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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]]" -- 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)
 +
 +=== 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"
 +
 +=== 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.
 +
 +----
 +$Id: software.html,v 1.16 2012/01/25 21:49:32 smj Exp $ [[http://sdf.org/?tutorials/software|Software Packages on SDF by Category]] - traditional link (using [[wp>Revision_Control_System|RCS]])