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DESCRIPTION

  stat is a tool to display information about files you specify on
  the command line.  It basically reports all the information
  that the stat() function returns:

    $ stat stat.c ~
    Info for 'stat.c':
      The absolute pathname is '/u/pfuntnr/external/stat/stat.c'
      It is a regular file
      inode: 12044, device id: 7 (OMVS.HFS.PFUNTNR)
      Permissions: User: RW, Group: R, Other: R
      There are 1 links to this file
      Owning user: PFUNTNR (3)    Owning group POSIX (1)
      The file has 6644 bytes
      Created:  Sat Jul 30 1994 10:30:24 AM EDT
      Accessed: Sat Jul 30 1994 10:30:24 AM EDT
      ctime:    Sat Jul 30 1994 10:30:24 AM EDT
      mtime:    Sat Jul 30 1994 10:30:24 AM EDT

    Info for '/u/pfuntnr':
      The absolute pathname is '/u/pfuntnr'
      It is a directory
      inode: 0, device id: 7 (OMVS.HFS.PFUNTNR)
      Permissions: User: RWS, Group: RS, Other: RS
      Owning user: PFUNTNR (3)    Owning group POSIX (1)
      Created:  Mon May 23 1994 02:39:06 PM EDT
      Accessed: Sat Jul 30 1994 11:28:20 AM EDT
      ctime:    Sat Jul 30 1994 10:33:42 AM EDT
      mtime:    Sat Jul 30 1994 10:33:42 AM EDT

INSTALLATION

  No makefile is provided for this program but you can still use make
  to compile it.  It only has one source file so if you say "make
  stat", make's built-in rules have enough information to know that
  it needs to compile and link the program.