Re: new test release of textutils: 2.0.17

[Matthew Smith]

A couple of nits:

Line 180 of system.h is this:
# define SET_MODE(_f, _m) set_mode (_f, _m)

Shouldn't it be this:
# define SET_MODE(_f, _m) setmode (_f, _m)

With this change, textutils-2.0.17 will build on cygwin out of the box.
Also, the .info documentation seems to be out of date.  There is the
coreutils.info, which has info for a bunch of tools not part of the
textutils distro.  I guess the idea is that textutils is part of
"coreutils"?  The problem with this is that at least on cygwin, the info
pertaining to non-textutils tools is extraneous.  Also, there is no mention
of sha1sum in the .info docs.  Other than that, things are looking good.

cheers,
-Matt Smith
cygwin textutils maintainer



> There is a new test release of the textutils here:
>
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz   (2.2 MB)
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2  (1.6 MB)
>
> Here's one mirror.  Please tell me if you know of others.
>
>   ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/textutils/textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz
>   ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/textutils/textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2
>
> This is mainly a bug-fixing release.
> It might be close to 2.1.
>
> Here are most of the user-visible changes between 2.0.16 and 2.0.17:
>
> * csplit no longer gets a failed assertion for this:
>     printf 'a\n\n'|csplit - '/^$/' 2
> * sort detects physical memory attributes more portably
> * tail no longer gets a segfault on Linux's /proc/ksyms
> * sum -s produces the proper 16-bit checksum for large files
>     (this fixes a bug that was introduced in 2.0f)
> * uniq is now about 3 times faster than the version from 2.0 on Linux
systems;
>     the code uses lock-avoiding variants of common I/O functions
>
> See the ChangeLog files for details and credits.
> --------
>
> Thanks to Bob Proulx, there is now a FAQ for the
> fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils:
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/core-utils-faq.html
>
> --------
> Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures for the compressed tar files:
>
> 98e8c5440bffe9af3b9d860d2bb0cb37  textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz
> d65c85079b52d82abdb7de997cc8af84  textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2
> c345907718d0ef8712dcc3f6fd70bd9615b37a84  textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz
> d0ff68f01a60da37b475beb6a9849316adfc4bc6  textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2
>
> You can use the md5sum or sha1sum programs from this package to
> verify these numbers.