List on this page is some of the software available on yoyo. The
local group is responsible for
installing software on yoyo. If you have a piece of software you
wish installed, contact the local group.
Yoyo has a wealth of software installed on it. The following table
is to publicise what is available for the use of yoyo users. Unless
otherwise indicated, all software is in the directory
/usr/local/bin/ which should be in your path. You
can read the man pages for a program by using the unix shell command
"man command", where command is the name
of the program.
This list of software is intended to list non-standard software which
has been installed on yoyo. Common utilities (such as the standard
GNU utilities gzip, gcp etc) may not be listed here.
| PROGRAMS FOR TEXT EDITING |
| Name of program | Description | Documentation |
emacs |
GNU project text editor |
Man page/online help |
jed |
"Simple" file editor |
Online help |
pico |
Simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer |
Man page |
vim |
Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor |
Man page |
| Name of program | Description | Documentation |
elm |
Interactive mail system |
Man page |
mh |
Message handling system for e-mail |
Man page |
mutt |
The Mongrel of Mail User Agents |
Man page/web page |
nn |
A newsreader (No news is good news) |
Man page |
pine |
Program for Internet News and Email |
Man page |
procmail |
Autonomous mail processor - sorts incoming mail |
Man page |
slrn |
An easy to use, but powerful, newsreader |
Man page/web page |
tin |
A newsreader |
Man page |
trn |
Threaded read news program |
Man page |
| Name of program | Description | Documentation |
a2ps |
Convert an ascii file to postscript |
Man page |
getpass |
Get the password entry for a user |
None |
glimpse |
Search quickly through entire file systems |
Man page |
info |
GNU's hypertext system |
Man page |
informer |
identifies and records people who finger a user's account |
Man page |
isca |
ISCA BBS client |
None |
ispell |
Spellchecker |
Man page |
locate |
find files on the system which match a string |
Man page |
m4 |
Preprocesses files, expanding macro definitions |
Man page |
ncftp |
An advanced internet file transfer program |
Man page |
pgp |
Pretty Good Privacy encryption system |
Man/web page |
screen |
Screen manager/multiplexor |
Man page |
temp |
Display the current temperature |
Man page |
units |
Convert units to different scales |
Man page |
| WEB RELATED PROGRAMS/TOOLS |
Additional documentation for yoyo's web server
is available.
| Name of program | Description | Documentation |
gifmerge |
Create animated gifs |
Web page |
gifmom |
Make gif image transparent/interlaced |
Web page/online help |
giftrans |
Make one colour of a gif image transparent |
Man/Web page |
lvrfy |
Verify links in web pages |
Web page |
lynx |
Text world wide web browser |
Man page/online help |
setcounter |
Change the value of page counter data files |
'setcounter -h' gives usage |
statbot |
WWW log analyzer, statistics generator, and database program |
Web page |
weblint |
Syntax and minimal style checker for HTML |
Man/Web page |
wget |
A utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web |
Man page |
wml |
A multi-pass HTML generation toolkit (very powerful)
| Man pages/Web page |
wwwis |
Add HEIGHT= and WIDTH= directives to inline images |
Web page |
| PROGRAMMING TOOLS/LANGUAGES |
| Name of program | Description | Documentation |
g++ |
GNU project C++ compiler |
Man page |
gcc |
GNU project C compiler |
Man page |
gdb |
GNU project C/C++ debugger |
Man page |
javac |
Java compiler |
Web page |
perl |
Practical Extraction and Report Language - scripting language |
Man page |
python |
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
Web page |
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Last Modified Sat 29 Aug 1998