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- These file utilities are compiled with SAS C 5.10b and my unix library
- (available at an ftp site near you :-)). The executables are in the c
- directory, formatted man pages (suitable for viewing with more) are in
- cat. They require AmigaDOS 2.04 or later.
-
- The ls program displays unix-like protection flags by default, these
- bear a complex relation to the Amiga ones (see the unix library
- documentation for details). To obviate this problem, ls accepts a
- --amiga option which displays Amiga flags instead. You probably want
- to make this the default by defining an appropriate alias for ls. The
- user name displayed is the contents of the environment variable USER, or
- "user" by default. The group is always wheel.
-
- Not all the programs of the file utilities are compiled for the Amiga:
-
- - du needs more work.
- - cp works but has intrinsic performance problems (ie it is horribly slow
- and can't be made faster without heavy hacking).
- - chown and chgrp make no sense on the Amiga.
-
- Bugs should be reported to me. If I find that the problem is with the
- GNU source, and not my changes, I will forward the report to the Free
- Software Foundation.
-
- To recompile the programs:
-
- a) Make sure that my unix library is installed. The main directory must
- be reachable as src:unix (but you can always change the makefiles if you
- want to).
-
- b) Compile the library in lib by running lmk.
-
- c) Compile the programs in src by running lmk.
-
- David Gay
- dgay@di.epfl.ch
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
-