# Heirloom

The Heirloom project maintains classical UNIX tools and utilities for modern open source operating systems.

Utilities provided by the corresponding packages are installed into `/usr/heirloom/bin/` and `/usr/heirloom/lib/`. Some POSIX utilities are additionally provided in `/usr/heirloom/bin/posix/`.

Name | Packages | Notes
--- | --- | ---
Toolchest | heirloom-cvsAUR | Classical UNIX binaries corresponding to GNU coreutils, diffutils, tar and more, organized according to the different UNIX releases.
Bourne shell | heirloom-shAUR, heirloom-sh-cvsAUR |
Development tools | heirloom-devtools-cvsAUR | Tools like yacc, lex, m4, make, and sccs. This package, together with the Bourne shell, forms a foundation for the rest of the Heirloom packages. Using the classical devtools ensures consistent behavior, independent of any changes made to the corresponding GNU tools.
Documentation tools | heirloom-doctoolsAUR, heirloom-doctools-cvsAUR, heirloom-doctools-gitAUR | An alternative to groff.
mailx | heirloom-mailx-cvsAUR |
Packaging tools | heirloom-pkgtools-cvsAUR | A port of Sun SVR4's package management system, which was released as open source with OpenSolaris.

Category:

- Command shells