Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
From: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: NEW BINARIES UPLOADED!
Message-ID: <1993Jan17.201216.15866@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: gzip 0.7, utila 1.3, utile 1.1, shell file and text utils in /bin
Sender: wirze...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 20:12:16 GMT
Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Lines: 378
ANNOUNCE: NEW BINARIES UPLOADED!
Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Sun Jan 17 10:16:24 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
gzip07A.Notes
gzip07A.taz
This is GNU gzip 0.7, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, and uncompress. The znew utility converts *.Z files to
*.z files. All of the z* and uncompress utilities will now handle *.Z
and *.z files. Has man and info pages, binaries in /bin.
utila-1.3.src.tar.Z
utila13.Notes
utila13.taz
Changes from 1.2: uudecode and cal have been fixed.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utile-1.1.src.tar.Z
utile11.Notes
utile11.taz
Changes from 1.0: Has Linus's new fsck, Rick Sladkey's new mount (this
binary does not have NFS support, but the source code does), and
Michael K. Johnson's new setserial.
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The rdev command can change your kernel image's boot device, swap
device, ramdisk size, and video mode. The agetty and simpleinit are
the "standard" Linux getty and init, but you have to make the links
yourself, since some people may be using the System V versions, and I
didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
txutl13B.Notes
txutl13B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.3. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cmp, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc. Has
man pages, binaries in /bin.
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.3. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
Here is a synopsis of my old uploads, as of Thu Dec 24 17:05:11 1992
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
diff20A.taz
diff20A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.0, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp (from
textutils). Has info pages.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
flex237A.taz
flex237A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk362A.Notes
mk362A.taz
This is GNU make 3.62, with man and info pages.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
tar1111A.Notes
tar1111A.taz
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
utilb-1.0.src.tar.Z
utilb10.Notes
utilb10.taz
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
--
Rik Faith: fa...@cs.unc.edu
What I tell you three times is true. --Dodgson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
From: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: MORE NEW BINARIES UPLOADED!
Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142005.10166@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: tar (with gzip support), GNU Text Utils 1.4, arc, unzip, zip, zoo
Sender: wirze...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:20:05 GMT
Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Lines: 415
ANNOUNCE: MORE NEW BINARIES UPLOADED!
Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Wed Jan 20 12:40:04 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
tar1111B.Notes
tar1111B.taz
Changes from A: Includes my patches so that:
1) gzip -d is called instead of uncompress -d for uncompressions
2) gzip is used with the "z" flag (or the --gzip flag)
3) compress is used with the "Z" flag
4) if you don't have gzip installed, compress will be used
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
txutl14A.Notes
txutl14A.taz
Changes with version 1.4: cmp removed (in diff), cksum and od added.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.4. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.
Has man pages, binaries in /bin.
arc521A.Notes
arc521A.taz
This is SEA ARC 5.21, a standard DOS-compatible archiver/unarchiver.
Has man page and notes.
unz50p1A.Notes
unz50p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's UnZip utility, 5.0p1, a standard DOS-compatible
unarchiver, containing unzip, zipinfo, and funzip. Has man pages.
zip19p1A.Notes
zip19p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's Zip utility, 1.9p1, a standard DOS-compatible
archiver, containing zip, zipnote, and zipsplit. Has man page.
zoo210A.Notes
zoo210A.taz
This is Rahul Dhesi's zoo 2.10, an archiver/unarchiver utility,
containing zoo and fiz. Has man pages.
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.3. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
OLD IN THIS RELEASE, as of Sun Jan 17 10:16:24 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
diff20A.taz
diff20A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.0, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp (from
textutils). Has info pages.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
flex237A.taz
flex237A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
gzip07A.Notes
gzip07A.taz
This is GNU gzip 0.7, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, and uncompress. The znew utility converts *.Z files to
*.z files. All of the z* and uncompress utilities will now handle *.Z
and *.z files. Has man and info pages, binaries in /bin. [You may
have to remove some of the compress links in /bin for the tar file to
unpack correctly.]
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk362A.Notes
mk362A.taz
This is GNU make 3.62, with man and info pages.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
utila-1.3.src.tar.Z
utila13.Notes
utila13.taz
Changes from 1.2: uudecode and cal have been fixed.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utilb-1.0.src.tar.Z
utilb10.Notes
utilb10.taz
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.1.src.tar.Z
utile11.Notes
utile11.taz
Changes from 1.0: Has Linus's new fsck, Rick Sladkey's new mount (this
binary does not have NFS support, but the source code does), and
Michael K. Johnson's new setserial.
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The rdev command can change your kernel image's boot device, swap
device, ramdisk size, and video mode. The agetty and simpleinit are
the "standard" Linux getty and init, but you have to make the links
yourself, since some people may be using the System V versions, and I
didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
--
Rik Faith: fa...@cs.unc.edu
What I tell you three times is true. --Dodgson
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From: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: gzip 0.8.1 and make 3.63 uploaded
Message-ID: <1993Jan24.223004.8078@tc.cornell.edu>
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ANNOUNCE: BINARIES UPLOADED!
Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Sun Jan 24 14:40:18 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
gzip081A.Notes
gzip081A.taz
This is GNU gzip 0.8.1, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, and uncompress. The znew utility converts *.Z files to
*.z files. All of the z* and uncompress utilities will now handle *.Z
and *.z files. Has man and info pages, binaries in /bin. [You may
have to remove some of the compress links in /bin for the tar file to
unpack correctly.]
mk363A.Notes
mk363A.taz
This is GNU make 3.63, with man and info pages. WARNING: Variables are
no longer automatically exported to the environment when a sub-make is
started. This radically changes behavior of sub-makes! The Linux
kernel will no longer compile without minor changes (which will
probably be in 0.99.5)! USE WITH CAUTION! mk362A.taz does not have
this behavior, and will not be deleted for some time.
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.3. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
OLD IN THIS RELEASE, as of Sun Jan 24 14:44:43 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
arc521A.Notes
arc521A.taz
This is SEA ARC 5.21, a standard DOS-compatible archiver/unarchiver.
Has man page and notes.
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
diff20A.taz
diff20A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.0, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp (from
textutils). Has info pages.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
flex237A.taz
flex237A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk362A.Notes
mk362A.taz
This is GNU make 3.62, with man and info pages.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
tar1111B.Notes
tar1111B.taz
Changes from A: Includes my patches so that:
1) gzip -d is called instead of uncompress -d for uncompressions
2) gzip is used with the "z" flag (or the --gzip flag)
3) compress is used with the "Z" flag
4) if you don't have gzip installed, compress will be used
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
txutl14A.Notes
txutl14A.taz
Changes with version 1.4: cmp removed (in diff), cksum and od added.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.4. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.
Has man pages, binaries in /bin.
unz50p1A.Notes
unz50p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's UnZip utility, 5.0p1, a standard DOS-compatible
unarchiver, containing unzip, zipinfo, and funzip. Has man pages.
utila-1.3.src.tar.Z
utila13.Notes
utila13.taz
Changes from 1.2: uudecode and cal have been fixed.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utilb-1.0.src.tar.Z
utilb10.Notes
utilb10.taz
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.1.src.tar.Z
utile11.Notes
utile11.taz
Changes from 1.0: Has Linus's new fsck, Rick Sladkey's new mount (this
binary does not have NFS support, but the source code does), and
Michael K. Johnson's new setserial.
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The rdev command can change your kernel image's boot device, swap
device, ramdisk size, and video mode. The agetty and simpleinit are
the "standard" Linux getty and init, but you have to make the links
yourself, since some people may be using the System V versions, and I
didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
zip19p1A.Notes
zip19p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's Zip utility, 1.9p1, a standard DOS-compatible
archiver, containing zip, zipnote, and zipsplit. Has man page.
zoo210A.Notes
zoo210A.taz
This is Rahul Dhesi's zoo 2.10, an archiver/unarchiver utility,
containing zoo and fiz. Has man pages.
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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: diff 2.1 and gzip 1.0.0 uploaded
Message-ID: <1993Feb12.162515.375@tc.cornell.edu>
Originator: m...@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: binaries diff gzip
Sender: n...@tc.cornell.edu
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 16:25:15 GMT
Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Lines: 418
ANNOUNCE: BINARIES UPLOADED!
Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Fri Feb 12 08:49:42 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
diff21A.taz
diff21A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.1, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp. Has
info pages.
gzip102A.Notes
gzip102A.taz
Note: 1.0.3 was just released -- I'll have it out real soon now.
This is GNU gzip 1.0.2, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, uncompress, and gzexe (which is for binaries). The znew
utility converts *.Z files to *.z files. All of the z* and uncompress
utilities will now handle *.Z and *.z files. Pack format files can now
be uncompressed. Has man and info pages, binaries in /bin. [You may
have to remove some of the compress links in /bin for the tar file to
unpack correctly.]
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.5. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
OLD IN THIS RELEASE, as of Fri Jan 29 09:30:05 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
arc521A.Notes
arc521A.taz
This is SEA ARC 5.21, a standard DOS-compatible archiver/unarchiver.
Has man page and notes.
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
flex237A.taz
flex237A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk363B.Notes
mk363B.taz
Changes from 'A': Patch from rol...@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) to
correct the problem of environment variable expansion breaking default
built in rules.
This is GNU make 3.63, with man and info pages. WARNING: Variables are
no longer automatically exported to the environment when a sub-make is
started. The .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES: rule or the export directive can
be added to top level makefiles to get the old behavior.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
tar1111B.Notes
tar1111B.taz
Changes from A: Includes my patches so that:
1) gzip -d is called instead of uncompress -d for uncompressions
2) gzip is used with the "z" flag (or the --gzip flag)
3) compress is used with the "Z" flag
4) if you don't have gzip installed, compress will be used
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
txutl14A.Notes
txutl14A.taz
Changes with version 1.4: cmp removed (in diff), cksum and od added.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.4. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.
Has man pages, binaries in /bin.
unz50p1A.Notes
unz50p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's UnZip utility, 5.0p1, a standard DOS-compatible
unarchiver, containing unzip, zipinfo, and funzip. Has man pages.
utila-1.3.src.tar.Z
utila13.Notes
utila13.taz
Changes from 1.2: uudecode and cal have been fixed.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utilb-1.0.src.tar.Z
utilb10.Notes
utilb10.taz
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.1.src.tar.Z
utile11.Notes
utile11.taz
Changes from 1.0: Has Linus's new fsck, Rick Sladkey's new mount (this
binary does not have NFS support, but the source code does), and
Michael K. Johnson's new setserial.
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The rdev command can change your kernel image's boot device, swap
device, ramdisk size, and video mode. The agetty and simpleinit are
the "standard" Linux getty and init, but you have to make the links
yourself, since some people may be using the System V versions, and I
didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
zip19p1A.Notes
zip19p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's Zip utility, 1.9p1, a standard DOS-compatible
archiver, containing zip, zipnote, and zipsplit. Has man page.
zoo210A.Notes
zoo210A.taz
This is Rahul Dhesi's zoo 2.10, an archiver/unarchiver utility,
containing zoo and fiz. Has man pages.
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Subject: gzip, utila, utilb, utile uploaded
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Keywords: gzip 1.03, utila 1.4, utilb 1.1, utile 1.2, 4096 character ed!
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Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Mon Feb 15 10:14:52 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
gzip103A.Notes
gzip103A.taz
This is GNU gzip 1.0.3, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, uncompress, and gzexe (which is for binaries). The znew
utility converts *.Z files to *.z files. All of the z* and uncompress
utilities will now handle *.Z and *.z files. Pack format files can now
be uncompressed. Has man and info pages, binaries in /bin. [You may
have to remove some of the compress links in /bin for the tar file to
unpack correctly.]
utila-1.4.src.tar.Z
utila14.Notes
utila14.taz
Changes from 1.3: documentation updated.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utilb-1.1.src.tar.Z
utilb11.Notes
utilb11.taz
Changes from 1.0: ed has a 4096 character buffer [for X11's makedepend]
hostname, login, and write are updated from poegl-1.9a
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.2.src.tar.Z
utile12.Notes
utile12.taz
Changes from 1.1: agetty and simpleinit updated from poegl-1.9a
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The agetty and simpleinit are the "standard" Linux getty and init, but
you have to make the links yourself, since some people may be using the
System V versions, and I didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE
BE VERY CAREFUL WITH GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM
UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.5. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
OLD IN THIS RELEASE, as of Fri Feb 12 08:49:42 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
arc521A.Notes
arc521A.taz
This is SEA ARC 5.21, a standard DOS-compatible archiver/unarchiver.
Has man page and notes.
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
diff21A.taz
diff21A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.1, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp. Has
info pages.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
flex237A.taz
flex237A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk363B.Notes
mk363B.taz
Changes from 'A': Patch from rol...@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) to
correct the problem of environment variable expansion breaking default
built in rules.
This is GNU make 3.63, with man and info pages. WARNING: Variables are
no longer automatically exported to the environment when a sub-make is
started. The .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES: rule or the export directive can
be added to top level makefiles to get the old behavior.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
tar1111B.Notes
tar1111B.taz
Changes from A: Includes my patches so that:
1) gzip -d is called instead of uncompress -d for uncompressions
2) gzip is used with the "z" flag (or the --gzip flag)
3) compress is used with the "Z" flag
4) if you don't have gzip installed, compress will be used
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
txutl14A.Notes
txutl14A.taz
Changes with version 1.4: cmp removed (in diff), cksum and od added.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.4. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.
Has man pages, binaries in /bin.
unz50p1A.Notes
unz50p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's UnZip utility, 5.0p1, a standard DOS-compatible
unarchiver, containing unzip, zipinfo, and funzip. Has man pages.
zip19p1A.Notes
zip19p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's Zip utility, 1.9p1, a standard DOS-compatible
archiver, containing zip, zipnote, and zipsplit. Has man page.
zoo210A.Notes
zoo210A.taz
This is Rahul Dhesi's zoo 2.10, an archiver/unarchiver utility,
containing zoo and fiz. Has man pages.
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From: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Subject: New mkfs, fsck, diff, flax, gzip, utilb, and utile
Message-ID: <1993Mar2.145402.2303@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Keywords: diff 2.2, flex 2.3.8, gzip 1.04, utilb 1.2, utile 1.3
Sender: wirze...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 14:54:02 GMT
Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Lines: 405
ANNOUNCE: BINARIES UPLOADED!
Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
NEW IN THIS RELEASE, as of Tue Mar 2 09:21:34 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
diff22A.taz
diff22A.Notes
This is GNU GNU diff 2.2, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp. Has
info pages.
flex238A.taz
flex238A.Notes
This is GNU flex 2.3.8. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
gzip104A.Notes
gzip104A.taz
This is GNU gzip 1.0.3, which acts like compress, but which has better
compression ratios. It contains gzip, gunzip, zcat, zcmp, zdiff,
zmore, znew, zforce, and gzexe (which is for binaries). No longer
containes uncompress. Remember to remove /bin/zcat and /bin/zmore
before installation.
utilb-1.2.src.tar.Z
utilb12.Notes
utilb12.taz
Changes from 1.1: new login from poegl-1.11
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.3 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.3.src.tar.Z
utile13.Notes
utile13.taz
Changes from 1.2: agetty and simpleinit updated from poegl-1.11
mkfs and fsck support 14 and 30 character minixfs
[currently for ALPHA diffs only, but probably for
Linux 0.99.7]
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
Binaries in /etc.
The agetty and simpleinit are the "standard" Linux getty and init, but
you have to make the links yourself, since some people may be using the
System V versions, and I didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE
BE VERY CAREFUL WITH GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM
UNBOOTABLE!
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.3 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
New releases always use the most recent "official" kernel, compiler, and
libraries. Currently, this is gcc 2.3.3, jump 4.2, and Linux 0.99.5. Some
older binaries were prepared with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but were tested
with jump 4.2, and may require jump 4.2 to run (i.e., rcs56A.taz). Often,
if the binary dumps core, an upgrade to the latest library and kernel
release will fix the problem.
WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
*.taz files are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
tsx-11.mit.edu:?
sunsite.unc.edu:?
Original source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
OLD IN THIS RELEASE, as of Mon Feb 15 10:14:52 1993. Unless otherwise
noted, all binaries will untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
agrep-2.04.tar.Z
agrp204A.taz
agrp204A.Notes
This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
arc521A.Notes
arc521A.taz
This is SEA ARC 5.21, a standard DOS-compatible archiver/unarchiver.
Has man page and notes.
bc102A.taz
bc102A.Notes
This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
require dc for operation). Has man page.
bsn119A.Notes
bsn119A.taz
This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
cpio22A.taz
cpio22A.Notes
This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
fgrep11A.taz
fgrep11A.Notes
This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
file-1.25.tar.Z
file125A.taz
file125A.Notes
This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
man pages.
find37A.taz
find37A.Notes
This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
futl34B.Notes
futl34B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
pages, binaries in /bin.
gawk214A.Notes
gawk214A.taz
This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
grep16A.taz
grep16A.Notes
This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
grof106A.Notes
grof106A.taz
This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
and dvi are included. Has man pages.
indt16A.taz
indt16A.Notes
This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
less177A.taz
less177A.Notes
This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
m4-103A.taz
m4-103A.Notes
This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
man-1.1.tar.Z
man11B.taz
man11B.Notes
This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
reports! Has man pages.
mk363B.Notes
mk363B.taz
Changes from 'A': Patch from rol...@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath) to
correct the problem of environment variable expansion breaking default
built in rules.
This is GNU make 3.63, with man and info pages. WARNING: Variables are
no longer automatically exported to the environment when a sub-make is
started. The .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES: rule or the export directive can
be added to top level makefiles to get the old behavior.
ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
ncmp424A.Notes
ncmp424A.taz
This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
distributed compress. Has man pages.
p2012u8A.Notes
p2012u8A.taz
This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
rcs56A.taz
rcs56A.Notes
This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
will not work with libc.so.4.1.
sed113A.taz
sed113A.Notes
This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
shutl18B.Notes
shutl18B.taz
Changes from A: The binaries now untar into /bin.
This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages, binaries
in /bin.
tar1111B.Notes
tar1111B.taz
Changes from A: Includes my patches so that:
1) gzip -d is called instead of uncompress -d for uncompressions
2) gzip is used with the "z" flag (or the --gzip flag)
3) compress is used with the "Z" flag
4) if you don't have gzip installed, compress will be used
This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
release to fix bugs and be more stable.
time14B.taz
time14B.Notes
Changes from A: the "magnitude of order" bug has been fixed.
This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
command can be accessed. Has info page.
tput10A.taz
tput10A.Notes
This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
txutl14A.Notes
txutl14A.taz
Changes with version 1.4: cmp removed (in diff), cksum and od added.
This is GNU Text Utilities 1.4. This file contains the following
utilities: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.
Has man pages, binaries in /bin.
unz50p1A.Notes
unz50p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's UnZip utility, 5.0p1, a standard DOS-compatible
unarchiver, containing unzip, zipinfo, and funzip. Has man pages.
zip19p1A.Notes
zip19p1A.taz
This is Info-ZIP's Zip utility, 1.9p1, a standard DOS-compatible
archiver, containing zip, zipnote, and zipsplit. Has man page.
zoo210A.Notes
zoo210A.taz
This is Rahul Dhesi's zoo 2.10, an archiver/unarchiver utility,
containing zoo and fiz. Has man pages.
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Subject: linux.words.tar.z, flex238B.*, utila*.*, utilb*.*, utile*.*
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As of Sun Mar 14 09:28:19 1993. Unless otherwise noted, all binaries will
untar into /usr/bin: cd /; gtar zpxvf filename.taz
linux.words.tar.z
gzip'd tar file containing a freely distributable /usr/dict/words file
for Linux. Based on Tanenbaum's minix.dict file and Jorge Stolfi's
DEC-SRC-92-04-05 freely distributable word lists. Instructions to
build linux.words from the original words lists is included. This file
is perfect for use with the look(1) program in utila.
flex238B.taz
flex238B.Notes
Changes from 'A': Man page is now correct.
This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
man pages.
utila-1.5.src.tar.Z
utila15.Notes
utila15.taz
Changes from 1.4: look and logger added.
This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, logger, look, mesg, od,
passwd (which is setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode,
uudecode, and whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
utilb-1.3.src.tar.Z
utilb13.Notes
utilb13.taz
Changes from 1.2: wall and write are now the BSD versions; man page fixes.
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
PAGE!
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.3.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
LOGIN!
**********************************************************************
utile-1.4.src.tar.Z
utile14.Notes
utile14.taz
Changes from 1.3: New port of BSD syslogd!
Latest mount stuff; mkswap fix; man page fixes
mkfs supports 30 character minixfs with 0.99.7
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, syslogd, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A
MAN PAGE! Binaries in /etc.
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.3.2 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
*.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
editing.
*.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries, man pages and/or
info pages (if available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original
source distribution, and my:
*.Notes file, described above
*.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
*.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
/usr/src/* intact)
The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
into /.
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From: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] utile-1.5 now available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Date: 18 May 1993 23:17:27 +0300
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Bug reports and comments to: fa...@cs.unc.edu
To install: cd /; gtar zpxvf utile-1.5.bin.tar.z
utile-1.5.src.tar.z
utile-1.5.Notes
utile-1.5.bin.tar.z
Changes from 1.4: fdisk 1.3, INCLUDING DOCUMENTATION!
agetty and simpleinit updated from poeigl-1.16b
(Changes to rdev and fsck have *NOT* been made.
Look for another release soon.)
This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
swapoff, sync, syslogd, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A
MAN PAGE! Binaries in /etc.
Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
things like shutdown won't work correctly.
**********************************************************************
BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.3.3 INSTALLED! You may not
be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
**********************************************************************
--
Rik Faith: fa...@cs.unc.edu
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin