new test release of textutils: 2.0.17

[Jim Meyering]

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.
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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

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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.