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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: GadgetMaster on September 02, 2002, 08:35:22 AM
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Source: Amiganews.de (http://amiganews.de/en/)
The 68k version 3 of the patch system GPatch (http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?gpatch.lha) has finally been completed and put on Aminet (http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?gpatch.lha).
There have been many improvements over the previous version: New seach algorithms, new coding methods and easier execution of the patch. For those who don't know it yet: GPatch (http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?gpatch.lha) is the only program of its kind with the ability to combine any number of different data in one patch file in order to automatically update different older versions of a program to the newest one.
The readme contains a comparison of different update variants of a real program
(AWeb 3.2 and 3.3 to 3.4).
Just briefly the result: The classic approach with scompare takes 1:28 minutes to create 277258 bytes (compressed),
GCompare 3 on the other hand takes 0:59 minutes to create 163593 bytes.