Hello. I'm pleased to announce DJGPP 2.04 beta 1. This has a number of changes over DJGPP 2.04 alpha 1, including: * uclock now uses rdtsc under Windows NT, 2000 and XP (if it is available) to work around the bug with the interval timer not being syncronized with the timer tick. * djtar now copes with single-span spanned archives. * A bug was fixed in rename, when moving directories into themselves. * Some locale fixes were made to the *printf, *scanf and strftime functions. * A bug was fixed in the handling of assignment suppressions in the *scanf functions. * Better compliance with the C99 standard. It needs a lot of testing. Please test it if you have time and/or are interested in any of the above features. Any level of testing would be appreciated. The beta is not available via the Zip Picker interface. You can download it from here: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/beta Please see the README file for instructions on how to install the beta: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/beta/readme.1st The packages in the DJGPP archive need to be rebuilt with DJGPP 2.04 beta 1, to take advantage of its features. Once this has been done, an announcement will be sent to djgpp-announce. In the meantime, it is recommended that you upgrade to packages built with the CVS version of DJGPP from Andrew Cottrell's site: http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm Otherwise there may be interoperability problems between packages built with DJGPP 2.03 and 2.04, because of the support for symlinks in DJGPP 2.04. If you have any problems with DJGPP 2.04 beta 1, please report them directly to the DJGPP newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp or via its e-mail gateway djgpp@delorie.com. Before reporting a problem, please check that it is not already known - there is a DJGPP 2.04 status page that lists known problems: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html A more detailed list of changes between 2.03 and 2.04 beta 1 can be found here: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/wc204.txt After installing the beta, you can see it by running this command: info kb 'what changed' 'changes in 2.04' Thanks to all those who continue to contribute to DJGPP, particulary the djgpp-workers (Andrew, Eli, MartinS, Esa, Charles, DJ and others). Please also note that I have stepped down as release manager for DJGPP 2.04. I will continue to maintain the DJGPP 2.04 status page. Bye, Rich =]