[boot scriptor] New stable release of CD Shell.

After about nine months of development, the next stable release of CD 
Shell is finally here. :)  In case you've missed out on the betas, 
here's a quick run down of the major improvements since the last stable 
version:

- Mouse support has been added.
- Password support using MD5 one-way encryption.
- Improved internationalization via loadable lilo keymaps.
- Diskemu can now emulate multiple floppy images at once, and emulate a 
floppy without booting it (noboot mode).
- Reverse and selective input parsing, for more powerful yet faster 
running scripts.
- Updated/new interface modules for isolinux (memdisk), Ranish Partition 
Manager, and Memtest86+.
- Ability to neatly pack all CD Shell files into an iso, so only one 
file need be placed on your disc.
- Lots and lots of bugfixes.

Of course there are many more minor changes and improvements, which you 
can read about in the change log, news archive, and user manual 
(www.cdshell.org).

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To go along with the new release there have been some updates and 
additions to the website. If you look around in the menus, you'll see:

- A new, darker site style, deviantART, inspired by the website of the 
same name.
- User manual updated to incorporate the changes since the last stable 
release.
- Working mail list sign up page.
- Links to related websites.
- A new development manual, for people interested in programming custom 
modules.

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Updates since the last beta:

- I've added some shortcut macros that can be used for the boot command 
and bootCheck function.  There's $fda, $fdb, $hda, $hdb, $hdc, and $hdd, 
which stand for 0, 1, 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, and 0x83 respectively.  That's 
floppy disks A & B, and the first four hard disks.

- Created a new command that loads and executes Memtest86+ (see 
www.memtest.org).

- Finally got the Ranish Partition Manager module working (rpm/part 
commands).

- Removed hotkey command/module.

- Other under-the-hood changes and bugfixes.

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Thanks to everyone who's contributed to this release, be it in the form 
of suggestions, bug reports, or script/module contributions for the 
website.  Your help is much appreciated!  :)

Mike








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