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[COLD] Genesis 1.0p16 released

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Nov 4 23:37:13 1996 )

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:14:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>
To: coldstuff@cold.org

Includes a bug fixes, as well as a tenative UDP networking layer,
$list.sort() and some features.  The CHANGES file:

1.0-17 [04-Nov-96] Miroslav Silovic, Brian Buchanan
      * Included a few scripts in 'bin' again (Brandon)
      * Fixed unkillable object bug caused by reprogramming methods (Brian)
      * Fixed method_info() to find local methods only (Brian)
      * Fixed add_method() goofing flags and access for methods
        overriding nonoverridable methods (Brian)
      * Changed call_method() to treat method calls from within frob-access
        methods to this() as if they were calls to frob methods (Brian)
      * Fixed find_method() and find_next_method() to find frob methods
        overriding nonoverridable methods (Brian)
      * Fixed unkillable object bug caused by passing to ROOT or DRIVER
        access methods (Brian)
      * The backup won't hang with heavy-duty task running (Miro)
      * (1).method() decompiles with parentheses around 1 (this happens
        only if argument is an integer, which is valid behaviour) (Miro)
      * Crash on attempt to decompile objnum has been fixed (Miro)
      * $list.sort added (Miro)
      * $dictionary.union fixed to insert keys in consistant order (Miro)
      * UDP networking added (hooked into the existing functions) (Miro)
      * ("string" * INTEGER) returns string repeated INTEGER times (Miro)