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 +===== Software Packages on SDF by Category =====
 +
 +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.
 +
 +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.
 +
 +Programs marked “ARPA”, “MetaARPA”, “DBA”, or similar can only be run by users with the specified membership level.
 +
 +**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]].
 +
 +=== Text Editors ===
 +
 +  * ''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]]''
 +
 +=== Binary File Editors ===
 +
 +  * ''beav''
 +  * ''[[http://bvi.sourceforge.net/|bvi]]''
 +  * ''hexedit''
 +  * ''id3''
 +  * ''id3ed''
 +  * ''id3v2''
 +  * ''mp3asm''
 +
 +=== E-mail Clients ===
 +
 +  * ''[[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''
 +
 +=== Mail-Processing & Other Mail-Related Programs ===
 +
 +  * ''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''
 +
 +=== Shells ===
 +
 +  * ''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]]''
 +
 +=== Filesystem Utilities ===
 +
 +  * ''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''
 +
 +=== File Processing & Filtering ===
 +
 +  * ''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''
 +
 +=== Web Browsers ===
 +
 +  * ''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]]''
 +
 +=== Newsreaders ===
 +
 +  * ''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)
 +
 +=== File Transfer & Retrieval Programs ===
 +
 +  * ''[[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)
 +
 +=== Network Utilities ===
 +
 +  * ''[[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''
 +
 +=== Remote Networking ===
 +
 +  * ''dict'' — DICT protocol client
 +  * ''rlogin'' (ARPA)
 +  * ''rsh''
 +  * ''[[http://www.openssh.org/|ssh]]'' (ARPA)
 +  * ''telnet'' (ARPA)
 +  * ''tn3270''
 +
 +=== Chat-System Clients ===
 +
 +  * ''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://profanity-im.github.io|profanity]]'' — IRC client (MetaARPA)
 +  * ''[[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)
 +
 +=== Inter-user Communication Software ===
 +
 +  * ''mesg''
 +  * ''talk''
 +  * ''wall''
 +  * ''write''
 +  * ''ytalk''
 +
 +=== User Information ===
 +
 +  * ''finger''
 +  * ''groups''
 +  * ''id''
 +  * ''logname''
 +  * ''whoami''
 +
 +=== System Information ===
 +
 +  * ''date''
 +  * ''domainname''
 +  * ''hostname''
 +  * ''machine''
 +  * ''uname''
 +  * ''uptime''
 +  * ''users''
 +
 +=== Process Information & Control ===
 +
 +  * ''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''
 +
 +=== Compilers ===
 +
 +  * ''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)
 +
 +=== Programming Language Interpreters & Virtual Machines ===
 +
 +  * ''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]]'' — <del>pathologically eclectic rubbish lister</del> practical extraction & report language (ARPA)
 +  * ''[[http://www.php.net|php]]'' — PHP: hypertext preprocessor (ARPA)
 +  * ''[[http://www.python.org|python]]'' (ARPA)
 +  * ''ruby'' (ARPA)
 +
 +=== Version Control Systems ===
 +
 +  * ''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)
 +
 +=== Miscellaneous Software Development Programs ===
 +
 +  * ''[[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)
 +
 +=== Encryption & Cryptography Programs ===
 +
 +  * ''cksum''
 +  * ''[[http://gnupg.org/|gpg]]''
 +  * ''md5''
 +  * ''openssl''
 +  * ''pgp5''
 +  * ''sha1''
 +  * ''sum''
 +
 +=== File Format Converters (non-image) ===
 +
 +  * ''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]]''
 +
 +=== File Archival & Compression Utilities ===
 +
 +  * ''aetar''
 +  * ''ar''
 +  * ''bsdtar''
 +  * ''bzip2''
 +  * ''compress''
 +  * ''cpio''
 +  * ''freeze''
 +  * ''gtar''
 +  * ''gzip''
 +  * ''lzop''
 +  * ''mousetar''
 +  * ''pax''
 +  * ''shar''
 +  * ''tar''
 +  * ''zip''
 +  * ''znew''
 +  * ''zoo''
 +
 +=== File Encoding ===
 +
 +  * ''caesar''
 +  * ''iconv''
 +  * ''mimencode''
 +  * ''rot13''
 +  * ''uuencode''
 +  * ''yencode''
 +
 +=== File Managers ===
 +
 +  * ''[[http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/|mc]]''
 +  * ''[[http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/|vfu]]''
 +  * ''[[http://vifm.sourceforge.net/|vifm]]''
 +
 +=== Typesetting ===
 +
 +  * 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''
 +
 +=== XML Processing Programs ===
 +
 +  * ''xmllint''
 +  * ''xmlto''
 +  * ''xsltproc''
 +
 +=== Text File Pagers ===
 +
 +  * ''less''
 +  * ''more''
 +  * ''most''
 +  * ''pg''
 +
 +=== Games ===
 +
 +  * ''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)//
 +
 +  * ''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 ((example: ''$ phoon 31 December 1999'')) 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''
 +  * ''sc-im'' — vim-like spreadsheet calculator
 +
 +=== 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.
 +
 +----
 +
 +This wiki page was reviewed with the Plan 9 [[plan9front_-_acme_sam_abaco_mothra_and_man#abaco|abaco]], and [[plan9front_-_acme_sam_abaco_mothra_and_man#mothra|mothra]], browsers.\\
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