Source Code 1992 March/Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992.iso/unix_c/utils/00_index.txt

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Directory UNIX_C/UTILS
    Utility programs.  This directory is sort of a catch-all for things
    that don't seem to fit anywhere else.

    ACMCNTST.TAR
        Software to run an ACM-style programming contest.  Used by the
        judge(s) of the contest.
        Contributor: Jim Nelson <[e-mail]>
    ACTIV.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    APPLY.TAR
        Apply a command to a set of arguments.
        Contributor: Doug Gwyn <[e-mail]>
    APROPOSG.TAR
        A version of "apropos" ("man -k") and "makewhatis" for Silicon Graphics
        IRIS workstations running IRIX.
        Contributor: Paul Balyoz <[e-mail]>
    ARPATIME.TAR
        Programs to construct "ARPA-style" date strings.
        Contributor: Stan Barber <[e-mail]>
    ART1.TAR
        A short program which simulates ART1 neural networks, proposed by
        Grossberg and Carpenter in 87 IEEE ASSP magazine.
        Contributor: Jagath Samarabandu <[e-mail]>
    ASH.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    ASTRODAT.TAR
        Computes all sorts of astronomical data about the sun, moon,
        and planets.
        Contributor: R. Kukuk <[e-mail]>
    AT.TAR
        A version of the "at" command.
        Contributor: Michael Richmond <[e-mail]>
    ATL.TAR
        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
        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 <[e-mail]>
    AUTOLOAD.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    AWKSTATS.TAR
        Awk scripts to compute univariate statistics.
        Contributor: Tom Reingold <[e-mail]>
    BATCH.SH
        A batch command execution shell script for the AT&T UNIX-PC.
        Contributor: Gus Garcia <[e-mail]>
    BBS.C
        A fairly simplistic bulletin board system.
        Contributor: <[e-mail]>
    BCSH.SH
        A C-shell (csh) emulator for the Bourne shell (sh).  Includes
        command substitution, history, etc.
        Contributor: Chris Robertson <[e-mail]>
    BDF.C
        A Berkeley-style "df" for System V.
        Contributor: Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>
    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 <[e-mail]>
    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 <[e-mail]>
    BOOLEVAL.TAR
        A program to evaluate boolean expression arrays.  Somewhat useful
        for designing PALs and such.
        Contributor: Jim Frost <[e-mail]>
    BOURNEBS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    BYTES.SH
        A program to add the bytes fields from a "ls -la" of a directory.
        Contributor: unknown
    CALC1.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    CALC2.TAR
        Another desk calculator which accepts expressions on the command
        line.
        Contributor: Wayne Mesard <[e-mail]>
    CHEMTAB.TAR
        A periodic table of the elements database.  Version 1.2.
        Contributor: <[e-mail]>
    CHOOS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    CHUNI.TAR
        Change universes on a Pyramid machine.
        Contributor: Frank Crawford <[e-mail]>
    CLOCK.TAR
        A curses-drive digital clock for terminal screens.
        Contributor: Ross Wille <[e-mail]>
    COLM.TAR
        A columnation tool which handles fixed and variable width columns,
        variable gutter widths, etc.
        Contributor: Gary Oberbrunner <[e-mail]>
    CONFIG.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    CRONSORT.TAR
        A program to sort a "cron" file into chronological order.
        Contributor: Gordon Vickers <[e-mail]>
    CSH2KSH.TAR
        A program to convert C-shell scripts to Korn shell scripts.
        Contributor: Bob Mcqueer <[e-mail]>
    CTRL.TAR
        Programs to convert between control character sequences and printable
        characters for use in echoing command strings, etc.
        Contributor: Maarten Litmaath <[e-mail]>
    CURLY.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    CURSE.TAR
        A program to do cursor control operations, using termcap, from the
        shell.  Useful for shell scripts and the like.
        Contributor: Jonathan Bowen <[e-mail]>
    CUTPASTE.TAR
        A public domain implementation of the System V "cut" and "paste"
        commands.
        Contributor: John Weald <[e-mail]>
    CVTBASE.TAR
        A generalized base conversion program.
        Contributor: Mike Parker <[e-mail]>
    DBCOPY.TAR
        Double-buffered file copy.  Can specify block size, number of
        records, etc.  DBCOPY-MAN.TXT contains the documentation.
        Contributor: Dave Martindale <[e-mail]>
    DETERMCP.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    DICTSQ.TAR
        A program to compress sorted word lists.  Uses "sort" and "compress".
        Contributor: Mike Wexler <[e-mail]>
    DISPD.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    DISTKIT.TAR
        A kit for making software distributions.  Includes tools to do auto-
        matic configuration, and tools to construct the distribution itself.
        Contributor: Larry Wall <[e-mail]>
    DMAKE.TAR
        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.
        Contributor: Dennis Vadura <[e-mail]>
    ECHO.TAR
        A complete merge of the BSD and System V "echo" commands.  Not
        derived from AT&T code.
        Contributor: David MacKenzie <[e-mail]>
    EPHEM.TAR
        An emphemeris program.  Uses termcap.  Version 4.21.
        Contributor: Elwood C. Downey <[e-mail]>
    FACES.TAR
        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 5.
        Contributor: Rich Burridge <[e-mail]>
    FASTGREP.TAR
        A faster version of "grep".  Can replace "grep", "fgrep", and
        "egrep".
        Contributor: James A. Woods <[e-mail]>
    FEP.TAR
        A general purpose front end for any line-oriented UNIX command.
        Requires Berkeley pseudo-ttys and select().
        Contributor: Kazamasa Utashiro <[e-mail]>
    FFT1.TAR
        A UNIX and MS-DOS general purpose FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
        program.
        Contributor: Steve Sampson <[e-mail]>
    FFT2.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    FFT_DSP.TAR
        A set of FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) routines for Digital Signal
        Processing.
        Contributor: Dan Kegel <[e-mail]>
    FFTN.TAR
        An N-dimensional FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) program.
        Contributor: Andrew Lee <[e-mail]>
    FIELD.TAR
        The "field" program (similar to "cut") from Steve Bourne's book.
        Contributor: Bill Silvert <[e-mail]>
    FINANCIL.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 <[e-mail]>
    FLEX.TAR
        A replacement for "lex", the UNIX lexical analyzer generator.  It's
        mostly compatible with lex, but missing a few "niggling" features.
        Version 2.1.
        Contributor: Vern Paxson <[e-mail]>
    FLIP.TAR
        A program to convert text files between MS-DOS and UNIX formats.
        Contributor: Rahul Dhesi <[e-mail]>
    FLOCK.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    GENEAL.TAR
        A genealogy program which can browse data, make individual and family
        pages, make birthday and anniversary lists, etc.  See also the file
        UNIX_C/UTILS/TREEPAR.TAR.
        Contributor: Jim McBeath <[e-mail]>
    GETOPT.TAR
        A shell script version of the "getopt" routine for processing
        arguments.
        Contributor: Rich Salz <[e-mail]>
    GONE1.TAR
        A program to lock the terminal until your password is typed.
        Contributor: Dave Shanks <[e-mail]>
    GONE2.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    GPERF.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    GRABCHRS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    GREP.C
        The DECUS software tape version of the "grep" utility.
        Contributor: Ray Davis <[e-mail]>
    GSPN.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    HELPVMS1.TAR
        A VMS-like help program for UNIX.  Allows topics and subtopics to
        be accessed individually.
        Contributor: Neal Ziring <[e-mail]>
    HELPVMS2.TAR
        Another VMS-like help program for UNIX.
        Contributor: Roland Stolfa <[e-mail]>
    HELP.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    HEXCALC.TAR
        A calculator program based on the Texas Instruments Programmer II
        calculator.
        Contributor: Richard Hargrove <[e-mail]>
    HEXDUMP.TAR
        A program to dump files out in hexadecimal.
        Contributor: Peter Ruczynski <[e-mail]>
    HEY.TAR
        A program to broadcast a message to all terminals a specific user
        is using.  From UNIX/World, October 1985.
        Contributor: Bob Desinger <[e-mail]>
    HGREP.TAR
        A front-end for grep to highlight the word that was searched for.
        Contributor: Jef Poskanzer <[e-mail]>
    JCL.TAR
        A JCL interpreter.  You always knew someone would do this...
        Contributor: Robert Lupton <[e-mail]>
    KEYDEF.TAR
        A program to allow reprogramming of DEC VT[23]xx function keys.
        Contributor: Gordon Vickers <[e-mail]>
    LCOMP.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    LIT.TAR
        A "super-echo" command which accepts control-character escapes,
        etc.  Every bell and whistle you could ever want.
        Contributor: Richard A. O'Keefe <[e-mail]>
    LOAN.C
        A program to calculate the interest, principal, and payments  on
        simple-interest loans (like car loans).
        Contributor: Jane Medefesser <[e-mail]>
    LOCK.TAR
        A program to lock the terminal until the user's password is typed.
        Contributor: Toby Harness <[e-mail]>
    LOWLAV.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    LUNISOLR.TAR
        A program to print the phase of the moon and generate LaTeX source
        for a lunisolar calendar.
        Contributor: John Ramsdell <[e-mail]>
    M4.TAR
        A public domain M4 macro processor.
        Contributor: Ozan Yigit <[e-mail]>
    MAKE.TAR
        A "make" work-alike program.  Runs on PCDOS and BSD UNIX.
        Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[e-mail]>
    MAN.TAR
        A compiled version of "man" for System V.  Should compile and run on
        4.xBSD with minor changes.
        Contributor: Edward C. Bennett <[e-mail]>
    MDCOPY.TAR
        A program which allows a single file to be copied to multiple
        floppy disks, spanning the disks.
        Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[e-mail]>
    MEASURES.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    MENU.TAR
        A program which reads a menu definition file and then implements it,
        presenting the user with a series of numbered options.
        Contributor: Mike Howard <[e-mail]>
    METRICS.TAR
        Programs to calculate metrics of C programs.  Uses Barry Boehm's
        COCOMO model, and also has a Halstead metric tool.
        Contributor: Brian Renaud <[e-mail]>
    MINIT.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    MKMF.TAR
        A "makefile maker".
        Contributor: Lloyd Zusman <[e-mail]>
    MMAKE.TAR
        A program which can generate makefiles for multiple operating systems
        (or other environmental configurations) from a single master makefile.
        Contributor: Eric Schneider <[e-mail]>
    MORSE.TAR
        Takes its input and coverts it to International Morse Code.
        Contributor: Nils McCarthy <[e-mail]>
    MTOOLS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    MULTITEE.TAR
        Send multiple inputs to multiple outputs.  Runs on 4.3BSD and
        derivatives.
        Contributor: Dan Bernstein <[e-mail]>
    NEMORBIT.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    NOBACK.C
        Convert lines with backspaces in them to multiple lines for
        displaying on dumb terminals, etc.
        Contributor: Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>
    NSTRINGS.TAR
        A replacement for the BSD "strings" program.  Faster and more correct.
        Runs on VMS, too.
        Contributor: Michael Greim
                    <[e-mail]>
    PAC.TAR
        "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 <[e-mail]>
    PATCH.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    PDMAKE.TAR
        A public domain version of "make".  Version 1.6.
        Contributor: Greg Yachuk <[e-mail]>
    PEGBOARD.TAR
        A program to keep track of who is in or out of the office, and when
        they're due back.
        Contributor: Richard O'Rourke <[e-mail]>
    PERL.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    PERLCTIM.TAR
        An emulation of ctime(3) in PERL.
        Contributor: Waldemar Kebsch <[e-mail]>
    PHONEGEN.C
        A program to generate all possible letter combinations from a given
        telephone number.
        Contributor: Liudvikas Bukys <[e-mail]>
    PHONEME.C
        A program to translate English words into their phonetic spellings.
        Contributor: John Wasser <[e-mail]>
    PIPSCRPT.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    PMAN.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    PRINTF.TAR
        Another version of "printf" for shell scripts.  Implements most of
        the ANSI C specs, as well as roman numerals.
        Contributor: Chris Torek <[e-mail]>
    PSC.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    PT.TAR
        A program to display the hierarchy of a process tree.  Works on
        both System V and BSD.
        Contributor: Jeff Bauer <[e-mail]>
    PTREEBSD.TAR
        A backed to "ps" for BSD systems to display the process tree.
        Contributor: Paul Lew <[e-mail]>
    PSHDPDKS.TAR
        An implementation of the C shell "pushd", "popd", and "dirs"
        commands for the Korn shell.
        Contributor: Fletcher Mattox <[e-mail]>
    PWGET.TAR
        Programs to provide a shell script interface to the password file
        much like "getpwent" et. al. do for C programs.
        Contributor: Michael Saboff <[e-mail]>
    RANLIBSC.TAR
        A replacement ranlib(1) for SCO Xenix which handles externals with
        names longer than 40 characters.
        Contributor: Steve Bleazard <[e-mail]>
    RECTVKBD.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    REDIR.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    RELDB.TAR
        Programs to generate scattergrams, statistics from columnar data,
        and some plot(1) filters.
        Contributor: Gunnar Stefansson <[e-mail]>
    REVERSE.C
        A program to completely reverse its input.  Reverses characters on
        each lines and exchanges lines top to bottom.
        Contributor: K. A. Gluck <[e-mail]>
    REVGREP.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    RF.TAR
        A Rolodex program for maintaining lists of names and addresses
        which can quickly be referred to.  Uses System V curses.
        Contributor: Larry Lippman <[e-mail]>
    ROFF.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    ROLODEX.TAR
        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).
        Contributor: Dave Ihnat <[e-mail]>
    ROT.TAR
        A program to rotate the lines of a file such that the lines become
        columns.
        Contributor: Martin Schmidt
                     <[e-mail]>
    RPL.TAR
        An interpreter for HP's RPL "calculator programming language".
        Should have the same functionality as an HP-28 calculator.
        Contributor: [e-mail]
    RS.TAR
        A personal reminder system.
        Contributor: Don Joslyn <[e-mail]>
    RU.TAR
        A program to print a users(1)-style list of names for each host in
        the rwho spool directory.
        Contributor: P. Kern <[e-mail]>
    S5FINGER.TAR
        Various Berkeley utilities for System V.  "finger", "whois",
        and some others.
        Contributor: Keith Gabryelski <[e-mail]>
    S5LAST1.TAR
        An implementation of the Berkeley "last" command for System V.
        Contributor: Harver R. Moran Jr. <[e-mail]>
    S5LAST2.TAR
        Another implementation of "last" for System V.
        Contributor: Chris Kern <[e-mail]>
    S5LOOK.C
        An implementation of "look" for System V.
        Contributor: Larry Campbell <[e-mail]>
    SAMPLE.TAR
        An educational program for teaching about sampling distributions.
        Allows the user to provide a distribution which it will then
        graph.
        Contributor: Gary Perlman <[e-mail]>
    SAO.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    SC.TAR
        Version 6.8 of the public domain "sc" spreadsheet calculator.
        Runs on 4.xBSD and System V.
        Contributor: Bob Bond <[e-mail]>
                     Jeff Buhrt <[e-mail]>
    SCRENWHO.TAR
        A curses-based "who" program that updates the screen every few
        minutes.
        Contributor: Paul Pomes <[e-mail]>
    SEARCH.C
        A program to search for a string.  May contain newlines; works on
        binary files.
        Contributor: Daniel R. Levy <[e-mail]>
    SETS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    SHELFRMS.TAR
        A program to provide a forms-editor interface to shell scripts.
        Contributor: Paul Lew <[e-mail]>
    SHOW.TAR
        A version of "echo" with lots of flags from the multitude of
        UNIXes out there.
        Contributor: Alan Fargusson <[e-mail]>
    SOUNDEX.C
        A program which implements the "soundex" algorithm for generating
        identical tokens for like-sounding names.
        Contributor: Jerry Carlin <[e-mail]>
    SOUNDEX2.C
        Another implementation of Soundex.
        Contributor: N. Dean Pentcheff <[e-mail]>
    SONDXSPL.SH
        A spelling corrector using SOUNDEX2.C (the one from Dean Pentcheff).
        Contributor: Frederic W. Brehm <[e-mail]>
    SPIN.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    SRCTOMAN.SH
        A shell script to convert comments in various programming languages
        into a UNIX-style manual page.
        Contributor: W. Z. Venema
    STARCHRT.TAR
        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: [e-mail]
    STRNGSCF.TAR
        A program to extract strings from COFF-format object files.
        Contributor: Piercarlo Grandi<[e-mail]>
    STRINGSH.TAR
        Programs for manipulating strings in shell scripts.  Provides
        "index", "rindex", substring extractors, etc.
        Contributor: Greg Paris <[e-mail]>
    SUBSTR.TAR
        A program to extract substrings from expressions.
        Contributor: William E. Davidsen, Jr. <[e-mail]>
    TAPE.TAR
        A tape database program for cataloging and alphabetizing a large
        number of audio (or other) tapes.
        Contributor: David Bleckmann <[e-mail]>
    TC.TAR
        Termcap capabilities for shell scripts.  Saying "tc cap" will
        output the string for capability "cap" for the current terminal
        type.
        Contributor: <[e-mail]>
    TELEWRDS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    TRMCPTRM.TAR
        Converts a termcap file into terminfo source files.
        Contributor: Robert Viduya <[e-mail]>
    TERMLIST.TAR
        A Perl script to produce annotated listings of termcap entries.
        Contributor: Geoff Leach <[e-mail]>
    TOE.C
        Like "finger" only different.
        Contributor: Dan Heller <[e-mail]>
    TOT_INFO.TAR
        Programs to compute Chi-square independence, Gamma and related
        functions, etc. for 2-way contingency tables.
        Contributor: Doug Gwynn <[e-mail]>
    TPIPE.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    TPS.TAR
        A program which runs "ps" and rearranges the output.
        Contributor: Arndt Jonasson <[e-mail]>
    TRAPFILS.TAR
        Uses "ptrace" to trace a program and reports all files opened and
        closed by the program.  Berkeley UNIX dependent.
        Contributor: Arndt Jonasson <[e-mail]>
    TREEPAR.TAR
        A place and route (and plot) package for tree-structured data.
        Mostly intended as a companion to UNIX_C/UTILS/GENEAL.TAR.
        Contributor: Jim McBeath <[e-mail]>
    TUTOR.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    TTYPE.C
        A touch-typing tutor program.  May need mods to work on BSD systems.
        Contributor: Paul Hubbard <[e-mail]>
    UNITS.TAR
        A unit conversion program that does charts, too.
        Contributor: Gregory R. Simpson <[e-mail]>
    UNIX_VMS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    UNOD.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    UNTIC.TAR
        A program to decompile "terminfo" description files into ASCII.
        Contributor: Dave Regan <[e-mail]>
    VIS.TAR
        Turn any command into a screen-oriented one by executing it over and
        over, updating the screen with the results.
        Contributor: George M. Sipe <[e-mail]>
    VSH.TAR
        A visual shell which uses the full screen and allows selection of
        files by placing the cursor on them, etc.
        Contributor: Dan T'so <[e-mail]>
    VTTEST.TAR
        A program to test compatibility of so-called "VT100 compatibile"
        terminals.
        Contributor: Perl Lindberg <[e-mail]>
    VTFONTDT.TAR
        A screen-oriented editor for downloaded fonts in a VT220 terminal.
        Contributor: Eric A. Pearce <[e-mail]>
    VT22KEYS.TAR
        A program to download strings to the function keys on a DEC
        VT220 terminal.
        Contributor: Ken Lester <[e-mail]>
    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 <[e-mail]>
    WHICH.SH
        A shell script version of "which" that allows wildcards to work.
        Contributor: Steven Pemberton <[e-mail]>
    WHICH.TAR
        Yet another C version of "which".  Version 4.0.
        Contributor: Maarten Litmaath <[e-mail]>
    WIREWRAP.TAR
        A program to do circuit board design.
        Contributor: Bruce Karsh <[e-mail]>
    WNS.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    XDUMP.TAR
        Produce a hexadecimal dump of a file or a shared memory segment.
        Contributor: Bjorn Engsig <[e-mail]>
    XTX.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>
    XXU.TAR
        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 <[e-mail]>