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@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
-* I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a .poprc
+* I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a run control
facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
in scripts which might be readable.
* Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
- on every host in the .poprc file.
+ on every host in the run control file.
* I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
connection options for each server specified.
@@ -157,18 +157,20 @@ OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
POPRC FILE SYNTAX
-* The .poprc lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may contain
- whitespace.
+* The run control file lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may
+ contain whitespace.
-* I added a --yydebug option to enable .poprc parser debugging at runtime
- if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
+* I added a --yydebug option to enable run control parser debugging at
+ runtime if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
-* You may now have a `defaults' entry in .poprc which sets overrideable
- values for other entries. See the man page for details.
+* You may now have a `defaults' entry in the run control file which sets
+ overrideable values for other entries. See the man page for details.
-* It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your .poprc file.
+* It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your run control
+ file.
-* Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in .poprc parse error messages.
+* Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in run control file parse error
+ messages.
* The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
@@ -204,8 +206,8 @@ DOCUMENTATION
* All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
documented on the man page.
-* I have turned the comments in the sample.poprc into a new manual
- section documenting the .poprc format.
+* I have turned the comments in the sample run control file into a new manual
+ section documenting the file format.
MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES