Changeset 3de58c in git for doc/NEWS.texi

Timestamp:

Aug 27, 2001, 4:40:11 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Hans Schönemann <hannes@…>

Branches:

(u'spielwiese', '8d54773d6c9e2f1d2593a28bc68b7eeab54ed529')

Children:

50cbdc419a94d1167005988642cf8a9ee930d18b

Parents:

e48054420f3b08092bdc82ec27f35dadd698c988

Message:

*hannes: merge-2-0-2


git-svn-id: file:///usr/local/Singular/svn/trunk@5618 2c84dea3-7e68-4137-9b89-c4e89433aadc

File:

• doc/NEWS.texi (modified) (8 diffs)

doc/NEWS.texi

@@ -1 +1 @@
 @comment -*-texinfo-*-
-@comment $Id: NEWS.texi,v 1.34 2001-02-26 16:28:51 mschulze Exp $
+@comment $Id: NEWS.texi,v 1.35 2001-08-27 14:40:03 Singular Exp $
 @comment this file contains the News about Singular versions
 @comment Unix
@@ -21 +21 @@
 @end ifset
 
-The current version @value{VERSION} is the first release of the new
-release series version 2-0. Its is a major upgrade from both, the 1-2 and
-1-3 release serieses.
+The current version @value{VERSION} is an update to the new
+release series version 2-0. 
 
 Singular version 2 is generally much faster than any previous
@@ -58 +57 @@
 @item @strong{Windows distribution}
 created with Installshield, includes Cygwin, Singular, and (optionally)
-XEmacs, distributed as several self-extracting archives.
+XEmacs, distributed as several self-extracting archives. Contains @sc{Singular} help
+in a Windows Help format (the file @code{Manual.hlp}).
 @item @nref{Emacs user interface}
 the recommended interface for using @sc{Singular}
@@ -77 +77 @@
 @item http://www.singular.uni-kl.de
 New WWW home-site of @sc{Singular}
+@item RPM versions of Singular
+including integration into KDE
 @end table
 
@@ -98 +100 @@
 @item @nref{spectrum_lib} procedures for computing spectra
 @item @nref{mregular_lib}  procedures for computing the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity
+@c @item @nref{mprimdec}
+@c procedures for primary decomposition of modules
 @item @nref{mondromy_lib}
 procedures for computing the monodromy of a singularity
@@ -183 +187 @@
 @heading @sc{Singular} functions whose syntax/semantics has changed
 @table @asis
+@item @nref{division}
+arguments swapped w.r.t. version 2-0-1 and before
 @item @nref{coeffs}
 Extended possible syntax to
@@ -238 +244 @@
 Bucket representation of polynomials in std;
 Ring change during std, res and bareiss computations
-(resulting in more speed and less sapce consumption).
+(resulting in more speed and less space consumption).
 @item new memory management
 Results is less memory usage, faster memory allocation/free, less
 fragmentation, much better locality of reference.
+@item factorization
+revisited, missing cases implemented
 @end table
 
@@ -251 +259 @@
 ix86-libc6,HPUX_9,HPUX_10
 @item Singular is available for ix86-libc5, ix86-libc6, HPUX_9, HPUX_10,
-SunOS-4, SunOS-5, ix86-Win (runs on Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.0)
+SunOS-4, SunOS-5, IRIX-6, ix86-Win (runs on Windows 95/98/NT4/2000),
+FreeBSD 4.2, MacOS X
 @end itemize