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Popt-1.7 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Popt-1.7 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

The popt library exists essentially for parsing commandline options. It is found superior in many ways when compared to parsing the argv array by hand or using the getopt functions getopt() and getopt_long() [see getopt(3)]. Some specific advantages of popt are: it does not utilize global variables, thus enabling multiple passes in parsing argv ; it can parse an arbitrary array of argv-style elements, allowing parsing of command -line-strings from any source; it provides a standard method of option aliasing (to be discussed at length below.); it can exec external option filters; and, finally, it can automatically generate help and usage messages for the application.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-07-13

OpenSSL-0.97b for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of OpenSSL-0.9.7b is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
OpenSSL is an open implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer protocol

Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b:

  o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
    Bleichbacher's attack 
  o Security: make RSA blinding default.
  o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
  o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
  o Build: shared library support fixes.
  o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
  o Documentation: fixes and additions.... [read more](/p/gnuwin32/news/2003/07/openssl-097b-for-windows/)
Posted by GnuWin32 2003-07-06

Wget-1.8.2 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Wget-1.8.2 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
Wget is a tool for retrieving files from the WWW, e.g. to mirror a website.

Changes from 1.8.1:
* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-07-06

JbigKit-1.5 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of JbigKit-1.5 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

JBIG-KIT implements a highly effective data compression algorithm
for bi-level high-resolution images such as fax pages or scanned
documents.

JBIG-KIT provides a portable library of compression and decompression
functions with a documented interface that you can very easily include
into your image or document processing software. In addition, JBIG-KIT
provides ready-to-use compression and decompression programs with a
simple command line interface (similar to the converters found in netpbm).... read more

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-06-29

Deroff-1.9 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Deroff-1.9 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
Deroff removes roff, tbl, eqn, refer and pic constructs from documents.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-06-07

Glpk-4.0 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Glpk-4.0 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a set of routines written in
ANSI C and organized in the form of a library. This package is intended
for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear
programming (MIP), and other related problems.

New in GLPK 4.0 (release date: May 06, 2003):

    Now GLPK supports the GNU MathProg modeling language, which is
    a subset of the AMPL modeling language.... [read more](/p/gnuwin32/news/2003/05/glpk-40-for-windows/)
Posted by GnuWin32 2003-05-09

DiffUtils-2.8.1 for Windows

A new MS-Windows (Win32) port of DiffUtils-2.8.1 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
DiffUtils is a collection of tools for comparing files.

This port adds large-file support and fixes GnuWin32 bugs bugs 566108, failure of diff3, and 635571, failure of diff -N.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-04-20

Grep-2.5.1 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Grep-2.5.1 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
Grep prints lines in a file matching a pattern.

Version 2.5.1:

  • This is a bugfix release. No new features.

  • MS-Windows port: fixed a bug in recursive-directory search

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-04-19

Glpk-3.3 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of Glpk-3.3 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a set of routines written in
ANSI C and organized in the form of a library. This package is intended
for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear
programming (MIP), and other related problems.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-04-18

T1Lib-5.0.0 for Windows

An MS-Windows (Win32) port of T1Lib-5.0.0 is available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
T1Lib is a library for generating character bitmaps from Postscript Type-1
fonts.

Posted by GnuWin32 2003-04-18