Heirloom Provides traditional implementations of standard Unix utilities.
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Provides traditional implementations of standard Unix utilities. Heirloom is a Mac OS X port of the heirloom tools that uses the users default encoding, eg en_US.ISO8859-1.The Heirloom Project provides traditional implementations of standard Unix utilities. In many cases, they have been derived from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun.Interfaces follow traditional practice; they remain generally compatible with System V, although extensions that have become common use over the course of time are sometimes provided. Most utilities are also included in a variant that aims at POSIX conformance. You can switch the encoding on the fly by setting the environment variable 'HEIRLOOMENC', this allows to work with different encodings at the same time. Check $HEIRLOOM/5bin/5 and $HEIRLOOM/etc/5.rc for more details.Heirlooms troff typesetter supports a wide range of UTF-8 glyphs and Truetype/Opentype fonts. There are several tools available to convert the standard Mac fonts into TTF format. After conversion place them into /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF.European users have the possibility to use troff to implement the '.mediasize a4' request in order to generate DIN A4 pages instead of the default US letter.

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