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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of bzip2 1.0.3
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:19:23 +0200
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This is a port of bzip2 1.0.3 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  bzip2 is a compressor/decompressor program with generally considerably better
  compression rate than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
  compressors.
  The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU gzip,
  but they are not identical.


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

  - There are no DJGPP specific changes compared with the previous version.
    If you are familiar with the previous version 1.0.2, you will be familiar
    with this one.


  Here is a verbatim extract of the CHANGES file:
    1.0.3 (15 Feb 05)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Fixes some minor bugs since the last version, 1.0.2.

    * Further robustification against corrupted compressed data.
      There are currently no known bitstreams which can cause the
      decompressor to crash, loop or access memory which does not
      belong to it.  If you are using bzip2 or the library to 
      decompress bitstreams from untrusted sources, an upgrade
      to 1.0.3 is recommended.

    * The documentation has been converted to XML, from which html
      and pdf can be derived.

    * Various minor bugs in the documentation have been fixed.

    * Fixes for various compilation warnings with newer versions of
      gcc, and on 64-bit platforms.

    * The BZ_NO_STDIO cpp symbol was not properly observed in 1.0.2.
      This has been fixed.



  For futher information about bzip2 please read the man pages.


  The port consists of the usual three packages that have been compiled
  using stock djdev203 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com
  and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-07-04):

    Bzip2 1.0.3 binary and man formated documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-103b.zip

    Bzip2 1.0.3 dvi, html, ps and pdf formated documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-103d.zip

    Bzip2 1.0.3 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-103s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
  a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
  at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2005-07-04):

    Bzip2 1.0.3 binary,  man formated documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-103b.zip


  Send bzip2 specific bug reports to <jseward AT bzip DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.


Enjoy.

        Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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