ascii project news

3.18: 2017-08-01
  Fix a packaging error, include NEWS in the tarball.

3.17: 2017-07-31
  Add -b option to generate a table with binary code-points.

3.16: 2017-07-18
  Add -a option to print in 4-column mode.
  0-fill fix and octal code-point literals.

3.15: 2015-04-02
  Gitorious is doomed. Project must move and metadata change accordingly.

3.14: 2013-11-27
  Recognize \0 as ASCII NUL.
  ascii.cgi deleted: the <isindex> it relies on is archaic and nonconformant.
  Markup improvements on the manual page.

3.13: 2013-11-20
  Tweak Makefile to obey $(PREFIX) convention (from MacPorts).

3.12: 2012-11-23
  Cygwin port fix.

3.11: 2011-03-15
  Recognize single decimal or hex digits.
  Minor bug fixes and additional character names from Debian.  

3.10: 2010-10-19 
  License change to BSD. Polish code to modern fully-ANSI C.

3.9: 2010-10-13
  Fix some bugs in the name table.

3.8: 2005-03-03
  Well, that was embarrassing.  Note to self: *test the correct version
  next time*.  Thanks to Marco Vanoni for the fix patch.

3.7: 2005-03-02
  Fix a comment bug in the nametable. Improve splashscreen generation.

3.6: 2004-01-11
  Fix brown-paper-bag bug in the Space entry.

3.5: 2003-12-28 2003
  Source RPMs no longer require myversion to be defined.

3.4: 2003-12-24
  Fix error in ! entry in nametable file.

3.3: 2003-12-24
  Fix portability bug in Makefile sed script.

3.2: 2003-12-15
  Add knowledge of XML entity names.

First released by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, v1.0 March 1990

v1.1 November 1990  -- revised `slang' from the 2.2 pronunciation guide
v1.2 March 1995     -- Fixed a core-dump bug
v1.3 October 1995   -- Fixed a bug that shows up only under ELF.
v2.0 December 1995  -- Interpret ISO-style code table escapes.
v2.1 August 1997    -- merge in changes by Ioannis Tambouras.
v2.2 November 1997  -- merge in more changes by Ioannis Tambouras. 
v2.3 November 1997  -- incorporated Colin Plumb's splash-screen idea.
v2.4 December 1998  -- additions by Brian Ginsbach.
v2.5 December 1998  -- -s option by David N. Welton.
v2.6 June 1999      -- bug fixes by M.R. van Schouwen.
v2.7 October 1999   -- minor packaging and option changes.
v3.0 July 2000	    -- added HTML/SGML entity names
v3.1 July 2002      -- documentation converted to XML