From:	softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject:	Re: anonymous binaries
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 1994 12:23:49 +0100 (MET)

> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Oct 1994, Kimberley Burchett wrote:
> 
> >   I've got a lot of things in my bin directory that don't tell me what 
> > they are, and I can't find them in the docs.  For example:
> 
> >   strings               = like grep only for .o, .a, and a.outs

sorry, but that isn't correct: strings is a program that filters
'readable ascii' from any binary file (sequences of standard displayable
characters longer than n chars)

> >   objcopy
> >   djtart                = UNIX tape archive directory lister
> >   djtarx                = UNIX tape archive extractor
> >   dpmifix              
> >   dtou                  = DOS to UNIX text translator
> >   utod                  = UNIX to DOS text translator
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> 

Hans-Bernhard

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