coolidge@casca.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) (08/01/90)
With the postings going out about trouble porting things and my patches to various things finally getting released (and fixed! :-)), I thought it might be a good idea to mention the "unsung heroes": the GNU tools that I'm using which required no significant effort to port. I'm currently using the GNU fileutils package (replacements for many standard programs: cat, ls, rm, etc) full-time and having no trouble. I'm also using GNU find, cpio, tar, fgrep, and egrep and they're all doing just fine. Finally, I've got gdbm compiled and (while I haven't used it much) it seems to work well too. Many of these offer significant improvements over the standard UNIX tools (more/better options, new features, faster, etc), and I recommend them to everyone out there --- if there's actually demand, I can put together a big distribution of the binaries. They really do port very easily, though --- often you just type make. Sometimes a header file #include needs to be changed. --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1990 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.