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This release really fixed test0004 and test0011.
Definitely. (I removed both tests completely.
Turns out, test0004 can't work because the Standard
C library supplies no information about the time
zone, & test0011 was a duplicate of test0004.)

Updated the documentation in minor ways, but it's
pretty much out of date still. Documentation
improvements are probably top of the list for
release 0.5.

Phil release 0.3 is done. And released.

Better installation. Better uninstallation.

Checks that 'basename' behaves properly &
substitutes Phil's own basename if not. (Previous
releases of Phil merely checked that 'basename'
existed.)

test0004 no longer complains about that one,
pseky date.

test0013 no longer complains about that one,
pesky path name. (That's because, if your C
library's builtin basename processes that file
name incorrectly, Phil substitutes Phil's better
basename.)... read more

Updated the online docs. This version of the docs is NOT in the 0.0 release. The upcoming 0.1 release will include the new additions plus others. The main new addition is a discussion of the portability of built-in data types in C (like int, short, long).

Phil 0.1 (alpha) is due the morning of Sunday, 13 May 2001 (where "morning" is in Pacific Daylight Savings time). This release will include documentation improvements & fixed (or at least improved) "install" rules in the makefile. (The current ones don't install in the advertised locations.)