WinXs Version 1.1 Copyright (C) 1995 Mick Meaden All Rights Reserved INTRODUCTION WinXs for Windows is a shareware program that provides UNIX-like tool functionality under Windows 3.1 or later. To run WinXs, you will need a 386-based PC (or later), at least 4mb of main memory and approximately 1.6mb of disc space to install the software. Features of this version include: i. Cat for Windows. Concatenates one or more files and appends them to a named output file, which is created if it does not already exist. ii. Col for Windows. Filters reverse line-feeds and vari- ous other control characters. Optionally, this filter can also be used to remove backspace sequences or to convert spaces to tabs. iii. Compress and Uncompress. Windows version of the UNIX compress(1) and uncompress(1) commands, which are use- ful when downloading files from the Internet or when transferring large files to and from UNIX systems. iv. Dos2unix and Unix2dos. Filters for converting between DOS and UNIX text file formats; that is, CR-LF (DOS) and LF (UNIX). v. Du for Windows. A Windows implementation of the UNIX du(1) command, which recursively lists the number of blocks allocated to files and directories. vi. Expand for Windows. Performs the opposite function of col(1) and expands tabs to spaces. vii. File Compare. A set of programs that perform various file comparisons, including binary comparisons based on the UNIX cmp(1) program, directory comparisons based on dircmp(1), and differential text file com- parisons based on diff(1) or the DOS FC command. viii. File for Windows. This program attempts to determine the contents of a file or files by examination of the Windows registration database, a table of magic numbers uniquely identifying file types, and finally the contents of the file itself. ix. Fmt for Windows. A simple text processing utility for performing modest tasks such as formatting mail mes- sages. Text can be formatted using block, indented, crown or centered paragraphs, optionally with left and right text justification. x. Fold for Windows. Folds lines from its input files, breaking the lines to have a maximum column width (after tab and backspace processing) or a maximum number of bytes. Optionally, lines can be broken at the last blank character within the specified column or byte width. xi. Grep for Windows. A pattern searching program that scans one or more text files for a specified character sequence. Grep uses basic regular expression pattern matching, as defined in X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4. xii. Grex for Windows. Is a simple stream editor that sup- ports various ed(1)-like editing commands. These include text matching and substitution, text deletion, line deletion, and multi-line text insertion. xiii. Gzip and Gunzip. Provides a Windows interface to GNU gzip(1), which is a separate DOS program that can be obtained free of charge under the terms and conditions of the GNU software license (see associated help file for further details). xiv. Hd for Windows. A file viewer that will display any type and size of file in hexadecimal format. Hd sup- ports the same scrolling, search and text marking com- mands as More. It also supports printing and print previewing. xv. More for Windows. A file viewer that supports more(1) functionality and file movement commands. This is a full featured Windows MDI (multi-document interface) application, with print and print previewing using pr(1), basic regular expression searching, text mark- ing, configurable display and printer fonts, escapes to your favourite editor, rendering with or without line numbers, text or hexadecimal display, etc.. More supports File Manager drag and drop and will display files of any size, depending on virtual store availa- bility. xvi. Split for Windows. A Windows version of the UNIX split(1) command, which breaks a file up into a speci- fied multiple of line, byte, kilobyte or megabyte pieces. This version also provides an Unsplit facil- ity for combining output files generated by a previous call to Split back into a single, large file. xvii. Strings for Windows. This utility is commonly used on UNIX systems to search object files for copyright statements, error messages, etc.. This version will scan files of any size and content, and will option- ally display file offsets of located strings. xviii. Tr for Windows. Substitutes, deletes or squeezes characters from its input. This is a general purpose filter that can be used for such things as converting the case of characters, deleting control characters, breaking files up into word lists, reducing multi- character sequences to single characters, etc.. xix. Uuencode and Uudecode. Windows versions of the UNIX commands of the same name. Useful when downloading stuff from the Internet, or when using UNIX mail. xx. Wc for Windows. A Windows version of the UNIX wc(1) command, which counts the number of lines, words and bytes in one or more text files. xxi. Winxsdll.dll. This DLL adds an extra menu to the Win- dows File Manager menu bar, allowing the above WinXs programs to be initiated directly from File Manager (see below for details). The WinXs utilities can be called directly from the Windows Program Manager, or (more usefully) from File Manager. To use More as the default file viewer on your system, edit the text file entry in the Windows registration database using the regedit.exe utility, which is normally located in the Windows directory. INSTALLING WINXS Create a directory (e.g., c:\winxs), copy the files in this distribution thereto (unzipping if necessary), and run SETUP.EXE. This will add Win&Xs to the File Manager menu bar, associate a text editor for use from File Manager, and allow configuration of other options present in this version of the product. SETUP.EXE can be re-run at any time to change the above options. REGISTRATION This distribution contains an unregistered shareware version of the product (see the file licence.txt for details of how to register). This is a fully functional version intended for evaluation. Note, however, that options affecting the operation of the More, Hd and Pr utilities can only be saved in the registered version. REPORTING PROBLEMS Please email comments and/or bug reports to: 100345.2641@compuserve.com