Changes: germ-0.4.0 (it's about time release) At long last, germ has become multi-plaform. With the addition of a few lines of code and some refinements germ should now work with any gopher server that passes arguments directly to cgi scripts (a la Bucktooth) AND any server that uses traditional CGI environmental variables, specifically QUERY_STRING,to communicate with scripts (a la Gophernicus and Motsognir). It still not likely to work with any server that doesn't communicate with its scripts through one of the above methods. what's changed: -germ can recognize and use QUERY_STRING for servers that provide it. It defaults to @ARGV otherwise. -comment limit is now 950 characters. what's been fixed: -tag search spat out some protests about uninitialized variables. Now it doesn't. -vistors can no longer comment on non-existent posts. -comment text and leave a comment text now wrap at 65 columns, which should actually work for 80 column displays. In the context of a gopher menu, 70 column lines were often still too long. -minor security improvements. germ-0.3.1 (quick fix release) what's been fixed: -comment text and leave a comment text now wrap at 70 columns. -dates are now printed with each comment. Version 0.3 broke this. germ-0.3 (Back to school release) I've incorporated many of the features and a good portion of code from slugmax@sdf.org's version of germ (germ 0.2), so in deference this release is germ 0.3. what's been added: -ability to include links within gopherlog posts (in 0.2) -ability to shorten posts (in 0.2) -ability to include tags, with spaces if so desired (in 0.2, partially) -a comment counter what's been fixed: -put Configurable Variables in a more logical order, with the one variable that must be changed at the top, followed by customization variables, then more technical variables (that SDF users don't need to change) toward the bottom of the list. -added comments -cut out a lot of excess lines of code. With all the added features and comments germ-0.3 is only 22 lines longer than germ 0.1. what's been broken: -I chose, for this release at least, not to implement germ 0.2's ability to change the post extension. The new features are documented in the file USAGE, portions of which were also authored by slugmax@sdf.org, the example post (again partially authored by slugmax@sdf.org) has been altered to demonstrate germ's new features.