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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Changes in version 1.12: + +The zutils configuration file 'zutilsrc' has been renamed to 'zutils.conf'. +Zutils now looks for the configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zutils.conf +instead of $HOME/.zutilsrc. (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config). +(Suggested by Adam Tuja). + +In zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep, the option '-O, --force-format' now can +force also "uncompressed" format. + +zcmp now accepts the option '-H, --hexadecimal' to print byte values in +hexadecimal instead of octal. + +In zcmp: + The long name of option '-s' has been changed to '--script' following a + similar change made to GNU ed. + + The short name '-q' has been assigned to options '--quiet' and '--silent'. + + Option '-q' now only suppresses diagnostic messages written to stderr. + + Option '-s' now only suppresses messages about file differences written to + stdout or stderr. + + Option '-l, --list' is now different from option '-v, --verbose', which + now undoes the effect of '--quiet'. + +zcmp now prints byte and line in EOF message like GNU cmp: +"zcmp: EOF on FILE after byte B, in line L". + +zgrep now also accepts the following options: '-G, --basic-regexp', +'--label=<label>', '--line-buffered', '-P, --perl-regexp', '--silent', +'-T, --initial-tab', '-U, --binary', and '-Z, --null'. +(Reported by Chris Jamboretz and Leah Neukirchen). + +ztest now exits with status 2 if an uncompressed file has a compressed file +name extension, or if a compressed file has a wrong compressed extension. + +zupdate now accepts option '-d, --destdir' to write recompressed files to +another directory. This allows, for example, recompressing files from a +read-only file system to another place without needing to copy or link them +to the destination directory first. + +zupdate now accepts option '-e, --expand-extensions', which makes it expand +combined file name extensions; tgz --> tar.lz. + +zupdate now also accepts option '-i, --ignore-errors', which makes it ignore +non-fatal errors. (Suggested by Antoni Sawicki). + +All utilities now support compress'd (.Z) files through gzip. For this to +work, the gzip program used (for example GNU gzip) must be able to +decompress .Z files. + +At verbosity level 1 (2 for zdiff and zgrep) or higher, '-V, --version' now +prints the versions of the compressors used (limited by option '-M, --format'). +(The compressors used must support option '-V' for this to work). + +Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command line options now show the +argument and the name of the option. + +It has been documented in the manual that the data format is detected by its +magic bytes, not by the file name extension. + +The testsuite now tests tarlz (if available) as compressor for zupdate. |