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It's very similar, except that its heritage is clearly the world of MS/PC/DR-DOS style toolsets rather than Unix toolsets. It's a multiple-function binary, wit
by JdeBP 6y ago
It's very similar, except that its heritage is clearly the world of MS/PC/DR-DOS style toolsets rather than Unix toolsets. It's a multiple-function binary, with freely licensed source code, that basically provides a whole bunch of otherwise standalone tools in one.
The difference is that the standalone tools have the sorts of semantics that will be very familiar to people who lived through the times of MS/PC/DR-DOS shareware, where there were (and still are) loads of tools in this vein, both standalone and all-in-one. Both minus and plus are command-line switch characters. There's no special GNU-style marker for "long" options to differentiate them from "short" options. Command names and functions follow conventions that were more common in the MS/PC/DR-DOS shareware world (e.g. DELTREE, HEXTOBIN, HEXDUMP, COLOR, FIND). And PC-isms like the idea that there are 16 CGA colours are baked in (c.f. this toolset's ECHO command).
If you've used the Norton Utilities, the Graham Utilities, JP Software's 4DOS/4OS2/4NT, my OS/2 (and earlier DOS) Command Line Utilities, or any of the many implementations of commands such as DELTREE that were available, this sort of thing is very familiar and comfortable territory.
* https://jpsoft.com/help/tcc_and_tcclite.htm https://jpsoft.com/help/tcc_and_tcclite.htm
* http://www.warpspeed.com.au/Products/OS2/GU/graham.htm http://www.warpspeed.com.au/Products/OS2/GU/graham.htm
* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/clu.html http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/clu.html
* https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?dir=/&stype=all&sort=type_name&search=deltree https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?dir=/&stype=all&sort=type_name&sear...