I'm happy to announce News Clipper 1.26 BETA. Typically News Clipper is tested for 1 to 2 weeks before release. However, a number of people have had quite a bit of trouble with the "undefined value in File::Cache" bug. As a result, I'm releasing this beta to allow these people to have early access (despite the potential risks associated with a beta version). Users of News Clipper versions after 1.18 should have no problem installing this version over their older version. Users of News Clipper versions before 1.18 will need to convert their handlers using the included ConvertHandler utility. !!ConvertHandler does most of the work, but manual intervention is usually necessary to complete the conversion!! Download: - You can now download NewsClipper 1.26 from: http://www.newsclipper.com/beta/ - I'm still working out problems with the binaries for IRIX and SunOS/Solaris. Hopefully they will be out soon. - Binaries for AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux Libc5, and OpenBSD are untested. Please send me your experiences, good or bad. New since version 1.23: - Added LOCAL_TIME_ZONE option to timezone specifications, which causes the local time zone to be used. - Re-implemented caching to use a different persistence mechanism. (This should finally squash the dreaded undefined value in File::Cache error.) - Added a lockfile (~/.NewsClipper/lock) that prevents more than one copy of News Clipper from running at the same time. (LockFile::Simple module now required.) - Faster verification of handler type during counting of number of installed acquisition handlers - Decreased dependence on handler server during couting of number of installed acquisition handlers - Installation no longer requires "make NewsClipper_Cleanup" step - Installation now automatically converts older configuration files. - Added ExtractTables function to HTMLTools. - Non-fatal errors while contacting the handler server are now printed in the output as HTML comments. - A few speed improvements. Regards, David ____________________________________________________________________________ David Coppit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> President, Spinnaker Software http://www.newsclipper.com/ -- Snip and ship dynamic content to your website - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
