Chapter 13. A Miscellany of Scripts
This chapter contains a miscellany of scripts contributed by Usenet users. Each program is introduced with a brief description by the program’s author. Our comments are placed inside brackets [like this]. Then the full program listing is shown. If the author did not supply an example, we generate one and describe it after the listing. Finally, in Section 13.1.1, we talk briefly about the program, highlighting some interesting points. Here is a summary of the scripts:
- uutot.awk
Report UUCP statistics.
- phonebill
Track phone usage.
- combine
Extract multipart uuencoded binaries.
- mailavg
Check size of mailboxes.
- adj
Adjust lines for text files.
- readsource
Format program source files for troff.
- gent
Get a termcap entry.
- plpr
lpr preprocessor.
- transpose
Perform a matrix transposition.
- m1
A very simple macro processor.
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