[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.5-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.5-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.5-rc2.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
33e9f7cb82ab7a64ccda174da34ad3fa0ed576d7  zutils-1.5-rc2.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.
Zutils uses external compressors. 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:

  * zupdate now passes '-q' to zcmp if specified in the command line.

  * zdiff now uses '_' as separator if both temporary file names are 
otherwise different. For example 'xxx_file.lz' and 'xxx_file.gz'.

  * A configure warning happening on some shells when testing for g++ 
has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.