From: Craig A. Berry [calepine@my-deja.com] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:45 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: ANN: GNU patch and diffutils ports available Updated versions of GNU patch 2.5.4 and GNU diffutils 2.7.2 for OpenVMS are available for download from: The kits include source and linkable object code for VAX and Alpha. OpenVMS 6.2 or later is required (or at least known to work). Just download, unzip, and type @LINK. If you have OpenVMS 7.0 or later and a C compiler, there may be some advantages to building from source. GNU diffutils is a suite of file difference utilities similar in concept to OpenVMS DIFFERENCES. The sets of differences produced are called "diffs" in Unix-speak . GNU patch is a utility for applying these diffs to the original sources, and is similar in concept to the OpenVMS SUMSLP editor. The two in tandem are vital to a number of open-source development projects, especially cross-platform efforts like Perl. The porting team included Charles Lane, Martin Vorlaender, and me. We plan on submitting these quite soon for the next Compaq freeware CD, which (last I heard) has a deadline of 5-FEB-2001. So, if you find any bugs, please let us know ASAP (preferably after fixing them ;-). Contact information is included in the file freeware_readme.txt in each kit. Enjoy! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/