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- ReadMe.1st for SOS utilities 1.2 =====================================
-
- Author: Tommi Nieminen 20-Oct-1993
- Internet: Tommi.Nieminen@uta.fi (preferred)
- sktoni@kielo.uta.fi
- Snail mail: Tommi Nieminen
- Pajulankatu 8
- 37150 NOKIA
- FINLAND
-
- This package (sosutl12) should contain the following files:
-
- ReadMe.1st This file
- License GNU General Public License (version 1.0);
- see `Copyrights' section below
-
- bin\ Executable files
- sostree.exe SOS Tree directory tree drawer
- sostree_catala.exe Catalan SOS Tree
- sostree_espanol.exe Spanish SOS Tree
- sostree_suomi.exe Finnish SOS Tree
- chname.cmd Changes HPFS names to FAT format and vice
- versa
- extract.cmd Extract files from / List contents of
- archives
- filefind.cmd File finder
- kill.cmd Kill processes by their PIDs
- ps.cmd Process Status simplifier utility
-
- doc\ Documentation (including manual pages)
- sosutil.inf Info file for all the programs
- sosutil.texi Texinfo document file for all the programs
- sostree.man
- chname.man
- extract.man
- filefind.man
- kill.man
- ps.man
-
- src\ C sources for SOS Tree
- sostree.c
- msg_catalan.inc Catalan messages by Xavier Caballe
- msg_english.inc English messages
- msg_espanol.inc Spanish messages by Xavier Caballe
- msg_suomi.inc Finnish messages
-
- All these programs are public domain.
-
- Thanks for Xavier Caballe, who translated SOS Tree messages to
- Spanish and Catalan.
-
- texi2ipf was used in creating `sosutil.inf' from `sosutil.texi'.
- Thanks for Beverly A. Erlebacher and Marcus Groeber, who wrote that
- utility! I am also very grateful for the excellent text window cut
- and paste utility TWCP by Maurizio Sartori Masar (Masar Software
- Ltd).
-
- Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I'd be happy to obtain versions of these programs in different
- languages. If you are able to translate the program messages, please
- send the modified sources to me so that I can include them in an
- update package of SOS Utilities. NOTE: EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS
- TO BORLAND C++ COMPILER you still can translate the messages in the
- source files, and then send the sources to me. I'll distribute the
- recompiled programs further. Currently available languages are
- Catalan, English, Finnish, and Spanish.
-
- The Texinfo document file, `sosutil.texi', is formatted for A4 sheets.
- If you are using another paper size, remove the command `@afourpaper'
- between the `@iftex' and `@end iftex' statements near the beginning
- of the document.
-
- Bug Notes ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. FileFind
-
- In SOS Utilities version 1.0, FileFind had a serious bug that caused
- strange problems when the script was run (for me, anyway). The buggy
- script loads the two RexxUtil functions, SysFileTree() and SysIni with
- the following Calls:
-
- Call RxFuncAdd "SysFileTree", "RexxUtil", "SysFileTree"
- Call RxFuncAdd "SysIni", "RexxUtil", "SysFileTree"
-
- The latter should of course be:
-
- Call RxFuncAdd "SysIni", "RexxUtil", "SysIni"
-
- This seems not to disturb SysFileTree(), but SysIni() may return
- strange results...
-
- Also, in the previous versions of this `ReadMe.1st' file, FileFind is
- for several times referred to as `FindFile' :-) probably because my
- own, personalized version of the program is named `Kussa' (which is a
- non-existent but linguistically possible way of saying `where' in
- Finnish).
-
- 2. ps
-
- In `ps.cmd' of SOS Utilities version 1.1--ie. in the REXX script, not
- the earlier Perl script--the input filter worked incorrectly. The
- script filters out all input lines that (a) do not have exactly eight
- `words' (ie. eight blank-separated character strings), (b) do not
- begin with a number. The latter condition filters out all header lines
- and is necessary, but the trouble was that PSTAT outputs numbers in
- hex, and the filtering function only lets through decimals. Later in
- the script, however, the values were converted from hexadecimal to
- decimal correctly.
-
- To be more specific, the following `context matching' line in the
- script was incorrect:
-
- If Words(line) == 8 & DataType(Word(line, 1)) == "NUM" Then Do
-
- It really should have read:
-
- If Words(line) == 8 & DataType(Word(line, 1), "X") == 1 Then Do
-
- SOS Utilities version 1.2 contains the correct version, of course.
-
- Copyrights -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- SOS Tree v1.0a directory drawer
- ChName v1.1b change names to/from FAT format
- Extract v1.1 archive extractor/lister
- FindFile v1.4a file finder
- ps v4.0a PSTAT output simplifier
- Copyright (C) 1993, SuperOscar Softwares, Tommi Nieminen.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- End of ReadMe.1st ===================================================
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