Last updated: 23-Apr-92

Last updated: 23-Apr-92

PD6:<UNIX-C.UTILS>
Utility programs. This directory is sort of a catch-all for things
that don't seem to fit anywhere else.

ACM-CONTEST.TAR-Z
Software to run an ACM-style programming contest. Used by the
judge(s) of the contest.
Contributor: Jim Nelson <[email protected]>
ACTIV.TAR-Z
A "script"-like program which will enter the time of day before the
input if the user has been idle for a given interval.
Contributor: Marc Meyer <[email protected]>
APPLY.TAR-Z
Apply a command to a set of arguments.
Contributor: Doug Gwyn <[email protected]>
APROPOS-SGI.TAR-Z
A version of "apropos" ("man -k") and "makewhatis" for Silicon Graphics
IRIS workstations running IRIX.
Contributor: Paul Balyoz <[email protected]>
ARPATIME.TAR-Z
Programs to construct "ARPA-style" date strings.
Contributor: Stan Barber <[email protected]>
ART1.TAR-Z
A short program which simulates ART1 neural networks, proposed by
Grossberg and Carpenter in 87 IEEE ASSP magazine.
Contributor: Jagath Samarabandu <[email protected]>
ASH.TAR-Z
A complete shell. Similar to the System V version of the Bourne
shell, with some added features. Has been tested on variants of
System III, System V, and Berkeley UNIX.
Contributor: Kenneth Almquist <[email protected]>
ASTRO-DATA.TAR-Z
Computes all sorts of astronomical data about the sun, moon,
and planets.
Contributor: R. Kukuk <[email protected]>
AT.TAR-Z
A version of the "at" command.
Contributor: Michael Richmond <[email protected]>
ATL.TAR-Z
A companion to the 4.3BSD "at" and "atq" commands. "atl" allows
a user to look at the "at" script he has submitted to see what it
does.
Contributor: Roger Southwick <dadla.tek.com!rogers>
ATTY.TAR-Z
Provides a set opf EMACS-like editing commands which allow you to
move around the input line and make corrections, bring back previous
lines, etc. Runs in user mode, requires no special privileges to
run or install.
Contributor: Kenneth Almquist <[email protected]>
AUTOLOAD.TAR-Z
A program to enable the auto-loading (upon first reference) of shell
scripts as functions. Requires a shell that supports functions, e.g.
System V "sh" or the Korn Shell.
Contributor: John Mackin <[email protected]>
AWKSTATS.TAR-Z
Awk scripts to compute univariate statistics.
Contributor: Tom Reingold <[email protected]>
BACKPROP.TAR-Z
Programs for playing with back-propagation, from "The Basis of
Artificial Intelligence".
Contributor: Donald R. Tveter <[email protected]>
BATCH.SH
A batch command execution shell script for the AT&T UNIX-PC.
Contributor: Gus Garcia <[email protected]>
BBS.C
A fairly simplistic bulletin board system.
Contributor: <[email protected]>
BCSH.SH
A C-shell (csh) emulator for the Bourne shell (sh). Includes
command substitution, history, etc.
Contributor: Chris Robertson <[email protected]>
BDF.C
A Berkeley-style "df" for System V.
Contributor: Paul Vixie <[email protected]>
BEXEC.C
A program to help brain-damaged shells (like System V "sh") use the
"#!" "magic number" feature standard in Berkeley UNIX.
Contributor: Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
BINTNX.C, BINTNXVMS.C
A program to convert a TOPS-20 file transferred in FTP "binary"
mode to "tenex" mode (i.e. to convert it to what it's supposed
to look like). "binary" mode is 9 8-bit bytes in 2 36-bit words,
while "tenex" mode is 4 8-bit bytes in each 36-bit word. The
BINTNXVMS.C version is for VMS systems.
Contributor: Keith Petersen <[email protected]>
BOOL-EVAL.TAR-Z
A program to evaluate boolean expression arrays. Somewhat useful
for designing PALs and such.
Contributor: Jim Frost <[email protected]>
BOURNE-BBS.TAR-Z
A simple bulletin board system written in Bourne shell. Allows
file transfer, messages, a link to rn and postnews, a bulletin
system, etc.
Contributor: Bob Kirkpatrick <[email protected]>
BYTES.SH
A program to add the bytes fields from a "ls -la" of a directory.
Contributor: unknown
CALC1.TAR-Z
A double-precision desk calculator with math library functions
and variables. Accepts interactive input or command line arguments
allowing a "csh" alias to let you say "calc arbitrary-math-expr".
Contributor: Dave Curry <[email protected]>
CALC2.TAR-Z
Another desk calculator which accepts expressions on the command
line.
Contributor: Wayne Mesard <[email protected]>
CHEMTAB.TAR-Z
A periodic table of the elements database. Version 1.2.
Contributor: <[email protected]>
CHOOS.TAR-Z
Choos is based on the old "pic" program (renamed to avoid
conflict with the DWB graphics typesetting program) by Tom Duff.
The selection of arguments is stored in an array, allowing the
user to back up and/or wrap around the argument list. Choos
without arguments elicits a help message.
Contributor: Chuck Forsberg <[email protected]>
CHUNI.TAR-Z
Change universes on a Pyramid machine.
Contributor: Frank Crawford <[email protected]>
CLOCK.TAR-Z
A curses-drive digital clock for terminal screens.
Contributor: Ross Wille <[email protected]>
COLM.TAR-Z
A columnation tool which handles fixed and variable width columns,
variable gutter widths, etc.
Contributor: Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]>
CONFIG.TAR-Z
A program to automatically configure large software systems. Tells
you lots of properties of your machine and C compiler. Optionally
produces the ANSI "float.h" and "limits.h" files. Also pinpoints
possible compiler problems.
Contributor: Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>
CRONSORT.TAR-Z
A program to sort a "cron" file into chronological order.
Contributor: Gordon Vickers <[email protected]>
CSH-TO-KSH.TAR-Z
A program to convert C-shell scripts to Korn shell scripts.
Contributor: Bob Mcqueer <[email protected]>
CTRL.TAR-Z
Programs to convert between control character sequences and printable
characters for use in echoing command strings, etc.
Contributor: Maarten Litmaath <[email protected]>
CURLY.TAR-Z
Programs to expand and unexpand the C-shell "curly brace" notation.
One takes a list of file names and outputs curly-brace notation,
the other expands curly-brace notation into a list of files.
Contributor: Kevin Braunsdorf <[email protected]>
CURSE.TAR-Z
A program to do cursor control operations, using termcap, from the
shell. Useful for shell scripts and the like.
Contributor: Jonathan Bowen <[email protected]>
CUT-PASTE.TAR-Z
A public domain implementation of the System V "cut" and "paste"
commands.
Contributor: John Weald <[email protected]>
CVTBASE.TAR-Z
A generalized base conversion program.
Contributor: Mike Parker <[email protected]>
DBCOPY.TAR-Z
Double-buffered file copy. Can specify block size, number of
records, etc. DBCOPY-MAN.TXT contains the documentation.
Contributor: Dave Martindale <[email protected]>
DETERMCAP.TAR-Z
A program to split up the "/etc/termcap" file into a directory
for each terminal, and individual files within the directory
for each capability.
Contributor: Arnold D. Robbins <[email protected]>
DICTSQ.TAR-Z
A program to compress sorted word lists. Uses "sort" and "compress".
Contributor: Mike Wexler <[email protected]>
DISPD.TAR-Z
A "notice board" system for 4.2BSD. Runs on a terminal, and lets
people see who's logged in, messages of the day, status of various
people ("out sick", "in meeting", etc.).
Contributor: Mike Williams <[email protected]>
DISTKIT.TAR-Z
A kit for making software distributions. Includes tools to do auto-
matic configuration, and tools to construct the distribution itself.
Contributor: Larry Wall <[email protected]>
DMAKE.TAR-Z
A replacement for "make" with significant enhancements including
"parallel" make, unconditional rebuilds, text diversions,
dynamic (macro-based) prerequisites. Compatible with System V
AUGMAKE, but not with GNU make. Version 3.6.
Contributor: Dennis Vadura <[email protected]>
ECHO.TAR-Z
A complete merge of the BSD and System V "echo" commands. Not
derived from AT&T code.
Contributor: David MacKenzie <[email protected]>
EPHEM.TAR-Z
An emphemeris program. Uses termcap. Version 4.21.
Contributor: Elwood C. Downey <[email protected]>
FACES.TAR-Z
A face server for monitoring mail and print jobs. It is based on
the 8th Edition "vismon" program, but contains no code from it.
Version 1.4, patchlevel 8.
Contributor: Rich Burridge <[email protected]>
FASTGREP.TAR-Z
A faster version of "grep". Can replace "grep", "fgrep", and
"egrep".
Contributor: James A. Woods <[email protected]>
FEP.TAR-Z
A general purpose front end for any line-oriented UNIX command.
Requires Berkeley pseudo-ttys and select().
Contributor: Kazamasa Utashiro <[email protected]>
FFT1.TAR-Z
A UNIX and MS-DOS general purpose FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
program.
Contributor: Steve Sampson <[email protected]>
FFT2.TAR-Z
Another FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) program. Uses the Cooley-Tukey
algorithm, meaning it will work with a number of samples which is not
a power of two. Handles real and complex data.
Contributor: Peter Valkenburg <[email protected]>
FFT-DSP.TAR-Z
A set of FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) routines for Digital Signal
Processing.
Contributor: Dan Kegel <[email protected]>
FFTN.TAR-Z
An N-dimensional FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) program.
Contributor: Andrew Lee <[email protected]>
FIDO.TAR-Z
Fido scans files created by "rwhod" and reports the commings and
goings of other people's machines on the network.
Contributor: Phil Budne <[email protected]>
FIELD.TAR-Z
The "field" program (similar to "cut") from Steve Bourne's book.
Contributor: Bill Silvert <[email protected]>
FINANCIAL.C
A program to calculate rate of return, interest rates, future values
of deposits, nominal, effective, and compound interest, future
value of current sum, present value of future sum, amortization
schedules.
Contributor: Paul Pederson <[email protected]>
FLEX.TAR-Z
A replacement for "lex", the UNIX lexical analyzer generator. It's
mostly compatible with lex, but missing a few "niggling" features.
Version 2.3.6.
Contributor: Vern Paxson <[email protected]>
FLIP.TAR-Z
A program to convert text files between MS-DOS and UNIX formats.
Contributor: Rahul Dhesi <[email protected]>
FLOCK.TAR-Z
A program which applies an advisory lock (4.2BSD; could be easily
modified for System V) on the file named as its first argument
and then runs the command given by the following arguments.
Contributor: Doug Kingston <[email protected]>
GC1000.TAR-Z
Software for dealing with a Heathkit GC-1000 clock. Includes code
to sync your system clock from it.
Contributor: Nick Sayer <[email protected]>
GENEAL.TAR-Z
A genealogy program which can browse data, make individual and family
pages, make birthday and anniversary lists, etc. See also the file
PD6:<UNIX-C.UTILS>TREEPAR.TAR-Z.
Contributor: Jim McBeath <[email protected]>
GETOPT.TAR-Z
A shell script version of the "getopt" routine for processing
arguments.
Contributor: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
GONE1.TAR-Z
A program to lock the terminal until your password is typed.
Contributor: Dave Shanks <[email protected]>
GONE2.TAR-Z
A program which locks the terminal until a supplied password is
typed. Times out after a given amount of time to avoid someone
locking the terminal permanently. Allows certain harmless commands
to be run ("who", "who am i", etc.).
Contributor: Dave Curry <[email protected]>
GPERF.TAR-Z
A program which generates perfect hash functions for sets of key
words. A perfect hash function is one which allows recognition
of a key word using exactly one probe into the hash table.
Contributor: Douglas C. Schmidt <[email protected]>
GRABCHARS.TAR-Z
A program to get one or more keystrokes from the user without
requiring them to hit RETURN. Useful for proompting within
shell scripts, etc. Version 1.9.
Contributor: Dan Smith <[email protected]>
GREP.C
The DECUS software tape version of the "grep" utility.
Contributor: Ray Davis <[email protected]>
GSPN.TAR-Z
A simulator for generalized stochastic Petri nets that can be used to
evaluate the performance of parallel systems (hardware and software).
An overview can be found in "Performance Analysis Using Stochastic
Petri Nets", Michael K. Molloy, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. C-31,
#9, Sept. 1982.
Contributor: Andreas Nowatzyk <[email protected]>
HELP-VMS1.TAR-Z
A VMS-like help program for UNIX. Allows topics and subtopics to
be accessed individually.
Contributor: Neal Ziring <[email protected]>
HELP-VMS2.TAR-Z
Another VMS-like help program for UNIX.
Contributor: Roland Stolfa <[email protected]>
HELP.TAR-Z
A "help" facility for perusing /usr/man. Used as "help cmd" it
works just like the "man" command. With no args, it displays a
numbered list of topics (files and directories) which the user
may select. As a side effect, "help" may be used to peruse any
directory simply by saying "help dirname".
Contributor: Dave Curry <[email protected]>
HEXCALC.TAR-Z
A calculator program based on the Texas Instruments Programmer II
calculator.
Contributor: Richard Hargrove <[email protected]>
HEXDUMP.TAR-Z
A program to dump files out in hexadecimal.
Contributor: Peter Ruczynski <[email protected]>
HEXPERT.TAR-Z
A binary file editor for System V.
Contributor: Dominic Alston <[email protected]>
HEY.TAR-Z
A program to broadcast a message to all terminals a specific user
is using. From UNIX/World, October 1985.
Contributor: Bob Desinger <[email protected]>
HGREP.TAR-Z
A front-end for grep to highlight the word that was searched for.
Contributor: Jef Poskanzer <[email protected]>
ILE.TAR-Z
Interactive line editor, similar to tcsh or ksh.
Contributor: Robert C. Pendleton <[email protected]>
JCL.TAR-Z
A JCL interpreter. You always knew someone would do this...
Contributor: Robert Lupton <[email protected]>
KBMAP.TAR-Z
A program to modify the System V/386 v3.2.2 keyboard map.
Contributor: Tony Field <[email protected]>
KEYDEF.TAR-Z
A program to allow reprogramming of DEC VT[23]xx function keys.
Contributor: Gordon Vickers <[email protected]>
LCOMP.TAR-Z
An implementation of Peter Weinberger's "Cheap Dynamic Instruction
Counting", from the AT&T Bell Labs Technical Journal UNIX in 1984.
Runs on Sun-3 (68020) and Vax (Berkeley-based) systems.
Contributor: Paul Haahr <[email protected]>
LIT.TAR-Z
A "super-echo" command which accepts control-character escapes,
etc. Every bell and whistle you could ever want.
Contributor: Richard A. O'Keefe <[email protected]>
LOAN.C
A program to calculate the interest, principal, and payments on
simple-interest loans (like car loans).
Contributor: Jane Medefesser <[email protected]>
LOCK.TAR-Z
A program to lock the terminal until the user's password is typed.
Contributor: Toby Harness <[email protected]>
LOWLAV.TAR-Z
Given a list of hosts, return the name of the host with the lowest
load average. Uses rwho, so is probably Berkeley-specific.
Contributor: John D. DiMarco <[email protected]>
LUNISOLAR.TAR-Z
A program to print the phase of the moon and generate LaTeX source
for a lunisolar calendar.
Contributor: John Ramsdell <[email protected]>
M4.TAR-Z
A public domain M4 macro processor.
Contributor: Ozan Yigit <[email protected]>
MAKE.TAR-Z
A "make" work-alike program. Runs on PCDOS and BSD UNIX.
Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[email protected]>
MAN.TAR-Z
A compiled version of "man" for System V. Should compile and run on
4.xBSD with minor changes.
Contributor: Edward C. Bennett <[email protected]>
MBOXBBS.TAR-Z
This BBS is a combination of newsreader, mailer, and database.
Looks like a PC/DOS BBS, but offers Internet access and NEWS
transfer. MBOX requires UUCP, NEWS, and MAIL. It works on
MINIX 386 and UNIX SVR3.
MDCOPY.TAR-Z
A program which allows a single file to be copied to multiple
floppy disks, spanning the disks.
Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[email protected]>
MEASURES.TAR-Z
A program that reads a list of measurable itmes and then tells
you what you have to measure to determine what an unknown item
is.
Contributor: Arthur David Olson <[email protected]>
MENU.TAR-Z
A program which reads a menu definition file and then implements it,
presenting the user with a series of numbered options.
Contributor: Mike Howard <[email protected]>
METRICS.TAR-Z
Programs to calculate metrics of C programs. Uses Barry Boehm's
COCOMO model, and also has a Halstead metric tool.
Contributor: Brian Renaud <[email protected]>
MFOLD.TAR-Z
A program to do line folding and make columns.
Contributor: Peter Smidt <[email protected]>
MINIT.TAR-Z
A linear programming package based on the dual simplex method. Based
on the original code in Collected Algorithms from CACM (1968) in
Algol 68 by Rudolfo Salazar and Subrata Sen. This version is in C.
Contributor: Badri Lokanathan <[email protected]>
MKMF.TAR-Z
A "makefile maker".
Contributor: Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]>
MMAKE.TAR-Z
A program which can generate makefiles for multiple operating systems
(or other environmental configurations) from a single master makefile.
Contributor: Eric Schneider <[email protected]>
MORSE.TAR-Z
Takes its input and coverts it to International Morse Code.
Contributor: Nils McCarthy <[email protected]>
MPSIM.TAR-Z
A multiprocessor simulator package.
Contributor: A. E. Mossberg <[email protected]>
MRANDOM.TAR-Z
Random number generator with persistent state. A replacement for
4.3 BSD "random".
Contributor: Clark Thomborson <[email protected]>
MTOOLS.TAR-Z
Programs to read and write MS-DOS formatted diskettes on a UNIX
based system. Works on AT&T UNIX PCs, Sun SparcStation 1, and
Sun 3/80 systems.
Contributor: Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
MTOOLS2.TAR-Z
Tools to manipulate MSDOS file systems.
Contributor: Emmet P. Gray <[email protected]>
MULTITEE.TAR-Z
Send multiple inputs to multiple outputs. Runs on 4.3BSD and
derivatives.
Contributor: Dan Bernstein <[email protected]>
N3EMO-ORBIT.TAR-Z
A program to track earth satellites. Generally for use by amateur
radio operators, but also useful for weather satellites, the space
shuttle, etc.
Contributor: Robert W. Berger <[email protected]>
NOBACK.C
Convert lines with backspaces in them to multiple lines for
displaying on dumb terminals, etc.
Contributor: Paul Vixie <[email protected]>
NSTRINGS.TAR-Z
A replacement for the BSD "strings" program. Faster and more correct.
Runs on VMS, too.
Contributor: Michael Greim
<[email protected]>
PAC.TAR-Z
"The ultimate on-screen calculator for UNIX". Zillions of features
including conversions, "NVRAM", checkbook balancer, base translation,
trig functions, amortization, compound interest, user-definable
conversions, bit functions, stack, physical constants, macros,
percentages. Actually an interface to "bc".
Contributor: Istvan Mohos <[email protected]>
PATCH.TAR-Z
A program to apply patches (output from the "diff" program) to
programs automatically. Amazingly intelligent, I haven't seen
it screw up yet.
Contributor: Larry Wall <[email protected]>
PDMAKE.TAR-Z
A public domain version of "make". Version 1.6.
Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[email protected]>
PEGBOARD.TAR-Z
A program to keep track of who is in or out of the office, and when
they're due back.
Contributor: Richard O'Rourke <[email protected]>
PERL.TAR-Z
A semi-replacement for "awk" and "sed". An interpreted language
for scanning files, extracting information from them, and printing
reports based on that information. It combines the best features
of C, "sed", "awk", and "sh". Version 3.0.
Contributor: Larry Wall <[email protected]>
PERL-CTIME.TAR-Z
An emulation of ctime(3) in PERL.
Contributor: Waldemar Kebsch <[email protected]>
PERSIM.TAR-Z
Single-Layer Perceptron Simulator. (Looks like neural networks
stuff.)
Contributor: Adam Stein <[email protected]>
PHONEGEN.C
A program to generate all possible letter combinations from a given
telephone number.
Contributor: Liudvikas Bukys <[email protected]>
PHONEME.C
A program to translate English words into their phonetic spellings.
Contributor: John Wasser <[email protected]>
PIPESCRIPT.TAR-Z
A Berkeley "script"-like utility, but uses pipes. Not quite as general
as real "script" (screen editors, etc. won't work), but should run
on any UNIX even without ptys.
Contributor: Kent Forschmiedt <[email protected]>
PMAN.TAR-Z
A program to print pieces of formatted manual pages, by specifying
an argument such as "warnings" you see only the "BUGS", "CAVEATS",
etc. sections, and so on.
Contributor: Gary Perlman <[email protected]>
POSIX-DATE.TAR-Z
Implementation of POSIX date and time.
Contributor: Arnold Robbins <[email protected]>
PRINTF.TAR-Z
Another version of "printf" for shell scripts. Implements most of
the ANSI C specs, as well as roman numerals.
Contributor: Chris Torek <[email protected]>
PSC.TAR-Z
Prints the user page segment of a "core" file out in a format similar
to the "crash" program for system crashes. For System V; probably
requires work to run under Berkeley.
Contributor: John F. Haugh II <[email protected]>
PT.TAR-Z
A program to display the hierarchy of a process tree. Works on
both System V and BSD.
Contributor: Jeff Bauer <[email protected]>
PTREE-BSD.TAR-Z
A backed to "ps" for BSD systems to display the process tree.
Contributor: Paul Lew <[email protected]>
PTY.TAR-Z
An all-purpose program to interface programs with pseudo-terminals
allowing session disconnect/reconnect and other fun items.
Contributor: Dan Bernstein <[email protected]>
PUSHD-POPD-KSH.TAR-Z
An implementation of the C shell "pushd", "popd", and "dirs"
commands for the Korn shell.
Contributor: Fletcher Mattox <[email protected]>
PWGET.TAR-Z
Programs to provide a shell script interface to the password file
much like "getpwent" et. al. do for C programs.
Contributor: Michael Saboff <[email protected]>
RANLIB-SCO.TAR-Z
A replacement ranlib(1) for SCO Xenix which handles externals with
names longer than 40 characters.
Contributor: Steve Bleazard <[email protected]>
REACTIVEKBD.TAR-Z
A general purpose command line editor with the addition of predictive
text generation (i.e, a DWIM command). Interfaces with a standard
shell and allows simple editing of lines, and prediction of lines
based on previous input.
Contributor: Mark James <[email protected]>
REDIR.TAR-Z
A program to redirect standard output and standard error for csh
users. (Could be used by anyone, but "sh" already has the I/O
redirection constructs for it.)
Contributor: Bob Glickstein <[email protected]>
RELDB.TAR-Z
Programs to generate scattergrams, statistics from columnar data,
and some plot(1) filters.
Contributor: Gunnar Stefansson <[email protected]>
REVERSE.C
A program to completely reverse its input. Reverses characters on
each lines and exchanges lines top to bottom.
Contributor: K. A. Gluck <[email protected]>
REVGREP.TAR-Z
A program like "grep", except that it reads backwards from the end
of the file, printing matches in reverse order. Useful for getting
things out of log files, etc.
Contributor: Neal Ziring <[email protected]>
RF.TAR-Z
A Rolodex program for maintaining lists of names and addresses
which can quickly be referred to. Uses System V curses.
Contributor: Larry Lippman <[email protected]>
ROFF.TAR-Z
A program which allows you to place information at the top of a
troff file indicating which filters and macro packages are needed,
and then calls the appropriate programs. Version 1.7.
Contributor: Brian Litzinger <[email protected]>
ROLODEX.TAR-Z
A Rolodex program for maintaining lists of names and addresses which
can quickly be referred to. Uses Berkeley curses (not the same
program as RF.TAR-Z).
Contributor: Dave Ihnat <[email protected]>
ROT.TAR-Z
A program to rotate the lines of a file such that the lines become
columns.
Contributor: Martin Schmidt
<[email protected]>
RPL.TAR-Z
An interpreter for HP's RPL "calculator programming language".
Should have the same functionality as an HP-28 calculator.
Contributor: [email protected]
RS.TAR-Z
A personal reminder system.
Contributor: Don Joslyn <[email protected]>
RU.TAR-Z
A program to print a users(1)-style list of names for each host in
the rwho spool directory.
Contributor: P. Kern <[email protected]>
S5FINGER.TAR-Z
Various Berkeley utilities for System V. "finger", "whois",
and some others.
Contributor: Keith Gabryelski <[email protected]>
S5LAST1.TAR-Z
An implementation of the Berkeley "last" command for System V.
Contributor: Harver R. Moran Jr. <[email protected]>
S5LAST2.TAR-Z
Another implementation of "last" for System V.
Contributor: Chris Kern <[email protected]>
S5LOOK.C
An implementation of "look" for System V.
Contributor: Larry Campbell <[email protected]>
SAMPLE.TAR-Z
An educational program for teaching about sampling distributions.
Allows the user to provide a distribution which it will then
graph.
Contributor: Gary Perlman <[email protected]>
SAO.TAR-Z[1-2]
The Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory dataset reduced to RA/DECL/MAG
records. Furnished by NASA Goddard for non-commercial use. There's
49 "shar" files here; you unpack them.
Contributor: Alan Wm Paeth <[email protected]>
SC.TAR-Z
Version 6.8 of the public domain "sc" spreadsheet calculator.
Runs on 4.xBSD and System V.
Contributor: Bob Bond <[email protected]>
Jeff Buhrt <[email protected]>
SCREENWHO.TAR-Z
A curses-based "who" program that updates the screen every few
minutes.
Contributor: Paul Pomes <[email protected]>
SEARCH.C
A program to search for a string. May contain newlines; works on
binary files.
Contributor: Daniel R. Levy <[email protected]>
SETTIME.TAR-Z
Set system time from atomic clock.
Contributor: John Walker <[email protected]>
SETS.TAR-Z
A program to perform union, intersection, and difference operations
on two sets given as arguments. Can be used to compute lists of
files such as "everything EXCEPT *.c" and so on.
Contributor: Chris Tweed <[email protected]>
SHELLFORMS.TAR-Z
A program to provide a forms-editor interface to shell scripts.
Contributor: Paul Lew <[email protected]>
SHOW.TAR-Z
A version of "echo" with lots of flags from the multitude of
UNIXes out there.
Contributor: Alan Fargusson <[email protected]>
SOUNDEX.C
A program which implements the "soundex" algorithm for generating
identical tokens for like-sounding names.
Contributor: Jerry Carlin <[email protected]>
SOUNDEX2.C
Another implementation of Soundex.
Contributor: N. Dean Pentcheff <[email protected]>
SOUNDEX-SPELL.SH
A spelling corrector using SOUNDEX2.C (the one from Dean Pentcheff).
Contributor: Frederic W. Brehm <[email protected]>
SPIN.TAR-Z
A simple interpreter intended for use as a program development tool
and modest programmable interface. Contains a parser and execution
engine, both easily extended.
Contributor: Jim McBeath <[email protected]>
SRCTOMAN.SH
A shell script to convert comments in various programming languages
into a UNIX-style manual page.
Contributor: W. Z. Venema
STARCHART.TAR-Z
Produces astronomical charts from a variety of databases for Post-
Script, X11, SunView, Atari ST, IBM PC, X10, Tek, plot(5), HP LaserJet,
etc. Can read stuff like the Yale Bright Star Catalog, the SAO
catalog, etc. Version 3.0.
Contributor: [email protected]
STRINGS-COFF.TAR-Z
A program to extract strings from COFF-format object files.
Contributor: Piercarlo Grandi<[email protected]>
STRINGS-SH.TAR-Z
Programs for manipulating strings in shell scripts. Provides
"index", "rindex", substring extractors, etc.
Contributor: Greg Paris <[email protected]>
SUBSTR.TAR-Z
A program to extract substrings from expressions.
Contributor: William E. Davidsen, Jr. <[email protected]>
TAPE.TAR-Z
A tape database program for cataloging and alphabetizing a large
number of audio (or other) tapes.
Contributor: David Bleckmann <[email protected]>
TCSH601.TAR-Z
A csh replacement with lots of goodies. It includes a command
line editor, command-file name completion, and other shell
additions. Runs on BSD.
Contributor: Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>
TC.TAR-Z
Termcap capabilities for shell scripts. Saying "tc cap" will
output the string for capability "cap" for the current terminal
type.
Contributor: <[email protected]>
TELEWORDS.TAR-Z
Programs to give all the words a phone number spells (using American
phones) and all the phone numbers that can spell a word.
Contributor: Jim Williams <[email protected]>
TERMCAP-TO-TERMINFO.TAR-Z
Converts a termcap file into terminfo source files.
Contributor: Robert Viduya <[email protected]>
TERMLIST.TAR-Z
A Perl script to produce annotated listings of termcap entries.
Contributor: Geoff Leach <[email protected]>
TOE.C
Like "finger" only different.
Contributor: Dan Heller <[email protected]>
TOT-INFO.TAR-Z
Programs to compute Chi-square independence, Gamma and related
functions, etc. for 2-way contingency tables.
Contributor: Doug Gwynn <[email protected]>
TPIPE.TAR-Z
A program to split a UNIX pipeline into two pipelines. The output
of one pipeline can be replicated and supplied as the input to two
other pipelines executing simultaneously.
Contributor: David B. Rosen <[email protected]>
TPS.TAR-Z
A program which runs "ps" and rearranges the output.
Contributor: Arndt Jonasson <[email protected]>
TRAPFILES.TAR-Z
Uses "ptrace" to trace a program and reports all files opened and
closed by the program. Berkeley UNIX dependent.
Contributor: Arndt Jonasson <[email protected]>
TREEPAR.TAR-Z
A place and route (and plot) package for tree-structured data.
Mostly intended as a companion to PD6:<UNIX-C.UTILS>GENEAL.TAR-Z.
Contributor: Jim McBeath <[email protected]>
TUTOR.TAR-Z
A program to allow multiple terminals to watch what is being typed.
Useful for showing people in a class what's going on, etc.
Contributor: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
TTYPE.C
A touch-typing tutor program. May need mods to work on BSD systems.
Contributor: Paul Hubbard <[email protected]>
UNITS.TAR-Z
A unit conversion program that does charts, too.
Contributor: Gregory R. Simpson <[email protected]>
UNIX-VMS.TAR-Z
Tools for VMS to give it some UNIX-like features. It's mostly
stuff to make DCL look a little more like the UNIX shells.
Contributor: David Albrecht <[email protected]>
UNOD.TAR-Z
A program to "reverse" an "od -c" dump of a file, putting everything
back. This lets you edit binary files, among other things.
Contributor: Daniel R. Levy <[email protected]>
UNTIC.TAR-Z
A program to decompile "terminfo" description files into ASCII.
Contributor: Dave Regan <[email protected]>
VIS.TAR-Z
Turn any command into a screen-oriented one by executing it over and
over, updating the screen with the results.
Contributor: George M. Sipe <[email protected]>
VSH.TAR-Z
A visual shell which uses the full screen and allows selection of
files by placing the cursor on them, etc.
Contributor: Dan T'so <[email protected]>
VTTEST.TAR-Z
A program to test compatibility of so-called "VT100 compatibile"
terminals.
Contributor: Perl Lindberg <[email protected]>
VT220FONTEDIT.TAR-Z
A screen-oriented editor for downloaded fonts in a VT220 terminal.
Contributor: Eric A. Pearce <[email protected]>
VT220KEYS.TAR-Z
A program to download strings to the function keys on a DEC
VT220 terminal.
Contributor: Ken Lester <[email protected]>
WHICH.C
A C version of the Berkeley "which" script. It searches your
path and tells you which version of a program you're using.
Contributor: Larry J. Barello <[email protected]>
WHICH.SH
A shell script version of "which" that allows wildcards to work.
Contributor: Steven Pemberton <[email protected]>
WHICH.TAR-Z
Yet another C version of "which". Version 4.0.
Contributor: Maarten Litmaath <[email protected]>
WIREWRAP.TAR-Z
A program to do circuit board design.
Contributor: Bruce Karsh <[email protected]>
WNS.TAR-Z
A program to search for a pettern in a file and then print a window
of lines from the file around the place where the match occurred.
Contributor: Mark E. Mallett <[email protected]>
XDUMP.TAR-Z
Produce a hexadecimal dump of a file or a shared memory segment.
Contributor: Bjorn Engsig <[email protected]>
XTX.TAR-Z
A program which allows placing embedded shell commands in comments
in other files, and then executes them. Useful for putting "troff"
commands at the top of a paper so you don't have to remember all
the filters, etc.
Contributor: R. P. A. Collinson <[email protected]>
XXU.TAR-Z
Rename TOPS-20 or VMS file names to UNIX file names. Used after you
do an "mget" with FTP and find yourself in a directory full of files
with screwball names.
Contributor: William E. Davidsen <[email protected]>