Message-Id: <200102181652.LAA21364@delorie.com> Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:44:00 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. I've ported XDelta 1.1.1 to DJGPP. Here is a description of XDelta, from its 'readme' file: "XDelta is a library interface and application program designed to compute changes between files. These changes (deltas) are similar to the output of the "diff" program in that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between files. However, unlike diff, the output of XDelta is not expressed in a human-readable format--XDelta can also also apply these deltas to a copy of the original file(s). XDelta uses a fast, linear algorithm and performs well on both binary and text files. XDelta typically outperforms GNU diff in both time and generated-delta-size, even for plain text files. XDelta also includes a simple implementation of the Rsync algorithm and several advanced features for implementing RCS-like file-archival with." XDelta is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The port is available from the DJGPP archive on SimTel.NET: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt111b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt111s.zip These are binary and source distributions respectively. If you only want to use XDelta, please download the binary distribution. If you would like to rebuild XDelta, please download the source distribution. Minor changes were required to port XDelta to DJGPP - the diffs are included in the source distribution. If you have any problems, suggestions, etc. about the port, please mail me. Bye, -- Richard Dawe http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ "The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe." --- Gottfried W. Leibniz