Subject: ANNOUNCE: Net::Hotline 0.60
From: [email-masked] (John Siracusa)
Date: 21 Jul 1998 16:22:48 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

I am pleased to announce the release of Net::Hotline version 0.60.

The package is available for download either from my web site at

        http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/perl/

or from any CPAN mirror server:

        http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/J/JS/JSIRACUSA/

What does it do:
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Net::Hotline implements a Hotline interface in Perl.  Currently, this
includes only Hotline::Client.  Hotline is an internet client/server system
that's sort of a cross between IRC and a BBS. See http://www.hotlinesw.com/
for more information.

What's new in this release:
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Version 0.60 is the first (nearly) feature-complete release.  Here are the
highlights:

    * Added file upload.

    * Enabled real dual-forked Mac file creation when downloading on
      Mac OS systems.

    * Blocking task mode introduced, along with a handful of blocking
      methods.

    * Overhauled error handling to work with the new blocking task mode.

    * Changed the network i/o (again).

    * Kludged up a bunch of function names to prevent AutoLoader from
      complaining about non-unique 8-letter(!) names.

    * Made a few modules less intrusive with their exporting.

    * Fixed a bug that caused CPAN.pm and other modules that use ExtUtils
      to find version numbers to die with an eval() error.

    * Changed the README to prevent hapless Mac OS users from overwriting
      MacPerl's lib/Net/ directory.

    * Included two example scripts: hlftp.pl and hibot.pl

Legal issues:
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Copyright(c) 1998 by John C. Siracusa.  All rights reserved.  This program is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
as Perl itself.

Author's note:
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There were so many features added between version 0.51 and version 0.60
that there are bound to be a whole crop of new bugs in this release.  If
you stumble upon one (or two, or three) please don't hesitate to email me.

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  John Siracusa  | If you only have a hammer, you tend to
 [email-masked] | see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow