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-This collection contains a bunch of small tools for JACK
-(jack-audio-connection-kit), written by Rohan Drape.
+jack-tools (tools for jack)
+
+This collection contains a bunch of small tools for JACK, written by
+Rohan Drape.
Included utilities:
-jack-data - JACK audio data onto OSC
-jack-dl - JACK shared library dsp loader
-jack-lxvst - Linux native VSTi host. Not included by default.
- See README_VST.txt for details.
-jack-osc - JACK Transport Publication Daemon
-jack-play - JACK Sound File Player
-jack-plumbing - JACK Plumbing Daemon
-jack-record - JACK Capture Client
-jack-scope - JACK Oscilloscope
-jack-transport - Minimalist Jack Transport Interface
-jack-udp - JACK UDP Transport Client
+rju-data - JACK audio data onto OSC.
+rju-dl - JACK shared library dsp loader.
+rju-osc - JACK Transport Publication Daemon.
+rju-play - JACK Sound File Player.
+rju-plumbing - JACK Plumbing Daemon.
+rju-record - JACK Capture Client.
+rju-scope - JACK Oscilloscope.
+rju-transport - Minimalist JACK Transport Interface.
+rju-udp - JACK UDP Transport Client.
+
+If you have the VST SDK from Steinberg, the package can also include
+some VST-related tools:
+
+rju-lxvst - Linux native VST host. Not included by default.
+lxvst-query - Print information about a Linux native VST plugin.
+
+See README_VST.txt for details.
+
+In previous versions of jack-tools, the tool names had "jack-" as a
+prefix, instead of "rju-". Upstream changed the names in April, 2021.
This package uses POSIX filesystem capabilities to execute with
elevated privileges (required for realtime audio processing). This