1:   This is a handy little utility to display a tree view of directories that
    2: I wrote some time ago and just added color support to.  I've decided that
    3: since no one else has done something simular I would go ahead and release
    4: it, even though it's barely a 1st year CS student hack.  I've found it damn
    5: handy to peruse a directory tree though, especially when someone is trying to
    6: hide something from you.
    7: 
    8:   The main distribution site for tree is here:
    9: 
   10:   ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/
   11: 
   12:   If you don't like the way it looks let me know how you think it should be
   13: formatted. Feel free to suggest modifications and additions.
   14: 
   15:   Thanks go out so the following people who have helped bring tree to the
   16: pinnacle of perfection that it is: ;)
   17: 
   18: Francesc Rocher
   19:   - Added HTML output (-H).
   20:   - Added options -o, -L and -R.
   21: 
   22: Gerald Scheidl
   23:   - Added -S option to print ASCII graphics lines for use under linux
   24:     console when an alternate console font has been selected (might also
   25:     work under DOS telnet).
   26: 
   27: Guido Socher (and others)
   28:   - Made tree more portable.  Should compile under solaris.
   29: 
   30: Mitja Lacen
   31:   - Discovered bug where tree will segmentation fault on long pathnames.
   32:   - Discovered in -L argument processing.
   33: 
   34: Nathaniel Delage
   35:   - Discovered problem with recursive symlink detection
   36: 
   37: A. Karthik
   38:   - Suggested option to remove file and directory report at end of tree
   39:     listing.
   40: 
   41: Roger Luethi
   42:   - Spotted memory over-allocation bug in read_dir().
   43:   - Submitted several patches to fix various memory leaks.
   44: 
   45: Daniel Lee
   46:   - Reported that Tru64 defines TRUE/FALSE in sys/types.h (OSF1 standard?)
   47: 
   48: Paolo Violini
   49:   - Found bug in tree that caused it to seg-fault if 50 file arguments where
   50:     given and directory coloring was turned on.
   51: 
   52: Mitsuaki Masuhara
   53:   - Discovered tree crashed on missing arguments.
   54:   - Discovered that tree did not properly encode characters in filenames
   55:     when used as URLs when using the -H option.
   56:   - Fixed issue with --charset option processing.
   57: 
   58: Johan Fredrik
   59:   - Pointed out that tree did not list large files.
   60: 
   61: Ted Tiberio
   62:   - Submitted patch which fixed a compiler issue and cleaned up HTML and CSS
   63:     code, applied CSS to all output, and fixed up HTML to 4.01 strict
   64:     standards.
   65: 
   66: David MacMahon
   67:   - Added '|' support to the pattern matching routines.
   68: 
   69: Dan Jacobson
   70:   - Pointed out that -t did not sort properly for files with the same
   71:     timestamp.
   72:   - Suggested option to change HTML title and H1 string.
   73:   - Suggested -r option for reversed alphanumeric sort ala 'ls -r'.
   74: 
   75: Kyosuke Tokoro
   76:   - Provided patch to support OS/2, fix HTML encoding, provide charset
   77:     support. Added to authors list.
   78: 
   79: Florian Ernst
   80:   - Debian maintainer who pointed out problems and applied fire to feet to fix
   81:     stuff.
   82: 
   83: Jack Cuyler
   84:   - Suggested -h option for human readable output for -s, ala ls -lh.
   85: 
   86: Jonathon Cranford
   87:   - Supplied patch to make tree under cygwin.
   88: 
   89: Richard Houser
   90:   - Provided patch to fix a colorization bug when dealing with special
   91:     files and directories that seem to have an extension.
   92: 
   93: Zurd (?)
   94:   - Suggested removing trailing slash on user supplied directory names if -f
   95:     option is used.
   96: 
   97: John Nintendud
   98:   - Pointed out broken HTML output in 1.5.1.
   99: 
  100: And many others whom I've failed to keep track of.  I should have started
  101: this list years ago.
  102: 
  103:                                                 - Steve Baker
  104:                                                   ice@mama.indstate.edu