BDiff / BPatch - Pascal Translation
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

The programs supplied in this archive are versions of Stefan Reuther's bdiff and
bpatch compiled from Pascal translations of the original C source.

See the files bdiff.txt and bpatch.txt (written by Stefan) for details of how to
use these command line programs.

SOURCE CODE

The original C source code is provided in the OrigC sub folder.

Source code for the Delphi Pascal translations are provided in the Src sub
folder. The Pascal code has been compiled using Delphi 4. BRCC32 is also required
to compile the resource file the contains version information. Details of the
Pascal translation are provided in PasTrans.txt.

INSTALLATION

Copy the provided executable files to the required location. No further
installation is required.

To compile from source either compile the provided C source using a standards
compliant C compiler or compile the Pascal source using Delphi 4 or later.

COPYRIGHT

Copying this program is allowed, as long as you include original source code and
Pascal translation document changes you make in a user-visible way so people
know they're using the new version, not the original C code or Pascal
translation.

The original C code is copyright © 1999 by Stefan Reuther.
The Pascal translation is copyright © 2003 by Peter Johnson.