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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:15:10 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.2
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Hello.

I'm please to announce release 2 of the DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.2.
This release contains mainly minor bugfixes over the previous
release 2:

* XDelta no longer includes the 'exe' extension in the program name
  shown in help or error messages, since it made the messages look ugly.

* The formatted man page was moved from 'man/man1' into 'man/cat1' - i.e.
  to where it should be.

* The files 'AUTHORS', 'COPYING', 'INSTALL', 'NEWS' and 'README' are now
  included in the binary distribution in contrib/xdlt112. They were
  mistakenly omitted in release 1.

Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for his corrections & suggestions for release 1.

Here is a description of XDelta, from its 'readme' file:

"XDelta is a library interface and application program designed to compute
changes between files.  These changes (deltas) are similar to the output
of the "diff" program in that they may be used to store and transmit only
the changes between files.  However, unlike diff, the output of XDelta is
not expressed in a human-readable format--XDelta can also also apply these
deltas to a copy of the original file(s).  XDelta uses a fast, linear
algorithm and performs well on both binary and text files.  XDelta
typically outperforms GNU diff in both time and generated-delta-size, even
for plain text files.  XDelta also includes a simple implementation of the
Rsync algorithm and several advanced features for implementing RCS-like
file-archival with."

XDelta is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The port is available from the DJGPP archive on SimTel.NET:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt112b.zip&name=xdlt112b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt112s.zip&name=xdlt112s.zip

These are binary and source distributions respectively. If you only want
to use XDelta, please download the binary distribution. If you would like
to rebuild XDelta, please download the source distribution. No changes
were required to port XDelta to DJGPP.

Thanks to Joshua MacDonald for incorporating the DJGPP patches into
XDelta. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for his detailed bug reports, suggestions
and testing of XDelta.

If you have any problems, suggestions, etc. about the port, please mail
me.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/