freebsd-dev/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/ChangeLog
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Thu Jun 17 13:47:05 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.2.2
Fix a compilation error in gzip.c on Sun with cc (worked with gcc).
Wed Jun 16 11:20:27 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.2.1
Let zmore act as more if the data is not gzipped.
By default, display output name only when name was actually truncated.
Use absolute path names in gzexe'd programs for better security.
In gzexe, use chmod 700 instead of 755 and don't gzexe tail,rm,etc...
Update vms/gzip.hlp.
Added a note about the fast options (-1 to -3) in algorithm.doc.
Improved man page for zgrep.
Minor fixes to gzip.texi.
Always set LC_ALL and LANG in configure (for tr on HPUX)
Mon Jun 14 10:03:24 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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.
Moved the sample programs to a subdirectory sample.
On MSDOS, use .gz extension when possible (files without extension)
Added a "Special targets" section in INSTALL.
Use stty -g correctly in zmore.in.
Use cheaper test for gzipness in zforce.in.
Remove space before $ in match.S (no longer accepted by gas 2.x)
For the shell scripts, do not assume that gzip is in the path.
Fix syntax error and define lnk$library in vms/Makefile.mms
REGSIGTYPE is void on the Amiga.
Do not write empty line when decompressing stdin with --verbose.
Fix the 1.1.2 fix for VMS (bug in get_suffix)
Added warning in README about compiler bug on Solaris 2.1 for x86.
Added warning about 'rehash' in INSTALL.
Removed default value of read_buf in bits.c (supermax doesn't like).
In tailor.h, added support for Borland C and Zortech C on OS/2.
Added warning in gzexe about Ultrix buggy sh (use /bin/sh5 instead).
Added warning in zdiff about AIX buggy sh (use /bin/ksh instead).
In configure.in, do not try the asm code if DEFS contains NO_ASM
Fri Jun 4 09:49:33 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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.
Add warning in README about bug in Concentrix cc compiler.
Avoid || in Makefile.in (at least one make doesn't support this).
Disable useless --ascii option for the Amiga.
Add a pointer to the Primos executable in README.
Added description of extra field in algorithm.doc.
Do not redefine NULL in alloca.c.
Added check for unsupported compression methods.
Avoid getopt redeclaration on OSF/1.
Tue Jun 1 09:07:15 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.1.1
Fix serious bug in vms.c (== instead of =).
Added --ascii option.
Add workaround in configure.in for Ultrix (quote eval argument)
Do not use unset in znew (not supported on Ultrix)
Use tar.gz instead of tar.z for the distribution of gzip.
Add missing menu item in gzip.texi.
Use size_t instead of unsigned, add AC_SIZE_T in configure.in.
Fri May 28 11:40:01 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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 sub.c and add.c for compression of 8 bit images.
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.
Quit after --version (GNU standard)
Use --force to bypass isatty() check.
Accept --silent as synonym for --quiet (see longopts.table)
Accept --to-stdout as synonym for --stdout (see longopts.table)
Accept -H and -? in addition to -h and --help.
Added comparison of zip and gzip in the readme file.
Return an error code in all main compression/decompression functions.
Continue processing other files in case of recoverable error.
Add description of -f in znew.1.
Do not keep uncompressed version for znew -t if .gz already exists.
On Unix, use only st_ino and st_dev in same_file().
Use S_IRUSR and S_IWUSR if they exist.
"test $1 = -d" -> "test x$1 = x-d" in gzexe.
In match.S, use symbol sysV68 to detect the Motorola Delta.
Do not include memory.h with gcc (conflicting declarations on Sun).
Fix more typos.
On VMS, define unlink as delete also for gcc.
In "make check", unset LANG because "wc -c" fails on Kanji.
Renamed shdir as scriptdir.
Use the 68020 code instead of 68000 code on the NeXT.
Documented --uncompress as synonym for --decompress.
Include the standard header files before gzip.h (needed on Bull).
Do not assume that _POSIX_VERSION implies dirent.h present.
Removed gzip-tar.patch since tar 1.11.2 handles gzip directly.
Use less memory when compiled with -DSMALL_MEM (for MSDOS).
Optimized updcrc().
Don't complain if cc -E does not work correctly.
Do not attempt reading 64K bytes on 16 bit Unix systems.
Do not use the variable name 'overhead' which is reserved on Lynx!
One BULL compiler does not like *p++ in inflate.c => *p, p++.
Use casts on free and memcmp to avoid warnings.
Remove the "off by more than one minute" time stamp kludge, but
document how to avoid saving the time stamp on pipes if desired.
Include crypt.h in inflate.c (one system predefines the CRYPT symbol).
Add links to gunzip and (g)zcat in the default make rule.
Create installation directories if they do not exist.
Clarified --prefix option in INSTALL.
Use symbol mc68k in match.S for the DIAB DS90.
Guard against zero length _match.s in configure.in.
In zmore, restore all tty options using stty -g.
Added support for MacOS
Simplified makecrc.c.
Avoid warnings in getopt.c, util.c, unlzw.c.
Use autoconf 1.4, in particular for INSTALL and AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG
Use .so instead of hard links for zcat.1, gunzip.1 and zcmp.1.
Fixed declration of sig_type.
Make consistency check in fcfree.
Added ztouch.
Do not complain if utime fails on a directory (for OS/2).
Thu Mar 18 18:56:43 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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.
Give a pointer to Solaris and VMS executables of gzip in README.
Allow installation of binaries and shell scripts in different dirs.
Do not use alloca on the Cray.
Provide strspn and strcspn if string.h does not exist.
Define O_CREAT and O_EXCL from FCREAT and FEXCL if necessary.
Remove gzip.doc in make realclean.
Fixed many typos. (Corrections to my English are welcome.)
Put "make manext=l install" at the correct place in INSTALL.
Fix incorrect examples in INSTALL and give more examples.
Include zdiff.1 for install and uninstall.
Allows complex PAGER variable in zmore (e.g.: PAGER="col -x | more")
Avoid warning on unused indfound in getopt.c.
Cast memset arg to void* (required by some buggy compilers).
Include sys/types.h before dirent.h in acgeneral.m4.
Fix acgeneral.m4 AC_COMPILE_CHECK to avoid warnings.
Don't use alloca.c with gcc. (One NeXT user did not have alloca.h).
Change all error messages according to GNU standards.
Restore time stamp only if off by more than one minute.
Allow installation of zcat as gzcat.
Suppress help message and send compressed data to the terminal when
gzip is invoked without parameters and without redirection.
(Explicit request from Noah Friedman.)
Add compile option GNU_STANDARD to respect the GNU coding standards:
with -DGNU_STANDARD, behave as gzip even if invoked under the
name gunzip. (Complaints to /dev/null or the FSF, not to me!)
Fri Mar 10 13:27:18 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.0.6
Let gzexe detect executables that are already gzexe'd.
Don't try restoring record format on VMS (the simple 1.0.5 code
worked correctly only on fixed-512 files). Suppress text_mode.
Added asm version for 68000 in amiga/match.a.
Use asm version for Atari TT.
Fix "make clean" in vms/Makefile.vms.
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.
Added zdiff.1
Remove configure hack for NeXT; add general fix to autoconf instead
Do not strip a ".z" extension if this results in an empty name.
Avoid array overflow in get_prefix() for extensions > 10 chars.
Accept either q or e to quit zmore.
In zmore, try restoring tty mode in all cases.
Use Motorola style for match.S on the NeXT.
configure.in: unsetenv *hangs* with the Siemens csh...
Update vms/gzip.hlp.
Thu Mar 4 14:13:34 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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).
Use "-z" suffix for VMS.
Use only .z, .*-z, .tgz, .taz as valid gzip extensions; update
zforce accordingly.
Allow a version number in input file names for VMS.
Added sample program zread.c.
Fix "make check" for some implementations of /bin/sh.
Don't rely on stat() for filenames with extension > 3 chars
on MSDOS, OS2 and Atari.
Garbage collect files in /tmp created by gzexe.
Quote $opt in znew.
Use TOUCH env variable in znew if it exists.
Better error message for gunzip on empty or truncated file.
Allow prototypes in getopt.h when __STDC__ defined but 0.
Added "make clean" in vms/Makefile.vms.
Removed -g from default CFLAGS (with Noah's permission!)
Avoid too many HAVE_xxx_H for most systems; use common defaults.
Moved default Atari flags into tailor.h for consistency.
Use memzero() to clear the hash table.
Update vms/gzip.hlp to reflect the VMS behavior.
Fix OS_CODE (to fit in a byte).
Add utime.h for the Amiga.
Add gcc support for the Amiga.
Work around incorrect dirent.h for NeXT 2.0.
Added Makefile entry for Coherent.
Fri Feb 22 11:20:49 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 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 'stty min 1' in zmore for SysV and fixed trap code.
Suppress .PHONY in Makefile.in, which breaks old makes.
Added documentation about pcat and unpack in INSTALL.
Add cast to getenv for systems without stdlib.h.
Use VAXC instead of VMS to avoid confusion for gcc.
Add -K to znew.1.
Add gzexe.1.
Try preserving file permissions in gzexe.
Added -d option for gzexe.
Guard against spaces in file names in gzexe.
Use CMP env. variable in zcmp.
Return a warning exit status for gzip of file with .z suffix.
Suppress usage of d_ino which is not portable to all systems.
Use #ifdef instead of #if for consistency.
For VMS, use "cc util.c" instead of "cc util" (pb with logical names)
Added utime() for Amiga.
Renamed gzcat.1 as zcat.1.
Include fcntl.h for Amiga (for read and write).
For VMS, add definition of symbols and links in the makefiles.
Give a VMS look to vms/gzip.hlp.
Save the original name only when necessary.
Add a mode parameter for open in read mode (required by VMS).
For VMS, remove the version suffix from the original name.
Accept both / and \ as path separator for MSDOS.
Let gunzip extract stored .zip files correctly.
Added warning about VFC format in vms/gzip.hlp.
In znew, skip a bad file but process the others.
Cleanup tailor.h.
Use GZIP_OPT for VMS to avoid conflict with program name.
Added description of GZIP variable in gzip.texi.
Thu Feb 11 17:21:32 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.0.3
Add -K option for znew to keep old .Z files if smaller.
Add -q option (quiet) to cancel -v in GZIP env variable.
For Turbo C, normalize pointers before freeing them.
Add more safety checks in add_envopt().
Add do_exit() for uniform exit path (always free memory).
Reduce MAX_PATH_LEN for MSDOS.
Include sys/types.h before signal.h
Avoid strdup, the NeXT does not have it.
Made gzexe safer on systems with filename limitation to 14 chars.
Fri Feb 10 09:45:49 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.0.2
Added env variable GZIP for default options.
Added support for the Amiga.
znew now keeps the old .Z if it is smaller than the .z file.
Added gzexe to compress rarely used executables.
Reduce memory usage when using static allocation (no DYN_ALLOC).
Better separation of warning and error return codes.
Fix unlzw.c to make DYN_ALLOC and MAXSEG_64K independent options.
Allow INBUFSIZ to be >= 32K in unlzw (don't use sign of rsize)
Generate tar file in old format to avoid problems with old systems.
Preserve time stamp in znew -P if touch -r works.
Use ${PAGER-more} instead of ${PAGER:-more} in zmore.
Do not use unsigned instead of mode_t.
Better error message for trailing garbage in .z file; ignore this
garbage on VMS.
In zmore, use icanon instead of -cbreak on SYSV.
Add trap handler in zmore.
Use char* instead of void* for non STDC compilers.
Added makefile entry for Xenix on 286.
Return an error code when existing file was not overwritten.
Use prototype of lzw.h for lzw.c.
Fix znew with -P option alone.
Give warning for directories even without -v.
Close output file before unlink() in case of error.
Suppress all target dependent ifdef from the portable files.
Free all dynamically allocated variables upon exit.
Thu Feb 4 18:23:56 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.0.1
Fixed some trivial errors in msdos/Makefile.bor
Thu Feb 4 10:00:59 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* version 1.0
gzip now runs on Vax/VMS (Amiga support will come in next version).
Do not overwrite files without -f when using /bin/sh.
Support the test option -t for compressed (.Z) files.
Flush output for bad compressed files. Add warning in README.
Added makefiles for MSDOS.
Don't rely on presence of csh in configure
Added gunzip.1 and gzcat.1.
Updated znew.1.
Check reserved flags in unlzw().
Return dummy value in main to avoid lint warning.
Define OF in lzw.h for lint.
Allow both "znew -v -t" and "znew -vt".
Don't overwrite the output file name for multiple parts.
Echo just a warning if configure is out of date.
Use ; instead of , in trees.c (confuses the SAS Amiga compiler).
In INSTALL, document "DEFS='-DM_XENIX' ./configure".
Use OTHER_PATH_SEP for more portability (DOS, OS2, VMS, AMIGA).
Make all directories world writable for broken versions of tar.
Use gzip -cd instead of zcat in zmore, zcmp, zdiff.
Don't use GNU tar for distributions, some systems can't untar.
Do not exit() for gzip --version.
Mon Jan 26 10:26:42 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.8.2
Avoid 'far' declarations for MSDOS.
Use test -f instead of test -x in configure.in (for Ultrix)
Add empty else part to if in Makefile.in for broken shells.
Use NO_UNDERLINE instead of UNDERLINE (pb with Linux cpp)
Accept continuation files with -ff (for damage recovery)
Small patch to Makefile.os2
Use memzero instead of bzero to avoid potential conflicts
Document restriction on extraction of zip files.
Fix quoting in ACL_HAVE_SHELL_HACK.
Do not check file size on MSDOS because of bug in DIET.
Allow zcat on a file with multiple links.
Add fix in inflate.c for compatibility with pkzip 2.04c.
Release gzip in tar.z and tar format. (No tar.Z).
Fri Jan 22 10:04:13 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.8.1
Fixed Makefile.os2
Fixed #if directives that TurboC does not like.
Don't rely on uncompress in znew, use gzip -d.
Add the pipe option -P in znew.
Add some more ideas in TODO.
Support both NDIR and SYSNDIR.
Sat Jan 21 15:46:38 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.8
Support unpack.
Check for _match.o in configure.in in addition to return status.
Include <sys/types.h> in zip.c
Define local variables and functions as local.
Accept more alternative names for the program (pcat, gzcat, ...).
Accept .exe as well as .EXE.
Uncompress files with multiple links only with -f.
Better error message for gunzip of non-existent file.z.
Fix the entry for /etc/magic in INSTALL.
Use AC_HAVE_HEADERS uniformly instead of special macros.
Install the man pages as .1 by default instead of .l.
Document crypt++.el in README.
Fix for unlzw() on 16-bit machines (bitmask must be unsigned).
Complain if input and output files are identical.
Create a correct output name for files of exactly 13 chars.
Do not overwrite CPP if set
Check for i386 before trying to assemble match.s
Check for underline in external name before assembling
Add patch for tar 1.11.1.
Mon Jan 5 10:16:24 1993 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.7
Use "make check" instead of "make test".
Do not rely on dirname in znew.
Keep time stamp and pass options to gzip in znew.
Rename .l files back to .1 to avoid conflict with lex
Do not create .z.z files with gzip -r.
Use nice_match in match.asm
Unroll loops in deflate.c
Do not attempt matches beyond the window end
Allow again gunzip .zip files (was working in 0.5)
Allow again compilation with TurboC 2.0 (was working in 0.4)
Tue Dec 30 20:00:19 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.6
The .z extension is used by pack, not compact (README, gzip.1)
Accept gzcat in addition to zcat.
Use PAGER in zmore if defined.
Man pages for /usr/local/man/manl should have extension .l.
Don't redefine bzero on the NeXT
Allow incomplete Huffman table if there is only one code.
Don't lookahead more than 7 bits (caused premature EOF).
Added "make test" to check for compiler bugs.
Don't rely on `i386`; try to assemble directly
Change magic header to avoid conflict with freeze 1.x.
Added entry for /etc/magic in INSTALL.
Do not destroy an input .zip file with more than one member.
Display "untested" instead of "OK" for gzip -t foo.Z
With -t, skip stdin in .Z format
Allow multiple compressed members in an input file.
Ignore a zero time stamp.
Made znew safer.
Tue Dec 29 10:00:19 1992 Noah Friedman (friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Added test for #!/bin/sh in configure.in.
Fix some references to $srcdir in Makefile.in
Mon Dec 21 17:33:35 1992 Jean-Loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.5
Put RCS ids in all files.
Added znew to recompress old .Z files with gzip.
Avoid "already .z suffix" messages for -r and no -v.
Put back check for d_ino in treat_dir().
Use HAVE_STRING_H instead of USG.
Added os2/Makefile.os2
Use SYSUTIME on OS/2.
Info dir is $(prefix)/info, not $(prefix)/lib/info.
Support long options, added getopt and alloca
Support -V and -t
Reorder configure.in according to suggestions in autoconf.info
Allow links when not removing original file
Allow either .z or .Z in zdiff
Wed Nov 25 11:40:04 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.4.1
Save only the original base name, don't include any directory prefix.
Don't use HAVE_LONG_FILE_NAMES (support multiple file system types).
Fix declaration of abort_gzip in gzip.h.
Include unistd.h when it exists to avoid warnings with gcc -Wall.
Mon Nov 23 12:39:01 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.4
Lots of cleanup
Use autoconf generated 'configure'
Fixed the NO_MULTIPLE_DOTS code
Fixed the save_orig_name code
Support for MSDOS (Turbo C)
Thu Nov 19 15:18:22 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Beta version 0.3
Added auto configuration. Just type "make" now.
Don't overwrite compress by default in "make install". Use
"make install_compress" to overwrite.
Add match.s for 386 boxes.
Added documentation in texinfo format.
Provide help for "gunzip" invoked without redirected input.
Save original file name when necessary.
Support OS/2 (Kai-Uwe Rommel).
Tue Nov 17 14:32:53 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.2.4
Return 0 in get_istat() when ok (caused error with zcat).
Don't update crc on compressed data (caused crc errors on
large files).
Fri Nov 13 15:04:12 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.2.3
Initialize rsize in unlzw.c
Initialize ofd for zcat.
Do not use volatile ifname as argument of treat_dir.
Add -1 to -9 in gzip.1.
Sat Oct 31 18:30:00 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.2.2.
Fix error messages.
Accept gunzip on zip files.
Sat Oct 31 17:15:00 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.2.1
Use ctype.h in util.c (problem on SysV).
Create BINDIR if it does not exist.
Use cc by default.
Added zcmp, zmore, zdiff.
Fixed the man page gzip.1.
Sat Oct 31 17:00:00 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.2
Fixed compilation problems with gcc
Sat Oct 31 12:46:00 1992 Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@chorus.fr)
* Alpha version 0.1 released (under time pressure), so it's not
much tested, sorry.