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Updated: multitail-5.0.0-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows.


Hi

A new version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you.


Cygwin NEWS:
============

 * Update to latest upstream version

 
multitail NEWS:
===============
  
4.2.1: - on AIX, the program would exit because of an realloc of 0 bytes

4.3.0: - one can now define a set of edit-rules in the configfile
       - fix to get it to compile (and run) on MacOS X again
       - splitline can be removed and attributes can be configured (in the configfile)

4.3.1: - a label can be set which will be put in front of each line using '--label "text"'
       - cnv_ts_format would overrule the the settings for ts_format, that is now fixed
       - -eC/-ec did not work
       - compilation fixes voor freebsd 4.x
       - on GNU LIBC systems, a backtrace is now shown in error situations
       - attributes for reverse can now be configured in the configfile (used for, e.g. -eC)
       - optimized code
       - tabs would garble the display
       - the abort/exit key can now be configured in the configfile
       - updated help (-h) output
       - updated man-page

4.3.2: - ^l now also redraws the terminal
       - cursor keys did not work anymore
       - accidently still had -pg (profiling support) in the Makefile switched on
       - convert (-cv) can now also use an external script/program for the conversions!
       - multiple occurences for a convert can now be in a line

4.3.3: - can convert a value to KB/MB/GB
       - added colorscheme for 'p0f'
       - added beep-functionality: multitail can now beep every line it processes (or every x-th line)
       - colorschemes can now be determined by an external script
       - added colorscheme for mpstat (part of sysstat)
       - 'fixed' (it was not really a bug) a deadlock for colorschemes and conversionschemes where no substring select was done by the regexp
       - cleaned up and optimised (for speed - loading 67000 colorschemes is now 200x faster) the configfileparser
       - added page-up/down for colorscheme selection
       - order of colorschemes and script:-lines in the configfile no longer matters

4.3.4: - terminal emulation can now also be selected via the menus
       - default conversion scheme for a file can now be selected
       - conversion schemes can now be selected at runtime (^v) (only for new lines)
       - adding subwindow-id before each line can now be toggled at runtime (only for new lines)
       - when selecting a subwindow, the subwindow number is displayed in front of each subwindow-name as well
       - when adding a timestamp, a subwindownumber or a label before each line, colorschemes would get garbled
       - code cleanups
       - performance optimalisation of buffering; expected speed-up is 90%
       - added colorscheme for portsentry
       - updated on-line help
       - lists of subwindows did not show file/command name
       - fixed memoryleak in merged scrollback
       - fixes in the cs_re* logic
       - fixed sysstat colorschemes
       - merged view (after a (global) search) can now show the window/subwindow number in front of each line (press ^t)
       - fixes so that on IRIX MultiTail compiles without path-changes to the Makefile
       - added -[eE]X which only gives the matching substring as a parameter to the command which is invoked for each matching line
       - fixed a warning about TERM_IGNORE in utils.c (harmless but anoying netherless)
       - check_mail value of 0 was not accepted altough it should be
       - Ex (e.g. use the following for all following files) would fail when you would edit the command from within the menu
       - -[qQ] did not use the default linewrap mode
       - added wordwrap (-p w)

4.3.5: - 'n' (clear a buffer+window) did not work
       - added 'N' which clears all buffers and windows
       - in the scrollback menu, search next ('n') did not work
       - global search now remembers the last searchstring
       - added history to inputfields like searchstrings: press ^r or cursor key down when entering a search-string or filename or command

4.3.6: - MultiTail now verifies that you did not accidentely tried to pipe something into multitail while not using -j/-J
       - do a read of SSIZE_MAX or 65536 (whichever is smaller) instead of just hardcoded 65535 bytes: that way it'll also run on UNIX systems where SSIZE_MAX < 65535
       - when reading from stdin and the end of the file is reached, multitail would busy-loop causing high cpu load
       - terminal-mode can now also select the subwindow
       - disabled terminal-mode for stdin (as that would not work)
       - added mcsre/mcsre_s/etc. (like cs_re/cs_re_s/etc.) but which merges these attributes to the attributes of a previous matched cs_re/mcsre
       - statistics screen now also shows the number of colorpairs in use
       - added colorscheme for Argus (http://qosient.com/argus/) - copied from http://wtf.hijacked.us/wiki/index.php/Multitail
       - added support (in colorschemes) for alternating colors

4.3.7: - added case insensitive toggle to searchfields

5.0.0: - merge with developmentversion 4.3.7
       - default linewrap mode in configurationfile was incorrectly parsed
       - added colorscheme for motion

DESCRIPTION:
============
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail
program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your
console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file
matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will
automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example,
monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of 2 or even more
logfiles is possible. 
It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular
expressions), for faster recognition of what is important and what not.
Multitail can also filter lines (again with regular expressions) and
has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and
deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output
of shell scripts and other software. When viewing the output of 
external software, MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like
'watch' and such.


UPDATE:
=======
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your system.
Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'multitail' from
the 'Utils' or 'Text' category (it should already be selected).

DOWNLOAD:
=========
Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to
find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
==========
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

--
Dr. Volker Zell
volunteer cygwin multitail maintainer

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