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The Heirloom Toolchest
The Heirloom Toolchest is a collection of standard Unix utilities.
Highlights are:
- Derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by
Caldera
and
Sun.
- Multiple versions of many utilities are provided
to approach compatibility
with various specifications and Unix flavors, namely
SVID3/SVR4, SVID4/SVR4.2MP,
POSIX.2-1992/SUSV2, POSIX.1-2001/SUSV3,
and 4BSD (SVR4 /usr/ucb).
- Support for lines of arbitrary length
and in many cases binary input data.
- Support for multibyte characters in UTF-8
and many East Asian encodings.
- More than 100 individual utilities including
bc,
cpio,
diff,
ed,
file,
find,
grep,
man,
nawk,
oawk,
pax,
ps,
sed,
sort,
spell,
and tar.
- The cpio utility
can read and write zip files, GNU tar files,
and the cpio formats of Cray UNICOS, SGI IRIX (-K),
SCO UnixWare (-c)
and Tru64 UNIX (-e).
It is also available with the
pax interface.
- Extensive documentation
including a manual page for any utility.
- Runs on Linux, Solaris, Open UNIX, HP-UX, AIX,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
For more information, a complete list of utilities,
and online access to manual pages,
see the introduction.
Note that the path names mentioned in these pages are configurable
and may differ from those on an installed system.
For installation instructions, see the README.
The list of CHANGES made since the first release.
New releases of this project are announced on
freshmeat.net.
You can use their subscription service
to get an email when a new version is available.
Download the source code
Release 070715 (current)
All releases
Browse the CVS repository
The most recent results of development are sometimes made available
in the public CVS repository.
Use
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/heirloom \
login
CVS password:<just type return>
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/heirloom \
co -P heirloom
to retrieve a copy.
Follow
these instructions
for more information.
If you want to report a problem, please look at the
CHANGES file in CVS
to see if it has already been resolved,
and if so, try if the fix works for you. Do not use the code from CVS unless you have a special reason to do so.
It may be incorrect, not well tested, and might not even compile.
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