From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: More stuff at TSX-11 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 03:06:08 GMT
A while back I uploaded a new set of the GNU Text Utilties to TSX-11,
with the fixed sort, so if you've still got the bad sort from the
previous upload available, you will want to at least grab the seperate
sort that has been uploaded. If you're looking for all the neat GNU
text utilities (such as sort, cut, paste, join, head, tail, wc, cmp,
and most of the other basic text filters on unix systems), just grab
tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/text-1.1.tar.Z
I compiled the GNU bc utility, which is "an arbitrary precision
calculator language," and is part of the POSIX draft standard. It
appears to work fine, but I'm open to criticisms.... Find it as:
tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/bc.tar.Z
Next, I compiled the GNU fgrep for Linux. It's not part of POSIX
(since it duplicates (e)grep to a large degree, but it is a fairly
fast, fairly small grep for those cramped for disk space or just
love having all sorts of extra utilties around. (It seems like my
Linux partitions are empty!) You can find it as:
tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/fgrep.tar.Z
Lastly, I've been playing around compiling games/other fun stuff on
Linux lately, and I've come up with rain (BSD), larn (pd), and best
of all: worms (BSD), which I've modified to have _color_ worms! So,
worms and rain, at least, will show up on TSX-11 in the near future.
(Once I apply the color diffs to my system so I can fix worms' colors,
and fix a small problem with worms (it crashes mightily if you try
and tell it how many worms to use. Sigh.).) <- I've been programming
too much!