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@@ -1,30 +1,16 @@ -Changes in version 1.11: +Changes in version 1.12: -A race has been fixed in zcmp and zdiff that sometimes made them return 1 -(files differ) instead of 2 (trouble) when a compressor is not found or when -the wrong format is forced. +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). -In case of error in an argument to a command line option, all tools now show -the name of the option. +zupdate now accepts option '-e, --expand-extensions', which makes it expand +combined file name extensions; tgz -> tar.lz. -In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, zcmp -now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values. +zupdate now also accepts option '-i, --ignore-errors', which makes it ignore +non-fatal errors. -Support for the zstd format has been added to all tools. This allows, among -other things, zupdating zstd files to lzip format for long-term archiving, -and using zcmp along with the unzcrash tool (from the lziprecover package) -to test zstd files. - -'zdiff --verbose --version' now prints the version of the diff program used -if it supports the option '--version'. - -'zgrep --verbose --version' now prints the version of the grep program used -if it supports the option '--version'. - -It has been documented in the manual how to recompress files with zupdate -from a read-only file system to another place by first linking the files -from the destination directory and then compressing the links: -'ln -s /src/foo.gz . && zupdate foo.gz' - -The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data Compression' -to 'Compression' to match that of gzip. (Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt). +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. |