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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
-