misc

News:

• 2001-Dec-02: This package has been renamed (confusingly, to "cygutils") and relocated. It has been split off of the cygutils website, and now has it's own page: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils-package/. "Misc" really was a dumb name...and the package has been relocated because it's no longer just a "port" -- it is now an original package and deserves it's own "space".
  
  
• 2001-Nov-25: updated to version 0.9.4. Changes include:
  • added ipc utility programs from "Linux Programmer's Guide".
  • ipc programs depend on cygipc-1.11 or newer
  • built against popt-1.6.2-1
  
  
  
• 2001-Nov-25: updated to version 0.9.3. Changes include:
  • no longer distributing binary packages of the new versions here. This is part of preparation to make the 'misc' package an official one in the "real" cygwin dist.
  • autoconfiscated
  • conv, when renamed to 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos', now recognizes those names and changes its default behavior. That is, unix2dos == u2d, and dos2unix == d2u.
  • removed uuencode/uudecode files -- now included in official 'sharutils' package.
  • removed mktemp files -- now included in official 'mktemp' package
  
  
  
• 2001-Jan-24: updated to version 0.9.2. Changes include:
  • now uses the 'official' cygwin-popt package in /usr/lib (popt-1.6.1-1, announced on the Cygwin mailing list on 2001-Jan-24), instead of using a local version of popt installed in /usr/local/lib.
  • added friendly help/option handling to dump, putclip, getclip, and ascii.
  • NEW mktemp implementation.
  
  
  
• 2001-Jan-19: The misc package released, at version 0.9.1.

Notes:

This package contains a number of useful utilities I've collected or written over the past several years. Recently, I knocked them together into a form suitable for distribution, so here goes:

• ascii.exe: simple utility for displaying the ASCII character set
• dump.exe: simple utility for displaying a nicely formatted hexdump of a file
• putclip.exe: copy stdin to the Windows clipboard
• getclip.exe: copy Windows clipboard to stdout
• uuencode.exe: REMOVED encode a file into unambiguous 7bit format
• uudecode.exe: REMOVED decode a file encoded by uuencode
• conv.exe: a utility for converting line endings between DOS and UNIX format
• d2u.exe, dos2unix.exe: a copy of conv.exe which defaults to converting DOS->UNIX
• u2d.exe, unix2dos.exe: a copy of conv.exe which defaults to converting UNIX->DOS
• mktemp.exe: REMOVED make temporary files and directories with unique names
• semtool.exe: NEW tool for messing around with SysV semaphore sets. Requires cygipc, ipc-daemon.
• semstat.exe: NEW tool for messing around with SysV semaphore sets. Requires cygipc, ipc-daemon.
• shmtool.exe: NEW tool for messing around with SysV shared memory. Requires cygipc, ipc-daemon.
• msgtool.exe: NEW tool for messing around with SysV message passing. Requires cygipc, ipc-daemon.

Download:

• misc-0.9.4.tar.gz
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  • f448f083da25824a0fd660fb96f22024 misc-0.9.4.tar.bz2
  • source code package
• misc-0.9.3.tar.gz
  • 53513 bytes
  • 596cc208f934abad97c690cd8b187a22 misc-0.9.3.tar.bz2
  • source code package
• misc-0.9.2-1.tar.gz
  • 36319 bytes
  • cbfc2a1867e5e97e014c9c7c9679fc78 *misc-0.9.2-1.tar.gz
  • binary package; unpacks into /usr/local/*
• misc-0.9.2-1-src.tar.gz
  • 16557 bytes
  • bb43d3867eeec155da5b1f535dc19047 *misc-0.9.2-1-src.tar.gz
  • source code package
• misc-0.9.1-1.tar.gz
  • 31714 bytes
  • 5ccca577161de26d96e33f2a47184a9c *misc-0.9.1-1.tar.gz
  • binary package; unpacks into /usr/local/*
• misc-0.9.1-1-src.tar.gz
  • 12492 bytes
  • 36132e5efff379cc89f80ed81e29b01f *misc-0.9.1-1-src.tar.gz
  • source code package
• popt-1.6.1.tar.gz
  • 441214 bytes
  • 4f8e2bc3a1dddcee5020958985d0b9d9 *popt-1.6.1.tar.gz
  • source code for the popt package, required for some of the utilities in misc. Builds OOB.

Readme

Many of these utilities require the popt 
library, available here:
  ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.1/popt-1.6.1.tar.gz

ascii.exe:
  dumps the 256 ascii characters to stdout
  using a nice format

dump.exe [file]
  hex dump of file to stdout, using a nice
  format

putclip.exe
  copies stdin to the Windows clipboard
  does NOT use Cygwin's /dev/clipboard 
  Not build unless on a WIN32 platform

getclip.exe
  copies the Windows clipboard to stdout
  does NOT use Cygwin's /dev/clipboard
  Not build unless on a WIN32 platform

conv.exe / d2u.exe / u2d.exe / dos2unix.exe / unix2dos.exe
  programs for converting line endings of text
  files between DOS and UNIX format.

  HEAVILY modified, but core routine is based on 
  the hd2d-0.5.12 distribution, available here:
  http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/_data/hd2u/
  by Peter Hanecak.

msgtool.exe / shmtool.exe / semtool.exe / semstat.exe 
  These programs were taken from "Linux Programmer's
  Guide - Chapter 6" with a few changes so that they 
  build cleanly.  The original versions were written
  by (C)opyright 1994-1995, Scott Burkett.
  ** MODULE: msgtool
     A command line tool for tinkering with SysV style 
	  Message Queues
  ** MODULE: semtool
     A command line tool for tinkering with SysV style 
	  Semaphore Sets
  ** MODULE: semstat
     Another tool for tinkering with Semaphore Sets
  ** MODULE: shmtool
     A command line tool for tinkering with shared memory 
  For information on how to use these tools, call them
  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.

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