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| ===== Software Packages on SDF by Category ===== | |
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| This page is intended to present the many, many software packages & programs currently installed on SDF, sorted into categories for ease of reference. New users can refer to this file when trying to find programs, and even long-time SDFers can possibly discover something new here. | |
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| Note that this list is not expected to contain every single package currently installed. For a complete list of packages on SDF, see [[http://sdf.org/index.cgi?software|here]]. For a complete list of software that //could// be installed see [[ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/README-all.html|here]]. Software requests are made by making a post on the 'bboard' board. | |
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| Programs marked "ARPA", "MetaARPA", "DBA", or similar can only be run by users with the specified membership level. | |
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| **Note:** If you are planning on adding to this file, you are advised to follow the [[=software_packages_on_sdf_by_category#guidelines_for_maintaining_this_file|recommendations below]]. | |
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| === Text Editors === | |
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| * "ce" | |
| * "ed" -- the standard text editor | |
| * "[[http://mahon.cwx.net/|ee]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/|emacs]]" | |
| * "ex" | |
| * "[[http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html|hexedit]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/|jed]]" | |
| * "[[http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/|joe]]" | |
| * "jove" | |
| * "[[http://mined.sourceforge.net/|mined]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.nano-editor.org/|nano]]" | |
| * "ne" -- Cambridge text editor | |
| * "[[http://www.bostic.com/vi/|nvi]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.washington.edu/alpine/mans.html/#pico|pico]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.aquest.com/emacs.htm|uemacs]]" | |
| * "ve" | |
| * "[[http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/|vi]]" | |
| * "[[http://invisible-island.net/vile/|vile]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.vim.org|vim]]" -- Vi IMproved | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/|zile]]" | |
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| === Binary File Editors === | |
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| * "beav" | |
| * "[[http://bvi.sourceforge.net/|bvi]]" | |
| * "hexedit" | |
| * "id3" | |
| * "id3ed" | |
| * "id3v2" | |
| * "mp3asm" | |
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| === E-mail Clients === | |
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| * "[[http://www.washington.edu/alpine/|alpine]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.instinct.org/elm/|elm]]" | |
| * "mail" | |
| * "mailto" | |
| * "mailx" | |
| * "mm" | |
| * "mush" | |
| * "[[http://www.mutt.org|mutt]]" | |
| * "nmh" | |
| * "pine" | |
| * "rmail" | |
| * "xmh" | |
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| === Mail-Processing & Other Mail-Related Programs === | |
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| * "biff" -- notifies you when new mail arrives | |
| * "[[http://www.fetchmail.info/|fetchmail]]" -- fetch mail from a remote server | |
| * "formail" | |
| * "frm", "nfrm" -- list "From:" and "Subject:" of selected messages in mailbox or folder | |
| * "from" | |
| * "getmail" | |
| * "imapfilter" | |
| * "mailstat" | |
| * "mdfrm" -- parses Maildir files | |
| * "metamail" | |
| * "metasend" | |
| * "mhn" | |
| * "[[http://www.procmail.org/|procmail]]" | |
| * "sendfiles" | |
| * "splitmail" | |
| * "ssmtp" | |
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| === Shells === | |
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| * "bash" | |
| * "csh" | |
| * "ksh" | |
| * "[[http://kornshell.org/|ksh93]]" | |
| * "mudsh" -- "M.U.D. game-like shell" | |
| * "[[http://www.v6shell.org|osh]]" -- a port of the Sixth Edition Thompson shell | |
| * "[[http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/|pdksh]]" | |
| * "rc" | |
| * "sh" | |
| * "[[http://www.tcsh.org|tcsh]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.zsh.org/|zsh]]" | |
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| === Filesystem Utilities === | |
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| * "basename" | |
| * "chflags" | |
| * "chgrp" | |
| * "chmod" | |
| * "colorls" -- like "ls", but with a "-G" option that enables colorized output | |
| * "cp" -- copy files | |
| * "df" | |
| * "dirname" | |
| * "du" | |
| * "file" -- determine the type of a file | |
| * "ln" | |
| * "ls" -- list the contents of a directory | |
| * "mkdir" -- create a directory | |
| * "mv" -- move/rename a file | |
| * "quota" | |
| * "readlink" | |
| * "rm" -- delete files | |
| * "rmdir" -- delete empty directories | |
| * "stat" | |
| * "touch" | |
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| === File Processing & Filtering === | |
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| * "awk" | |
| * "cat" -- output the contents of a file | |
| * "cmp" -- display differences between two files byte by byte | |
| * "colrm" | |
| * "column" | |
| * "comm" -- display line common to two files | |
| * "cut" | |
| * "dd" | |
| * "diff" -- display differences between two files line by line | |
| * "diff3" -- display differences between three files line by line | |
| * "dos2unix" -- convert CRLF line endings to LF | |
| * "expand" | |
| * "fmt" | |
| * "fold" | |
| * "grep" -- search files for lines matching a pattern | |
| * "head" -- print the first few lines of a file | |
| * "hexdump" | |
| * "indent" | |
| * "join" | |
| * "look" | |
| * "mawk" | |
| * "merge" | |
| * "nl" -- number lines | |
| * "od" | |
| * "par" | |
| * "paste" | |
| * "patch" -- apply the output of a "diff" command to a file | |
| * "pr" -- format text files for printing | |
| * "rev" | |
| * "sdiff" | |
| * "sed" | |
| * "sort" -- sort lines | |
| * "split" -- split a file into pieces | |
| * "states" | |
| * "tabs" | |
| * "tail" -- print the last few lines of a file | |
| * "tidy" | |
| * "tr" | |
| * "uniq" | |
| * "unix2dos" -- convert LF line endings to CRLF | |
| * "vis" | |
| * "wc" -- count the number of bytes, characters, words, and/or lines in a file | |
| * "xxd" | |
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| === Web Browsers === | |
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| * "dillo" -- only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts | |
| * "[[http://elinks.or.cz/|elinks]]" | |
| * "[[http://links.sourceforge.net/|links]]" | |
| * "[[http://lynx.isc.org/|lynx]]" | |
| * "[[http://w3m.sourceforge.net/|w3m]]" | |
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| === Newsreaders === | |
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| * "Pnews" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.nndev.org/|nn]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "pine" (ARPA) | |
| * "rn" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://slrn.sourceforge.net|slrn]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.tin.org/|tin]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "trn" (ARPA) | |
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| === File Transfer & Retrieval Programs === | |
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| * "[[http://curl.haxx.se/|curl]]" | |
| * "ftp" (ARPA) | |
| * "gopher" | |
| * "kermit" (ARPA) | |
| * "ncftpget" (ARPA) | |
| * "rcp" | |
| * "[[http://rsync.samba.org/|rsync]]" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "scp" -- copy files between machines using SSH (ARPA) | |
| * "sftp" -- secure file transfer protocol (ARPA) | |
| * "snarf" (ARPA) | |
| * "sz, rz, sb, rb, sx, rx" | |
| * "tftp" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/|unison]]" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "uucp" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/|wget]]" (ARPA) | |
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| === Network Utilities === | |
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| * "[[http://toxygen.net/6tunnel/|6tunnel]]" -- tunnel IPv6 connections over IPv4 | |
| * "cidr" | |
| * "cu" | |
| * "dig" | |
| * "[[http://www.maxmind.com/app/api|geoip]]" | |
| * "host" -- get the IP address for a domain name or vice versa | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/|jwhois]]" | |
| * "ldapsearch" | |
| * "netstat" | |
| * "nmap" | |
| * "nslookup" | |
| * "ping" | |
| * "ruptime" | |
| * "sipcalc" | |
| * "traceroute" -- follow the path packets take to a remote host | |
| * "uux" | |
| * "whois" | |
| * "yuptime" | |
| * "yusers" | |
| * "ywho" | |
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| === Remote Networking === | |
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| * "dict" -- DICT protocol client | |
| * "rlogin" (ARPA) | |
| * "rsh" | |
| * "[[http://www.openssh.org/|ssh]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "telnet" (ARPA) | |
| * "tn3270" | |
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| === Chat-System Clients === | |
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| * "bitchx" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://bsflite.sourceforge.net/|bsflite]]" -- AIM client (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.centerim.org/|centerim]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.climm.org/|climm]]" -- ICQ client (ARPA) | |
| * "epic" -- IRC client (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.pidgin.im/|finch]]" -- IRC client; only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.irssi.org/|irssi]]" -- IRC client (MetaARPA) | |
| * "[[http://naim.n.ml.org/|naim]]" -- AIM client (ARPA) | |
| * "ninja" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.scrollz.com|scrollz]]" -- IRC client (ARPA) | |
| * "sic" (ARPA) | |
| * "silc" (ARPA) | |
| * "tac" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/|ttytter]]" -- terminal-based Twitter client (ARPA) | |
| * "xaric" -- IRC client (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://ysmv7.sourceforge.net/|ysm]]" -- ICQ client (ARPA) | |
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| === Inter-user Communication Software === | |
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| * "mesg" | |
| * "talk" | |
| * "wall" | |
| * "write" | |
| * "ytalk" | |
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| === User Information === | |
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| * "finger" | |
| * "groups" | |
| * "id" | |
| * "logname" | |
| * "whoami" | |
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| === System Information === | |
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| * "date" | |
| * "domainname" | |
| * "hostname" | |
| * "machine" | |
| * "uname" | |
| * "uptime" | |
| * "users" | |
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| === Process Information & Control === | |
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| * "env" | |
| * "kill" | |
| * "killall" | |
| * "lsof" | |
| * "nice" | |
| * "nohup" | |
| * "pkill" | |
| * "printenv" | |
| * "ps" | |
| * "pstree" -- display a tree of processes | |
| * "time" -- time how long it takes a program to run | |
| * "top" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "w" | |
| * "watch" -- watch a program with update intervals | |
| * "who" | |
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| === Compilers === | |
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| * "c++" (ARPA) | |
| * "c89" (wrapper around "cc") | |
| * "cc" (ARPA) | |
| * "clisp" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "distcc" | |
| * "distccd" | |
| * "[[http://gcc.gnu.org|g++]]" -- GNU C++ compiler (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://gcc.gnu.org|g77]]" | |
| * "[[http://gcc.gnu.org|gcc]]" -- GNU C compiler (ARPA) | |
| * "jikes" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "nasm" (MetaARPA) | |
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| === Programming Language Interpreters & Virtual Machines === | |
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| * "cint" -- C interpreter | |
| * "[[http://www.haskell.org/hugs/|hugs]]" -- Haskell interpreter | |
| * "java" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.kaffe.org/|kaffe]]" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "lisp" (MetaARPA; wrapper around "uxlisp") | |
| * "[[http://www.perl.org|perl]]" -- pathologically eclectic rubbish lister practical extraction & report language (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.php.net|php]]" -- PHP: hypertext preprocessor (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.python.org|python]]" (ARPA) | |
| * "ruby" (ARPA) | |
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| === Version Control Systems === | |
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| * "cvs" | |
| * "[[http://git.or.cz/|git]]" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "[[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/|hg]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/|rcs]]" | |
| * "sccs" | |
| * "[[http://subversion.tigris.org|svn]]" (MetaARPA) | |
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| === Miscellaneous Software Development Programs === | |
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| * "[[http://ant.apache.org/|ant]]" (MetaARPA) | |
| * "as" (ARPA) | |
| * "[[http://asp2php.naken.cc/|asp2php]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/|autoconf]]" | |
| * "[[http://sources.redhat.com/automake/|automake]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/|bison]]" -- GNU yacc | |
| * "chicken" | |
| * "cim" | |
| * "cook" | |
| * "cpp" -- C preprocessor | |
| * "[[http://cscope.sourceforge.net/|cscope]]" | |
| * "flex" -- GNU lex (ARPA) | |
| * "gcov" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/|gdb]]" -- GNU debugger | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/make/|gmake]]" | |
| * "gprof" | |
| * "ld" (ARPA) | |
| * "lex" (ARPA) | |
| * "lint" | |
| * "m4" | |
| * "make" (ARPA) | |
| * "mkdep" | |
| * "phpize" | |
| * "yacc" -- yet another compiler compiler (ARPA) | |
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| === Encryption & Cryptography Programs === | |
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| * "cksum" | |
| * "[[http://gnupg.org/|gpg]]" | |
| * "md5" | |
| * "openssl" | |
| * "pgp5" | |
| * "sha1" | |
| * "sum" | |
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| === File Format Converters (non-image) === | |
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| * "2vcard" | |
| * "[[http://www.winfield.demon.nl/|antiword]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/|asciidoc]]" | |
| * "[[http://vitus.wagner.pp.ru/software/catdoc/|catdoc]]" | |
| * "[[http://hevea.inria.fr/|hevea]]" | |
| * "[[http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/|latex2rtf]]" | |
| * "makeinfo" | |
| * "[[http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/|pdftohtml]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/|pdftotext]]" | |
| * "richtext" | |
| * "[[http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtf2html|rtf2html]]" | |
| * "rtf2LaTeX" | |
| * "rtf2text" | |
| * "rtf2troff" | |
| * "texi2dvi" | |
| * "[[http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/|troffcvt]]" | |
| * "[[http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/|xlhtml]]" | |
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| === File Archival & Compression Utilities === | |
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| * "aetar" | |
| * "ar" | |
| * "bsdtar" | |
| * "bzip2" | |
| * "compress" | |
| * "cpio" | |
| * "freeze" | |
| * "gtar" | |
| * "gzip" | |
| * "lzop" | |
| * "mousetar" | |
| * "pax" | |
| * "shar" | |
| * "tar" | |
| * "zip" | |
| * "znew" | |
| * "zoo" | |
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| === File Encoding === | |
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| * "caesar" | |
| * "iconv" | |
| * "mimencode" | |
| * "rot13" | |
| * "uuencode" | |
| * "yencode" | |
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| === File Managers === | |
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| * "[[http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/|mc]]" | |
| * "[[http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/|vfu]]" | |
| * "[[http://vifm.sourceforge.net/|vifm]]" | |
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| === Typesetting === | |
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| * Manpages & *roff | |
| * "colcrt" | |
| * "eqn" | |
| * "groff" | |
| * "groffer" | |
| * "grog" | |
| * "grotty" | |
| * "nroff" | |
| * "pic" | |
| * "refer" | |
| * "tbl" | |
| * "troff" | |
| * "vgrind" | |
| * PostScript & PDFs | |
| * "abcm2ps" -- "Converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format" | |
| * "diffpp" | |
| * "enscript" | |
| * "[[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/|gs]]" ("ps2pdf", "ps2ascii", "pdf2ps", "epstopdf", etc.) | |
| * "ps2eps" | |
| * "psnup" | |
| * "yup" | |
| * TeX, LaTeX, etc. | |
| * "dvipdf" | |
| * "dvips" | |
| * "etex" | |
| * "[[http://www.latex-project.org/|latex]]" | |
| * "lgrind" | |
| * "mf" | |
| * "mktexmf" | |
| * "mktexpk" | |
| * "mpost" | |
| * "pdfetex" | |
| * "pslatex" | |
| * "tex" | |
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| === XML Processing Programs === | |
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| * "xmllint" | |
| * "xmlto" | |
| * "xsltproc" | |
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| === Text File Pagers === | |
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| * "less" | |
| * "more" | |
| * "most" | |
| * "pg" | |
| |
| === Games === | |
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| * "adv770" | |
| * "animal" -- the computer tries to guess what animal you're thinking of | |
| * "atc" -- air traffic controller game | |
| * "backgammon" -- the game of backgammon; play against the computer or a friend | |
| * "battlestar" -- "a tropical [text] adventure game" | |
| * "bluemoon" -- one of many solitaire card games | |
| * "boggle" | |
| * "c4" -- Connect Four | |
| * "canfield" -- the solitaire card game canfield | |
| * "cribbage" -- the card game cribbage (played against the computer) | |
| * "dinkum" -- an Australian text-adventure game | |
| * "[[http://dopewars.sourceforge.net/|dopewars]]" | |
| * "dungeon" | |
| * "fish" -- Go Fish | |
| * "[[http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/|gnuchess4]]" | |
| * "hack" | |
| * "knight" -- Knight's Tour -- move the knight to visit every square on the board | |
| * "larn" -- "exploring the caverns of Larn" | |
| * "mdg" | |
| * "monop" -- Monopoly | |
| * "moon-buggy" | |
| * "moria" | |
| * "motti" | |
| * "[[http://www.nethack.org|nethack]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.netris.org|netris]]" -- "A free networked version of T*tris" | |
| * "nobs" -- cribbage game | |
| * "phantasia" | |
| * "robots" | |
| * "robots2" | |
| * "rogue" | |
| * "saa" -- play the solitaire card game "streets and alleys" | |
| * "ski" -- "an unusual skiing simulation game" | |
| * "snake" | |
| * "sokoban" | |
| * "tetris" | |
| * "[[http://www.thxmoo.org/|thxmoo]]" | |
| * "tttt" -- 4×4 Tic-Tac-Toe with wraparound edges | |
| * "wand" | |
| * "worm" | |
| * "wump" -- Hunt the Wumpus | |
| * "zombies" | |
| |
| === Diversions === | |
| |
| //(Things otherwise classified as games but without a goal or in which the user doesn't really do anything)// | |
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| * "anagram" -- search the dictionary for anagrams of a word | |
| * "arithmetic" -- quiz on simple arithmetic | |
| * "autopun" -- "Phonetically Reparse an English Phrase" | |
| * "aybabtu" -- ASCII recreation of the ZeroWing opening sequence | |
| * "banner" | |
| * "bcd" | |
| * "cookie" | |
| * "countmail" -- a program for laughing at the size of your inbox | |
| * "[[http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml|cowsay]]" -- an ASCII cow says stuff | |
| * "crypto" -- "a program to generate and/or solve cryptograms" | |
| * "cursive" | |
| * "dive" | |
| * "factor" | |
| * "[[http://www.figlet.org/|figlet]]" | |
| * "fortune" | |
| * "macarena" -- the horror... //the horror...// | |
| * "macarena1" -- the horror revisited | |
| * "morse" | |
| * "number" -- convert Arabic numerals to English | |
| * "phoon" -- shows the phase of the moon with an ASCII image | |
| * "pig" -- anslatetray exttay intoway Igpay Atinlay | |
| * "pom" -- display the phase of the moon | |
| * "ppt" | |
| * "primes" | |
| * "quiz" -- "random knowledge tests" | |
| * "rain" -- animated ASCII raindrops on a terminal | |
| * "sonnet" | |
| * "suicide" | |
| * "suicide1" | |
| * "suicide2" | |
| * "suicide3" | |
| * "wargames" | |
| * "worms" -- animate worms on a terminal | |
| * "wtf" | |
| |
| === Game Interpreters & Clients === | |
| |
| * "frotz" | |
| * "tf" | |
| |
| === Mathematical & Statistical Programs === | |
| |
| * "bc" | |
| * "dc" | |
| * "[[http://www.gnuplot.info/|gnuplot]]" | |
| * "mathomatic" | |
| |
| === Image Creation, Conversion, & Manipulation === | |
| |
| * ImageMagick ("animate", "compare", "composite", "conjure", "convert", "display", "identify", "import", "mogrify", "montage", "stream") | |
| * "compface" | |
| * "gif2png", "web2png" -- convert GIFs to PNGs | |
| * "jhead" -- digital camera JPEG exif header manipulation tool | |
| * "[[http://netpbm.sourceforge.net|netpbm]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.povray.org|povray]]" | |
| |
| === Spellcheckers === | |
| |
| * "[[http://www.abisource.com/enchant/|enchant]]" | |
| * "[[http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/|hunspell]]" | |
| * "[[http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html|ispell]]" | |
| |
| === Productivity & Reminder Software === | |
| |
| * "calendar" | |
| * "leave" | |
| * "[[http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind|remind]]" | |
| * "[[http://swapoff.org/DevTodo|todo]]" | |
| |
| === X11 Programs === | |
| |
| //(MetaARPA membership required)// | |
| |
| * "bitmap" | |
| * "ico" | |
| * "imake" | |
| * "luit" | |
| * "mwm" | |
| * "resize" | |
| * "startx" | |
| * "twm" | |
| * "xcalc" | |
| * "xclock" | |
| * "xeyes" | |
| * "xgamma" | |
| * "xlsfonts" | |
| * "xman" | |
| * "xmh" | |
| * "xsnow" | |
| * "[[http://invisible-island.net/xterm/|xterm]]" | |
| |
| === Database Programs === | |
| |
| * "[[http://www.mysql.com/|mysql]]" (DBA) | |
| * "psql" (DBA) | |
| * "[[http://www.sqlite.org/|sqlite]]" (DBA) | |
| * "sqlite3" (DBA) | |
| |
| === Feed Readers === | |
| |
| * "[[http://rss2email.infogami.com/|r2e]]" | |
| * "[[http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/|snownews]]" (ARPA) | |
| |
| === Terminal Management Programs === | |
| |
| * "clear" -- clear the screen | |
| * "lock" -- reserve a terminal | |
| * "stty" -- set various options for the current terminal | |
| * "tput" | |
| * "tset" | |
| * "tty" -- give the name of your terminal | |
| |
| === Information & Help === | |
| |
| * "apropos" -- search for programs by keywords in documentation | |
| * "ascii" | |
| * "info" | |
| * "man" -- view the manual page for a command | |
| * "[[http://pinfo.sourceforge.net|pinfo]]" -- like "info", but better | |
| * "vilearn" | |
| * "vimtutor" | |
| * "whatis" -- get a brief description of a command | |
| |
| === Finding Files & Programs === | |
| |
| * "find" -- search a directory tree for files that match given criteria (MetaARPA) | |
| * "locate" -- search a database of files for ones with the given name | |
| * "whereis" | |
| * "which" -- locate a program in your PATH | |
| |
| === Guidelines for Maintaining This File === | |
| |
| * Only programs that are located in the default users' PATH should be listed here; i.e., user-written software in "/sys/sdf/bin" should be left out. | |
| * Custom commands specific to SDF should be left out. There is already a list of them [[=finding_help#sdf_specific_commands|here]], or [[http://jwodder.freeshell.org/sdf/commands.html|here]]. | |
| * Make sure that a program is currently installed by seeing whether it exists in the PATH (e.g., with ""command -v program"" or ""finbin program""). There are many programs that don't have manual pages, and in some cases there may be manual pages left behind from old programs that were uninstalled. | |
| * While you don't have to, it would be nice if you included a brief description of what each command does along with a link to its official project page (if any). | |
| * Be sure to list membership requirements for programs that only ARPA or MetaARPA users can run. | |
| * Try to only list programs that fall into a specific category. You may add a new category if you feel one is needed, but only if you can find more than one program that fits into the new category (three or four programs seems like a good minimum, but we won't force you to follow this rule). | |
| * If you don't know what a program does (at least not well enough to place it into a category), don't add it. | |
| * If several closely-related programs come together as part of the same package (e.g., "strfile" and "unstr" with "fortune", or all of the GhostScript programs), only give the name of the main program. | |
| * If a program currently just doesn't work (e.g., "hnb"), don't list it here. | |
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