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1.1     ! root        1: The advanced software department has been collecting useful C routines
        !             2: in a single library called libx.  libx is used by nmake, the nmake cpp
        !             3: (which is mainly based on another library (libpp)), CIA
        !             4: (C information abstractor from Yih-Farn Chen), and a collection
        !             5: of other /bin and /usr/bin commands that benefit from
        !             6: concentrating functionality in libx.
        !             7: 
        !             8: More detail is available in the man pages.  libx contains:
        !             9: 
        !            10:   (1)  routines to support a generic environment for
        !            11:        a variety of UNIX operating system variants
        !            12: 
        !            13:   (2)  routines that update standard libc routines
        !            14: 
        !            15:   (3)  routines shared between several commands
        !            16: 
        !            17: If you already have nmake 2.0 or newer installed then use
        !            18: `nmake install' from this directory, otherwise use
        !            19: ship/shipin from the root of the distribution directory tree.
        !            20: 
        !            21: Some of the routines not found in section 3:
        !            22: 
        !            23: hash:                  generic, scoped hash table support
        !            24: 
        !            25:        hashalloc       create a hash table or push new scope
        !            26:        hashdump        debug dump of one or all hash tables
        !            27:        hashfree        free a hashalloc()'d table
        !            28:        hashlook        low level name lookup
        !            29:        hashscan        entry generator for scoped table scan
        !            30:        hashsize        explicitly change table size (usually automatic)
        !            31:        hashwalk        apply function to each table entry
        !            32:        memhash         return hash code for n-char chunk of memory
        !            33:        strhash         return hash code for null terminated string
        !            34: 
        !            35: include:               libx support headers
        !            36: 
        !            37:        align.h         compile time type alignmnent support
        !            38:        dirent.h        POSIX directory(3) interface definitions
        !            39:        error.h         error() interface definitions
        !            40:        ftw.h           ftwalk() interface definitions
        !            41:        hash.h          hash*() interface definitions
        !            42:        ls.h            strls() interface definitions
        !            43:        re.h            re*() interface definitions
        !            44:        tar.h           POSIX ustar format interface definitions
        !            45:        tm.h            tm*() interface definitions
        !            46: 
        !            47: misc:
        !            48: 
        !            49:        cmdargs         apply a sequence of cmd line option parsers
        !            50:        cmdopen         like popen() but stdin and stdout are specified
        !            51:        cvtatoe         convert ASCII to EBCDIC
        !            52:        cvtetoa         convert EBCDIC to ASCII
        !            53:        error           output generic error and trace messages
        !            54:        ftwalk          an ftw(3) that works -- used in new tw(1)
        !            55:        getcwd          uses $PWD if ok, doesn't use /bin/pwd
        !            56:        getshell        return full path of shell for cmdopen()
        !            57:        ooptget         optget() for obsolete ar(1) and tar(1) options
        !            58:        optget          YA getopt(3) but no argc or error message output
        !            59:        pathaccess      find file with specific acces on list of dirs
        !            60:        pathcanon       canonicalize path name in place
        !            61:        pathcmd         return full path name of executable using $PATH
        !            62:        pathroot        determine `related root' directory for command
        !            63:        perror          uses strerror()
        !            64:        readargs        append each line of file to argv[0]
        !            65: 
        !            66: re:                    egrep(1) and ed(1) style re's from V9
        !            67:                        (not the good awk(1) algorithm)
        !            68: 
        !            69:        recomp          compile re pattern
        !            70:        reerror         report re*() errors
        !            71:        reexec          match string using compiled re
        !            72:        resub           ed(1) style substitute using last reexec()
        !            73: 
        !            74: string:
        !            75: 
        !            76:        chresc          return next char in string converting \ sequences
        !            77:        ctoi            convert char constant string to int
        !            78:        strcopy         like strcpy(3) but returns end of destination
        !            79:        strdup          malloc(3) and strcpy(3) smashed together
        !            80:        strerror        return error message string given errno
        !            81:        stresc          convert \ sequences in string in place
        !            82:        streval         evaluate C expression in string
        !            83:        strls           ls -l format support
        !            84:        strmatch        Korn shell file pattern match
        !            85:        strmode         return ls -l style output given st.st_mode
        !            86:        strsignal       return signal id string given SIG* number
        !            87:        strtape         convert generic tape unit to /dev/* file
        !            88:        token           generate space separated tokens in string
        !            89: 
        !            90: tm:                    time conversion support
        !            91: 
        !            92:        tmdate          convert date string to time_t
        !            93:        tmform          format time_t to date string
        !            94:        tmmake          return current time_t
        !            95:        tmtime          convert struct tm to time_t

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