Release 1.4.6

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1.4.6
  * conv: no longer distribute as dos2unix, unix2dos, u2d, or d2u.
    Those programs now available from the separate dos2unix package.
  * ascii: by default, now only prints characters 0..127. Use new
    option --extended/-e for old behavior, printing characters 0..255.
    See this thread: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00600.html
  * cygstart: Fix --reference. Allow relative paths (enables, e.g.
    'cygstart calc'). Reported by Ken Hirsch.
    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg01101.html
  * cygdrop: Minor fixes (Christian Franke)
  * mkshortcut: Minor fixes (Jon TURNEY)
  * Updated license for lpr to GPLv3+ (with permission from
    Rick Rankin)
  * Updated license for readshortcut to GPLv3+ (with permission
    from Rob Siklos)
  * Updated license for realpath to GPLv3+ (was GPLv2+)
  * Updated license for cygstart to GPLv3+ (was GPLv2+; no objections
    from Michael Schaap)
  * Updated license for cygdrop to GPLv3+ (was GPLv2+; no objections
    from Christian Franke)
  * Updated license for mkshortcut to GPLv3+ (was GPLv2+; no objections
    from Joshua Daniel Franklin)
  * Updated license for the cygicons.dll (as a collection) to GPLv3+ (was
    GPLv2+). Individual icons within the collection remain under their
    original license.
  * Updated license for banner to GPLv3+ (with permission from
    from Joerg Schaible)

1.4.4
  * Fix longstanding bug in mkshortcut, in which failure was
    reported even on success (Andy Koppe).
  * --help, --license, --usage, and --version output now goes
    to stdout instead of stderr
  * Add standard command line options to cygdrop (--version,
    --help, --license, --usage)
  * Various internal code cleanups

1.4.2
  Add hippo icon to cygicons.
  Fix mkshortcut bug.

1.4.1
  Add --help option to lpr.
  Build system improvements.
  Add support for building on MinGW.
  Add new cygdrop utility (Christian Franke; requires w2k or better)
  Many of the utilities have been relicensed as GPLv3+.

1.4.0
  Add support to cygstart for filenames with UTF/wide chars.
  (IWAMURO Motonori).

^^ Begin cygwin-1.7-specific development ^^ 

1.3.4
  Fix installation bug, exposed by new libtool's modified
  behavior (reported by Jerry Hedden and David Rothenberger)

1.3.3
  cygstart: Add new -w/--wait option (Barry Kelly)
            Propagate exit status of child process when -w (Alex Smith)

1.3.2
  cygicons: a new DLL that provides cygwin-related icons
            original images were obtained from various (free
            as in speech) sources.
  Now installs documentation into $(prefix)/share/doc/cygutils
  Also installs per-component documentation in $(docdir)/component/
  No longer link apps to libpopt if they don't need it.
  Needs libtool for building cygicons, but side effect is to use
    libtool throughout.  cygicons requires libtool to be configured
    with RC support (e.g. windres). This may break building on 
    non-w32 platforms.

1.3.1
  cygstart: compatibility fixes for recent cygwin snapshots
  build machinery updated to latest autotools -- now passes distcheck

1.3.0
  cal      - remove
  col      - remove
  colcrt   - remove
  colrm    - remove
  column   - remove
  ddate    - remove
  getopt   - remove
  mcookie  - remove
  namei    - remove
  rename   - remove
  rev      - remove

1.2.10
  cygstart: properly convert environment variables to Win32 (Michael Schaap)
  cygstart: don't parse options listed after the command (Eric Blake)

1.2.9
  Fix memory leak/crash in readshortcut (cgf)


1.2.8
  more updates to cygstart (Michael Schaap)
  bugfix for dump under mingw (Kees Zeelenberg)

1.2.7
  Updates to cygstart (Anthony Derosa, Michael Schaap)
  New 'rename' program (Christopher Faylor)

1.2.6
  Remove readlink (now provided by coreutils-5.3.0+)
  conv/d2u/u2d:  add --force/--safe options (defaults to safe).
     Identify binary files by presence of '\0' and bail if --safe.
     Do not short circuit if first line ends in target style; keep
     going.  Collapse sequences of '\r' without '\n' to a single
     EOL of target style.  '--force' propagates '\0' from input to
     output.

1.2.5:
  Add new -s (startup norm|max|min mode) option for 
    mkshortcut
  Add new -d|--desc option for mkshortcut (to control
    the 'description' field == tooltip text)

1.2.4:
  Remove ipcs, ipcrm which are now provided by cygwin itself
  Remove support for building ipc tools against cygipc; build
    only against cygserver.  CygIPC versions are now (again)
    provided by the cygipc package itself.

1.2.3 (unreleased):
  Bugfix for lpr
  Bugfix for ipck
  Adapt ipck for cygserver compatibility
  Fix docs for mkshortcut to reflect new -w/--workingdir option

1.2.2:
  Add readshortcut (Rob Siklos)
  Actually implement the --dos/--unix options to putclip
    and getclip (Rob Siklos)
  Add the --no-conv option to putclip and getclip

1.2.1:
  Fix some configury errors, update documenation

1.2.0:
  Added ipcs, ipcrm, and ipck programs from cygipc.

1.1.4:
  Added -w/--workingdir option to mkshortcut (David Baur)
  Reimplemented lpr in C++ (Rick Rankin)

1.1.3:
  Removed last, utmpdump (now provided by the sysvinit package)
  Updated to latest autotools and gettext -- but remove gettext
    source; no longer necessary with AM_GETTEXT_GNU([external])

1.1.2:
  Add rev, column, colcrt, colrm, mcookie.  Use GNU gettext (add
  gettext source, as well).

1.1.1:
  Add getopt and readlink

1.1.0:
  change to one-big-makefile (cf. "Recursive Make Considered
  Harmful").  Update documentation (esp. "HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE" to
  reflect that.

1.0.0:
  rearrange directory structure to cut down on clutter
  (first insure that every .c and .h file has the correct
  license notice)

0.9.9:
  add explicit license information to each .c and .h file.
  move (almost all) #includes into common.h
  add lpr
  add mkshortcut

0.9.8:
  add last, utmpdump implementations from Mark Bradshaw
  add realpath, ddate implementations

0.9.7:
  fix banner, release on sources mirror system

0.9.6:
  huge reorg, separate apps by license

0.9.5:
  renamed the package to `cygutils'
  added Joerg Schaible's 'banner' implementation

0.9.4:
  added ipc tools from "Linux Programmer's Guide":
    semtool, semstat, shmtool, msgtool 

0.9.3:
  Autoconfiscated. Not really cross-platform yet, still 
  will only build properly on cygwin.

0.9.1:
  initial public release