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Our releases contain links to github PR and lots of text so we are splitting the release notes to individual files This change should - improve readability - reduce the ReleaseNotes file for each release. Signed-off-by: Alin Jerpelea <alin.jerpelea@sony.com>
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NuttX-7.1
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The 101st release of NuttX, Version 7.1, was made on March 15, 2014,
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and is available for download from the SourceForge website. Note
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that release consists of two tarballs: nuttx-7.1.tar.gz and
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apps-7.1.tar.gz. Both may be needed (see the top-level nuttx/README.txt
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file for build information).
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The previous NuttX version was 6.33. The NuttX minor version number is
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incremented on each release, but the major version number is incremented
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only when an incompatibility with previous versions is included in the
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release. In this case, the legacy, manual configuration is no longer
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supported by the NuttX build system beginning with NuttX 7.1. Only the
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newer configurations generated by the kconfig-frontends tools will generate
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viable NuttX configurations.
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All board configurations in the NuttX source tree have been converted to
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use the newer configuration, but if you have some older style configurations
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for you board, you will need to convert those configurations to use the
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kconfig-frontends tools before taking any new code from the repository. See
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https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/Converting+Legacy+Configurations+to+Use+kconfig-mconf
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for some guidelines.
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Additional new features and extended functionality:
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* Core OS:
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- System time logic now includes logic to measure and calculate the
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CPU load percentage (from David Alessio). This CPU load logic
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extended to keep counts on each thread. The per-thread CPU is
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now reported in the procfs under <pid>/loadavg An asynchronous,
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"external" clock may be used to drive the CPU load calculations
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for more accurate measurements when needed.
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* File Systems:
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- As mentioned above, the per-thread CPU load information is now
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reported in the procfs under <pid>/loadavg.
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- Many file system interfaces have been extended to operate on the
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top-level NuttX pseudo filesystem. These include rmdir, mkdir,
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rename, and unlink. This capability can be disabled with
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CONFIG_DISABLE_PSEUDOFS_OPERATIONS in order to keep the footprint
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small.
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* Networking:
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- Numerous updates and improvements to the CC3000 driver from David
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Sidrane.
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* Common Drivers:
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- Defined a mouse interface that is very similar to a touchscreen
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interface, but allows reporting of all mouse buttons. Also, unlike
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touchscreen drivers, mouse drivers need to report positional data
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with no button is pressed so that the mouse position can drive a
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cursor.
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- Added support for a USB HID boot mouse device. Cursor support is
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not integrated and must be provided by the application based upon
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the reported mouse data.
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- Support added for the MIO283QT9A LCD from Toby Duckworth.
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* Atmel SAMA4E:
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- Added complete architecture support for the Atmel AT91 SAM4E
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Cortex-M4F parts.
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* Atmel SAM4E Board Support:
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- Add board support for the SAM4E-EK board.
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* Atmel SAM4E Drivers:
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- Added logic to manage the Cortex-M Cache Control block.
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- Developed and integrated an Ethernet MAC driver for the SAM4E.
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- Backported the SAMA5 SPI driver to the SAM3/4 architecture. The
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SAMA5 version supports both multiple SPI peripherals as needed by the
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SAM3A and SAM3X and also supports DMAC (but not PDC) needed by the
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SAM4E.
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* Atmel SAM D20:
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- Added basic architecture support for the Atmel AT91 SAM D20
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Cortex-M0+ parts.
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* Atmel SAM D20 Board Support:
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- Added basic support for SAM D2 Xplained Pro board. Currently, the
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NuttShell (NSH) works reliably over a serial port. An SPI driver
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has also been developed. Work with the SAM D20 has been temporarily
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stopped, however, in order to focus on the SAM4E-EK.
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* TI Tiva TMC4C123G:
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- Added architecture support for the TI Tiva TM4C123G parts. This was
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merged into the existing support for the LM3S and LM4F families.
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All directory, file, and function references changed from lm to tiva.
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* TI Tiva TMC4C123G Board Support:
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- Added basic board support for the TM4C123G-Launchpad. As of this
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release the TM4C123G-Launchpad board support is untested and likely
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incomplete.
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* STMicro STM32 Boards:
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- The Mikroe STM32F4 can now support the newer MIO283QT9A LCD. From
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Toby Duckworth.
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- Miscellaneous changes to better support FPU on STM32F429 Discovery
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from David Alessio.
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* NXP LPC2378 Drivers:
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- Incorporated I2C and SPI drivers for the LPC23xx from Lizhuoyi.
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* QEMU i486 Drivers:
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- New QEMU keyboard and VGA drivers from Lizhuoyi.
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* Documentation:
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- Added a coding standards document. See
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https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/contributing/coding_style.html
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* Configuration/Build System:
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- A configuration option, CONFIG_DEFAULT_SMALL, was added to select
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default values for configuration variables based upon whether you
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want a smaller footprint or more features. This is not very useful
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if you are modifying existing configurations because then the
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default values do not apply.
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- CONFIG_DEFAULT_SMALL has been defined on all tiny MCU configurations
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so that they do not grow so rapidly when new, optional features are
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added.
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- The legacy, manual configuration is no longer supported by the
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NuttX build system. Only the newer configurations generated by
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the kconfig-frontends tools will generate viable NuttX
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configurations. All board configurations in the NuttX source tree
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have been converted to use the newer configuration, but if you have
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some older style configurations for you board, you will need to
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convert those configurations to use the kconfig-frontends tools. See
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https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/Converting+Legacy+Configurations+to+Use+kconfig-mconf
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for some guidelines.
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* Applications:
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- NSH can now use an EMACS-like command line editor. This CLE, is
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really more like the traditional readline than is the default, tiny
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the NuttX readline .
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- The touchscreen example can now be configured to work with either a
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touchscreen or a mouse device.
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- Several NSH commands can now be used to operate on objects in the
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top-level pseudo-filesystem: rmdir, mkdir, mv, and rm. This
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capability can be disabled with CONFIG_DISABLE_PSEUDOFS_OPERATIONS
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in order to keep the footprint small.
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- If both the CPU load feature and the procfs features are enabled,
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then the NSH 'ps' command will show the CPU load used by each
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thread.
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Bugfixes (see the ChangeLog for details). Some of these are very important:
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* Core OS:
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- task_terminate() always returned an error because the return value
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was not being set correctly (from Gosha).
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- nanosleep() Fix a missing call to re-enable interrupts (from Jason
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Jiang).
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* File Systems:
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- Fixed an error in the FAT logic that can cause file corruption. The
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error conditions are rare and only seen with very large files (from
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Andrew Tridgell). This replaces a previous, partial fix for the same
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problem.
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- Fixed memory leaks in the NXFFS open() and stat() implementations
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(from Lzyy).
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- The interfaces include opendir(), readdir(), et al, were modified so
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that errors will not be reported if you attempt to list a empty
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pseudo-directory.
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* Networking:
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- Fix one place where the connection reference count was not being
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decremented in the socket close() logic. This is really a cosmetic
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change BUT when CONFIG_DEBUG_NET is enabled, it will cause assertions.
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- Backed out a small part of the NuttX 6.33 write buffering changed.
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David G says that this causes problems in connecting to a server.
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- In DHCPD, there was a place where the logic was calling ntohl()
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inappropriately; the address was already in the correct order. How
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could DHCPD have worked with this bug?
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* TI Tiva/Stellaris Drivers:
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- Fixed cut'n'paste error that prevented UARTS2-7 from being used with
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the LM4F120 Launchpad.
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- Fixed several errors there were unmasked with UARTs > UART2 are
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enabled (grom Gosha).
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* Allwinner A10 Drivers:
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- Fixed cut'n'paste error that prevented UARTS2-7 from being used with
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the pcDuino.
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* NXP LPC17xx Drivers:
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- Fix an compilation error that crept into the LPC17xx USB host driver.
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* STMicro STM32 Drivers:
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- Fix cloned typo in the serial driver: FLOWCONTROL vs FLOWCONROL.
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- Disable SPI before changing DPI CR1 register (from David Sidrane).
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- stm32 TIM: Set the timer CCMR when selecting timer channel. From
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David Sidrane.
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- Fix typo in a Makefile: stm32_pwm.c not stm32_psm.c. Noted by Max
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Kriegleder.
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* Library:
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- More sscanf() bug fixes from David Sidrane.
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* Header files:
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- cstdbool: Ignore _Bool8 if CONFIG_C99_BOOL8=y
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* Configuration/Build System:
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- Several changes to restore the broken native Windows build
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* NuttShell (NSH):
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- Use strncpy vs strcpy in the Telnet console logic to avoid
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overrunning the username and password buffers (from Bertold Van den
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Bergh).
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- Add a newline after printing the file in the 'cat' command. This
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prevents the NSH prompt from be in the same line as the final line
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of the file in the case where there is no newline at the end of the
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file.
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