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These file utilities are compiled with SAS C 5.10b and my unix library
(available at an ftp site near you :-)). The executables are in the c
directory, formatted man pages (suitable for viewing with more) are in
cat. They require AmigaDOS 2.04 or later.
The ls program displays unix-like protection flags by default, these
bear a complex relation to the Amiga ones (see the unix library
documentation for details). To obviate this problem, ls accepts a
--amiga option which displays Amiga flags instead. You probably want
to make this the default by defining an appropriate alias for ls. The
user name displayed is the contents of the environment variable USER, or
"user" by default. The group is always wheel.
Not all the programs of the file utilities are compiled for the Amiga:
- du needs more work.
- cp works but has intrinsic performance problems (ie it is horribly slow
and can't be made faster without heavy hacking).
- chown and chgrp make no sense on the Amiga.
Bugs should be reported to me. If I find that the problem is with the
GNU source, and not my changes, I will forward the report to the Free
Software Foundation.
To recompile the programs:
a) Make sure that my unix library is installed. The main directory must
be reachable as src:unix (but you can always change the makefiles if you
want to).
b) Compile the library in lib by running lmk.
c) Compile the programs in src by running lmk.
David Gay
dgay@di.epfl.ch
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland