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diff --git a/bin/dump b/bin/dump
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # MiniVend session dumper
 #
-# $Id: dump,v 1.4 1997/05/05 20:17:16 mike Exp mike $
+# $Id: dump,v 1.4 1997/05/05 20:17:16 mike Exp $
 #
 # This program is largely based on Vend 0.2
 # Copyright 1995 by Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@world.std.com>

diff --git a/bin/update b/bin/update
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # update - MiniVend database updater
 #
-# $Id: update,v 1.1 1997/05/05 20:17:16 mike Exp mike $
+# $Id: update,v 1.1 1997/05/05 20:17:16 mike Exp $
 #
 # This program is largely based on Vend 0.2
 # Copyright 1995 by Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@world.std.com>

diff --git a/doc/intro.html b/doc/intro.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <HTML>
 <HEAD><TITLE>Welcome to Minivend 2.03</TITLE></HEAD>
-<BASE HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/">
+<BASE HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/">
 <BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE>
 <H1>MiniVend</H1>
 
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ <H1>MiniVend</H1>
 -- you can <A HREF="download.html">download</A> it via FTP.
 <P>
 There is now a
-<A HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/faq/index.html">frequently-asked
+<A HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/faq/index.html">frequently-asked
 question (FAQ) list</A> for MiniVend.
 <P>
 If you want to see what can be done with MiniVend, see some of the 
-<A HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/sites.html">sites that use it</A>.
+<A HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/sites.html">sites that use it</A>.
 
 <H2>MiniVend 2.02 Features</H2>
 <UL>
@@ -78,21 +78,19 @@ <H3>Easy Administration</H3>
 <LI> Works well with <I>all</I> browsers
 </UL>
 <P>
-Andrew Wilcox wrote <I>Vend,</I>
-the copylefted shopping cart software. MiniVend was originally based
-on Vend V0.2, but has been greatly enhanced, adding powerful relational database
-functions, support for
-<A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/frames.html">
-frames</a>, powerful searching, remote administration, super<I>fast</I> server
-mode, conditional HTML, user-customizable help and displays, and much more.
-This version of MiniVend includes an automatic configuration and installation
-utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.
+Andrew Wilcox wrote <I>Vend,</I> the copylefted shopping cart
+software. MiniVend was originally based on Vend V0.2, but has been
+greatly enhanced, adding powerful relational database functions, support
+for frames, powerful searching, remote administration, super<I>fast</I>
+server mode, conditional HTML, user-customizable help and displays, and
+much more.  This version of MiniVend includes an automatic configuration
+and installation utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.
 <P>
 To learn more about <STRONG>MiniVend</STRONG>, see the
-<A HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/minivend.html">
+<A HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/minivend.html">
 HTML documentation</A>,
-visit the <A HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/mvend.html">offical <I>MiniVend</I>
+visit the <A HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/">offical <I>MiniVend</I>
 site</A>, or
-<A HREF="http://www.iac.net/~mikeh/download.html">download</A> it.
+<A HREF="http://www.minivend.com/minivend/download.html">download</A> it.
 <P>
 </BODY>
diff --git a/doc/minivend.html b/doc/minivend.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id$ -->
+<!-- $Id: minivend.html,v 1.4 1997/05/25 06:10:54 mike Exp mike $ -->
 <HTML><HEAD>
 <CENTER><TITLE>minivend</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
@@ -1033,6 +1033,9 @@ <H2>
                  "color".
    type          The action to be taken. The default is 'select', which
                  builds an HTML select form entry for the attribute.
+                                 Also recognized are 'multiple', which builds a multiple
+                                 select box, and 'list', which simply lists the possible
+                                 values.
    field         The database field name to be used to build the
                  entry (usually a select form field). Defaults to
                  a field named the same as the attribute.
@@ -1867,6 +1870,39 @@ <H2>
 <p>
 <DT><STRONG>
 
+<A NAME="minivend_tag_1">
+[tag scan/options]encased text[/tag]</A>
+
+</STRONG>
+<DD>
+Builds a one-click search based on the enclosed text. 
+Properly translates whitespace and non-word characters to
+be parseable by MiniVend. You can add the normal scan options,
+just the se=searchtext parameter will be affected. These two
+sequences evaluate the same:
+<p>
+<XMP>
+        [tag scan/sf=category]Renaissance[/tag]
+        [page scan/sf=category/se=Renaissance]Renaissance[/page]
+
+</XMP>
+<p>Where it is useful is in adding long strings that would otherwise
+be difficult to encode, like
+<p>
+<XMP>
+        [tag scan/sf=author/os=yes]John F. Kennedy[/tag]
+
+</XMP>
+<p>instead of:
+<p>
+<XMP>
+        [page scan/sf=author/se=John.20F..20Kennedy]John F. Kennedy[/tag]
+
+
+</XMP>
+<p>
+<DT><STRONG>
+
 <A NAME="minivend_time_0">
 time</A>
 
@@ -3327,7 +3363,7 @@ <H2>
 You can ensure that a form will be submitted securely (to the base
 URL in the SecureURL directive, that is) by specifying your form
 input to be ACTION=``[process-target frame secure]''. If you are not
-using frames, just specify the special frame ``_self''.
+using frames, just specify the special frame ``_self'' or ``none''.
 <p>To submit a form to the regular non-secure server, just omit the
 <EM>secure</EM> modifier.
 <p>
@@ -3343,8 +3379,8 @@ <H2>
 <XMP>
  <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="[process-order]">
  <input type=checkbox name="mv_order_item" value="M3243"> Item M3243
- <input type=checkbox name="mv_order_item" value="M3243"> Item M3244
- <input type=checkbox name="mv_order_item" value="M3243"> Item M3245
+ <input type=checkbox name="mv_order_item" value="M3244"> Item M3244
+ <input type=checkbox name="mv_order_item" value="M3245"> Item M3245
  <input type=hidden name="mv_doit" value="refresh">
  <input type=submit name="mv_junk" value="Order Checked Items">
  </FORM>
@@ -3431,15 +3467,15 @@ <H2>
 form based on the input from the first form:
 <p>
 <XMP>
-    <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="[process-target _self]">
+    <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="[process-target]">
     <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN name="mv_doit" value="refresh">
     <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN name="mv_orderpage" value="update_proj">
     Sales Order Number <INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=8
                             NAME="update_code"
                             VALUE="[value update_code]">
     <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT name="mv_submit"  Value="Select">
     </FORM>
-    <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="[process-target _self]">
+    <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="[process-target]">
     <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_table" VALUE="product">
     <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_key" VALUE="code">
     <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="mv_data_function" VALUE="update">
@@ -4087,9 +4123,7 @@ <H2>
 
 <A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_mv_matchlimit_0">mv_matchlimit</A>
  are found, the search paging mechanism will be
-employed if the proper 
-<A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_more_list_0">[more_list]</A>
- is present.  Can be
+employed if the proper <EM>[more_list]</EM> is present.  Can be
 implemented as a scrolling list (INPUT TYPE=SELECT) or radiobox 
 (INPUT TYPE=RADIO) field.
 <p>
@@ -4566,7 +4600,7 @@ <H2>
 <DT><STRONG>
 
 <A NAME="minivend_more_list_0">
-[more_list]</A>
+[more_list next_img* prev_img* page_img*]</A>
 
 </STRONG>
 <DD>
@@ -4579,6 +4613,28 @@ <H2>
 stripped.
 <p>Use in conjunction with the [more] element to place pointers to
 additional pages of matches.
+<p>If the optional arguments <EM>next_img</EM>, <EM>prev_img</EM>, and/or <EM>page_img</EM>
+are present, they represent image files that will be inserted instead
+of the standard 'Next', 'Previous', and page number.  If <EM>prev_img</EM>
+is <STRONG>none</STRONG>, then no previous link will be output.  If <EM>page_img</EM> is
+<STRONG>none</STRONG>, then no links to pages of matches will be output. These are
+URLs, are substituted for with 
+<A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_imagedir_0">ImageDir</A>
+, and will be encased in
+IMG tags.
+<p>In addition, if <EM>page_img</EM> is used, it will be passed an argument of
+the digit that is to be represented.  This would allow an image generator
+program to be used, generating page numbers on the fly.
+<p>As an example, if you use [more-list next.gif prev.gif page_num.cgi], the
+following will be the anchors:
+<p>
+<XMP>
+  Previous   <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="prev.gif">
+  Page 1     <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="/cgi-bin/page_num.cgi?1">
+  Page 2     <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="/cgi-bin/page_num.cgi?2">
+  Next       <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="next.gif">
+
+</XMP>
 <p>
 <DT><STRONG>
 
@@ -4659,6 +4715,32 @@ <H2>
 .
 <p>
 <H2> 
+<A NAME="minivend_updating_0">
+Updating session variables after a search</A>
+</H2>
+You may notice that if you set a scratch variable or reference a
+variable set in a search routine on the results page, the change does
+not stay in the user session.
+<p>To change this, set the 
+<A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_scratch_0">scratch</A>
+ variable <EM>mv_put_session</EM> on the page
+in question:
+<p>
+<XMP>
+        [set mv_put_session]Yes[/set]
+
+</XMP>
+<p>This setting is persistent, so it is recommended that you
+do it once at the beginning of the user session if you wish it to be the
+default.  If you don't want it to be the default, reset it to the
+empty value (or zero) on another page:
+<p>
+<XMP>
+        [set mv_put_session][/set]
+
+</XMP>
+<p>
+<H2> 
 <A NAME="minivend_using_0">
 Using a Search Cache</A>
 </H2>
@@ -6350,6 +6432,12 @@ <H2>
 <STRONG>Continue Shopping</STRONG> is selected the output will will go to the page
 <EM>browse.html</EM> with the page routed to the top level frame for the
 current browser window.
+<p>If you are setting a target with the <EM>[process_target target]</EM> tag, you
+will either have to make that target <EM>none</EM> or set the 
+<A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_scratch_0">scratch</A>
+ variable
+<EM>mv_ignore_frame</EM> on the page at time of display.  Either will prevent
+conflicting window targets from being sent.
 <p>
 <H2> 
 <A NAME="minivend_body_1">
@@ -6866,6 +6954,26 @@ <H2>
 <p>
 <DT><STRONG>
 
+<A NAME="minivend_safesignals_0">
+SafeSignals</A>
+
+</STRONG>
+<DD>
+If your operating system does not have a re-entrant C library that
+can guarantee that signal race conditions will not occur, then
+set this to NO.
+<p>BSDI and FreeBSD libraries are NOT safe, and SafeSignals will
+automatically be disabled for those operating systems.
+<p>In general, if MiniVend ever just ``hangs'', particularly if you
+can see a perl.core file, disable this directive.
+<p>
+<XMP>
+    SafeSignals  No
+
+</XMP>
+<p>
+<DT><STRONG>
+
 <A NAME="minivend_safeuntrap_0">
 SafeUntrap</A>
 
@@ -7236,6 +7344,8 @@ <H2>
   nomatch    Search strings that fail to match
   page       Pages that are accessed
   nopage     Pages that are not found
+  basket     Items placed in shopping carts
+  cache      Pages/searches added to cache
 
 </XMP>
 <p>Enter as a space or comma-separated list, i.e.
@@ -7244,6 +7354,8 @@ <H2>
     CollectData   matched,nomatch,page
 
 </XMP>
+<p>Orders are typically logged to other files via AsciiTrack, AsciiBackend,
+or the [tag log ...]data[/tag] construct.
 <p>
 <DT><STRONG>
 
@@ -9217,7 +9329,7 @@ <H2>
 </XMP>
 <p>
 <H2> 
-<A NAME="minivend_updating_0">
+<A NAME="minivend_updating_1">
 Updating Individual Records</A>
 </H2>
 If you have a very large DBM database that takes a long time to build,

diff --git a/sample/html/tags.html → doc/tags.html b/sample/html/tags.html → doc/tags.html
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-<!-- $Id$ -->
+<!-- $Id: tags.html,v 1.1 1997/05/25 06:10:54 mike Exp mike $ -->
 <HTML><HEAD>
 <CENTER><TITLE>tags</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
-<BODY></CENTER><p><hr>
+<BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE></CENTER><p><hr>
 
 <H1> 
 <A NAME="tags_minivend_0">

diff --git a/doc/toc.html b/doc/toc.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ <H1>Table of Contents</H1>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_forms_0">FORMS AND MINIVEND</A>
 <UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_special_0">Special Form Fields</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_form_0">Form Actions</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_one_click_0">One-click Multiple Variables</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_checks_0">Checks and Selections</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_setting_2">Setting Form Security</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_stacking_0">Stacking Variables on the Form</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_setting_3">Setting mSQL tables with a form</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_1">THE SEARCH ENGINE</A>
-<UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_2">The Search Form</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_glimpse_0">Glimpse</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_fast_0">Fast Binary Search</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_range_0">Range Searching</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_one_click_1">One-click searches</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_search_1">Search Profiles</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_search_2">Search Reference</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_3">The Results Page</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_using_0">Using a Search Cache</A>
+<UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_2">The Search Form</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_glimpse_0">Glimpse</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_fast_0">Fast Binary Search</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_range_0">Range Searching</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_one_click_1">One-click searches</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_search_1">Search Profiles</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_search_2">Search Reference</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_3">The Results Page</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_updating_0">Updating session variables after a search</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_using_0">Using a Search Cache</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_4">THE ORDER PROCESS</A>
 <UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_item_0">Item Lists</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_multiple_0">Multiple Shopping Carts</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_advanced_0">Advanced Multi-level Order Pages</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_simple_0">Simple Order Report File</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_fully_configurable_0">Fully-configurable Order Reports</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_order_3">Order Receipts</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_5">The Order Counter</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_customer_0">Customer Input Fields</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_product_0">Product Pricing</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_item_1">Item Attributes</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_product_1">Product Discounts</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_sales_0">Sales Tax</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_shipping_1">SHIPPING</A>
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ <H1>Table of Contents</H1>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_static_1">Static Page Building</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_minivend_2">MINIVEND CONFIGURATION FILES</A>
 <UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_server_0">Server Configuration File</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_catalog_3">Catalog Configuration File</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_required_2">Required Configuration Directives</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_optional_0">Optional Configuration Directives</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_administering_0">ADMINISTERING MINIVEND</A>
-<UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_starting_0">Starting, Stopping, and Re-starting the Servers</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_unix_0">UNIX and INET modes</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_user_0">User reconfiguration</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_making_0">Making the Product Database</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_updating_0">Updating Individual Records</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_expiring_0">Expiring Sessions</A>
+<UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_starting_0">Starting, Stopping, and Re-starting the Servers</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_unix_0">UNIX and INET modes</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_user_0">User reconfiguration</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_making_0">Making the Product Database</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_updating_1">Updating Individual Records</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_expiring_0">Expiring Sessions</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_manual_0">MANUAL INSTALLATION OF CATALOGS</A>
 <UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_needed_0">Needed Directories</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_the_6">The Demo Systems</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_setting_4">Setting up VLINK</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_setting_5">Setting up TLINK</A><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_compiling_0">Compiling VLINK and TLINK</A>
 </UL><LI><A HREF="minivend.html#minivend_authors_0">AUTHORS</A><LI><A HREF="tags.html#tags_minivend_0">MiniVend Alphabetical Tag Reference</A>

diff --git a/error.log b/error.log
@@ -1 +1 @@
- 
+i
diff --git a/lib/Vend/Cart.pm b/lib/Vend/Cart.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # MiniVend version 2.03
 #
-# $Id: Cart.pm,v 1.2 1996/12/16 08:53:44 mike Exp $
+# $Id: Cart.pm,v 1.5 1997/05/22 07:00:05 mike Exp $
 #
 # This program is largely based on Vend 0.2
 # Copyright 1995 by Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@world.std.com>
@@ -44,13 +44,12 @@ require Exporter;
 @EXPORT_OK = qw(create add set);
 
 
-$VERSION = substr(q$Revision: 1.2 $, 10);
+$VERSION = substr(q$Revision: 1.5 $, 10);
 $DEBUG   = 0;
 
 use Carp;
 use vars qw($DEBUG $VERSION);
 use strict;
-use Vend::Util 'logError';
 
 # AUTOLOAD
 #1;

diff --git a/lib/Vend/Config.pm b/lib/Vend/Config.pm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Config.pm,v 2.14 1997/01/05 02:02:24 mike Exp $
+# $Id: Config.pm,v 1.10 1997/05/25 06:10:54 mike Exp mike $
 
 package Vend::Config;
 require Exporter;
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ sub global_directives {
 	['MaxServers',        undef,             2],
 	['GlobalSub',		 'subroutine',       ''],
 	['FullUrl',			 'yesno',            'No'],
+	['SafeSignals',	 	 'yesno',            'Yes'],
 	['AcrossLocks',		 'yesno',            'No'],
     ['LogFile', 		  undef,     	     'etc/log'],
     ['SafeUntrap',       'array',            do { my $r = '249 148';