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- These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing
- utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over
- their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options,
- and fewer arbitrary limits.
-
- The cmp program has moved to the GNU diff distribution.
-
- See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
-
- See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
-
- The textutils 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.
-
- The comprehensive Texinfo documentation for these programs is not
- finished yet, and needs to be rewritten. In the interim, the skeletal
- man pages provided with this distribution will have to serve.
-
- Although these programs have no `-V' or `--version' option, you can
- check which version you have by using the RCS `ident' command on the
- binaries, or by using `grep' and `strings -' on them, e.g.,
- `strings - /usr/local/bin/ls | grep textutils'.
-
- Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
- bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-