GNU_filetutils.3.16.README
GNU_fileutils.3.16.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
Feb 1997

This archive contains an Installer.app package for GNU fileutils-3.16.  

probably to be placed at:
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/

From the README:

These are the GNU file management 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: chgrp, chown,
chmod, cp, dd, df, du, install, ln, dir, vdir, ls, mkdir, mvdir, mkfifo,
mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, sync and touch.  But mvdir is built only on systems
that lack the rename system call.

The programs cat, cut, expand, head, paste, split, tac, tail and
unexpand, which used to be part of the fileutils, are now part of the
textutils.  cmp is now part of the diff distribution.

The fileutils 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.


CREDITS

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

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

