You need gzip to unpack the package (.tar.z == tar + gzip) This directory contains two tools: `duplink' and `compressHelp'. Duplink should be usable on any UNIX platform. CompressHelp can only be built on machines running NeXTSTEP, version 3.0 or higher. duplink ======= Link duplicatie files in a directory tree. What duplink basically does is recursively search a directory for identical files and link them together (by hard linking). I've used this on a ftp site that mirrors different sites. Because some sites carry the same files, things get duplicated. By running duplink every day, duplicates are removed and replaced by hard links. There are possibly many other uses for this program... compressHelp ============ Convert Help directory to a `Help.store' file. CompressHelp is a tool which converts a Help directory of some application to a one Help.store file as it is used by all NeXT supplied apps. NeXT might release a program like this with NS3.1. compressHelp is a rewrite of a utility that NeXT doesn't want to give out. The only thing we know is the name of the game. This is a hack. It tried out some features like exceptions and memory mapped files. But this was partially removed it to incorporate its functions into duplink. compressHelp was originally written by Frank Thomas. It was split up by Michael. Duplink uses the dirtree.c code which was originially in compressHelp.m (by Frank). See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. Please report all bugs and comments about duplink and compressHelp to: frank@glocke.robin.de (Frank Thomas) and michael@urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer)
CompressHelp is a tool which converts a Help directory of some application to a one Help.store file as it is used by all NeXT supplied apps. NeXT might release a program like this with NS3.1. compressHelp is a rewrite of a utility that NeXT doesn't want to give out. The only thing we know is the name of the game. This is a hack. It tried out some features like exceptions and memory mapped files. The error handling (especialy for resource problemes) isn't very good. If you use this tool for your Help directory I'd be happy to see my name in the Help->Help-credits and to get a mail which announces your product if it is possible to buy it. Thanks. Frank Thomas <frank@glocke.robin.de>
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.
