Kent Landfield's lc command

I've retrieved several versions of the lc command, a tool to categorize and list files in columns, from old comp.sources.misc archives from 1990 to 1993 and gathered them into this git repository. I've also applied a few small patches of my own so it builds on modern systems.

I have not touched any of the SCCS version information in these files; for example, the "@(#)lc.c 1.37 10/18/92 Kent Landfield" in lc.c is not current (git doesn't insert version information into checked out files). I have updated patchlevel.h, changing the patch level from 2 to 3.

The comp.sources.misc subdirectory contains the original articles posted to comp.sources.misc. In some cases, I manually cleaned up the mangling that Google Groups does to e-mail addresses.

To build:

cd src
make

This will create the executable lc. There is currently no installation script. Just copy the lc executable into a directory in your $PATH, and lc.1 into the man1 subdirectory of some directory in your $MATHPATH.

I've minimally tested this (it builds and executes) on Ubuntu 11.04, Debian 6.06, and Solaris 9. (On Solaris 9, it seems to assume that the maximum file name length is 14; I'll work on a fix for that.)

On Cygwin, the curses.h header is at /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h, not /usr/include/curses.h; you'll need to edit the Makefile (search for "Cygwin"). (TODO: Automate this.)

-- Keith Thompson [email protected] Thu 2013-01-24