GNU_textutils.1.22.2.README
GNU_textutils.1.22.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz
July 14, 1998

This archive contains an Installer.app package for GNU textutils-1.22, port #2.
Built for NEXTSTEP 3.x (x>=1) and OpenStep for Mach 4.x.  

file:  	GNU_textutils.1.22.2.NIHS.b.tar.gz
sum:   	26919  1290
md5sum:	744e54be99a900a537d4f5da9358956b

(**
 To be placed at:
  ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/
  http://www.peak.org/next/apps/utils/unix/
**)

From the README:

These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing
utilities.  Most of these programs have significant advantages over
their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options,
and fewer arbitrary limits.

The programs that can be built with this package are: cat, cksum, comm,
csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr,
sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, and wc.

The textutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other
extensions), like the rest of the GNU system.  They are almost there,
but a few incompatibilities remain.

Note that the distributed man pages are no longer being updated.
The authoritative documentation is in texinfo form in the doc directory.


CHANGELOG

July 14, 1998	(1.22 port 2)
- Fixed endianness problem, where BIG_ENDIAN systems (m68k, sparc) 
  would calculate incorrect md5sums.
- pre_install script enables gzipped package.
- post_install script adds GNU info entry (if texinfo is installed).

Feb, 1997	(1.22 port 1)
- First try


CREDITS

GNU Software Archive
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

NEXTSTEP port and packaging
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Computer System Manager
Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/