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44 .TH sw-tidy 1 "30 July 1999" sw-tools
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50 sw-tidy \- tidy \fBsw\fP's index file
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68 and writes out a new version with duplicate packages removed. This
69 makes it take less space, and lets programs read it faster. Also, as a
70 side-effect, the new version is written out in alphabetical order of
71 package-name, although that's not very important.
73 The program copes (a bit) if the index file is written to while it's
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80 Perhaps there ought to be a locking convention for the index file.
81 However, it's nice that people can update it using
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94 The \*(sw program, and this manual, are \*(mw productions, in association
95 with the European Bioinformatics Institute. They were written by Mark
96 Wooding <mdw@nsict.org>. Go and ask him if you have problems.
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