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| 2 | Windows 95 & Windows NT users: | 2 | As of today (3 March 1998) I've removed the |
| 3 | Win95/NT executables from this distribution, sorry. | ||
| 3 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 1. There's a pre-built executable, bzip2.exe, which | 5 | You can still get an executable from |
| 5 | should work. You don't need to compile anything. | 6 | http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk, or (as a last |
| 6 | You can run the `test.bat' batch file to check | 7 | resort) by mailing me at jseward@acm.org. |
| 7 | the executable is working ok, if you want. | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 2. The control-C signal catcher seems pretty dodgy | 9 | The reason for this change of packaging is that it |
| 10 | under Windows, at least for the executable supplied. | 10 | makes it easier for me to fix problems with specific |
| 11 | When it catches a control-C, bzip2 tries to delete | 11 | executables if they are not included in the main |
| 12 | its output file, so you don't get left with a half- | 12 | distribution. |
| 13 | baked file. But this sometimes seems to fail | ||
| 14 | under Windows. Caveat Emptor! I think I am doing | ||
| 15 | something not-quite-right in the signal catching. | ||
| 16 | Windows-&-C gurus got any suggestions? | ||
| 17 | 13 | ||
| 18 | Control-C handling all seems to work fine under Unix. | 14 | J |
| 19 | 15 | ||
| 20 | 7 Aug 97 | 16 | |