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>This release has a number of substantial changes over version
    1.3. The most visible change is that the version of Expect and Tcl
    included in the release are up-to-date with the current stable net
    releases. The biggest change is years of modifications to the
    target configuration system, used for cross testing. While this
    greatly improved cross testing, is has made that subsystem very
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>More built-in support for building target binaries
        with the correct linker flags. Currently this only works with
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	preferably with a target supported by
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>Lots of little bug fixes from years of heavy
        use at Cygnus Solutions.</P
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>DejaGnu now uses
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>Updated documentation, now in SGML
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>Windows support. There is beta level support for
      Windows that is still a work in progress. This requires the
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	release. This works as of the B20.1 release. Cygwin is a POSIX
	system for Windows. This covers both utility programs and a library
	that adds POSIX system calls to Windows. Among them is pseudo tty
	support for Windows that emulates the POSIX pty standard. The
	latest Cygwin is always available from <A
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	the GNU development tree on Windows after a native build. But the
	nature of ptys on Windows is still evolving. Your mileage may
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