These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing
utilities.  Most of these programs have significant advantages over
their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options,
and fewer arbitrary limits.

The programs that can be built with this package are:
   cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fold head join nl od
   paste pr sort split sum tac tail tr unexpand uniq wc

The cmp program has moved to the GNU diff distribution.

See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.

See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.

The textutils are intended to be POSIX.2 compliant (with BSD and other
extensions), like the rest of the GNU system.  They are almost there,
but a few incompatibilities remain.

The comprehensive Texinfo documentation for these programs is not
finished yet, and needs to be rewritten.  In the interim, the skeletal
man pages provided with this distribution will have to serve.

These programs all recognize the `--version' option.  Although the RCS
`ident' command no longer works, using `grep' and `strings -' on them
still works, e.g., `strings - /usr/local/bin/ls | grep textutils'.

Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
