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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 4 of Fileutils 4.0
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:37:07 +0100
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Hello. Thank you all for your hard work and the nice announcement.
Can I use these with my "Rice Installation" (clio.rice.edu) binaries ?? Have
they been tested for Windows2000 ?

Regards
Ben


"Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:200203111954 DOT g2BJsts20801 AT delorie DOT com...
> Hello.
>
> It gives me great pleasure to announce release 4 of the DJGPP port of
> Fileutils 4.0. This release is a minor bugfix release. This will be the
> last release of Fileutils 4.0 for DJGPP, unless there are any major bugs
> found. I will focus on porting Fileutils 4.1 now.
>
> If you build and install packages from source regularly, you may wish to
> upgrade, to get the bugfix for the 'ginstall' crash described below.
>
> Here are the changes over release 4:
>
> - gnu/filutil4.0/djgpp/opendir.sh in the source distribution
>   has been renamed to patchexe.sh. patchexe.sh now performs
>   more sanity checks on the DJGPP installation, to check that
>   the patches are actually needed. It will also now work with
>   gcc 3.x.
>
> Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for patches to fix the following issues:
>
> - ginstall would crash when invoked to install a file with no
>   extension (such as a shell script).
>
> - "cp -Pp" would print an error message on filesystems that don't
>   allow setting timestamps of directories.
>
> To use the Fileutils programs, you only need to download the binary
> distribution. You may also want to download the documentation
> distribution, to get the documentation in HTML, PostScript and DVI
> formats. If you want to examine or rebuild the Fileutils sources, you need
> to download the source distribution.
>
> The Fileutils port is available here:
>
>
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil40b.zip&name
=fil40b.zip
>
>
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil40d.zip&name
=fil40d.zip
>
>
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/fil40s.zip&name
=fil40s.zip
>
> Please read the file gnu/filutil4.0/djgpp/readme.dos in whichever
> distribution you download. This contains important instructions on
> installing and using Fileutils.
>
> You can also read the readme and changelog files online:
>
> http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/readme.dos
> http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/changelog.dos
>
> A lot of credit for this port must go to Eli Zaretskii, since he provided
> me with patches that actually did much of the port for me, and also for
> his advice. Thanks also to Jim Meyering, Tim Van Holder, Jason Green,
> Laurynas Biveinis, Paul Eggert, Charles Sandmann and JT Williams for their
> help. Thanks also to the djgpp-workers.
>
> If you encounter any problems with this port, please feel free to contact
> me by e-mail (address below). I also try to read the DJGPP newsgroup,
> comp.os.msdos.djgpp, on a regular basis.
>
> Thanks, bye,
>
> --
> Richard Dawe
> http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/
>