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diff --git a/Build/source/utils/gzip/NEWS b/Build/source/utils/gzip/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ef5f83359ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/utils/gzip/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,221 @@ +Current Version: 1.2.4. +See the file ChangeLog for the details of all changes. + +Major changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 +* By default, do not restore file name and timestamp from those saved + inside the .gz file (behave as 'compress'). Added the --name option + to force name and timestamp restoration. +* Accept - as synonym for stdin. +* Use manlinks=so or ln to support either hard links or .so in man pages +* Accept foo.gz~ in zdiff. +* Added support for Windows NT +* Handle ENAMETOOLONG for strict Posix systems +* Use --recursive instead of --recurse to comply with Webster and + the GNU stdandard. +* Allow installation of shell scripts with a g prefix: make G=g install +* Install by default zcat as gzcat if gzcat already exists in path. +* Let zmore behave as more when invoked without parameters (give help) +* Let gzip --list reject files not in gzip format even with --force. +* Don't complain about non gzip files for options -rt or -rl. +* Added advice in INSTALL for several systems. + +Major changes from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 +* Don't display the output name when decompressing except with --verbose. +* Remove usage of alloca in getopt.c and all makefiles. +* Added the zfile shell script in subdirectory sample. +* Moved the list of compiler bugs from README to INSTALL. +* Added vms/Readme.vms. + +Major changes from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 +* Fix a compilation error on Sun with cc (worked with gcc). + +Major changes from 1.2 to 1.2.1 +* Let zmore act as more if the data is not gzipped. +* made gzexe more secure (don't rely on PATH). +* By default, display output name only when the name was actually truncated. + +Major changes from 1.1.2 to 1.2 +* Added the --list option to display the file characteristics. +* Added the --no-name option: do not save or restore original filename + Save the original name by default. +* Allow gunzip --suffix "" to attempt decompression on any file + regardless of its extension if an original name is present. +* Add support for the SCO compress -H format. +* gzip --fast now compresses faster (speed close to that of compress) + with degraded compression ratio (but still better than compress). + Default level changed to -6 (acts exactly as previous level -5) to + be a better indication of its placement in the speed/ratio range. +* Use smart name truncation: 123456789012.c -> 123456789.c.gz + instead of 12345678901.gz +* With --force, let zcat pass non gzip'ed data unchanged (zcat == cat) +* Added the zgrep shell script. +* Made sub.c useful for 16 bit sound, 24 bit images, etc.. +* Supress warnings about suffix for gunzip -r, except with --verbose. +* On MSDOS, use .gz extension when possible (files without extension) +* Moved the sample programs to a subdirectory sample. +* Added a "Special targets" section in INSTALL. + +Major changes from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. +* Fix serious bug for VMS (-gz not removed when decompressing). +* Allow suffix other than .gz in znew. +* Do not display compression ratio when decompressing stdin. +* In zmore.in, work around brain damaged stty -g (Ultrix). +* Display a correct compression ratio for .Z files. +* Added .z to .gz renaming script in INTALL. +* Allow setting CFLAGS in configure. + +Major changes from 1.1 to 1.1.1. +* Fix serious bug in vms.c (affects Vax/VMS only). +* Added --ascii option. +* Add workaround in configure.in for Ultrix (quote eval argument) + +Major changes from 1.0.7 to 1.1. +* Use .gz suffix by default, add --suffix option. +* Let gunzip accept a "_z" suffix (used by one 'compress' on Vax/VMS). +* Quit when reading garbage from stdin instead of reporting an error. +* Added makefile for VAX/MMS and support for wildcards on VMS. +* Added support for MSC under OS/2. +* Added support for Prime/PRIMOS. +* Display compression ratio also when decompressing (with --verbose). +* Quit after --version (GNU standard) +* Use --force to bypass isatty() check +* Continue processing other files in case of recoverable error. +* Added comparison of zip and gzip in the readme file. +* Added small sample programs (ztouch, sub, add) +* Use less memory when compiled with -DSMALL_MEM (for MSDOS). +* Remove the "off by more than one minute" time stamp kludge + +Major changes from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7. +* Allow zmore to read from standard input (like more). +* Support the 68000 (Atari ST) in match.S. +* Retry partial writes (required on Linux when gzip is suspended in a pipe). +* Allow full pathnames and renamings in gzexe. +* Don't let gzexe compress setuid executables or gzip itself. +* Added vms/Makefile.gcc for gcc on the Vax. +* Allow installation of binaries and shell scripts in different dirs. +* Allows complex PAGER variable in zmore (e.g.: PAGER="col -x | more") +* Allow installation of zcat as gzcat. +* Several small changes for portability to old or weird systems. +* Suppress help message and send compressed data to the terminal when + gzip is invoked without parameters and without redirection. +* Add compile option GNU_STANDARD to respect the GNU coding standards: + with -DGNU_STANDARD, behave as gzip even if invoked under the name gunzip. +(I don't like the last two changes, which were requested by the FSF.) + +Major changes from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6. +* Let gzexe detect executables that are already gzexe'd. +* Keep file attributes in znew and gzexe if cpmod is available. +* Don't try restoring record format on VMS (1.0.5 did not work correctly) +* Added asm version for 68000 in amiga/match.a. + Use asm version for Atari TT and NeXT. +* For OS/2, assume HPFS by default, add flag OS2FAT if necessary. +* Fixed some bugs in zdiff and define zcmp as a link to zdiff. + + +Major changes from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5. +* For VMS, restore the file type for variable record format, otherwise + extract in fixed length format (not perfect, but better than + forcing all files to be in stream_LF format). +* For VMS, use "-z" default suffix and accept a version number in file names. +* For Unix, allow compression of files with name ending in 'z'. Use only + .z, .*-z, .tgz, .taz as valid gzip extensions. In the last two cases, + extract to .tar by default. +* On some versions of MSDOS, files with a 3 character extension could not + be compressed. +* Garbage collect files in /tmp created by gzexe. +* Fix the 'OS code' byte in the gzip header. +* For the Amiga, add the missing utime.h and add support for gcc. + + +Major changes from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4. +* Added optimized asm version for 68020. +* Add support for DJGPP. + +* Add support for the Atari ST. +* Added zforce to rename gzip'ed files with truncated names. +* Do not install with name uncompress (some systems rely on the + absence of any check in the old uncompress). +* Added missing function (fcfree) in msdos/tailor.c +* Let gunzip handle .tgz files, and let gzip skip them. +* Added -d option (decompress) for gzexe and try preserving file permissions. +* Suppress all warnings with -q. +* Use GZIP_OPT for VMS to avoid conflict with program name. +* ... and many other small changes (see ChangeLog) + + +Major changes from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 +* Added -K option for znew to keep old .Z files if smaller +* Added -q option (quiet) to cancel -v in GZIP env variable. +* Made gzexe safer on systems with filename limitation to 14 chars. +* Fixed bugs in handling of GZIP env variable and incorrect free with Turbo C. + + +Major changes from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 +* Added env variable GZIP for default options. Example: + for sh: GZIP="-8 -v"; export GZIP + for csh: setenv GZIP "-8 -v" +* Added support for the Amiga. +* znew now keeps the old .Z if it is smaller than the .z file. + This can happen for some large and very redundant files. +* Do not complain about trailing garbage for record oriented IO (Vax/VMS). + This implies however that multi-part gzip files are not supported + on such systems. +* Added gzexe to compress rarely used executables. +* Reduce memory usage (required for MSDOS and useful on all systems). +* Preserve time stamp in znew -P (pipe option) if touch -r works. + + +Major changes from 1.0 to 1.0.1 +* fix trivial errors in the Borland makefile (msdos/Makefile.bor) + + +Major changes from 0.8.2 to 1.0 +* gzip now runs on Vax/VMS +* gzip will not not overwrite files without -f when using /bin/sh in + background. +* Support the test option -t for compressed (.Z) files. + Allow some data recovery for bad .Z files. +* Added makefiles for MSDOS (Only tested for MSC, not Borland). +* still more changes to configure for several systems + + +Major changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2: +* yet more changes to configure for Linux and other systems +* Allow zcat on a file with multiple links. + + +Major changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1: +* znew has now a pipe option -P to reduce the disk space requirements, + but this option does not preserve timestamps. +* Fixed some #if directives for compilation with TurboC. + + +Major changes from 0.7 to 0.8: +* gzip can now extract .z files created by 'pack'. +* configure should no longer believe that every machine is a 386 +* Fix the entry for /etc/magic in INSTALL. +* Add patch for GNU tar 1.11.1 and a pointer to crypt++.el +* Uncompress files with multiple links only with -f. +* Fix for uncompress of .Z files on 16-bit machines +* Create a correct output name for file names of exactly N-1 chars when + the system has a limit of N chars. + + +Major changes from 0.6 to 0.7: +* Use "make check" instead of "make test". +* Keep time stamp and pass options to gzip in znew. +* Do not create .z.z files with gzip -r. +* Allow again gunzip .zip files (was working in 0.5) +* Allow again compilation with TurboC 2.0 (was working in 0.4) + + +Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6: +* gunzip reported an error when extracting certain .z files. The .z files + produced by gzip 0.5 are correct and can be read by gunzip 0.6. +* gunzip now supports multiple compressed members within a single .z file. +* Fix the check for i386 in configure. +* Added "make test" to check for compiler bugs. (gcc -finline-functions + is broken at least on the NeXT.) +* Use environment variable PAGER in zmore if it is defined. +* Accept gzcat in addition to zcat for people having /usr/bin before + /usr/local/bin in their path. |