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ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Bzip2 1.0.6 uploaded.

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Juan Manuel Guerrero

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Oct 2, 2010, 9:17:27 AM10/2/10
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This is a port of Bzip2 1.0.6 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

bzip2 is a compressor/decompressor program with generally
considerably better

compression rate than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-
based

compressors.

The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of
GNU gzip,

but they are not identical.

DJGPP specific changes.

=======================

- There are no user visible DJGPP specific changes compared with the
previous

version. If you are familiar with the previous version 1.0.5, you
will be

familiar with this one.

Here is a verbatim extract of the CHANGES file:

1.0.6 (6 Sept 10)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Security fix for CVE-2010-0405. This was reported by Mikolaj

Izdebski.

For futher information about bzip2 please read the man pages. The
man pages

are the only ones that contain DJGPP specific information because
they are

the only one that can be remade with existing DJGPP tools. The
author no

longer uses the texinfo format; he has switched to xml and it is not

possible to recreate pdf, ps and html formated documentation from
the

distributed xml file. Neitherless the original pdf, ps and html
formated

documentattion is supplied in the bz2-106d.zip archive.

To run the scripts bzmore, bzdiff and bzgrep you will have to
install the

following DJGPP ports: difNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip and mktmpNNNb.zip
where

NNN stands for the latest version number.

The port consists of four packages that have been compiled

using stock djdev203 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com

and mirrors as (timestamp 2010-10-01):

Bzip2 1.0.6 binaries, script and man formated documentation:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-106b.zip

Bzip2 1.0.6 header and library:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-106a.zip

Bzip2 1.0.6 html, ps and pdf formated documentation:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-106d.zip

Bzip2 1.0.6 source:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-106s.zip

For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been
produced

a second time using the djdev204 beta library. Thes packages are
available

at @ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2010-10-01):

Bzip2 1.0.6 binary and man formated documentation:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106b.zip

Bzip2 1.0.6 header and library:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106a.zip

Send Bzip2 specific bug reports to <jse...@bzip.org>.

Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to

comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <dj...@delorie.com>.

Enjoy.

Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan.g...@gmx.de>

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