@ifinfo
@format
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
-* Text utilities: (textutils). GNU text utilities.
-* cat: (textutils)cat invocation. Concatenate and write files.
-* cksum: (textutils)cksum invocation. Print @sc{POSIX} CRC checksum.
-* comm: (textutils)comm invocation. Compare sorted files by line.
-* csplit: (textutils)csplit invocation. Split by context.
-* cut: (textutils)cut invocation. Print selected parts of lines.
-* expand: (textutils)expand invocation. Convert tabs to spaces.
-* fmt: (textutils)fmt invocation. Reformat paragraph text.
-* fold: (textutils)fold invocation. Wrap long input lines.
-* head: (textutils)head invocation. Output the first part of files.
-* join: (textutils)join invocation. Join lines on a common field.
-* md5sum: (textutils)md5sum invocation. Print or check message-digests.
-* nl: (textutils)nl invocation. Number lines and write files.
-* od: (textutils)od invocation. Dump files in octal, etc.
-* paste: (textutils)paste invocation. Merge lines of files.
-* pr: (textutils)pr invocation. Paginate or columnate files.
-* sort: (textutils)sort invocation. Sort text files.
-* split: (textutils)split invocation. Split into fixed-size pieces.
-* sum: (textutils)sum invocation. Print traditional checksum.
-* tac: (textutils)tac invocation. Reverse files.
-* tail: (textutils)tail invocation. Output the last part of files.
-* tr: (textutils)tr invocation. Translate characters.
-* unexpand: (textutils)unexpand invocation. Convert spaces to tabs.
-* uniq: (textutils)uniq invocation. Uniqify files.
-* wc: (textutils)wc invocation. Byte, word, and line counts.
+* Text utilities: (textutils). GNU text utilities.
+* cat: (textutils)cat invocation. Concatenate and write files.
+* cksum: (textutils)cksum invocation. Print @sc{POSIX} CRC checksum.
+* comm: (textutils)comm invocation. Compare sorted files by line.
+* csplit: (textutils)csplit invocation. Split by context.
+* cut: (textutils)cut invocation. Print selected parts of lines.
+* expand: (textutils)expand invocation. Convert tabs to spaces.
+* fmt: (textutils)fmt invocation. Reformat paragraph text.
+* fold: (textutils)fold invocation. Wrap long input lines.
+* head: (textutils)head invocation. Output the first part of files.
+* join: (textutils)join invocation. Join lines on a common field.
+* md5sum: (textutils)md5sum invocation. Print or check message-digests.
+* nl: (textutils)nl invocation. Number lines and write files.
+* od: (textutils)od invocation. Dump files in octal, etc.
+* paste: (textutils)paste invocation. Merge lines of files.
+* pr: (textutils)pr invocation. Paginate or columnate files.
+* sort: (textutils)sort invocation. Sort text files.
+* split: (textutils)split invocation. Split into fixed-size pieces.
+* sum: (textutils)sum invocation. Print traditional checksum.
+* tac: (textutils)tac invocation. Reverse files.
+* tail: (textutils)tail invocation. Output the last part of files.
+* tr: (textutils)tr invocation. Translate characters.
+* unexpand: (textutils)unexpand invocation. Convert spaces to tabs.
+* uniq: (textutils)uniq invocation. Uniqify files.
+* wc: (textutils)wc invocation. Byte, word, and line counts.
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@end ifinfo
@ifinfo
This file documents the GNU text utilities.
-Copyright (C) 1994, 95 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@titlepage
@title GNU @code{textutils}
@subtitle A set of text utilities
-@subtitle for version @value{VERSION}, @value{RELEASEDATE}
+@subtitle for version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
@author David MacKenzie et al.
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 95 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
These commands reformat the contents of files.
@menu
-* fmt invocation:: Reformat paragraph text.
+* fmt invocation:: Reformat paragraph text.
* pr invocation:: Paginate or columnate files for printing.
* fold invocation:: Wrap input lines to fit in specified width.
@end menu
@item -p @var{prefix}
@itemx --prefix=@var{prefix}
Only lines beginning with @var{prefix} (possibly preceded by whitespace)
-are subject to formatting. The prefix and any preceding whitespace is
+are subject to formatting. The prefix and any preceding whitespace are
stripped for the formatting and then re-attached to each formatted output
line. One use is to format certain kinds of program comments, while
leaving the code unchanged.
* wc invocation:: Print byte, word, and line counts.
* sum invocation:: Print checksum and block counts.
* cksum invocation:: Print CRC checksum and byte counts.
-* md5sum invocation:: Print or check message-digests.
+* md5sum invocation:: Print or check message-digests.
@end menu
is no alternative; it is much slower than @samp{-n} and numbers with
too many significant digits will be compared as if they had been
truncated. In addition, numbers outside the range of representable
-double precision floating point numbers are treated as if they were zeroes.
-@c FIXME: Someday there will be an option to warn about underflow and overflow.
+double precision floating point numbers are treated as if they were
+zeroes; overflow and underflow are not reported.
@item -i
@opindex -i
@end table
-@c What's GNU?
-@c Arnold Robbins
+@c What's GNU?
+@c Arnold Robbins
@node Opening the software toolbox
@chapter Opening the software toolbox