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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:02:06 +0100
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Bash 4.1.17 uploaded.
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This is a port of GNU Bash 4.1.17 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


   Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation
   of the POSIX.2 shell spec, but also with interactive command line editing,
   job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as
   history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features.



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

   - This port is based on the last port of bash to DJGPP (aka bsh205b*.zip).

   - The most remarkable change for this port is that it uses its own pipe
     emulation instead of using the pipe function provided by libc.  This
     is necessary to get the port working on plain DOS.  The pipe function
     provided by libc exploits features that are only available for the file
     system of the different Windows versions and thus fails if used on plain
     DOS.  This has the consequence that no one of the existing bash ports do
     work on plain DOS as soon as pipes are involved.  They work flawlessly
     on Win98SE, Win2K and WinXP.

   - The port checks at run time if LFN support is available or not and
     selects the file names of temporary files that are created accordingly.

   - There may exist much more DOS specific bugs in this port that have
     still not been discovered and that will be fixed as they appeare.

   - The testsuite is POSIX centric and has not been ported.  Currently
     the port can only be tested by using it.

   - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3 and Win98SE.
     There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-
     like OS.  Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible
     to configure and compile without LFN support.  The port has been
     compiled using gcc346 and bnu2311b.

   - The coprocess support and the coproc reserved word have been disabled.
     This feature requires special pipe support and that may be implemented
     in the future.

   - To be able to build this port you may need to have LFN support.

   - If NLS support is wanted, then the sources must be reconfigured passing
     the nls option to config.bat.


   As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored
   in the "djgpp" directory.  The sources have been configured to be build
   in the "_build" directory.  If for some reason it does not work for you,
   delete it contents and configure from scratch again.

   Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.


   Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes
   from the last port (GNU Bash 2.05b) to this one:

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   The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced
   using djdev205 and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
   as (time stamp 2019-02-02):

     Bash 4.1.17 binary, info and man format documentation:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117b.zip

     Bash 4.1.17 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117d.zip

     Bash 4.1.17 source:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4117s.zip



   Send Bash specific bug reports to <bug-bash 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>