X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201507111741.t6BHfP3e004530@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:31:34 +0200 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of the DJGPP port of bzip2 1.0.6 uploaded (DJGPP 2.05 only). Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of bzip2 1.0.6 to MSDOS/DJGPP. bzip2 is a compressor/decompressor program with generally considerably better compression rate than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors. The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU gzip, but they are not identical. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - There are no user visible DJGPP specific changes compared with the previous version. If you are familiar with the previous version 1.0.6, you will be familiar with this one. - This is the first port that has been compiled using djdev205. Starting with this port version I will no longer support neither djdev204 nor djdev203. - The port has been tested by using it. I have used them only on WinXP. It has worked flawlessly. I do not konw if this will ever be the case on FreeDOS. I have never used/tested them in that environment. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3. There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the massive use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. The port has been compiled using gcc510 and bnu225br2. Here is a verbatim extract of the CHANGES file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0.6 (6 Sept 10) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Security fix for CVE-2010-0405. This was reported by Mikolaj Izdebski. * Make the documentation build on Ubuntu 10.04 1.0.5 (10 Dec 07) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Security fix only. Fixes CERT-FI 20469 as it applies to bzip2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For futher information about bzip2 please read the man pages. The man pages are the only ones that contain DJGPP specific information because they are the only one that can be remade with existing DJGPP tools. The author no longer uses the texinfo format; he has switched to xml and it is not possible to recreate pdf, ps and html formated documentation from the distributed xml file. Neitherless the original pdf, ps and html formated documentattion is supplied in the bz2-106dr2.zip archive. To run the scripts bzmore, bzdiff and bzgrep you will have to install the following DJGPP ports: difNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip and mktmpNNb.zip The port consists of the usual four packages that have been compiled using stock djdev203 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2015-07-10): Bzip2 1.0.6 binaries, script and man formated documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106br2.zip Bzip2 1.0.6 header and library: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106ar2.zip Bzip2 1.0.6 html, ps and pdf formated documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106dr2.zip Bzip2 1.0.6 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106sr2.zip Send bzip2 specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel