Developer Release Notes: BeOS Release 4.5, Apps and Programs

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BeOS Release 4.5

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Terminal does the right thing when you paste a wrapped line.
kill now correctly sends a SIGTERM rather than a SIGHUP.
mimeset -F will forcibly reset an application's meta mime entry.
Various fixes to Poorman, including
- No more crash on exit.
- "Send Directory List if no Index" now works.
- No longer thinks it can create a folder on a read-only volume.
Software Valet and Package Builder changes:
- Package file format versioning has been cleaned up. Because of this, the packages that this version of PackageBuilder creates are not compatible with older versions of SoftwareValet.
- Three new replacement modes:
  - ask if newer version
  - ask if newer creation date
  - ask if newer modification date
- The apps would sometimes crash when the setup window was closed. This has been fixed.

New Applications and Preferences

For descriptions of the new or improved user-level BeOS applications and preferences see User Release Notes.

dumpmpct

The new dumpmpct program displays the contents of the multiprocessor configuration (MPC) table (it works on SP machines, too). This program isn't for everybody -- if you know what an MPC table is, then you'll understand what's going on here.

listdev

listdev is a new command-line program that lists devices as reported by the configuration manager.

BeOS Release 4.5

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Developer Release Notes: BeOS Release 4.5, Apps and Programs