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Date:	Sat, 06 Dec 2003 15:13:00 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	DJGPP announcements <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP 2.04 beta 1

Hello.

I'm pleased to announce DJGPP 2.04 beta 1. This has a number of changes
over DJGPP 2.04 alpha 1, including:

* uclock now uses rdtsc under Windows NT, 2000 and XP (if it is
  available) to work around the bug with the interval timer not being
  syncronized with the timer tick.

* djtar now copes with single-span spanned archives.

* A bug was fixed in rename, when moving directories into themselves.

* Some locale fixes were made to the *printf, *scanf and strftime
  functions.

* A bug was fixed in the handling of assignment suppressions
  in the *scanf functions.

* Better compliance with the C99 standard.

It needs a lot of testing. Please test it if you have time and/or are
interested in any of the above features. Any level of testing would be
appreciated.

The beta is not available via the Zip Picker interface. You can download it
from here:

    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/beta

Please see the README file for instructions on how to install the beta:

    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/beta/readme.1st

The packages in the DJGPP archive need to be rebuilt
with DJGPP 2.04 beta 1, to take advantage of its features. Once this
has been done, an announcement will be sent to djgpp-announce.
In the meantime, it is recommended that you upgrade to packages built
with the CVS version of DJGPP from Andrew Cottrell's site:

    http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm

Otherwise there may be interoperability problems between packages
built with DJGPP 2.03 and 2.04, because of the support for symlinks
in DJGPP 2.04.

If you have any problems with DJGPP 2.04 beta 1, please report them
directly to the DJGPP newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp or via its e-mail
gateway djgpp AT delorie DOT com. Before reporting a problem, please check
that it is not already known - there is a DJGPP 2.04 status page
that lists known problems:

    http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html

A more detailed list of changes between 2.03 and 2.04 beta 1 can be found
here:

    http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/wc204.txt

After installing the beta, you can see it by running this command:

    info kb 'what changed' 'changes in 2.04'

Thanks to all those who continue to contribute to DJGPP, particulary
the djgpp-workers (Andrew, Eli, MartinS, Esa, Charles, DJ and others).

Please also note that I have stepped down as release manager
for DJGPP 2.04. I will continue to maintain the DJGPP 2.04 status page.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek

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