D-2.1 Release Note

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Major changes from D-2.0

Linux Support

Now, Linux is supported in binary distribution. It should work on most of Linux environment, except for very old versions.

Test was done against Redhat Linux release 9, with kernel-2.4.20-8, glibc-2.3.2-11.9 and gcc-3.2.2-5

Core Join

You can Djoin files without pre-sorting by key values, though there are some restrictions. See Djoin manual for the detail.

New Operators of Dl : QX, LOCALE and ELIF

IF xx THEN xx [ ELIF xx THEN xx ] .. [ ELSE xx ] FI is now supported.

New operator QX is introduced in Dl.

QX command

is like `command` in sh, which executes the command and returns the output. The name of QX comes from perl operator qx/command/.

New special variable LOCALE holds the current locale value. This is useful to check your locale.

Dfd -e option

New option -e produces NAsc field when the field has non Ascii characters. This tells character block name of UCS in Windows or Linux, and code set number in SunOS4.