Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:55:17 -0500
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> What, exactly, are these:

Most are documented at http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/

> diff-2.7.1

diff produces the difference between two text files, in a format that can be
used to patch the old file later on.

> gawk-3.0.3

GNU awk.  Awk is a text processing utility, best suited for columnar data.

> groff-1.10

GNU roff, for formatting man pages.

> idutils-3.2

cross referencing utilities, for searching and stuff.

> ispell-3.1.20

interactive spell checker.

> less-332

like more, but can page up and down.

> m4-1.4

m4 is a macro preprocessor for text files.

> perl-5.005_02

perl is, well, perl.  http://www.perl.org/

> sh-utils-1.12

shell utilities, like true, sleep, test, uname, date.  Used for shell scripts
a lot, hence the name.

> textutils-1.22

text utilities, like cat, cut, head, tail, sort.