13.0: Mon Sep  1 12:55:30 PDT 2008
        * fixed missing -3 (random) style for rainbow

12.0: Sat Jul 14 14:33:09 PDT 2007
	* new flag -rain lets you specify a custom
	  rainbow colormap. for example -rain rrwwBB
	  will cause the rainbow to be 3 bars of red,
	  3 bars of white, and 3 bars of bright blue
	* new flag -skew lets you set how the rainbow
	  get skewed each line. default is 1 which
	  causes the rainbow bars to appear diagonally
	  bottom-left to top-right. -1 would cause
	  them to reverse directions. higher skew values
	  will create a sharper grade
	* add -chalkboard flag, graphic of your text
	  being written by bart
	* remove annoying warning if you try to do too
	  much figlet
	* allow 5ms throttling
	* fix bug with banner
	* switch to GPL license
	* autoflushing always on
	* a bunch of code cleanup
	* fix outdated contact info
	* remove unsightly tab from usage menu
	* completely redo the rainbow function
	* updated the usage hints
	* made help/colors/version/usage commands take a -

10.1: Wed Nov 22 14:50:43 PST 2006
	* added silc client support

10.0: Sun May 29 01:09:01 PDT 2005
	* some fixes from zb

9.9: ???

9.8: Thu Feb 17 03:20:15 PST 2005
	* implement port of banner in perl, for hosts that don't have it

9.7: Wed Feb 16 10:03:47 PST 2005
	* added bens banner wrappers
	* some backend code cleanup

9.6: Sat Dec  4 14:47:12 PST 2004
	* fix critical bug in arg processing

9.5: Sat Dec  4 01:17:37 PST 2004
	* moved -exec command into process(), so irssi can use it
	* fix bug that wouldn't let '0' be printed by itself
	* add -repeat flag ("-repeat 3 foo" becomes foofoofoo)
	* fix bug that would prevent a single character from displaying
	* retool -sine iterator a little better
	* minor code cleanup
	* make both -wave and -sine do the same thing

9.4: Sun Nov 28 20:02:02 PST 2004
	* added sine-wave function (use -wave)
	* added zb's color optimization changes

9.3: Sun Nov 14 18:33:16 PST 2004
	* added -popeye and -diagonal command
	* made -YES case-insensitive
	* moved order that -matrix is run in for consistency
	* cleaned up changelog
	* updated copyright

9.2: Tue Jul 20 21:45:37 PDT 2004
	* Fixed critical vulnerability which causes user to not be
	  able to figlet a single character.

9.1: Sun Jul  4 01:17:52 PDT 2004
	* added -rotate, which flips a figlet 90 degrees clockwise (only
	  really works well with block-fonts, like "banner3"
	* you can now use <random> for the font or cowfile, and it
	  will pick one for you.

9.0: Tue Jun  1 18:28:36 PDT 2004
	* add -mirc flag to force mirc colors from commandline
	* added zb's new cowfiles.  best ever.

8.9: Wed May  5 12:24:20 PDT 2004
	* Fix utf8 bug for reals

8.8: Wed Apr 28 22:52:36 PDT 2004
	* add -bash flag to do escaping (see POD for details)
	* bugfix: don't try utf8 in perl < 5.8
	* begin POD, first item: bash escaping

8.7: Mon Apr 26 12:57:12 PDT 2004
	* 8.7 changes submitted by j0no:
	* AOL Instant Messenger support.
	* phpBB bbcode support
	* orkut support
	* Fixed mIRC code hack. (\x0F instead of \x03\26\26)
	* & -> &amp; in HTML and AIM
	* -cmd flag to run any irssi command!
	  Use quotes for stuff like "kick zb"
	* -utf8 flag for cat
	* Bugfix: Rainbow Offset saved across figs.
	* -8 Canada colour map
	* Added check to skip the last mile if there's nothing to process.
	* Added a -mirc flag to force mIRC codes
	* clean_length() repaired
	* other fixes:
	* verified all filters handle undef properly

8.6: Tue Apr 13 15:22:01 PDT 2004
	* add flags for cli: -stdin will use data from STDIN
	* add flags for cli: -cat, -exec to hook irssi functionality
	* stop processing if we don't have text after first pass

8.5: Tue Apr 13 13:03:30 PDT 2004
	* remove legacy open3() and use IPC::Open3 -- works in 5.8 now
	* support for specifying color in -4 .. for example -4red
	* added some more spookwords
	* added the -unused command

8.4: This release did not go public

8.3: Sat Jan 17 23:06:23 PST 2004
	* added -ansi flag to force ANSI output in cases where it is not
	  detected properly and tries to use irc colors
	* default html colors has white foreground
	* no warnings if $COWPATH isn't set
	* no more Text::Wrap warnings

8.2: Tue Jan 13 19:06:27 PST 2004
	* If not Irssi, rainbow keepstate is down with a dotfile
	* Bugfix: HTML < and > entity escaping fixed
	* Bugfix: IRC output doesn't use ANSI resets (breaks xchat! thanks kin)
	* Optimization: Don't change HTML bgcolor unless it differs from
	  the default black.. saves lots of space
	* Make Term::ANSIColor optional (ansi is disabled if no lib)
	* Silenced the throttling message, what's the point of THAT
	* Cleaned up the COWPATH code a bit.. better detection
	* html output has div container to set background to black, for
	  pasting chunks of html, e.g. to livejournal.
	* Abstract prefix code to its own filter, for code consistency

8.1: Tue Jan 13 00:55:08 PST 2004
	* increased default linewrap
	* removed ansi reset from mirc output
	* added -html flag

8.0: Mon Jan  5 04:12:09 PST 2004
	* rewrote credits
	* general code cleanup
	* abstracted name from code for "clean" release
	* bugfix: cprint() doesn't handle various states of newline properly.
	  clean that up, and add cprint_lines function for large chunks of text
	* rewrote USAGE
	* wrote code for HTML output
	* fixed do_color() to do html and bg color
	* made show_colmap() dynamiclly generated
	* added spook words
	* bugfix: terminal spews undef warnings if run w/o flags
	* fixed -checker to run with do_color
	* fixed tree() to run with do_dolcor
	* updated clean_length() to handle all cases
	* rewrote -help
	* dynamically generate alias names for exec and cat
	* draw_box() doesn't try to use irssi codes if not in irssi

7.0: Sun Dec 28 22:20:31 PST 2003
	* made executable on the commandline and from within epic (via /exec -o)
	* experimental support for running as CGI
	* some code cleanup that i dind't catch because i couldn't test with -w
	* made -mirror work with -think properly
	
6.6: Sat Dec 27 23:08:18 PST 2003
	* branch code for insub distro
	* release with bsd license

6.5: Thu Dec 25 18:00:57 PST 2003
	* emergency christmas bugfix release:
	* reworked -tree to not put lights on whitespace

6.4: Fri Dec 12 23:52:50 PST 2003
	* added -throttle to slow down output
	* added -think to do cowthink

6.3: Mon Dec  1 19:06:21 PST 2003
	* added -7 (christmas colors!)
	* added -tree (makes your ascii look like a xmas tree)
	* some backend changes to flag parsing.. if you
	  add a new routine its flag must be present in $flag_list

6.2: Mon Dec  1 16:06:16 PST 2003
	* added -jigs (shift right toprow keys)
	* fixed bug with \ at end of line deep recursion

6.1: Fri Sep 26 15:48:36 PDT 2003
	* made some backend changes to update()
	* added anti-ircII/bX/epic switches: -fake, -ircii
	* a whole lotta new spook words

6.0: Tue Sep 16 23:31:56 PDT 2003
	* added -scramble
	* cleaned up the usage thing
	* made it so that you can alias to -YES
	* added a couple spooks
	* re-released under GPLv2

5.9: Fri Aug 29 16:17:04 PDT 2003
	* Nothing changed.

5.8: Tue Aug 26 11:21:15 PDT 2003
	* added -flip command (like mirror, only other axis)
	* added some sanity checking for certain combination
	  of flags.  use -YES to override these if you don't want sanity
	* added some more spook words

5.7: Mon Aug 25 02:32:22 PDT 2003
	* Fixed showstopper bug!!

5.6: Mon Aug 25 02:13:36 PDT 2003
	* added the -mirror command to reverse ascii; lacks
	  full integration, but will reverse cows and figlets.
	  beware color cows with -capchk and -mirror.  DANGER
	* added some spook words
	* fixed bug: don't continue with empty cowsay if
	  there is a problem parsing args

5.5: Mon Aug 18 17:45:31 PDT 2003
	* added -hug switch HUUGZ!
	* some code cleanup
	* use more advanced shellword parsing
	* removed some pointless aliases
	* cleaned up helpfile
	* bugfixes to wrap routine that inserted tabs
	* skipped a bunch of revisions for effect

4.1: Thu Aug 14 15:21:02 PDT 2003
	* "-rev" switch will reverse your text
	* "-leet" switch will make your text leet

4.0: Thu Aug 14 14:42:50 PDT 2003
	* changed setting "figwrap" to "linewrap"
	* linewrap is now honored for figlet & normal text

3.9: Thu Aug 14 13:18:37 PDT 2003
	* added /spook command (-spook flag)

3.8: Mon Jul 28 16:35:17 PDT 2003
	* add col function to display colmap

3.7: Fri Jul 25 15:44:29 PDT 2003
	* added -matrix to re-align text up/down..
	* new settings: matrix_size <#>, matrix_spacing <#>
	* added -arrow routine.. just like -box, except with
	  a different style (thanks to rob)

3.6: Mon Jul 21 21:13:35 PDT 2003
	* fixed leading blank line in some figlets

3.5 Sun Jul 20 20:49:00 PDT 2003
	* improve cowcut algorithm (colorize around -capchk bubbles)

3.4: Sun Jul 20 20:35:18 PDT 2003
	* allow styles to be used with capchk, if doing cows

3.3: Sun Jul 20 20:00:24 PDT 2003
	* bugfix: don't use hardcoded cowpath :P

3.2: Sun Jul 20 14:08:28 PDT 2003
	* added -capchk function.  overrides -check.  apply
	  check only to contents of cowsay bubble
	* allow user to embed "\n" in text
	* uses custom implementation of cowsay parser.  should
	  be transparent, but allows colorizing inside of cowtext

3.1: Fri Jul 18 17:04:31 PDT 2003
	* added 'col' command to get summary of color code meanings
	* check_colors can specify any amount of colors

3.0: Fri Jul 18 00:08:27 PDT 2003
	* added -check support.  new variables:
	* check_text (color of text when using -check)
	* check_size (size of grid)
	* check_colors #,#  (the two colors to alternate in grid)

2.8: Thu Jul 17 01:00:27 PDT 2003
	* add -3d routine
	* add cat to pipe files to chan

2.7: Wed Jul 16 18:42:43 PDT 2003
	* understands quoting, for example -pre "hey there"

2.6: Wed Jul 16 17:29:08 PDT 2003
	* added a changelog
	* fixed bug that caused it to crash in status window
	* updated help file
	* erased pointless aliases
