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duplink
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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
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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)

These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.