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Introduction .........................................................................................................2
addftinfo ...............................................................................................................2
afmtodit ................................................................................................................2
ansi2knr ................................................................................................................4
anytopnm .............................................................................................................4
appres ...................................................................................................................5
ar ..........................................................................................................................5
arch.......................................................................................................................8
GNU as ................................................................................................................8
asciitopgm...........................................................................................................10
atktopbm ............................................................................................................10
bash ....................................................................................................................11
bdftopcf ..............................................................................................................47
beforelight...........................................................................................................47
biff ......................................................................................................................48
bioradtopgm .......................................................................................................48
bitmap, bmtoa, atobm ........................................................................................49
bmptoppm..........................................................................................................57
brushtopbm ........................................................................................................57
cal .......................................................................................................................58
cat.......................................................................................................................58
chattr ..................................................................................................................59
chfn ....................................................................................................................60
chgrp...................................................................................................................61
chkdupexe...........................................................................................................61
chmod.................................................................................................................61
chown .................................................................................................................62
chsh ....................................................................................................................63
ci.........................................................................................................................64
cidentd................................................................................................................69
cksum .................................................................................................................70
clear ....................................................................................................................70
cmuwmtopbm ....................................................................................................71
co........................................................................................................................71
col.......................................................................................................................76
colcrt...................................................................................................................77
colrm ..................................................................................................................77
column................................................................................................................78
comm..................................................................................................................78
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convdate..............................................................................................................79
cp........................................................................................................................80
cccp, cpp.............................................................................................................81
crontab................................................................................................................84
csplit ...................................................................................................................85
ctags....................................................................................................................87
cu........................................................................................................................88
cut ......................................................................................................................90
cvs.......................................................................................................................91
date...................................................................................................................106
dd .....................................................................................................................108
depmod, modprobe...........................................................................................109
df ......................................................................................................................112
dig ....................................................................................................................113
dnsquery ...........................................................................................................117
domainname .....................................................................................................119
dsplit.................................................................................................................119
du .....................................................................................................................120
editres ...............................................................................................................121
elvis, ex, vi, view, input .....................................................................................126
elvprsv...............................................................................................................128
elvrec.................................................................................................................129
emacs ................................................................................................................130
emacstool ..........................................................................................................134
etags..................................................................................................................135
expand ..............................................................................................................137
find ...................................................................................................................137
fitstopnm ..........................................................................................................142
fmt....................................................................................................................143
fold ...................................................................................................................143
free....................................................................................................................144
fsinfo.................................................................................................................145
fslsfonts.............................................................................................................145
fstobdf...............................................................................................................146
fstopgm.............................................................................................................147
ftp.....................................................................................................................147
fuser ..................................................................................................................154
g++....................................................................................................................155
g3topbm ...........................................................................................................160
gawk .................................................................................................................161
