Miscellaneous Utilities Software

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Compression/Uncompression Software and other Utilities

gzip.exe (Unix)

Compress or uncompress files. Can uncompress files that were compressed with gzip, zip, compress, or pack. More info.

compress.exe

Compress a file. The compress file will have a .z extention. It is compatable with Unix compress and uncompress. More info.

uncomp.exe (PC)

Uncompress a file. The compress file must have a .z extention. It is compatable with Unix compress and uncompress. More info.

pkzip.exe

Compress files.

pkunzip.exe

Uncompress files.

dos2unix.exe

Removes Carriage Return from an ASCII file to convert a standard DOS file to a standard Unix file.

unix2dos.exe

Adds Carriage Return to an ASCII file to convert it from a standard Unix file to a standard DOS file.

du.exe

UNIX-like utility to show how much space is occupied by a directory tree. More info.

grep.com

UNIX-like utility that searches files for a pattern and prints all lines that contain that pattern.

gzip.exe

Compress or uncompress files. Can uncompress files that were compressed with gzip, zip, compress, or pack. More info.

rm.com

UNIX-like utility to remove files and subdirectories.

tar.exe

UNIX-like utility to store many files into a single archive, which can be kept in file, stored on an I/O device such as tape, floppy, cartridge, or disk, sent over a network, or piped to another program. More info.

touch.com

UNIX-like utility to update or create a file with the current date and time.

uudecode.exe

Uudecode reads an encoded file, strips off any leading and trailing lines added by mailers, and recreates the original file with the specified mode and name. More info.

uuencode.exe

Uuencode takes the named source file (default standard input) and produces an encoded version on the standard output. The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters, and includes the mode of the file and the remotedest for recreation on the remote system. This can be used to send binary files through mail. More info.

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