X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201308242323.r7ONNt0P023682@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:33:28 +0200 From: Juan Manuel Guerrero To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip 1.6 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of GNU gzip 1.6 to MSDOS/DJGPP. gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= No new DJGPP specific functionality has been added. This is a recompilation of all new features introduced with previous ports and also available in this port: - Gzip now fully supports long file names on those platforms where DJGPP can access them. This means, for example, that compressing `foo.tar' on Windows 9X will produce `foo.tar.gz', not `foo.tgz'. For backward compatibility, Gzip knows about butchered DOS-style extensions of compressed files even when long file names are supported. For example, if you have `foo.tgz' and you type "gunzip foo.tar", Gzip will find the file even on Windows 9X. Short variants of compressed extensions are checked *after* the long ones, so Gzip will try to find `foo.tar.gz' before `foo.tgz'. Long file name support is checked for each file submitted to Gzip, so it will treat each one of them in accordance with the properties of the file system where that file resides. In other words, you can compress files that reside on DOS and Windows file systems within a single Gzip command. - Gzip will no longer appear to hang when its input comes from the console device. Previous ports would hang when the user typed "gzip -f [Enter]". This port allows you to either interrupt the program with Ctrl-C (if you typed that command by mistake), or type in the input and end it with a ^Z (if you really mean to compress the text you type from the keyboard). This is done by avoiding to switch the console device to binary mode, so any console reads are now done in text mode. - The default compressed file extension is now `.gz', not `z'. This is so that compressed file names on Windows 9X would have the usual `.gz' extension, but it also means that `foo.cc' will now be compressed into `foo.cgz' when long file names are not supported. Use the -N option to `gunzip' to restore the original name, if the original file name had more than one character in the extension. - When restoring original file names, `gunzip' now converts all characters that are not allowed in DOS/Windows file names to similar but valid characters, and changes the file name if it is reserved by a DOS device driver (like `aux.text' or `prn.tar') by prepending an underscore to it. - In previous ports, uncompressing files with certain names on Windows 9X when numeric tails are disabled would trigger false warnings about file name truncation. This is now fixed. - Truncation of long file names on plain DOS is somewhat smarter now: `gunzip' treats several additional characters (like `-' and `_') as part delimiters. - Shell scripts `zmore', `zgrep' and others now work on DOS and Windows, and are distributed with the binary distribution, as are all the man pages supplied with the official GNU sources. - Shell script `zdiff' does not work on DOS and Windows, because it uses subshells to invoke gzip and to generate the error code (return value) of the command. Unfortunately this does not work with the port of bash. All the changes done to the original distribution are documented in the diffs file and located together with all the files needed to configure the package (config.bat, config.sed, config.site, etc.) in the /djgpp directory. To build this port and run the test suite you will need LFN support. The source package is now distributed configured for both DJGPP 2.03 and DJGPP 2.04. In the top srcdir there is be a "_build.203" directory and a "_build.204" directory. For further information about GNU gzip please read the info docs and NEWS file. This is an verbatim extract of the NEWS file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** New features gzip now accepts the --keep (-k) option, for consistency with tools like xz, lzip and bzip2. With this option, gzip no longer removes named input files when compressing or decompressing. ** Bug fixes gzip -d no longer malfunctions with certain invalid data in 'pack' format. [bug introduced in gzip-0.8] When overwriting, gzip no longer acts as if you typed "y" when you type "n", on some platforms when compiled with optimization. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.6] zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15. Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12] zmore now acts more like 'more', and is more portable to POSIXish hosts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2013-08-24): gzip 1.6 binaries, info and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gzip16b.zip gzip 1.6 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gzip16d.zip gzip 1.6 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gzip16s.zip The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of djdev204 beta library. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2013-08-24): gzip 1.6 binaries, info and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gzip16b.zip Send gzip specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . If you are not sure if the failure is really a gzip failure or a djgpp specific failure, report it here and *not* to . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel