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
