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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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