1. A template system template-new is called new by upstream author. It is especially useful in conjunction with a simple text editor such as vi. The user maintains templates which may contain format strings. At run time, new replaces the format strings in a template with appropriate values to create a new file. This amounts to creation of new files from templates by issuing a command like: new file.C It comes with a large set of predefined templates. From Debian 3.0r0 APT