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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:49:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Patch 2.5.3 uploaded
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This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 2.5.3 of the
GNU Patch utility is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/pat253b.zip
 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/pat253s.zip

Patch is a program to apply patches to files.  It accepts a ``patch 
script'', usually produced by file-comparison utility such as Diff, and 
produces modified files by applying this script to old versions of files.

More often than not, Patch is used with text, usually source, files.  But 
it can also patch binary files, although the patch scripts for binary 
files tend to be large.

Version 2.5.3 is not an official release; it's a pretest.  However, this 
version is working for me for more than a year, and is almost identical 
to version 2.5.4 that is the latest official release.  Since I don't have 
time to retrofit DJGPP-related changes into Patch 2.5.4 (I sent these 
patches to the maintainer a long time ago, but they still didn't make it 
into v2.5.4), I decided to release v2.5.3 for DJGPP users.

The most significant user-level changes in this release are:

  - support for numbered backups even on 8+3 filesystems;

  - Patch can now ignore the CR characters at the end of each line
    of the patch script, so patching Unix-style text files does not
    convert them to DOS-style files anymore (if you use the --binary
    switch).

See the file NEWS for the full list of user-visible changes.


Please direct any further discussions about this port to 
comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway 
djgpp AT delorie DOT com).