Message-Id: <200112181536.fBIFajg13078@delorie.com>
From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP V2.03 Refresh Beta
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:47:21 -0600 (CST)
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DJGPP release V2.03 has been available since January 2000.  In that
time a small number of bugs have been discovered and corrected. 
Windows 2000 and Windows XP were released with some bugs in their DOS
support.  The goal for the refreshed release was to provide complete
binary compatibility and fixes for known problems that were simple 
and low risk to fix.  The updated version works with Windows ME,
Windows 2000 and Windows XP in addition to earlier platforms.

Fixes included in the update distribution:

 Windows 2000 and XP long file name support fixes
 Windows 2000 and XP program nesting fixes
 Windows 2000 and XP debugging breakpoint fixes
 Windows NT, 2000 and XP sbrk address wrap fixes
 Windows ME fixes in rename and mkdir
 __dpmi_simulate_real_mode_procedure_retf_stack fix
 Symify fixes to prevent crashes on symbol interpretation
 Error message instead of crash if no selector for _dos_ds
 Termios read bug fix on STDIN
 Format fix in strftime
 Freopen will always reuse same handle
 Nesting will recover selectors (long makes should not fail)
 Itimer fix for usecs == 0
 Long path bug fixes (to prevent being treated as /)
 FSEXT fixes for dup and dup2
 Y2K fix in djasm

More details (and html links to updated distributions) are available from:

  http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_203.htm

The files can also be retrieved using ftp from:

  ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/v203u/
  
Some key GNU distributions have been rebuilt with the updated library 
to make installs and building other packages easier on Windows 2000 and XP.

If you have a chance (or need any of the fixes mentioned) please try out
the new distributions.  If the distributions are an improvement over the
current distributions they will replace the files on Simtel.