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- From: faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
- Subject: [ANNOUNCE] MORE BINARIES UPLOADED! MAN WITH NEW MAN PAGES!
- Keywords: system manager utilities, rdev, script, GNU time, MAN PAGES
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.010603.22656@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:06:03 GMT
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux.announce
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 366
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
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- ANNOUNCE: MORE BINARIES UPLOADED! MANY WITH NEW MAN PAGES!
-
- Bug reports and comments to: faith@cs.unc.edu
-
-
-
- WHAT YOU GET WITH THESE BINARIES:
-
- *.Notes files contain instructions for installing the binary release, and
- include step by step instruction of how I built the binary release from
- source. This single file contains the name of the ftp site where I got the
- package, how I compiled it, and what patches were needed, if any. IF YOU
- WANT TO COMPILE THE PACKAGE YOURSELF, THIS FILE IS ALL YOU NEED (after you
- get the original source distribution, of course). If any patches were
- necessary, the *.Notes file can be fed directly to patch(1), without any
- editing.
-
- *.taz files are compressed tar archives contain binaries (linked with jump
- 4.1 libraries using gcc 2.2.2d7 (release version), and tested under Linux
- 0.99.1 with jump 4.2 libraries), man pages and/or info pages (if
- available), COPYING, README, etc., files from the original source
- distribution, and my:
-
- *.Notes file, described above
- *.Dist file, which was used to built the *.taz file
- *.Unins file, which will uninstall most of the binary release (it leaves
- /usr/src/* intact)
-
- The *.taz format files are compatible with the SLS systinstall program,
- which can be used to install and uninstall the binary distributions.
-
- If you don't use the SLS program, the *.taz files are ready to 'gtar zpxvf'
- into /.
-
-
-
- WHY SOME OF THE BINARIES DUMP CORE:
-
- All of the recent binaries were linked with gcc 2.2.2d7/jump 4.1, but on a
- system with libc.so.4.2 installed. In particular, the rcs56A.taz files
- will dump core *unless* you have libc.so.4.2. On the other hand, if you
- just recompile the source distribution, it appears that it will work fine
- on your system with libc.so.4.2. Please report other problems so that I
- can update the solutions.
-
-
-
-
- WHERE YOU CAN GET THESE BINARIES:
-
- *.Notes files are in the following places:
- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
-
- *.taz files are in the following places:
- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/FSF
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/utils
-
- The hard to find (i.e., non-GNU) sources are in the following places:
- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/faith/linux/utils/sources
- tsx-11.mit.edu:?
- sunsite.unc.edu:?
-
- Source for FSF utilties are in the following places:
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/FSF/from_prep
-
-
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE:
-
- utila-1.2.src.tar.Z
- utila12.Notes
- utila12.taz
-
- This is a random collection of NET-2 and other source code, including:
- banner, cal, chsh (which should be setuid to root, but isn't), clear,
- col, colcrt, colrm, column, hexdump, last, mesg, od, passwd (which is
- setuid to root), reset, script, strings, ul, uuencode, uudecode, and
- whereis. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
-
-
- utilb-1.0.src.tar.Z
- utilb10.Notes
- utilb10.taz
-
- This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
- general, should be in the /bin directory, including: ed, hostname,
- kill, ldd, login, more, setterm, wall, write. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN
- PAGE!
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
- be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
- directory OTHER THAN /bin, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
- LOGIN!
-
- **********************************************************************
-
-
- utile-1.0.src.tar.Z
- utile10.Notes
- utile10.taz
-
- This is a random collection of mostly custom Linux code, which, in
- general, should be in the /etc directory, including: agetty, clock,
- ctrlaltdel, doshell, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, frag, fsck,
- halt, kbdrate, makehole, mkfs, mkswap, mount, ramsize, reboot,
- rdev,setfdprm, setserial, shutdown, simpleinit, swapdev, swapon,
- swapoff, sync, umount, update, and vidmode. EVERYTHING HAS A MAN PAGE!
-
- The rdev command can change your kernel image's boot device, swap
- device, ramdisk size, and video mode. The agetty and simpleinit are
- the "standard" Linux getty and init, but you have to make the links
- yourself, since some people may be using the System V versions, and I
- didn't want the tar to clobber those. PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
- GETTY AND INIT, SINCE THEY CAN MAKE YOUR SYSTEM UNBOOTABLE!
-
- Most people will have copies of these programs in /bin, and may want to
- keep them there, instead of moving them to /etc (where many people,
- myself and a bunch of manuals included, believe section 8 utilities
- belong). If you want to keep things in /bin, however, please get the
- source distribution and fix the paths in pathnames.h. Otherwise,
- things like shutdown won't work correctly.
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DON'T HAVE libc.so.4.2 INSTALLED! You may not
- be able to log in! Check to be sure that the programs work in some
- directory OTHER THAN /etc, *BEFORE* YOU INSTALL THEM. ESPECIALLY
- AGETTY, SIMPLEINIT, MOUNT, SWAPON, and SYNC!
-
- **********************************************************************
-
-
-
- time14B.taz
- time14B.Notes
-
- This is GNU time 1.4, which provides more output that the standard
- shell builtin time. Therefore, I've linked gtime to time, so that this
- command can be accessed. Has info page. The "B" version of the binary
- release has the "magnitude of order bug" patches applied.
-
-
-
- WHAT'S OLD IN THIS RELEASE:
-
- Here is a synopsis of my new uploads, as of Thu Dec 24 17:05:11 1992
-
- man-1.1.tar.Z
- man11B.taz
- man11B.Notes
-
- This is John Eaton's man 1.1, with Rik Faith's makewhatis. It contains
- man, manpath, apropos, whatis, and /usr/lib/makewhatis. The makewhatis
- program includes patches similar to those by Mitchum DSouza, which
- allow compressed cat pages to be used to build a whatis database. The
- bug fixes by Willem Kasdorp have been applied. Please send me bug
- reports! Has man pages.
-
-
- file-1.25.tar.Z
- file125A.taz
- file125A.Notes
-
- This is Ian Darwin's file 1.25, which H. Lu's magic numbers for Linux.
- Please note that the current file program in use by the 386bsd and
- Linux communities is about 5 years old. This is the latest one. Has
- man pages.
-
-
- ncompress-4.2.4.tar.Z
- ncmp424A.Notes
- ncmp424A.taz
-
- This is (N)compress 4.2.4 (an improved version of compress 4.1). This
- untars into /bin, since it is a direct replacement for the currently
- distributed compress. Has man pages.
-
-
- agrep-2.04.tar.Z
- agrp204A.taz
- agrp204A.Notes
-
- This is Sun Wu and Udi Manber's agrep 2.04. Has man page. (The
- postscript papers on agrep are available from cs.arizona.edu:/agrep.)
-
-
- diff20A.taz
- diff20A.Notes
-
- This is GNU GNU diff 2.0, including diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp (from
- textutils). Has info pages.
-
-
- bc102A.taz
- bc102A.Notes
-
- This is GNU bc 1.02 (the GNU version is stand alone, and does not
- require dc for operation). Has man page.
-
-
- grep16A.taz
- grep16A.Notes
-
- This is GNU grep 1.6. Contains grep and egrep. Has man page.
-
-
- less177A.taz
- less177A.Notes
-
- This is GNU less 1.77. Contains less, lesskey. Has man pages and help.
-
-
- fgrep11A.taz
- fgrep11A.Notes
-
- This is GNU fgrep 1.1. No documentation.
-
-
- sed113A.taz
- sed113A.Notes
-
- This is GNU sed 1.13. No documentation.
-
-
- find37A.taz
- find37A.Notes
-
- This is GNU find 3.7. Contains find, xargs, locate, and locate support
- in /usr/lib. Has man pages.
-
-
- flex237A.taz
- flex237A.Notes
-
- This is GNU flex 2.3.7. Contains flex, libfl.a, and flex.skel. Has
- man pages.
-
-
- m4-103A.taz
- m4-103A.Notes
-
- This is GNU m4 1.0.0. Has info pages.
-
-
- rcs56A.taz
- rcs56A.Notes
-
- This is GNU rcs 5.6. Contains ci, co, indent, merge, rcs, rcsdiff,
- rcsmerge, rlog. Has man pages and paper. There are reports that this
- will not work with libc.so.4.1.
-
-
- indt16A.taz
- indt16A.Notes
-
- This is GNU indent 1.6. Has man page and info page.
-
-
- tput10A.taz
- tput10A.Notes
-
- This is GNU tput 1.0. Has info page.
-
-
- cpio22A.taz
- cpio22A.Notes
-
- This is GNU cpio 2.2. Contains cpio only. Has man page.
-
-
-
- WHAT'S OLDEST IN THIS RELEASE:
-
- Here is a synopsis of my old uploads, as of Mon Nov 23 09:53:17 1992
-
- Each *.taz file is a compressed tar archive containing binaries, support
- files (including README, NEWS, and COPYING files from the FSF source), man
- pages (when available), and info pages (when available). Linked with jump
- 4.1 libraries using gcc 2.2.2d (release version), and tested under Linux
- 0.98.pl4 and 0.98.pl5. I've been using these binaries with 0.99.1 and jump
- 4.2 libraries without problems.
-
-
- bsn119A.Notes
- bsn119A.taz
-
- This is GNU Bison 1.19 (a yacc replacement). Has man and info pages.
-
-
- futl34A.Notes
- futl34A.taz
-
- This is GNU File Utilities 1.34. This file contains the following
- utilities: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, d, dd, df, dir, du, install, ln,
- ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, v, and vdir. Has man
- pages.
-
-
- gawk214A.Notes
- gawk214A.taz
-
- This is GNU Gawk 2.14 (an awk replacement). gawk passes all of its
- tests except those which involve floating point exceptions, which are
- still broken in Linux. Has man and info pages.
-
-
- grof106A.Notes
- grof106A.taz
-
- This is GNU groff 1.06 (a nroff replacement). This file contains the
- following utilities: addftinfo, afmtodit, geqn, gindxbib, glookbib,
- gpic, grefer, grodvi, groff, grog, grops, grotty, gsoelim, gtbl,
- gtroff, lkbib, pfbtops, psbb, tfmtodit, and gnroff. The following
- macro packages are included: man, mandoc, mdoc, ms, me, mm, mmse, mps,
- mpspic, mpsatk, mtty, mdvi, and mpic. Drivers for ascii, postscript,
- and dvi are included. Has man pages.
-
-
- mk362A.Notes
- mk362A.taz
-
- This is GNU make 3.62, with man and info pages.
-
-
- p2012u8A.Notes
- p2012u8A.taz
-
- This is GNU patch 2.0.12u8 with a man page.
-
-
- shutl18A.Notes
- shutl18A.taz
-
- This is GNU Shell Utilities 1.18. This file contains the following
- utilities: [, basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups,
- id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, sleep, stty, su,
- tee, test, true, tty, uname, who, whoami, yes. Has man pages.
-
-
- tar1111A.Notes
- tar1111A.taz
-
- This is GNU tar 1.11.1. IT IS A FSF BETA RELEASE AND HAS NO
- DOCUMENTATION. Be very careful with this, and look for the 1.12
- release to fix bugs and be more stable.
-
-
- txutl13A.Notes
- txutl13A.taz
-
- This is GNU Text Utilities 1.3. This file contains the following
- utilities: cat, cmp, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl,
- paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc. Has
- man pages.
-
-
- --
- Rik Faith: faith@cs.unc.edu
- What I tell you three times is true. --Dodgson
-