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- GNU_filetutils.3.16.README
- GNU_fileutils.3.16.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
- Feb 1997
-
- This archive contains an Installer.app package for GNU fileutils-3.16.
-
- probably to be placed at:
- ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/
-
- From the README:
-
- These are the GNU file management utilities. Most of these programs
- have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as
- greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits.
-
- The programs that can be built with this package are: chgrp, chown,
- chmod, cp, dd, df, du, install, ln, dir, vdir, ls, mkdir, mvdir, mkfifo,
- mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, sync and touch. But mvdir is built only on systems
- that lack the rename system call.
-
- The programs cat, cut, expand, head, paste, split, tac, tail and
- unexpand, which used to be part of the fileutils, are now part of the
- textutils. cmp is now part of the diff distribution.
-
- The fileutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other
- extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. They are almost there,
- but a few incompatibilities remain.
-
-
- CREDITS
-
- GNU Software Archive
- ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
-
- Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
- Computer System Manager
- Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
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