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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Patch 2.5.9 uploaded
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:33:02 +0200
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This is a port of GNU Patch 2.5.9 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

  Patch is a program to apply patches to files.  It accepts a ``patch script'',
  usually produced by file-comparison utility such as Diff, and produces
  modified files by applying this script to old versions of files.

  More often than not, Patch is used with text, usually source, files.
  But it can also patch binary files, although the patch scripts for binary 
  files tend to be large.



  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  The port offers the same djgpp specific functionality than the previous
  port. These are:
  - support for numbered backups even on 8+3 filesystems;

  - Patch can now ignore the CR characters at the end of each line
    of the patch script, so patching Unix-style text files does not
    convert them to DOS-style files anymore (if you use the --binary
    switch).


  This is an extract of the NEWS file to show the user-visible changes:

Changes in versions 2.5.8 and 2.5.9: bug fixes only.

Changes in version 2.5.7:

* patch -D now outputs preprocessor lines without comments, as required
  by POSIX 1003.1-2001.

Changes in version 2.5.6:

* File names in context patches may now contain spaces, so long
  as the context patch headers use a tab to separate the file name
  from the time stamp.
* Perforce is now supported.
* Patch lines beginning with "#" are comments and are ignored.

Changes in version 2.5.5:

* The bug reporting address is now <bug-patch AT gnu DOT org>.

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  The port consists of the two packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2006-04-07):

    Patch 2.5.9 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/pat259b.zip

    Patch 2.5.9 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/pat259s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
  a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
  at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2006-04-07):

    Patch 2.5.9 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/pat259b.zip



  Send Patch specific bug reports to <bug-patch AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>