The check Home Page

Page last updated: 28 December 1998


Welcome to the check home page.

check is a documentation tool. It is a utility to keep directory index files up to date on UNIX systems.

An article about check entitled ``Toolman's Approach to Documenting UNIX Directories'' appears in the June 1997 issue of the USENIX Association's ;login: magazine.



The following are available:
check:
The program itself - Bourne shell script [51 KB].

check.man:
The ``man'' page, troff format [12 KB].

check.ps:
The ``man'' page, PostScript format [26 KB].

article.text:
The ;login: article in plain ASCII text format [11 KB].

article.pdf:
The article in PDF format [25 KB].

article.ps.gz:
The article in gzipped PostScript format [377 KB].

index2html:
A related script that converts an INDEX file into HTML -- Bourne shell script [21 KB].



check is written and maintained by Daniel E. Singer at the Department of Computer Science of Duke University. If you have any questions, please send email to des@cs.duke.edu.



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