both modifications proposed by Florian Cramer <cantsin AT zedat.fu-berlin.de>.
- the configure script now checks for a working shell
- added more extended english documentation (english.txt)

Version 1.23 Oct 30, 2001
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- call ps -up to have a trailing blank after less in the ps output (case HTML)
- generate a simple Makefile, rudimentary options for configure

Version 1.22 Aug 10, 2001
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- w3m uses internally less, refuse to convert html unless called from less

Version 1.21 Aug 8, 2001
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- recognize file type "... text executable" as text, not as binary

Version 1.20 Aug 6, 2001
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- Add support for removable media via the /dev/xxx files (e.g. tar files on
  tapes, floppies) example: less /dev/fd0
- Add support for unmounted DOS Filesystems using the mtools command suite
  via the /dev/xxx files. Example: less /dev/fd0
- determine version of 'file' program and configure lesspipe.sh accordingly
- some cleanup of configure script

Version 1.10 Feb 19, 2001
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- use Lynx instead of w3m as proposed by Heinrich Kuettler <ql.heiner AT web.de>
- Add support for PDF-Files via 'pdftotext' by Derek B. Noonburg
  <derekn AT foolabs.com>
- Change format of first line in output (replace '='s by '==>').
- use configure to customize lesspipe.sh for local computer
- add support for ASCII-art by Florian Cramer <cantsin AT zedat.fu-berlin.de>.
  (very experimental, therefore commented out)

Version 1.05 Jan 24, 2001
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- Add support for Debian packages by Michael Wiedmann <mw AT miwie.in-berlin.de>
- Add MS Word support via 'antiword' by Florian Cramer
  <cantsin AT zedat.fu-berlin.de>.

Version 1.04 Jun 18, 2000
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-  Variable separator character, better colon handling.

Version 1.03 May  2, 2000
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- Bug in handling filenames with spaces corrected.

Version 1.02 Apr 12, 2000
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- Bugs in RPM handling corrected (relocatable RPM's).

Version 1.01 Mar 14, 2000
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- First attempt to handle filenames with spaces.

Version 1.0 Feb 16, 2000
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- Complete rewrite to allow recursive unpacking.

Version 0.4 Jan 16, 2000
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- Add RPM support, better documentation.

Version 0.3 Aug  6, 1999
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- Add bzip2 support.

Version 0.2 Nov 20, 1998
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- Be more verbose for special files.

Version 0.1 May 25, 1997
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- First public release.

