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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:25:00 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP announcements <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 1
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Hello.

I'd like to announce beta 1 of the port of Fileutils 4.0 to DJGPP.
Fileutils is a collection of programs like cp, mv, rm, ls for basic file
manipulation. The beta is available here:

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

If you just want to use the programs, get the binary distribution -
fil40b-beta1.zip. If you want to rebuild from sources, get the source
distribution - fil40s-beta1.zip. If you want documentation in formats like
DVI, TeX, PostScript, HTML, get the documentation distribution - 
fil40d-beta.zip. 

For those who tried the previous alpha (alpha 2) of the port, the
following has changed:

* 'install' (aka 'ginstall') now handles stubbed COFF executable files
   or MZ-format (MS-DOS) executable files by appending '.exe' to the
   target name.

* It should build with short filenames (i.e. pure DOS environment).

I would appreciate it if people with plain ol' DOS machines could test the
short filename support, since I don't have access to one.

If you have any problems, comments, suggestions regarding the port, please
feel free to e-mail me.

Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
--- Gottfried W. Leibniz