In article <3977@sumax.seattleu.edu> boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chuck Boyer) writes:
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>These are executables, called 'binaries' in the unix environment
>which
>are kept in the directory '/usr/bin' in Linux;

You need to look over and make sure you've identified them in the
right place - some of them moved from 0.95 to 0.95a.  I've tried to
note those below.

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>bison <--- part of GNU
        parser generator (yacc replacement)

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>cat   <--- two definitions/uses; lists files to screen that already
        in /bin now.

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>chown
        change owner of a file

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>comm
        compare two sorted files line-by-line

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>cp    <--- copy a file to; (user defined/supplied new filename,
        in /bin now.

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>csplit
        split a file into sections determined by context lines

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>dd
        convert a file while copying it (?)

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>dhrystone
        benchmarking software

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>doshell
        this has been superceded by init/getty/login.

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>du
        summarize disk usage

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>egrep
        print lines matching a regular expression (extended grep)

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>em    <--- GNU micro-emacs, editor
        this isn't GNU.  Just MicroEMACS.

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>expand
        convert tabs to spaces

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>fiz
        fix zoo archives

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>flex
        (fast) lexical analyzer

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>fold
        wrap each input line to fit in a specified width

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>join
        join lines of two files on a common field

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>lesskey
        setup keys for less

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>ln    <--- link a file in one directory to be in the current
>directory,
>             without actually having to copy it.
        or link to another name (i.e. compress -> uncompress)

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>mkfifo
        make a FIFO (not implemented?)

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>mkfs  <--- make a file system. Format a partition or disk for
>Linux.
        this doesn't really format a partition, it just prepares it
        for use by Linux.  now in /bin

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>mv  <---- move a file from where it is to another location/name.
        in /bin

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>od
        octal dump - dump a file to stdout in octal form

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>paste
        merge lines of files

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>rm   <--- remove a file.
>rmdir <-- remove a directory.
        both in /bin

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>sed
        stream editor

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>ship
        prepare shar files (I think)

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>sort
        sort lines of text files

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>split
        split a file into pieces

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>stty
        change and print terminal line settings

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>sum
        checksum and count the blocks in a file

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>tac
        concatenate and print files in reverse (cat backwards - get it?)

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>tar  <--- compress/shrink a file/directorys
        in /bin

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>uncompress <--- expand a shrunken file to its original size.
        linked to compress, in /bin

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>unexpand
        convert spaces to tabs

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>uniq
        remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

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>updatedb
        update the locate database


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>located in /dev;

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>PS0 is the device of floppy drive a:, 1.2M in PS/2 systems
>PS1 is the device name of floppy drive b:, 1.4M in PS/2 systems.
>at0 is the device name of floppy drive a:, 1.2 in at clones.
at1 is the device name of floppy drive b:, 1.2 in at clones

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>this is the usual Unix, Minix, Linux 0.12 operating systems.
>Linux 0.95 has differend names;

You should eliminate the hd[0-9] stuff, it's irrelevant and confusing.

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>(these are the 1st draft of these instructions, there will
>definately be more continuity and further instructions by the
>second draft, about 2 weeks from today, eg.; 4/8/92).

Some comments:

-       things should probably be lined up better (use tabs!) so it
        reads a little easier.

-       I'm not quite sure what the point is.  What you have now is
        primarily a dump of the /usr/man/whatis file.

        I think you should work on expanding the descriptions to a few
        lines apiece, and show the relation between DOS commands like
        copy, delete, etc and the Linux commands.

(Sorry if any of this sounds too bossy - I'm just trying to throw some
thoughts at you....)
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