Message-ID: <3DF63BCD.D4AD0DDB@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 4 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1 References: <200212100839 DOT gBA8dam32378 AT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:38:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.171.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1039549081 12.90.171.150 (Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:38:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:38:01 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Richard Dawe wrote: > > fileutils is a set of file management programs like cp, mv, rm, > mkdir. Release 4 of the port of fileutils 4.1 to DJGPP is now > available. > > This release fixes two bugs: > > * 'mkdir' was crashing occasionally, due to uninitialised memory. > > * 'rm' now works properly, when built with DJGPP CVS. Previously > it would crash with an assertion failure sometimes. NB: This did > not affect the packages from Simtel.NET - this only affected > DJGPP developers and people using the packages from Andrew > Cottrell's testing page. > > I recommend you upgrade, to get a fixed version of 'mkdir'. Is there any particular reason for not identifying the zip as being revised, such as "fil41-4.zip"? There is no clue to this in the mini-faq postings. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!