[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.3-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.3-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.3-pre2.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
c47ac9496fda3a162d98a752019589c7f74c4d5b  zutils-1.3-pre2.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 by 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:

  * Testsuite: two incomplete values of expected exit status producing 
sporadic failures of the tests have been fixed.

  * It has been documented that the "--format" option does not verify 
the format of the corresponding file(s), allowing for example the 
processing of compress'd (.Z) files with gzip:
"zcmp --format=gz file.Z file.lz".


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.