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+++ b/README
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 
 This is the README for bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor, version
-1.0.  This version is fully compatible with the previous public
-releases, bzip2-0.1pl2, bzip2-0.9.0 and bzip2-0.9.5.
+1.0.2.  This version is fully compatible with the previous public
+releases, versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1.
 
-bzip2-1.0 is distributed under a BSD-style license.  For details,
+bzip2-1.0.2 is distributed under a BSD-style license.  For details,
 see the file LICENSE.
 
-Complete documentation is available in Postscript form (manual.ps) or
-html (manual_toc.html).  A plain-text version of the manual page is
-available as bzip2.txt.  A statement about Y2K issues is now included
-in the file Y2K_INFO.
+Complete documentation is available in Postscript form (manual.ps),
+PDF (manual.pdf, amazingly enough) or html (manual_toc.html).  A
+plain-text version of the manual page is available as bzip2.txt.  
+A statement about Y2K issues is now included in the file Y2K_INFO.
 
 
 HOW TO BUILD -- UNIX
@@ -33,34 +33,41 @@ not actually execute them.
 HOW TO BUILD -- UNIX, shared library libbz2.so.
 
 Do 'make -f Makefile-libbz2_so'.  This Makefile seems to work for
-Linux-ELF (RedHat 5.2 on an x86 box), with gcc.  I make no claims
+Linux-ELF (RedHat 7.2 on an x86 box), with gcc.  I make no claims
 that it works for any other platform, though I suspect it probably
 will work for most platforms employing both ELF and gcc.
 
-bzip2-shared, a client of the shared library, is also build, but
-not self-tested.  So I suggest you also build using the normal
-Makefile, since that conducts a self-test.
+bzip2-shared, a client of the shared library, is also built, but not
+self-tested.  So I suggest you also build using the normal Makefile,
+since that conducts a self-test.  A second reason to prefer the
+version statically linked to the library is that, on x86 platforms,
+building shared objects makes a valuable register (%ebx) unavailable
+to gcc, resulting in a slowdown of 10%-20%, at least for bzip2.
 
-Important note for people upgrading .so's from 0.9.0/0.9.5 to
-version 1.0.  All the functions in the library have been renamed,
-from (eg) bzCompress to BZ2_bzCompress, to avoid namespace pollution.
+Important note for people upgrading .so's from 0.9.0/0.9.5 to version
+1.0.X.  All the functions in the library have been renamed, from (eg)
+bzCompress to BZ2_bzCompress, to avoid namespace pollution.
 Unfortunately this means that the libbz2.so created by
-Makefile-libbz2_so will not work with any program which used an
-older version of the library.  Sorry.  I do encourage library
-clients to make the effort to upgrade to use version 1.0, since
-it is both faster and more robust than previous versions.
+Makefile-libbz2_so will not work with any program which used an older
+version of the library.  Sorry.  I do encourage library clients to
+make the effort to upgrade to use version 1.0, since it is both faster
+and more robust than previous versions.
 
 
 HOW TO BUILD -- Windows 95, NT, DOS, Mac, etc.
 
 It's difficult for me to support compilation on all these platforms.
 My approach is to collect binaries for these platforms, and put them
-on the master web page (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2).  Look
-there.  However (FWIW), bzip2-1.0 is very standard ANSI C and should
-compile unmodified with MS Visual C.  For Win32, there is one
-important caveat: in bzip2.c, you must set BZ_UNIX to 0 and
-BZ_LCCWIN32 to 1 before building.  If you have difficulties building,
-you might want to read README.COMPILATION.PROBLEMS.
+on the master web page (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2).  Look there.
+However (FWIW), bzip2-1.0.X is very standard ANSI C and should compile
+unmodified with MS Visual C.  If you have difficulties building, you
+might want to read README.COMPILATION.PROBLEMS.
+
+At least using MS Visual C++ 6, you can build from the unmodified
+sources by issuing, in a command shell: 
+   nmake -f makefile.msc
+(you may need to first run the MSVC-provided script VCVARS32.BAT
+ so as to set up paths to the MSVC tools correctly).
 
 
 VALIDATION
@@ -138,29 +145,37 @@ WHAT'S NEW IN 0.9.5 ?
    * Many small improvements in file and flag handling.
    * A Y2K statement.
 
-WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.0 ?
 
    See the CHANGES file.
 
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.2 ?
+
+   See the CHANGES file.
+
+
 I hope you find bzip2 useful.  Feel free to contact me at
    jseward@acm.org
 if you have any suggestions or queries.  Many people mailed me with
 comments, suggestions and patches after the releases of bzip-0.15,
-bzip-0.21, bzip2-0.1pl2 and bzip2-0.9.0, and the changes in bzip2 are
-largely a result of this feedback.  I thank you for your comments.
+bzip-0.21, and bzip2 versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1,
+and the changes in bzip2 are largely a result of this feedback.
+I thank you for your comments.
 
 At least for the time being, bzip2's "home" is (or can be reached via)
-http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk.
+http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2.
 
 Julian Seward
 jseward@acm.org
 
-Cambridge, UK
-18   July 1996 (version 0.15)
-25 August 1996 (version 0.21)
- 7 August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1)
-29 August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1pl2)
-23 August 1998 (bzip2, version 0.9.0)
- 8   June 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5)
- 4   Sept 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5d)
- 5    May 2000 (bzip2, version 1.0pre8)
+Cambridge, UK (and what a great town this is!)
+
+18     July 1996 (version 0.15)
+25   August 1996 (version 0.21)
+ 7   August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1)
+29   August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1pl2)
+23   August 1998 (bzip2, version 0.9.0)
+ 8     June 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5)
+ 4     Sept 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5d)
+ 5      May 2000 (bzip2, version 1.0pre8)
+30 December 2001 (bzip2, version 1.0.2pre1)
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