[BusyBox] 0.46 released

[Erik Andersen]

The release was cut nearly an hour ago and the mirror just got updated.  
Here is the announcement from the web page:

    11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released 

    This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, and fixes for
    NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow people to dump a binary keymaps
    for use with 'loadkmap', and a completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' with should
    behave better. BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. See the
    changelog for complete details. 

I decided to make this a full release, rather then a pre-release since it seems
pretty solid with the tests I've been running and if bugs show up, well,
"release early, release often"...

For this next release, the following items are tenatively on the agenda:

*) bug fixes as needed

*) Make lash (optionally) do some basic Bourne shell syntax (if-the-else-fi,
    do-while-done, case-esac, etc -- possibly swiped from the very small but 
    twisty minix shell).

*) split off the networking and such into a netkit-tiny

*) convert all apps to getopt based parsing

*) Create a libbusybox for common stuff.

*) busybox_main() will be adjusted to handle "--help" and "--version".

*) busybox_main() will now define a global variable that will define
    the name of the app that was called.  Apps that use their name 
    will be adapted to use that.

*) All usage/help strings will be moved to a common file (perhaps 
    helpstrings.c).  This will have the side effect of helping out 
    any future attempts at i18n.

I have been debating the merits of stand alone binaries for each app,
so perhaps this may be added in...

Share and enjoy,

 -Erik

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