Original-Via: uk.ac.ox.prg; Mon, 25 Nov 91 18:31:48 GMT [My apologies to those who receive this message from more than one source. In future, messages about new versions of Gofer will be sent to those people on the Gofer mailing list, and will not normally be duplicated in other places.] A new version of Gofer is now available. Particular features added to this version are as follows: o a extended user interface, including: - support for project files to simplify the use of programs whose source code is spread across a number of separate files. - command line options to suppress printing of dictionaries, printing of reduction/cell statistics and to force printing of types. - repeat last expression, $$. - :find command to start editor at line containing definition of a named function. - :set command to provide access to command line options from within Gofer. - :cd command to allow you to change directory within Gofer. - :! command to allow you to access external programs from within Gofer. o a small number of bug fixes. o support for c*p and p+k patterns (for experimentation). o support for `literate scripts'. o a few new demonstration programs. o a supplement to the documentation for the previous version describing the new features. DISTRIBUTION FILES: Source code (for both PC and Sun versions), example programs and documentation are included in a single compressed tar archive: -rw-r--r-- 1 root 369267 Nov 21 12:44 gofer-2.21.tar.Z This archive also contains a small file provided by Stuart Clayman which allows Gofer to be used from within gnuemacs. You may also be interested in a LaTeX version of the documentation which has been prepared by Jeroen Fokker: -rw-r--r-- 1 root 107377 Nov 21 12:47 goferdoc.tex.Z Note that this does not include documentation for the features added in the new release. AVAILABILITY: Gofer 2.21 should now be available from a number of different sources. Here are the ones which are known to me: In the UK: ftp : host: src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.3.7] user: anonymous pass: your email address type: binary directory: languages/haskell/gofer niftp : host: uk.ac.ic.doc.src [janet 000005102000] user: guest pass: your email address type: binary file: <PUB>languages/haskell/gofer/gofer-2.21.tar.Z <PUB>languages/haskell/gofer/goferdoc.tex.Z or : host: uk.ac.glasgow.dcs user: guest pass: your email address type: binary file: <fp>/gofer-2.21.tar.Z <fp>/goferdoc.tex.Z typical command line for niftp: cpf -b '<xyz>filename@host' filename Elsewhere: ftp : host: nebula.cs.yale.edu: user: anonymous pass: your email address type binary directory: ~ftp/pub/glasgow Gofer can also be obtained by anonymous ftam, interactive telnet or email (the last two WITHIN THE UK ONLY) from src.doc.ic.ac.uk. Please contact me for details. Thanks to all involved for making Gofer available in this way. COMMENTS: There is not likely to be a further release of Gofer for some time, but please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, comments or problems with the current version, or suggestions for features to be incorporated in future versions. All the best, Mark