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These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing
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utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over
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their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options,
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and fewer arbitrary limits.
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The programs that can be built with this package are: cat, cksum, comm,
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csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, ptx
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sha1sum, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, tsort, unexpand, uniq, and wc.
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2002-06-08 07:47:23 +00:00
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See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
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See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
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I M P O R T A N T:
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Some Cray C compilers lack support for a 32-bit arithmetic type.
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Since gettext requires such a type, you should use the --disable-nls
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option when invoking configure on such systems.
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The textutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other
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extensions), like the rest of the GNU system. They are almost there,
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but a few incompatibilities remain.
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Note that the man pages are now automatically generated from templates
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and from the --help usage message. Patches to the template files (man/*.x)
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are welcome. However, the authoritative documentation is in texinfo form
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in the doc directory.
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These programs all recognize the `--version' option. When reporting
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bugs, please include in the subject line both the package name/version
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and the name of the program for which you found a problem.
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For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
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this distribution follows, see the GNU standards document
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http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html, and the documentation
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for automake and autoconf:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html,
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http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html.
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Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
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bug-textutils@gnu.org.
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