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I'm happy to announce a new version of V: version 99993 K

Changes included with V version 99993 K:

0x00]: Updated the date of TMSR copyright.

0x01]: Updated the version number of the vtron to 99993 K.

0x02]: Grammatical/Spelling errors fixed.  Thanks to hanbot for finding these.

0x03]: There is a significant change to the manner in which we handle the
       creation of temp directory for holding the temporary life (during the
       execution of V, and no longer) of the gpg keyring.

       This entails removing the code that looks up the users home directory and
       creation of a directory called '~/.gnupgtmp'.  Instead, we are now making
       use of the UNIX `mktemp` utility.

       We now attempt to use `mktemp` to create a temporary directory in the
       /tmp filesystem if it exists.  If it does not exist, for whatever reason,
       it will attempt to create the temporary directory in the same place where
       V is executed from, '.'.

0x04]: As it turns out, modern ``unix'' environments ship completely useless
       without any sensible utilities at all.  Various unfortunate persons have
       found this out the hard way.  My vtron uses various shell-outs to
       execute tasks, so a 'check_required_bins' subroutine has been added to
       execute first to ensure that all the necessary binaries are available on
       the users local system.  If a dependent program is not found, an error
       message will be printed letting the user know which is missing.

0x05]: A defect has been found [R.01], and reported [R.02] in all previous
       versions of my vtron.

       The defect, in a nutshell, is that if you have more than one leaf in your
       vpatch flow, and you select to press all of the way through the flow, you
       could end up pressing leafs that you didn't intend to press.

       To shed a bit more light on this, now when a user goes to press, the flow
       will not be used to calculate the press-path.  Instead, with a given HEAD
       from the user, my vtron will now recurse the vtree finding all it's
       antecedents and press those only.

       To aid the user, for the time being, I have added a subroutine to the
       system called 'press-path' or 'pp'.

       If the user wants to see ~EXACTLY~ what will be pressed, in what exact
       order, the user can use 'press-path' or 'pp' with a given HEAD, and the
       vpatches will be printed to standard out.

0x06]: Results From Testing

       The changes have been tested in a combintion of manual and automated test
       suite.

       The automated test suite is available upon request.

       I would like to thank: shinohai, diana_coman, hanbot, and asciilifeform
       for their efforts in testing and review of the changes.

       If you have questions or comments please ask mod6 in #trilema, or via
       email.

0x07]: Attached to this email

       The following are attached to this email with their PGP signatures:

       v.pl
       v.pl.mod6.sig
       v_quick_start.txt
       v_quick_start.txt.mod6.sig
       v_users_manual.txt
       v_users_manual.txt.mod6.sig
       V-20180222.tar.gz
       V-20180222.tar.gz.mod6.sig

Enjoy!

0x08]: References
  [R.01]: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1756251
  [R.02]: http://thebitcoin.foundation/ml/btc-dev/2018-January/000285.html
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