This archive contains Par 1.41, with an executable for OS/2 1.x--2.x and DOS.

This is a pre-release version, designed to correct a bug in the earlier
Par 1.31 upload, and to hopefully make the Nov-93 CD of ftp-os2.cdrom.com.

The author, Adam Costello <amc@wuecl.wustl.edu> writes:

  Par 1.41 is released.  It mainly just fixes a couple of minor bugs.  If
  I get no further bug reports before 0:30 GMT Tue 9 Nov 1993 (that's
  still Monday for those in the western hemisphere) I'll post it to
  comp.sources.misc.

The author has described Par as a "paragraph reformatter, vaguely 
similar to fmt." As a simple example,

    Before:

        Joe Public writes:
        > Jane Doe writes:
        > >
        > >
        > > I can't find the source for uncompress.
        > Oh no, not again!!!
        >
        >
        > Isn't there a FAQ for this?
        >
        >
        That wasn't very helpful, Joe. Jane,
        just make a link from uncompress to compress.

    After "par 40qe":

        Joe Public writes:

        > Jane Doe writes:
        >
        > > I can't find the source for
        > > uncompress.
        >
        > Oh no, not again!!!
        >
        > Isn't there a FAQ for this?

        That wasn't very helpful, Joe.
        Jane, just make a link from
        uncompress to compress.


Additional files:
 ./
  par.exe     OS/2 1.x--2.x and DOS executable 
  readme.txt  this file
 src/
  Makefile    makefile for EMX/gcc and MSC
  par.def     linker definition file

--
Darrel Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
12 September 1993, updated 7 November 1993




