Possible compatibility problems with earlier versions marked with '*'. --- XXXXX XXXX/XX/XX Added Espec-1 format. Added VisibleString field body type to GRS-1. It is illegal acc. to my copy of the protocol and it cannot be selected when encoding (maps into 'string' when decoding). Needed to talk to some servers. Demo client can request simple element set names. Added Diagnostic Format. Added simple Close handling to frontend server (no hooks for resource reporting yet), and demonstration client. Added cs_addrstr() command to COMSTACK to retrieve peer hostname/address. --- 1.0b3 1995/08/24 Fixed bug in the frontend-server. The numberOfRecordsReturned field was handled incorrectly when records were requested in the searchResponse. This will only affect you if you use the frontend-server. Added GRS-1 encoders/decoders to the service-level API. Lightly tested. Test-client will ask for and print GRS1. Ztest will return dummy records on request. Added Explain encoders/decoders to the service-level API. Untested. Added Extended Services: Item Order encoders and decoders to the Service- level API. Untested. We could use a recent copy of the pertinent bits of the ILL protocol to add those bits. Added diagnostic format 1 encoders/decoders to the service-level API. Untested. Moved pretty-printing of structure-wrappers ({..}) from odr_seq.c to odr_cons.c, which causes a more correct output. Fixed handling of searchRequest in frontend server. NextResultSetPosition was always set to 0 when no records were requested in the searchRequest. * Added better external-handling. This shouldn't harm old code that *encodes* externals. It can break code that looks for a 'single-ASN1-type' representation, since those types that are known are now decoded immediately. Look at the SUTRS sample code in seshigh.c and client.c. Documentation updated. Handling of structured records in bend_fetchresponse. Length -1 marks structured record, type is deduced from format field. --- 1.0b2 1995/06/27 Fairly quick maintenance release to add SUTRS support. Fixed handling of SUTRS records in the demonstration client. * Added format field to the bend_fetchrequest and bend_fetchresponce structures of the backend API (frontend server). When the record is returned, the value of the format field is mapped to an OID. The value VAL_SUTRS will also cause a slightly different ASN.1 packaging of the record. The special value VAL_NONE in the bend_request means that no specific format was requested by the client. Documentation updated accordingly. Test server (ztest) will return a fixed dummy SUTRS record if your client requests SUTRS. Documentation updated accordingly. You can now set external libraries and RANLIB support in the top-level Makefile. --- 1.0b 1995/06/19 First public release.