Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:36:17 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:31:14 +0200
> 
> Some years ago I have ported sed-3.02.80.tar.gz and gzip-1.3.tar.gz
> for my private use. The sed port has no changes to the source at all.

I have Sed 3.02.80 ported, too.  I also added to it a feature whereby
Sed no longer reads in text mode.  This makes it possible to support
files with embedded ^Z and lone ^M characters.

I sent the diffs to the Sed maintainer, but didn't hear from him yet,
although this was long ago.

> The gzip port is based on Eli's gzp124a?.zip package. This implies
> that all djgpp specific functionality known from gzip-1.24a will be
> available at gzip-1.3 too. These ports have worked for me for 1 or 2 years
> without difficulties. I know that these GNU packages have all alpha status
> (there are from alpha.gnu.org) so I do not know if there are welcome at all.

I don't see any reason not to upload these ports.

> BTW I have started porting attempts of tar-1.13.19 and findutils-1.4.7. These
> are alphas too. Let me know if any of this ports are welcome and if there are
> djgpp specific issues in one or more of this ports that should be fixed.

Did you put all the DJGPP-specific code from Tar 1.12a to 1.13.19?
There should be quite a lot of them, especially since Tar 1.13.x was
forked from 1.12 before I sent DOS/Windows-related patches to the
previous maintainer.  So some of the code that the previous maintainer
merged into 1.12a should be added again to 1.13.