[nas] NAS Release 1.6 is now available

[Jon Trulson]

	... at http://radscan.com/nas.html


	Quite a few changes in this one... Windows support still needs
a bit more work on the clients, but the server works well.

	Here is the relevant HISTORY entry:


Version 1.6 10/23/2002

	## 1.5h    10/12/2002

	- Added SoundFileGetProc() to get access to the toSound and
          fromSound procs in _SoundFileInfo[].  Needed for xemacs.

	- Added AudioLibraryVersionMajor, AudioLibraryVersionMinor,
          and AudioLibraryVersionTeeny to audiolib.h.  Somewhat more
          informative than just the old AudioLibraryVersion which was
          set at '2'.  

	  The old AudioLibraryVersion define is still there however,
          and is defined to be equal to AudioLibraryVersionMajor.

	## 1.5g    10/7/2002

	- changed inputsection defaults in nasd.conf.eg to 44.1Khz, 2
          channel 16b sound.

	  outputsection also defaults to 44.1Khz now, instead of 33Khz.

	- began some CC ANSI'fication of libaudio.  So far only a
          couple of files have been 'upgraded' just to see what the
          implications are.  It's going to be a bitch ;-) And there is
          the likelyhood of introducing errors, so I'll get a stable
          release out first before finishing this task.  The result
          however should be worth it.  I've a feeling a few obscure
          bugs will be found and fixed doing this.

	- some cleanup in server/os/utils.c and server/include/os.h.
          removing K&R style prototype decls, #including unistd.h, and
          setting Xalloc() et. al. to use proper void * rather than
          unsigned longs.

	- changed hardcoded '-L/usr/X11R6/lib' for REQUIRED libs in
	  lib/audio/Imakefile to '-L$(USRLIBDIR)'

	- it doesn't have the HPUX 11 build fixes - I think I will
          really need access to a machine, or someone who does have
          access to one and wants to fix the build, in order to solve
          this... The bcopy problem seems to be in the HPUX X11
          config/ stuff.

	- We really should release this one unless there are big
          problems. ;-)

	## 1.5f	8/26/2002

	- time for another development update.  Should probably go
          final with a 1.5.1 version soon...

        7/23/2002

	- removed fdset.h stuff for cygwin - no longer needed.

	- auvoxware - added __CYGWIN__ checks (equal to linux)

	- added __CYGWIN__ to dia/auservertype.h 

	- changed server imake to build nasd.exe on cygwin rather than nasd.


        7/20/2002

	- added cygwinArchitecture to the server Imakefile so
          auvoxware will be built on cygwin systems.

	- Removed the SoundFileInfo[] array in sound.h so cygwin would
          be happy.  Apps should not have been accessing that array
          directly anyways.

	  Added the following new functions to sound.c (that used to
	  be macros in sound.h):

	     SoundFileFormatString, SoundValidDataFormat,
	     SoundFileFormatToString, SoundFileFormatToAbbrev,
	     SoundFileFormatToSuffixes

	  Assuming your code did not attempt to directly access
	  SoundFileInfo[], no changes should be required.

	  libaudio.so revision bumped to 2.3

        7/15/2002

	- patch from Nicholas Wourms.

	  - fixed FIONREAD in Alibint.c for cygwin
	  - fixed Imake for libaudio on cygwin

        7/9/2002

	- rename dia/nasconfig.* to dia/nasconf.* to avoid name
          collision with NasConfig.h on windows systems.

	## 1.5e    7/7/2002

	- added patch from Nicolas Escuder that adds support for
          Windows operating systems using Cygwin.  Even the NAS server
          is now supported.  There are still issues with the clients. 

	  I will provide a link on the nas-links page to precompiled
	  windows binaries for libaudio.dll, nasd, and some clients -
	  provided by Nicolas.

	- based on idea from Nicolas, added background (-b) mode to
          nasd, to force it to run in the background.  Actually, he
          supplied a patch, but I just redid it to work properly with unix
          systems.

	  If you want to see error messages from nasd while starting
	  up, do not run it in daemon mode or you won't see the error
	  messages as stdout/stderr are closed.  Someday, I'll track
	  down all of these and have them use osLogMsg(), which would
	  work regardless.

	- added NAS_AUDIOMSGFILE in config/NasConfig.h to specify
          where audio messages are stored (ADMPATH in os/osinit.c).

	- Yes, we are at 1.5e now. Sorry I didn't release 1.5b-d.  Was
          a little busy with the day job ;-)
	
	## 1.5d    6/1/2002

	- added .ps -> .pdf conversions in doc/pdf/

	- added html versions of man pages in doc/html/

	## 1.5b    3/16/2002

        - added patch from Marco Molteni to add a '-local' option to
	  nasd.  Specifying this option allows only local clients to
	  connect.

        - fix nasd.man to describe this and other supported options.

        - moved allow_any_host into the NasConfig struct.  Along with
          the new '-local' option.

	## 1.5a    2/23/2002

	- more STARTSERVER fixes - there was still one case where when
          STARTSERVER was defined, nasd could be called with the wrong
          display number due to a bug in _AuConnectServer.

	- changed LEX/YACC DEBUG token to CDEBUG to avoid conflicts
          when building nas with '-DDEBUG'

	- DEFAULT_AUSERVER is now ":0" rather than
          "tcp/localhost:8000".  A local socket connection will startup
          faster than a tcp connection.
	
	- mutex.h
		- corrected unixware 7.x build problem
                  (XMUTEX_INITIALIZER) in mutex.h 
		- added same check for sun/solaris boxes
		- got rid of XUSE_MTSAFE_API - now controlled by
                  NAS_USEMTSAFEAPI defined in config/NasConfig.h

		  If you think you are having mutex problems, you can
		  edit config/NasConfig.h and '#undef'
		  NAS_USEMTSAFEAPI, then rebuild everthing.  This will
		  turn off threadsafety in libaudio.

	- added patch from Tobias Diedrich to fix deadlock in
          AuNextEvent().

	- added new mutex in audio/Alibint.c to protect
          _AuReadEvents() since it can no longer rely on the server
          lock as a result of Tobias's patch above.

	- added new option, 'gain', to config file in the input/output
          sections.  This sets the default gains when nasd starts up
          (if MixerInit is enabled).  Only in voxware for now.

        1/5/2002

	added -lXt and -lXau to the lib dependancy for libaudio.so on
	Linux systems per a request from Lorenzo Delana.

        1/20/2002

	- fixed bug in ConnSvr.c that could cause the wrong server
          number to passed to nasd when STARTSERVER is defined.

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