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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP packages of XDelta 1.1.2
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:25:26 GMT
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm please to announce the release of the DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.2.
> This release contains mainly minor bugfixes over the previous
> version (1.1.1). Please see the file 'contrib/xdlt112/news' for
> a complete list of changes.
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/xdlt112b.zip&name=xdlt112b.zip
> http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/xdlt112s.zip&name=xdlt112s.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. No changes
> were required to port XDelta to DJGPP.
> 
> Thanks to Joshua MacDonald for incorporating the DJGPP patches into
> XDelta. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for his detailed bug reports, suggestions
> and testing of XDelta in the past.

Simtel reports, at least for the binary, "can't find file" on
various nodes.

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