[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.2-pre3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.2-pre3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.2-pre3.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
a94ce76601edddc92fa2903c72324fd682423a02  zutils-1.2-pre3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is 
used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files 
are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the "--recursive" option is very efficient in 
those utilities supporting it.

The provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest and zupdate.
The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
The compressor to be used for each format is configurable at runtime.

Zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell 
scripts provided with GNU gzip. Ztest is unique to zutils. Zupdate is 
similar to gzip's znew.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Changes in this version:

  * The zutils executable has been removed. All utilities are now 
independent executables.

  * The new option "-k, --keep" has been added to zupdate.

  * The exit status of zgrep should now be identical to that of grep in 
case of error.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.