heirloom

Collection of standard Unix utilities

The Heirloom Toolchest is a collection of standard Unix utilities. Highlights are: * Derived from original Unix material released as open source by Caldera * Up to four versions of each utility corresponding to SVID3/SVR4, SVID4/SVR4.2MP, POSIX.2/SUSV2, and 4BSD (SVR4 /usr/ucb) * Support for lines of arbitrary length and in many cases binary input data * Support for multibyte character sets, especially UTF-8 * More than 100 individual utilities including bc, cpio, diff, ed, file, find, grep, man, nawk, oawk, pax, ps, sed, sort, spell, and tar * The cpio utility can read and write zip files, GNU tar files, and the cpio formats of Cray UNICOS, SGI IRIX (-K), SCO UnixWare (-c) and Tru64 UNIX (-e). It is also available with the pax interface * Extensive documentation including a manual page for any utility * Runs on Linux, Solaris, Open UNIX, and FreeBSD