EPIC4pre2

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New set, /SET SWITCH_CHANNELS_ON_PART
        Traditionally, when you use the /PART command (ie, /LEAVE), the
        client will automatically do a /PARSEKEY SWITCH_CHANNELS for you,
        to make another non-current channel the current channel in the
        window.  If you do not like this behavior, you can /SET this value
        to OFF and when you /PART a current channel, your window will be
        left current-channel-less.  It's important to note that this may
        result in a window having one or more non-current channels and no
        current channels.  That is expressly the intent of this /SET.

        Also note that this /SET is exclusively for the EPIC4-1.0.* branch;
        it is already obsolete in EPIC4-1.1.* where channels have already
        been taught not to move around from window to window.

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New set, /SET MAX_RECONNECTS
        Traditionally, when you are disconnected from a server for an unknown
        reason (ie, for any reason other than being killed, a k-line or
        such) the client will attempt infinitely to reconnect you to the
        server.  This can be a problem if the server is not accepting new
        connections (either becuase you are D-lined or K-lined or the server
        is down or unreachable or the like), causing epic to behave poorly.
        This set permits you to throttle auto-reconnect after a certain number
        of unsuccessfull attempts to connect to any one server.  So if you
        /SET this value to 4, then epic will make (more or less) four
        iterations through your server list trying to auto-reconnect you
        before it gives up.  All auto-reconnections will fail until you, the
        user, manually intervene by using the /SERVER command (or by using
        the /SERVER command in a script), or whenever you succesfully connect
        to a server (and recieve the 001 numeric).

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New set, /SET HISTORY_CIRCLEQ
        Traditionally, the epic history mechanism acted as a circle-queue;
        when you reached the oldest item in the history buffer, going
        backward then circled you back to the newest item in the history.
        If you reached the newest item, going forward took you back to the
        oldest entry.  There is no way to "get out of" browsing the history,
        either.  However, if you turn this /SET to OFF, then epic's history
        browsing acts more like shells, where when you reach the oldest entry
        in the history, you can't go back any further -- and when you reach
        the newest entry in the history, you stop on a blank line and cannot
        go any further.  Also, if you use the ERASE_LINE keybinding, you will
        automatically be returned to the blank line at the front of the
        history buffer (as if you had pressed cursor-down a bunch of times)

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New option to /local, /local -dump
        You can use this to delete all of the currently scoped local variables.
        You cannot delete any other alias's local variables -- only the ones
        that you can current see.

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New verb to $aliasctl(), $aliasctl(* getpackage *)
        This works like $aliasctl(* get *), except it returns the package
        name of the given alias, rather than the contents of the alias.

*** News -- Sep 28, 2000 -- New option to /who, /who -literal
        This option sends whatever arguments you specify directly to the
        server without iterpolation by the client.  This is useful if you
        need to specially format your WHO requests in a way that EPIC does
        not support.  You should never use /QUOTE WHO -- ever.  You should
        instead use /WHO -LITERAL, which otherwise acts as /QUOTE WHO does.
        From this point forward, any use of /QUOTE WHO results in completely
        undefined behavior for all functionality in epic for the remainder of
        the execution of that client.  You have been warned.

*** News -- Aug 15, 2000 -- New script, "hybrid6"
	This script purports to provide the neccesary support for admins
	and opers on hybrid6 servers.  The beginning of this script was
	provided by is-, and further submissions are welcome.

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 For some releases, this means this file will be empty.  The entire
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