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- various unix-like utilties: strings, head, lc
- Copyright 1989 Edwin Hoogerbeets
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- This code is freely redistributable as long as no charge other than
- reasonable copying fees is levied for it.
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- strings - show printable strings embedded in a binary file
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- Usage:
- strings [file ...]
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- Notes:
- If no file name is specified, then strings takes from the stdin.
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- I know type opt h will do the same thing, but I like having all the
- Unix utilities available should I happen to type them. (and not
- aliased, either)
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- head - show the beginning lines of a file
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- Usage:
- head [-#] [file ...]
- -# specify number of lines from the beginning of file to print
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- Notes:
- I wrote this because we do not have a head on System V at work, and it
- annoyed me to no end. I wrote it to conform to the man page from the
- Sun, and and it works fine. I downloaded it to my Ami and found that
- there was 0 porting work to be done. (for Manx at least, I don't know
- about Lattice -- there should be no problem whatsoever.)
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- lc - a directory lister in the style of the Waterloo lc for BSD Unix
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- Usage:
- lc [-dfa] [directory ...]
- -d only list directories
- -f only list files
- -a all files (useful for listing the directory called "-d")
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- Notes:
- This is another little hack I wrote up while "getting into" DOS. It
- works, and I like the format of the output. (We have lc at work and
- at school, so it's like a standard for me at least...)
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- Some of the code is kludgy, (I know, I know) but I do not plan to
- upgrade it very much. As I said, it works already.
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- Acknowledgements:
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- Thanks goes to Matt Dillon. I hacked his quicksort and window size finding
- routines from the shell into this code. I don't know what's wrong with the
- Manx qsort, but it is neither quick nor a sort. (gave me rubbish, it did!)
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- Please redirect any comments, criticisms, left-over chocolate Easter
- bunnies, buxomous single females or nymphomaniacs to:
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- Edwin Hoogerbeets (It's a Dutch name. I was born with it... )
- Usenet: ...!utzoo!hcr!edwin or edwin@hcr (until Apr 30,89)
- edwin@watcsc.waterloo.edu (thereafter)
- CIS: 72647,3675 (any time at all)
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