Message-Id:	<200102181652.LAA21364@delorie.com>
Sender:	rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
Date:	Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:44:00 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	DJGPP announcements <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.1
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

I've ported XDelta 1.1.1 to DJGPP. Here is a description of XDelta, from
its 'readme' file:

"XDelta is a library interface and
application program designed to compute changes between files.  These
changes (deltas) are similar to the output of the "diff" program in
that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between
files.  However, unlike diff, the output of XDelta is not expressed in
a human-readable format--XDelta can also also apply these deltas to a
copy of the original file(s).  XDelta uses a fast, linear algorithm
and performs well on both binary and text files.  XDelta typically
outperforms GNU diff in both time and generated-delta-size, even for
plain text files.  XDelta also includes a simple implementation of the
Rsync algorithm and several advanced features for implementing
RCS-like file-archival with."

XDelta is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The port is available from the DJGPP archive on SimTel.NET:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt111b.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/xdlt111s.zip

These are binary and source distributions respectively. If you only want
to use XDelta, please download the binary distribution. If you would like
to rebuild XDelta, please download the source distribution. Minor changes
were required to port XDelta to DJGPP - the diffs are included in the
source distribution.

If you have any problems, suggestions, etc. about the port, please mail
me.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
--- Gottfried W. Leibniz

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