CONTENTS: aaa_base bash comms cpio devs e2fsbn etc find getty gpm grep gzip ldso aaa_base: Basic Linux filesystem package. aaa_base: aaa_base: Sets up the basic directory structure and adds a few important aaa_base: binaries such as GNU mtools 2.0.7, zip201, and unzip512. aaa_base: aaa_base: aaa_base: aaa_base: aaa_base: aaa_base: aaa_base: bash: GNU bash-1.14.5 bash: bash: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. Bash is a sh-compatible command language bash: interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or bash: from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn bash: and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a bash: conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools bash: specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). bash: bash: Bash must be present for the system to boot properly. bash: comms: Serial file-transfer and communication packages. comms: comms: Includes these programs: comms: comms: Minicom - a full featured menu-driven communications package similar comms: to the DOS program 'Telix'. comms: comms: sz/rz - utilities used to upload and download files using the Zmodem comms: protocol. comms: comms: cpio: The GNU cpio backup and archiving utility v. 2.3 cpio: cpio: This is GNU cpio, a program to manage archives of files. This package cpio: also includes mt, a tape drive control program. cpio copies files into cpio: or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other cpio: files plus information about them, such as their pathname, owner, cpio: timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on cpio: the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. cpio: cpio: cpio: devs: Device files. devs: devs: This package creates special files in the /dev directory that devs: represent your system's hardware. devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: e2fsbn: Utilities for the second extended file system v. 0.5b e2fsbn: e2fsbn: Utilities needed to create and maintain ext2 filesystems under Linux. e2fsbn: Included in this package are: chattr, lsattr, mke2fs, mklost+found, e2fsbn: tune2fs, e2fsck, and badblocks. e2fsbn: e2fsbn: These utilities were written by Remy Card (the developer and e2fsbn: maintainer of the ext2 fs) and Theodore T'so. e2fsbn: e2fsbn: e2fsbn: etc: System configuration files that go into the /etc directory. etc: etc: The /etc directory is traditionally the location where configuration etc: files and administration binaries are found. Under Linux, the binaries etc: have been moved out of the /etc directory and into the /sbin etc: directory; the /etc directory is now reserved for configuration files etc: only. etc: etc: etc: etc: find: GNU findutils-4.1 find: find: This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. find: find and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2, as far as I know. They find: also support some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and find: some unique to GNU. find: find: find: find: find: getty: getty_ps 2.0.7e getty: getty: /sbin/getty and /sbin/uugetty. getty: These control the process of logging into your system, and may be used getty: instead of 'agetty', which is the default getty included with getty: util-linux-1.6. getty_ps supports a number of enhancements such as getty: ringback support. getty: getty: getty: getty: gpm: General purpose mouse support v1.00 gpm: gpm: This program is based on the 'selection' package, and allows you to gpm: use the mouse to cut and paste text from the screen. It also acts as gpm: a mouse server for applications running on the Linux console, such as gpm: the Midnight Commander file manager and dialog. gpm: gpm: NOTE: This program may cause problems when you start X on systems gpm: that do not use a serial mouse. If you get an 'unable to open mouse gpm: device' error from X, remove gpm from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. gpm: grep: GNU grep 2.0 grep: grep: Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if no files are grep: named, or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to grep: the given pattern. This is the 'fastest grep in the west' (we hope). grep: grep: grep: grep: grep: grep: gzip: GNU zip compression utilities. (v. 1.2.4) gzip: gzip: Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding gzip: (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the gzip: extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and gzip: modification times. gzip: gzip: gzip: gzip: gzip: ldso: ld.so 1.7.3, the dynamic linker/loader. ldso: ldso: ld.so completes the final process of linking all necessary references ldso: to sharable objects and unreferenced symbols in an impure executable, ldso: (usually a dynamically linked executable), to produce a runnable file. ldso: Nearly all Linux binaries in a.out format will be 'incomplete' and ldso: require further linking at run time. ld.so's job is thus to complete ldso: the linking process started at compilation. ld.so was written by David ldso: Engel, Eric Youngdale, Peter MacDonald, Hongjiu Lu, Linus Torvalds, ldso: Lars Wirzenius and Mitch D'Souza. ldso: