Message-Id: <200303281907.h2SJ7P819726@delorie.com> Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:03:47 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 6 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello. fileutils is a set of file management programs like cp, mv, rm, mkdir. Release 6 of the port of fileutils 4.1 to DJGPP is now available. This release fixes a bug with "ln -s": The DJGPP port of "ln -s" does not support symlinks. It does, however, generate executable stubs, when linking against executables. E.g.: ln -s foo.exe bar will create bar.exe. Previously "ln -s" may have incorrectly created a stub executable for a non-executable file. E.g.: "ln -s baz bar" may have created bar.exe, when baz was not executable. This happened when the source file was less than 8 bytes in size. This bug has been fixed. I recommend that people using the binary package upgrade, to get a fixed version of 'ln'. To use the Fileutils programs, you only need to download the binary distribution. You may also want to download the documentation distribution, to get the documentation in HTML, PostScript and DVI formats. If you want to examine or rebuild the Fileutils sources, you need to download the source distribution. The Fileutils port is available here: http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil41b.zip&name=fil41b.zip http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil41d.zip&name=fil41d.zip http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil41s.zip&name=fil41s.zip Please read the file gnu/filutil4.1/djgpp/readme.dos in whichever distribution you download. This contains important instructions on installing and using Fileutils. You can also read the readme and changelog files online: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/4.1/djgpp/readme.dos http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/4.1/djgpp/changelog.dos If you encounter any problems with this port, please feel free to contact me by e-mail (address below). I also try to read the DJGPP newsgroup, comp.os.msdos.djgpp, on a regular basis. Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]