I haven't seen this posted, so here it is for any who are interested.

Rick
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:20:22 -0500
Subject: [ANN] Ambrai Smalltalk 1.0.5 Beta2

Ambrai Smalltalk 1.0.5 Beta2 is now available for download.

Summary of changes:

1. IDE improvements
        - Syntax highlighting
        - Syntax-based keyboard and mouse selection
        - Splitter panes
        - Text pane find and replace
        - Keyboard navigation

2. Command-line
        - Can run /usr/bin/smalltalk from the Terminal
        - Can access command-line arguments
        - Can access environment variables
        - Can input and output to and from the command-line
        - Can invoke other command-line programs
        - Can pipe data to and from other command-line programs

3. Unicode character support
        - Unicode characters can be used in the source code. Comments,
	  string, symbol, and character literals may contain
	  international characters.  Method selectors must still use
	  traditional unaccented Latin characters.
        - Unicode character escape sequences may be used in string and
          symbol literals.
        - All GUI components may contain international characters.
        - UTF8 and UTF16 text encodings are supported.

4. Object finalization

5. Objective-C interface

6. Database interface

7. Cryptographic framework

8. Graphics framework

9. Weak collection improvements

10. Squeak file compatibility
        - Can file-in Ambrai chunk format into Squeak.
        - Can file-in Squeak chunk format into Ambrai (assignment _
          must be manually changed to :=).

Enjoy,

Dorin Sandu and Mark Suska
Ambrai Smalltalk Development
http://www.ambrai.com
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