This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU shell programming utilities, aka sh-utils. It is maintained by Michael Stone , and built from sources obtained from: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0i.tar.gz It was originally built by Ian Murdock , from GNU sh-utils-1.12. Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files * Added Ben Collins' patch to src/uname.c to enable special sparc64 trickery * Fixed paths to utmp and wtmp in doc/sh-utils.texi GNU sh-utils are Copyright (C) 1986 - 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. Manual (sh-utils.info) 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 are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation.