Message-Id: <200403251642.i2PGgZgO017272@delorie.com>
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:58:34 +0100
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Patch 2.5.4 uploaded
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  This is a port of GNU Patch 2.5.4 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  Patch is a program to apply patches to files.  It accepts a ``patch script'',
  usually produced by file-comparison utility such as Diff, and produces
  modified files by applying this script to old versions of files.

  More often than not, Patch is used with text, usually source, files.
  But it can also patch binary files, although the patch scripts for binary 
  files tend to be large.



  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - support for numbered backups even on 8+3 filesystems;

  - Patch can now ignore the CR characters at the end of each line
    of the patch script, so patching Unix-style text files does not
    convert them to DOS-style files anymore (if you use the --binary
    switch).


  See the file NEWS for the full list of user-visible changes.

  This port offers the same functionality than the djgpp port of patch-2.5.3.
  Eli Zaretskii's djgpp specific code had been submitted to the patch program
  maintainer some time ago but for same reason it has still not found it's way
  into the official code. So I have decided to extract it from that port and
  adapted it for this version of patch. The djgpp specific files for this port
  are located in the pc/djgpp directory. Eli Zaretskii's original files are
  located in pc/djgpp/files.original.

  The port consists of the two packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2004-03-19):

    Patch 2.5.4 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/pat254b.zip

    Patch 2.5.4 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/pat254s.zip


  Send Patch specific bug reports to <bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>