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+<h4>softIoc now starts shell by default</h4>
+
+<p>To prevent an interactive shell from being started, give a <tt>-S</tt> (upper
+case) option on the softIoc command line.  The old <tt>-s</tt> (lower case)
+option is still accepted, but now does nothing.</p>
+
 <h4>Error messages from dbLoadRecords</h4>
 
 <p>Some error messages output by the dbLoadRecords parser should be easier to