Message-Id:	<200107290156.VAA28777@delorie.com>
From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sat, 28 Jul 2001 19:52:13 +0200
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: Update of DJGPP port of GNU sed 3.02.80 uploaded
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is a port of GNU Sed 3.02.80 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  This port is based on the alpha release of GNU Sed available as:
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-3.02.80.tar.gz


  Sed specific changes.
  =====================

  The following are some of the new features available with sed 3.02.80:
    1) Added new command-line options:
         -u, --unbuffered
           Do not attempt to read-ahead more than required;
           do not buffer stdout.
         -l N, --line-length=N
           Specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command.
           A length of "0" means "never wrap".

    2) New internationalization translations added: fr ru de it el sk pt_BR sv
       (plus nl from 3.02a).

    3) The s/// command now understands the following escapes (in both halves):
         \a      an "alert" (BEL)
         \f      a form-feed
         \n      a newline
         \r      a carriage-return
         \t      a horizontal tab
         \v      a vertical tab
         \oNNN   a character with the octal value NNN
         \dNNN   a character with the decimal value NNN
         \xNN    a character with the hexadecimal value NN
       This behavior is disabled if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
  Please read the news and changelog files to become familiar with the changes
  in this product. Read sed.info to become familiar with Sed.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - Changes needed for NLS support with DJGPP.
  - Eli Zaretskii contributed a patch to open the input stream in binary mode
    on platforms, like DOS/WIN95, that distinguish between text and binary
    files. This will allow to process files that contain embedded ^Z and lone
    ^M characters. This patch has already been submitted by him to the Sed
    maintainer, so this feature may become a standard feature in the next
    official sed release. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for contributing this.
  - If you have no DJGPP port of Sed installed and you want to rebuild this
    package from sources, please read Eli Zaretskii's readme file called:
    README.ORIG located in the djgpp directory. This explicitely explains
    how to build the binary from the source package if no Sed executable
    is installed.
    As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, etc.)
    are located in the djgpp subdir.

  This package has been configured and compiled with NLS support, so you can
  expect the binary to talk in your mother tongue if supported. The README file
  explains how to set up the required variables in your djgpp.env to enable NLS.

  It should be noticed that binaries have been compiled using the GNU regex
  function that comes with the package. This functions are 2-4 times **SLOWER**
  than DJGPP's libc regex functions for common sed jobs. Although Sed's
  configure script offers an option to select the regex functions that shall be
  used for creating the binary, this option can NOT be used. Sed's sources have
  been changed in such a way that it has become impossible to compile the
  sources with anything else than the supplied LINUX/GNU regex functions. This
  misfeature has already been reported to the Sed maintainer. In conclusion:
  it is up to the user to decide if the new features offered by this port are
  worth to be paid with performance slow down.

  The binary package contains two different Sed programs. One called sed.exe
  (size: 667KB) that offers NLS (native language support) and a second called
  nnsed.exe (no NLS sed; size: 58KB) without NLS. The later is intended for
  people who don't need NLS but would like to minimize disk space, or be able
  to take Sed on a floppy as a part of a minimal set of tools. Both binaries
  have been completely stripped (symbol table, debug info and stub removed) and
  have been compressed using upx.

  Please not that the previous Sed port, sed302[bds].zip, has *NOT* and will
  *NOT* be removed from simtel.net.


  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  simtel.net and mirrors as (timestamp: 2001-07-28):

    Sed 3.02.80 binary, info and man format documentation:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028b.zip&name=sed3028b.zip

    Sed 3.02.80 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028d.zip&name=sed3028d.zip

    Sed 3.02.80 source:
    http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/sed3028s.zip&name=sed3028s.zip

  Send Sed specific bug reports to <bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> and cc them to me.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>

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