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