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Subject:    Linux-Announce Digest #250
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Date:       1998-10-23 10:13:24
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Linux-Announce Digest #250, Volume #3            Fri, 23 Oct 98 10:13:24 EDT

Contents:
  The 4.6.3 release of fetchmail is available (Eric S. Raymond)
  Cdparanoia Alpha 9 - CD audio reader (Monty)

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From: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Subject: The 4.6.3 release of fetchmail is available
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:23:31 GMT

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The 4.6.3 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail.  Here are the release notes:

fetchmail-4.6.3 (Tue Oct 20 12:37:25 EDT 1998):
* Introduced `debug' verbosity, invocable by -v -v.
* Make authentication failures more visible by syslogging them.
* fetchmailconf now has access to information about which fetchmail
  compile-time options have been enabled, and uses it to control
  the choices in various panels.
* Added `properties' option for extension scripts.
* gcc -Wall cleanup
* Removed ad-hoc rewrite of Return-Path introduced in 4.6.1.  This was 
  redundant with what reply_hack already does.

There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 294 on fetchmail-announce.

Another step in closing out the pending bug and feature queue for the
upcoming 5.0.0 release.  Please test.

By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
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                <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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From: Monty <xiphmont@mit.edu>
Subject: Cdparanoia Alpha 9 - CD audio reader
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:27:05 GMT

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Cdparanoia alpha 9 is now available on the CDDA Paranoia homepage:

http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/xiphmont/cdparanoia/index.html

This release adds no additional features; it's an aggessive
optimization and bugfix release.

The optimization is primarily for drives that read badly fragmented
data with a high required overlap (a worst-case sort of scenario).
I've put into practice some of the more aggressive theory I've ever
coded.  Alpha 9 is between 30x and 120x fastser for worst case drives;
my test simulator can now rip tracks in 5-10 minutes what once lasted
overnight.

As always, I'm also interested in seeing what might have broken that
worked before.  Please try alpha 9 and report bugs even if you've
never gotten a glitch out of some prior release.

- From here, release plans include rearrangement of the interface and
transport layers along witht he first ports to other Unicies in alpha
10, and the first code in Paranoia III that can make use of real
scratch detection and interpolation in alpha 11.  Alpha 11 will be the
last alpha release; past that point, the code will proceed to beta
(basically stable but still in testing for a real release).  Alpha 9
will likely see one or two intermediate releases before alpha 10
appears.

Bugs fixed in this release:

Discs that return 'really illegal' table of contents
parameters (eg, negative tracks, tracks with negative starting sector
offsets) were unreadable.

Drives that require large overlap settings were *very* slow.

Transport errors were often incorrectly marked as "unable to write
packet command to device."  The error was actually happening; cdparanoia
was just reporting the wrong error type.

Occasional freezup during 'Attempting to autosense SG_BIG_BUFF' fixed.

Additional functionality:

More SCSI error checking and reporting

Additional autosense reporting for drives for which cdparanoia can't
find a working command set; some of these drives *are* CDDA capable, I
just don't know how to frob them.  Hopefully this new output will
help.

Happy hacking,

Monty


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