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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 95cddc7e7e..7e433e2d45 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-08-03 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-08-11 Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -1084,7 +1084,8 @@ Version 1.04 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, - bcmp, bzero, and ffs. + bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared + in <strings.h>.) * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be @@ -1095,14 +1096,6 @@ Version 1.04 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. - Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations, - we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C library. - There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is called - `glibc-VERSION-crypt.tar.Z', e.g. `glibc-1.04-crypt.tar.Z'. You can just - unpack the crypt distribution along with the rest of the C library and - build; you can also build the library without getting crypt. Users - outside the USA can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from - ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74], or another archive site outside the U.S. * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the latest files released from Berkeley. @@ -1110,7 +1103,7 @@ Version 1.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the |