This package has been been updated and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ctan.tools
Author's name: huynh ky anh (aka kyanh)
Location on CTAN: /support/ctantools
Summary description: client to access CTAN (download/search files/packages)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ABOUT
This small tool is used to seach/download some LaTeX packages that were
listed in CTAN:
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
or search/download for any files in
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/.
Since version 1.0.1, the tools will use the cache file
http://kyanh.net/ctan.tools//dump_files.tbz
This file contains the list of all files in CTAN. It's updated daily by
a cron job hosted
by http://kyanh.net/. The size of file is about 3MB (compressed) &
15MB (un-compressed).
The tool requires wget, lynx, gawk, wc, tar/bzip and sed program to run
correctly.
Some linux distribution doesnot contains lynx by default and you must
install lynx manually
before running this script.
So this tool requires a *nix-liked environment to work.
This tool was written by kyanh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kyanh is a member of Vietnamese TeX Users Group <http://viettug.org>.
He wrote this script as he wanted a fast client to access CTAN.
VERSION
1.0.0 2008/05/11: first version
1.1.0 2008/05/15: search for files (use cache file)
1.1.1 2008/05/15: fix bug (ctan_update)
USAGE
ctan : show all information about this tool
ctan update : update the package list (require lynx, wc, tar/bzip and
internet connection).
ctan grep <string>: search packages match <string>. grep ability is
supported.
ctan get <string> : download packages match <string> to working
directory.
If you want to search for files:
ctan grep -file <string> : search for files.
ctan get -file <string> : download files match <string> to
working directory.
EXAMPLES
ctan grep theorem # search for packages match "theorem"
ctan grep ^n # search for packages srated by "n"
ctan get ^n # download packages started by "n"
ctan get -file contrib/ntheorem.zip
TODO
* package information supported
* ability to select FTP mirror
* search by package description,...
* package build script
LICENSE
This tool is published under LPPL.
BUGS
Feel free to contact kyanh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. All feedback are
welcome.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctantools
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctantools
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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