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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:16:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Diffutils 2.7.2 uploaded
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This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 2.7.2 of the GNU
Diffutils package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/dif272b.zip
 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/dif272s.zip

Diffutils is a set of programs to compare files.  It includes the
`diff' program which compares two files or two directrories, `diff3'
which compares 3 files, `cmp' which compares two files byte-wise (useful 
for non-text files), and `sdiff' which lets you display two files
side-by-side and interactively merge them into a single file.

Version 2.7.2 of Diffutils is not an official GNU release: it's a beta.
However, since the last official release (v2.7) was in Oct 1994(!), it 
seemed appropriate to let DJGPP community use a newer version.  I used 
this version for several months and find it very stable.

The changes relative to v2.7.1, the previous DJGPP port, are minor: a 
couple of new options for `diff' and a new interactive command for 
`sdiff'.  See the file NEWS for the full list.

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).