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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 14:25:18 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Fileutils 4.0 alpha 2 uploaded
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Hello.

I'm just uploading alpha 2 of the Fileutils port. I've made packages this
time, available here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/

The readme files are there - I recommend reading readme.dos and
readme.alpha before using the port.

This port should have the same level of features as the previous port. I
haven't tested 'dd' yet, but I applied the previous port's changes, so it
should behave identically.

I noticed some regressions in the test-suite on my machine, but I suspect
that's because I shifted from Windows '95 OSR 2.1 with multiple partitions
to Windows 98 SE with one. The test-suite is pretty broken anyway, because
it makes lots of assumptions about a Unix environment. I've fixed most of
the "easy" cases, but I haven't tried with the others yet.

The source currently doesn't build with short filenames (SFN). I have not
tried Fileutils much with SFN. I will address this in the next release
(beta 1, probably).

Please let me know how you get on with the port, any problems, etc.
Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]