This package contains seventeen AmigaDOS Shell commands for System
Release 2.04 or better. The package is released under the terms of the
GNU General Public Licence.

Except for the file `mymanpage.sty', all the material was written by
me,

    Torsten Poulin (Nielsen)
    Banebrinken 99, 2, -77
    DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
    Denmark
    email: torsten@diku.dk
    phone: +45 39663111 (timezone GMT+1; English is spoken, though
                         with an accent)


This is the third public release; the previous ones where on Fish
Disks. The difference between this release and the last one I sent to
Fred Fish, is the addition of Unix-style manual pages formatted with
groff. The programs are unchanged, except that support for the SCD
command has been discontinued and as a result it is no longer part of
the ExtraCmds package. The first release, available on Fish Disk 774,
should be considered an obsolete beta release. The programs in the two
newest releases are much more powerful.

This release contains the following Shell commands:

    o Common reports lines common to two files.
    o Compare compares two files,
    o Concat concatenates and prints files.
    o Copyright prints embedded messages.
    o Count counts chars, words, and lines.
    o Dirtree prints directory trees
    o Find is a very powerful Swiss Army Knife style file finder
      with an ARexx interface. It is very similar to Unix find.
    o Head prints the first lines of files.
    o Lower runs a command at another priority.
    o Prepare extracts words from text files.
    o Split cuts a file to pieces.
    o Splitname does just that.
    o Tee is a pipe fitting.
    o Testbits is for use in scripts.
    o Timecom times a command.
    o Unique removes copies of identical lines.
    o Usage shows the space used by directories.

In addition, you get an ARexx version of the BumpRev developer command
and a script for removing backup files, etc. from your disks. It is
intended as an example of how you could use the Find command. It is
called GFR for the Grim File Reaper :-). I run it at least once a week
to get rid of the droppings GNU Emacs leaves behind...

Installation is easy: Just copy the contents of the c/ directory to
somewhere in your path and, optionally, the #?.man files in doc/ to
whereever you keep your man files.

An English User's Reference Manual in LaTeX format and source code in C
and CWEB are included, as well as the [nt]roff source for the
manualpages for all 17 programs. Please excuse that the LaTeX
documentation isn't entirely up to date. But apart from talking about
SCD, it is OK. It will most likely be replaced by a texinfo document
in a future release. From that I can generate AmigaGuide docs, etc.

Ideas for additions to ExtraCmds include commands equivalent to Unix
pr, cut, paste, tail, and xargs. The last one will be a nice companion
to Find. The existing commands will continue to evolve too. If you
take a look at the commented out portion of the *roff source for the
Unique manual page, you will get a hint of what I plan to do to that
command.

If you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to send them to me,
either by email or snail mail.
