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[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 5/24/2006 2:42 PM:
> Hi!
> 
> i started to read the doku of textutils, but i dont understand, how i can use 
> the textutils - have i to install any GNU - software before?

textutils is now part of coreutils, and the latest version is 5.96.  Yes,
you will need to install it before you can use it.  GNU/Linux systems
typically come with coreutils pre-installed, but for other operating
systems, the GNU tools are add-ons.  If you look in the right places, you
can often find pre-compiled binaries for your platform, rather than having
to download the source and compile it yourself (this is particularly true
for Windows, where the typical machine does not include a compiler by
default).

> 
> I like to use the textutil-funktions as a subfunction in a windows shell 
> sript - is ths possible?

Yes.  As Bob pointed out, cygwin is a good example of this (it also
includes a compiler, if you wanted to build coreutils from source).
Another Windows port is that you may be interested in would be mingw32.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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