$ phoon 31 December 1999This 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 here. For a complete list of software that could be installed see 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 recommendations below.
ceed — the standard text editorexjovene — Cambridge text editorvevim — Vi IMprovedbeavhexeditid3id3edid3v2mp3asmbiff — notifies you when new mail arrivesfetchmail — fetch mail from a remote serverformailfrm, nfrm — list From: and Subject: of selected messages in mailbox or folderfromgetmailimapfiltermailstatmdfrm — parses Maildir filesmetamailmetasendmhnsendfilessplitmailssmtpbashcshkshmudsh — “M.U.D. game-like shell”osh — a port of the Sixth Edition Thompson shellrcshbasenamechflagschgrpchmodcolorls — like ls, but with a -G option that enables colorized outputcp — copy filesdfdirnamedufile — determine the type of a filelnls — list the contents of a directorymkdir — create a directorymv — move/rename a filequotareadlinkrm — delete filesrmdir — delete empty directoriesstattouchawkcat — output the contents of a filecmp — display differences between two files byte by bytecolrmcolumncomm — display line common to two filescutdddiff — display differences between two files line by linediff3 — display differences between three files line by linedos2unix — convert CRLF line endings to LFexpandfmtfoldgrep — search files for lines matching a patternhead — print the first few lines of a filehexdumpindentjoinlookmawkmergenl — number linesodparpastepatch — apply the output of a diff command to a filepr — format text files for printingrevsdiffsedsort — sort linessplit — split a file into piecesstatestabstail — print the last few lines of a filetidytruniqunix2dos — convert LF line endings to CRLFviswc — count the number of bytes, characters, words, and/or lines in a filexxd6tunnel — tunnel IPv6 connections over IPv4cidrcudighost — get the IP address for a domain name or vice versaldapsearchnetstatnmapnslookuppingruptimesipcalctraceroute — follow the path packets take to a remote hostuuxwhoisyuptimeyusersywhodict — DICT protocol clientrlogin (ARPA)rshssh (ARPA)telnet (ARPA)tn3270bitchx (ARPA)bsflite — AIM client (ARPA)centerim (ARPA)climm — ICQ client (ARPA)epic — IRC client (ARPA)finch — IRC client; only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts (ARPA)irssi — IRC client (MetaARPA)naim — AIM client (ARPA)ninja (ARPA)profanity — IRC client (MetaARPA)scrollz — IRC client (ARPA)sic (ARPA)silc (ARPA)tac (ARPA)ttytter — terminal-based Twitter client (ARPA)xaric — IRC client (ARPA)ysm — ICQ client (ARPA)mesgtalkwallwriteytalkfingergroupsidlognamewhoamidatedomainnamehostnamemachineunameuptimeusersenvkillkillalllsofnicenohuppkillprintenvpspstree — display a tree of processestime — time how long it takes a program to runtop (MetaARPA)wwatch — watch a program with update intervalswhocksummd5opensslpgp5sha1sum2vcardmakeinforichtextrtf2LaTeXrtf2textrtf2trofftexi2dviaetararbsdtarbzip2compresscpiofreezegtargziplzopmousetarpaxshartarzipznewzoocaesariconvmimencoderot13uuencodeyencodecolcrteqngroffgroffergroggrottynroffpicrefertbltroffvgrindabcm2ps — “Converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format”diffppenscriptps2epspsnupyupdvipdfdvipsetexlgrindmfmktexmfmktexpkmpostpdfetexpslatextexxmllintxmltoxsltproclessmoremostpgadv770animal — the computer tries to guess what animal you're thinking ofatc — air traffic controller gamebackgammon — the game of backgammon; play against the computer or a friendbattlestar — “a tropical [text] adventure game”bluemoon — one of many solitaire card gamesbogglec4 — Connect Fourcanfield — the solitaire card game canfieldcribbage — the card game cribbage (played against the computer)dinkum — an Australian text-adventure gamedungeonfish — Go Fishhackknight — Knight's Tour — move the knight to visit every square on the boardlarn — “exploring the caverns of Larn”mdgmonop — Monopolymoon-buggymoriamottinetris — “A free networked version of T*tris”nobs — cribbage gamephantasiarobotsrobots2roguesaa — play the solitaire card game “streets and alleys”ski — “an unusual skiing simulation game”snakesokobantetristttt — 4×4 Tic-Tac-Toe with wraparound edgeswandwormwump — Hunt the Wumpuszombies(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 wordarithmetic — quiz on simple arithmeticautopun — “Phonetically Reparse an English Phrase”aybabtu — ASCII recreation of the ZeroWing opening sequencebannerbcdcookiecountmail — a program for laughing at the size of your inboxcowsay — an ASCII cow says stuffcrypto — “a program to generate and/or solve cryptograms”cursivedivefactorfortunemacarena — the horror… the horror…macarena1 — the horror revisitedmorsenumber — convert Arabic numerals to Englishphoon — shows the phase of the moon 1) with an ASCII imagepig — anslatetray exttay intoway Igpay Atinlaypom — display the phase of the moonpptprimesquiz — “random knowledge tests”rain — animated ASCII raindrops on a terminalsonnetsuicidesuicide1suicide2suicide3wargamesworms — animate worms on a terminalwtffrotztfbcdcmathomaticsc-im — vim-like spreadsheet calculatoranimate, compare, composite, conjure, convert, display, identify, import, mogrify, montage, stream)compfacegif2png, web2png — convert GIFs to PNGsjhead — digital camera JPEG exif header manipulation tool(MetaARPA membership required)
bitmapicoimakeluitmwmresizestartxtwmxcalcxclockxeyesxgammaxlsfontsxmanxmhxsnowclear — clear the screenlock — reserve a terminalstty — set various options for the current terminaltputtsettty — give the name of your terminalapropos — search for programs by keywords in documentationasciiinfoman — view the manual page for a commandpinfo — like info, but bettervilearnvimtutorwhatis — get a brief description of a commandfind — search a directory tree for files that match given criteria (MetaARPA)locate — search a database of files for ones with the given namewhereiswhich — locate a program in your PATH/sys/sdf/bin should be left out.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.strfile and unstr with fortune, or all of the GhostScript programs), only give the name of the main program.hnb), don’t list it here.
This wiki page was reviewed with the Plan 9 abaco, and mothra, browsers.
$Id: software.html,v 1.16 2012/01/25 21:49:32 smj Exp $ Software Packages on SDF by Category - traditional link (using RCS)
$ phoon 31 December 1999