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Here are binary versions of the GNU file utilities version 3.1. Source code
is available at atari.archive.umich.edu, in /atari/mint/futilsrc.zoo.
(The source code has very few changes from the standard GNU file utilities,
except that fsinfo.c was modified quite extensively to use the TOS
Dfree function when __MINT__ is defined, instead of using statfs.)
All of these utilities will run either under MiNT or TOS, but some of
them (chgrp.ttp, chown.ttp, and ln.ttp) won't do anything useful in the
latter case, or indeed if you have a version of MiNT earlier than 0.9.
cp.ttp and mv.ttp do copying in 1K blocks, which is rather slow and
painful, but I've left them that way for now -- at least they do copy
sparse files on Minix file systems correctly.
The utilities like '/' as a path separator better than '\', but most
of the time both should work. ls, chgrp, and chown try to read information
from /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the current drive; under MiNT, I
usually make drive U: my current drive and make U:\etc a symbolic link to
where my password and termcap files are.
One peculiarity to note with df: if you have only 1 floppy drive connected
to your system, it is always called drive a: and trying to do "df b:" will
never work.
Manual pages for all these things are with the source code (q.v.).
The programs like du, df, etc. report sizes in 1K block sizes by default,
unless the environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER is set (in which case
512 byte blocks are used).
Eric R. Smith Nov. 5, 1991