fish-0006

Short:        Fish disk 0006
Uploader:     Fish Disks <aminet aminet net>
Type:         misc/fish
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


============================== README.list6 ==============================
This is disk 6 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library.

compress	Compress reduces the size of the named files using
		adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding.  The amount of compression
		obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of
		bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings.
		Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced
		by 50-60%.  Compression is generally much better then that
		achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or
		adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes
		less time to compute.  Great for saving disk space, or
		reducing transmission time over phone lines!  Also includes
		"btoa" and "atob" for converting binary files to ascii, and
		then back to binary (for transmission over links that do
		not support 8 bits).
		Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others

dadc		A digital computer impersonating an analog clock
		impersonating a digital clock.
		Author: Perry S. Kivolowitz

microemacs	An upgraded version of microemacs originally distributed
		on disk number 2.  I don't have an exact list of changes
		but the new executable is about 25% larger, so there must
		be something in there!  One enhancement is that some
		functions are now also bound to function keys.
		Author: Dave Conroy, with enhancements by Jack Roose.

mult		Mult reads the input comparing adjacent lines.  In the
		normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated
		lines are output, and the remainder of the lines are
		removed.  Repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be
		found.  Options are present to output the first of multiple
		lines, for comparing adjacent lines by field only, and for
		specifying the field separator character.  Kind of the
		opposite of the Unix "uniq" program.
		Author: Dennis Bednar

scales		Demonstrates use of the Audio functions in the ROM to
		produce four voice sound.  It uses a simple waveform
		(sawtooth) with no amplitude control (ie, envelope)
		or frequency variation (ie, vibrato), but these can be
		easily implemented.  Also includes considerable 
		documentation on audio device.
		Author: Steven A. Bennett
 
setparallel	Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
		parallel port parameter.
		Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky

setserial	Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
		serial port parameter.
		Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky

sortc		A quicksort based sort program, using separate driver
		and sort modules.  Originally from a DECUS C distribution.
		Claims to be fast, but when operating entirely out of ram
		takes 93 seconds to sort its input file, sort.c, while
		AmigaDos's sort takes only 43 seconds under the same 
		conditions.
		Author: Dave Conroy, Martin Minow, and Ray Van Tassle

stripc		Strips comments and extraneous whitespace from C source
		files.  Useful for compacting the C header files to
		increase usable disk space.
		Author: Chris Metcalf

		
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