Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:38:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Frank Donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
cc: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>,
   "Markus F. X. J. Oberhumer" <markus AT oberhumer DOT com>,
   Laszlo Molnar <ml1050 AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 5 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
>
> fileutils is a set of file management programs like cp, mv, rm, mkdir. Release
> 5 of the port of fileutils 4.1 to DJGPP is now available.
>
> ...
>
> * It works better with DJGPP CVS (what will become DJGPP 2.04). A
> problem with 'ls' and symlinks was fixed. /dev/zero and /dev/full are
> now available (when built against DJGPP CVS).
>
> ...
>
I am using UPX 1.24d.  After downloading release 5 of the file
utilities I was surprised to find the entire batch of 21 executable
files could not be compressed.

     "CantPackException: unsupported coff header."

If this is the direction that DJGPP 2.04 is taking, I hope that
cooperation will result in a quick resolution of this difficulty.

I also have on hand the release of October 11.  Apparently I had
nor installed it after downloading.  On checking, only the file,
"ls.exe" gave the error.  The other 20 files compressed as usual.

Regards,
Frank