Message-Id: <199710132347.TAA26416@delorie.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:34:55 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Grep 2.1 uploaded MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk Precedence: bulk This is to announce that the DJGPP port of GNU Grep version 2.1 has been uploaded to SimTel.NET and should be available from your nearest mirror, in the v2gnu directory: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/grep21b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/grep21s.zip Beginning with this release, the official GNU Grep distribution supports building with DJGPP tools. However, please note that the ported distribution on SimTel.NET has two minor bugs corrected (they were reported to FSF after the package was already released). One of these bugs prevented Grep from complaining about non-existent files. This release is mostly a bug-fix: no significant changes were introduced (but see the file NEWS for details). One change that's important for DOS is that Grep will now skip directories, thus avoiding the annoying "Access denied" message. Please read the DJGPP-specific README file in the distribution, before you begin using the programs. For those who don't know: Grep is a package of 3 programs to search files for strings of text. `fgrep' searches for simple strings, can search for many strings in parallel, and is *very* fast; `grep' and `egrep' search for regular expressions, which are patterns that describe sets of strings (`egrep' supports a wider class of regular expressions, but is somewhat slower).