with the '-?' option. Also, see the Linux Programmer's
Guide -- the IPC chapter is included with the cygipc
distribution.
- These tools can only be built if cygipc is installed
- and thus are not portable to non-cygwin platforms. Also,
- they can only operate properly if ipc-daemon is running.
- Eventually I'll figure out how to get autotools to NOT
- try to build them if IPC services are not available, and
- I'll figure out how to link/test for libcygipc.a on cygwin
- and just -lc on linux, etc.
+
+
+ These tools can only be built if IPC functions are
+ available. On cygwin, that (currently) means "only if
+ the cygipc package is installed" or "if using a cygwin
+ kernel newer than 1.5.5"
(GPL)
banner.exe
prints a large banner to stdout. From Joerg Schaible.
(GPL)
-namei.exe
- follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
- (GPL - originally public domain)
-
-cal.exe
- displays a calendar
- (BSD-no-advert *)
-
-last.exe
- show a listing of the last logged in users
- (GPL)
-
-utmpdump.exe
- give raw output of a utmp (/var/run/utmp) or wtmp
- (/var/log/wtmp) file.
- (GPL)
-
realpath.exe
Convert pathname argumen to absolute path, with all
references to `.', `..', and symlinks resolved.
(GPL)
-ddate.exe
- converts boring normal dates to fun Discordian Date
- (GPL - originally public domain)
-
lpr.exe
can be used to spool to a windows printer
(GPL)
using .lnk files, which aren't really "full-featured")
(GPL)
+readshortcut.exe
+ can be used to read information from windows shortcuts (such
+ as target, icon, window state, etc)
+ (GPL)
+
cygstart.exe
A command-line tool which allows you to let Windows start a program or open
a file or URL in its associated application. It is similar to the Windows
command-line start command.
(GPL)
-col.exe
- Filters out revers (and half reverse) line feeds so that the output is in
- the correct order with only forward and half forward line feeds, and replaces
- white-space characters with tabs where possible.
- (BSD-no-advert *)
-
-getopt.exe
- an enhanced command option parser for use in shell scripts. Taken from
- util-linux.
+ipck:
+ IPC utility brought over from cygipc.
(GPL)
-readlink.exe
- follow symbolic links. Taken from OpenBSD CVS.
- (BSD-no-advert)
-
-rev.exe
- reverse lines of a file.
- (BSD-no-advert *)
-
(*) originally BSD+advert, but falls under the blanket
conversion to BSD-no-advert, because it was originally
part of the UCB BSD distro.
University of California on July 22 1999. He states
that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety."
+Note1: "last.exe" and "utmpdump.exe" were previously provided by
+cygutils. However, once the `sysvinit' package was added to
+the cygwin distribution, they were removed. They are now
+provided by `sysvinit' -- which is where we took them from
+in the first place.
+
+Note2: "cal.exe" "col.exe" "colcrt.exe" "colrm.exe" "column.exe"
+ "ddate.exe" "getopt.exe" "mcookie.exe" "namei.exe" "rename.exe"
+ "rev.exe"
+were previously provided by cygutils. However, they were removed in
+version 1.3.10 because the `util-linux' package was added to the
+cygwin distribution, and it provides those utilities. In fact,
+it was from util-linux that the versions in cygutils were originally
+derived.
+