ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of bzip2 1.0.5 uploaded.

[Juan Manuel Guerrero]

This is a port of bzip2 1.0.5 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.
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- There are no user visible DJGPP specific changes compared with the previous
version. If you are familiar with the previous version 1.0.4, you will be
familiar with this one.

Here is a verbatim extract of the CHANGES file:

1.0.5 (10 Dec 07)
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Security fix only. Fixes CERT-FI 20469 as it applies to bzip2.

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 bz2-105d.zip archive.

To run the scripts bzmore, bzdiff and bzgrep you will have to install the
following DJGPP ports: difNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip and mktmpNNb.zip

The port consists of the usual three packages that have been compiled
using stock djdev203 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com
and mirrors as (timestamp 2008-03-31):

Bzip2 1.0.5 binaries, script and man formated documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105b.zip

Bzip2 1.0.5 header and library:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105a.zip

Bzip2 1.0.5 html, ps and pdf formated documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105d.zip

Bzip2 1.0.5 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105s.zip

For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
at @ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2008-03-31):

Bzip2 1.0.5 binary and man formated documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-105b.zip

Bzip2 1.0.5 header and library:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-105a.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>