I'm working on a release of SAM-1.4, and I compiled a list of changes:

Here is a new list (made today 240729) of the last-modified dates and

   Date   Time  Log File
   231022 19:35 ./main/changlog.txt
   240109 21:30 ./go/changlog.txt
   240707 16:42 ./kernel/changlog.txt
   240721 19:05 ./changlog.txt
   240726 21:53 ./lib/tool/changlog.txt

I see these changes:

   made by
   this month	to		regarding
   ----------   --		---------

   October      ./main		Perhaps nothing.

   January	./go		sam1: I modified this script.  Checking
                                my comments I see, and remember, that I
                                did this to improve the code used in
                                sam1, especially as regards buser.

   July		./kernel	dofun: I modified this function
                                definition.  This was an important
                                change.  It corrected a mistake.  My
                                SAM was not always correctly following
                                a principle that I think it should
                                follow.  Namely, I wanted it to always
                                allow new additions to the command set
                                (as shown at the top of the screen when
                                you use the "menu" command") to take
                                priority over older additions when
                                there is a conflict.

                                It was behaving correctly for the case
                                of executables that are governed by the
                                PATH.  But it was not always behaving
                                correctly for qualified function
                                definitions.  It turned out I had to
                                invert one of my processes.  I was
                                processing directories from left to
                                right in the PATH when looking for
                                qualified function definitions (files
                                that end in .sam, have "#OK SAM" in the
                                first ten lines and define a function
                                with a name that agrees with the base
                                of the file name).  I should have been
                                processing them in the other
                                direction--from right to left.

                                For executables those named at the left
                                of the PATH have priority, but for
                                functions, those defined *last* have
                                priority.  This mistake was natural, as
                                it is harder to process in the reverse
                                (right to left direction).  But I
                                accomplished it and made the change.

   July		.		buser: I removed the prefixed

                                   ZombieDisplay=:1 DISPLAY=

                                from the invocation of su, and I added

                                   sam_flat=flat

                                to the invocation of su.

				GUIDE: I corrected a typo in the "SAM
                                limits" section.

   July		./lib/tool	Reading the changlog.txt I see that
                                since 231022 I made a bunch of
                                changes.

                                new
                                ---
				escape	 new script
				dollar	 new script
				drab	 new function
				view_it	 new script
				type_set new function
				fetch	 new script
				ex_dog   new script
				rotate	 new script
   				
   			   	modified
                                ---------
				wolf	 modified script
				dog	 modified script
				sam_view modified script
				ment	 modified script
				msub	 modified script

   			   	function changed to script
                                --------------------------
				mshow    modified script (was a function)
   				
   				removed because obsolete (rm)
                                -----------------------------
				lc       rm function
				map	 rm script replaced by view_it
				picture  rm script replaced by view_it
				pda	 rm function obsolete
				pdf	 rm function obsolete
				fat_ment rm script
				sub	 rm function

   				removed, but hold in reserve (mv)
                                ---------------------------------
				samlabel mv to handy0
				sammntpt mv to handy0
				st_after mv to handy0

   				modified descriptions in menu.dat
                                ---------------------------------
				chang
				dog
				msub
				mkstring
				prn2file
				type_set
				wolf

                                removed unneeded descriptions in menu.dat
				-----------------------------------------
				bits
				checkpkg

                                added missing descriptions in menu.dat
				--------------------------------------
				compile
				fmenu

                                new data
                                --------
				ex_dog.dat new file in data
				ex_dog.jpg new file in data

Notes:

   -Version 1.3 was released on 231022.