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Pilet: A Portable Cyber-Deck Powered by Raspberry Pi 5 and Dual 8000mAh Batteries

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GNU poke 4.2 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2024,
updated Jul 01, 2024

I am happy to announce a new release of GNU poke, version 4.2.


This is a bugfix release in the 4.x series.


See the file NEWS in the distribution tarball for a list of issues
fixed in this release.


The tarball poke-4.2.tar.gz is now available at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-4.2.tar.gz.


    > GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
    > editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic entities such
    > as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
    > interactive programming language designed to describe data
    > structures and to operate on them.


Thanks to the people who contributed with code and/or documentation to
this release.


Happy poking!


Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor

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