README
1This is a package root directory $PACKAGEROOT. Source and binary
2packages in this directory tree are controlled by the command
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4 bin/package
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6Binary files may be in this directory or in the install root directory
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8 INSTALLROOT=$PACKAGEROOT/arch/`bin/package`
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12 bin/package help
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14Many of the packaged commands self-document via the --man and --html
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19 lib/package/LICENSES/<license>
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21where <license> is the license type for the package. At the top
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25 bin/package license [<package>]
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README.md
1# AST
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3This is the AT&T Software Technology (AST) toolkit from AT&T Research.
4It includes many tools and libraries, like KSH, NMAKE, SFIO, VMALLOC, VCODEX,
5etc. It also includes more efficient replacements for a lot of the POSIX tools.
6It was designed to be portable across many UNIX systems and also works
7under UWIN on Microsoft Windows (see UWIN repo on GitHub under att/uwin).
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9## ksh93u+ and v-
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11This repo contains the **ksh93u+** and **ksh93v-** versions of KSH.
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13* **ksh93u+**, the master branch, was the last version released by the main AST
14 authors in 2012, while they were at AT&T. It also has some later build
15 fixes but it is not actively maintained.
16* ksh93v-, [ksh93v tag](https://github.com/att/ast/tree/ksh93v), contains
17 contributions from the main authors through 2014 (after they left) and is
18 considered less stable
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20Please search the web for forks of this repo (or check the
21[Network graph](https://github.com/att/ast/network) on GitHub) if you are
22looking for an actively maintained version of ksh.
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24## Build
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26This software is used to build itself, using NMAKE. After cloning this repo, cd
27to the top directory of it and run:
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29./bin/package make
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31Almost all the tools in this package (including the bin/package script are
32self-documenting; run <tool> --man (or --html) for the man page for the tool.
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34(If you were used to the old AST packaging mechanism, on www.research.att.com,
35this repo is equivalent to downloading the INIT and ast-open packages and
36running: ./bin/package read on them).
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