Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!midway!scott From: scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Where is cut(1) Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 20:18:51 GMT References: <1991Apr8.234203.22046@mp.cs.niu.edu> <474@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: /Users/scott/.organization Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 9 Apr 91 07: 03:50 GMT In article <474@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: > Scott Bennett writes > > In article <1991Apr5.125124.9067@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us > (Bob Peirce #305) writes: > > >I can't find the cut command on the NeXT. There is no man page either. > > >Is it there? Am I being hopelessly SysV again? If so, does NeXT/BSD > > > > No. Yes. No, but you can pick up the cut+paste package via > > anonymous ftp from the comp.sources.unix archives at ftp.uu.net > > If you grab cut+paste, be sensitive to the fact that there are programs > called "copy" and "paste" on the NeXT that allow you to share the > PasteBoard between the window server and your shell, which is pretty > nifty. You might not want to clobber "paste", but to name it something > different. > > -- > Glenn Reid RightBrain Software > glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers > ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470) > The very first thing I do after a NeXT OS upgrade is: # mv /bin/paste /bin/p shortly followed by a make and a copy of paste(1) and cut(1) to /usr/local/bin. -- Scott Deerwester | Internet: scott@tira.uchicago.edu | ~{P;N,5B~} Center for Information and | Phone: 312-702-6948 | Language Studies | 1100 E. 57th, CILS | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL 60637 |