This package contains the binaries and the formatted manualpages for
seventeen AmigaDOS Shell commands for System Release 2.04 or better.
The package is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
Licence. The full source is available in the archive ExtraCmds21p.lha,
which also contains the contents of this archive, that is intended for
those who don't give a damn about source code :-)

All the material was written by me,

    Torsten Poulin (Nielsen)
    Banebrinken 99, 2, -77
    DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
    Denmark
    email: torsten@diku.dk
    phone: +45 39663111 (timezone GMT+1; English is spoken, though
                         with an accent)


This is the third public release; the previous ones where on Fish
Disks. The difference between this release and the last one I sent to
Fred Fish, is the addition of Unix-style manual pages formatted with
groff. The programs are unchanged, except that support for the SCD
command has been discontinued and as a result it is no longer part of
the ExtraCmds package. The first release, available on Fish Disk 774,
should be considered an obsolete beta release. The programs in the two
newest releases are much more powerful.

This release contains the following Shell commands:

    o Common reports lines common to two files.
    o Compare compares two files,
    o Concat concatenates and prints files.
    o Copyright prints embedded messages.
    o Count counts chars, words, and lines.
    o Dirtree prints directory trees
    o Find is a very powerful Swiss Army Knife style file finder
      with an ARexx interface. It is very similar to Unix find.
    o Head prints the first lines of files.
    o Lower runs a command at another priority.
    o Prepare extracts words from text files.
    o Split cuts a file to pieces.
    o Splitname does just that.
    o Tee is a pipe fitting.
    o Testbits is for use in scripts.
    o Timecom times a command.
    o Unique removes copies of identical lines.
    o Usage shows the space used by directories.

Installation is easy: Just copy the executables to somewhere in your
path and, optionally, the #?.man files in doc/ to whereever you keep
your man files.

Ideas for additions to ExtraCmds include commands equivalent to Unix
pr, cut, paste, tail, and xargs. The last one will be a nice companion
to Find. The existing commands will continue to evolve too.

If you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to send them to me,
either by email or snail mail.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  733    1104  66.4% -lh5- 45a7 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Common
[generic]                 1018    1452  70.1% -lh5- 74e1 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Compare
[generic]                 1338    1996  67.0% -lh5- 92c1 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Concat
[generic]                  745     980  76.0% -lh5- c020 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Copyright
[generic]                  943    1268  74.4% -lh5- 4aec Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Count
[generic]                 1323    1880  70.4% -lh5- be3d Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/DirTree
[generic]                  846    1979  42.7% -lh5- 3c2c Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Common.man
[generic]                 1082    2489  43.5% -lh5- 01f0 Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Compare.man
[generic]                 1151    2906  39.6% -lh5- 17d0 Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Concat.man
[generic]                  926    1945  47.6% -lh5- 6884 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Copyright.man
[generic]                  771    1738  44.4% -lh5- d0e5 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Count.man
[generic]                  770    1700  45.3% -lh5- 5069 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/DirTree.man
[generic]                 3634   10399  34.9% -lh5- 1dc3 Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Find.man
[generic]                  807    1733  46.6% -lh5- e69f Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Head.man
[generic]                 1079    2336  46.2% -lh5- d356 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Lower.man
[generic]                 1233    2652  46.5% -lh5- cda8 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Prepare.man
[generic]                 1251    3057  40.9% -lh5- 26e1 Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Split.man
[generic]                  752    1779  42.3% -lh5- e5cf Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/SplitName.man
[generic]                  554    1153  48.0% -lh5- 6dc1 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Tee.man
[generic]                 1023    2375  43.1% -lh5- 65ca Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/TestBits.man
[generic]                  988    2205  44.8% -lh5- 86c3 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/TimeCom.man
[generic]                 1064    2577  41.3% -lh5- 25e0 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/doc/Unique.man
[generic]                  935    2096  44.6% -lh5- 87ab Dec 27  1993 ExtraCmds/doc/Usage.man
[generic]                 1262    2479  50.9% -lh5- 8dc8 Jan  5  1994 ExtraCmds/ExtraCmds21p-bin.readme
[generic]                 5285    8684  60.9% -lh5- f3e4 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Find
[generic]                  903    1196  75.5% -lh5- 42a0 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Head
[generic]                  425     484  87.8% -lh5- 581f Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Lower
[generic]                  949    1312  72.3% -lh5- 6e08 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Prepare
[generic]                 1447    1884  76.8% -lh5- c215 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Split
[generic]                  396     468  84.6% -lh5- 34e2 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/SplitName
[generic]                  493     628  78.5% -lh5- 1a76 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Tee
[generic]                  786     972  80.9% -lh5- 9c50 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/TestBits
[generic]                  560     716  78.2% -lh5- d820 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/TimeCom
[generic]                  710     964  73.7% -lh5- 9a25 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Unique
[generic]                  986    1328  74.2% -lh5- e3b5 Oct 22  1993 ExtraCmds/Usage
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 Total        35 files   39168   74914  52.3%            Jan  6  1994