AST

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This is the AT&T Software Technology (AST) toolkit from AT&T Research.

It includes many tools and libraries, like KSH, NMAKE, SFIO, VMALLOC, VCODEX,

etc. It also includes more efficient replacements for a lot of the POSIX tools.

It was designed to be portable across many UNIX systems and also works

under UWIN on Microsoft Windows (see UWIN repo on GitHub under att/uwin).

This software is used to build itself, using NMAKE.

After cloning this repo, cd to the top directory of it and run:

./bin/package make

Almost all the tools in this package (including the bin/package script are

self-documenting; run <tool> --man (or --html) for the man page for the tool.

(If you were used to the old AST packaging mechanism, on [www.research.att.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20151104235435/http://www2.research.att.com/%7Eastopen/download/),

this repo is equivalent to downloading the INIT and ast-open packages and

running: ./bin/package read on them).