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- Extra Slackware packages / user contributed package directory
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- These are some extra packages that might be handy. Use 'pkgtool' to install or
- remove these from your system. These can also be installed with 'installpkg'.
-
- Anyone who wants to contribute a package to this directory should send me mail
- at: volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com. The package must install cleanly, and must include a
- description to be added to this index (in which you can feel free to give
- yourself some credit). As of version 2.0.0, Slackware contains an easy to use
- package creation tool called 'makepkg' that can be used to make the package.
-
- I don't offer any support for these packages. :^)
-
- Some of these long package names may cause unsightly wrap-around in the color
- pkgtool's package removal menu, but it should still work ok.
-
- -- Pat
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-
- Also see all the .txt and README files in this directory for more information
- on these packages.
-
- a.out-compilers/ This directory contains GNU C/C++/Objective-C for the now
- obsolete Linux a.out binary format, as well as a set of tools
- for creating a.out shared libraries.
-
- emacspeak: Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who
- cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. (Until now, the only
- option available to visually impaired users has been to use a
- talking PC as a terminal.) Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs.
- Once you start emacs with emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback
- for everything you do. Your mileage will vary depending on how well
- you can use Emacs. There is nothing that you cannot do inside
- Emacs :-). This package supports the DECtalk Express and DECtalk
- MultiVoice speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for
- separate driver packages.
-
- emacspeak-dt: Emacspeak by T. V. Raman enables blind users to use emacs with a
- DECtalk speech synthesizer. With this driver, it can also be used
- with the DoubleTalk LT synthesizer.
-
- aps-4.91.tgz: Andreas Klemm's Apsfilter is a lineprinter input filter for Unix
- Systems with Berkeley-like printing system (configuration using
- /etc/printcap). Main features are AUTOMATIC FILE TYPE RECOGNITION
- for the filetypes: * ASCII * DATA * POSTSCRIPT * DVI *
-
- f2c: A Fortran-77 to C translator, complete with an "f77" script to
- hide the translation details from the user.
-
- auis63L4-*.tgz: Packages from the Andrew User Interface System, put together
- for Linux by Terry Gliedt.
-
- xgrabsc.tgz: A screen grabber for X.
-
- nvi.tgz: Version 1.79 of nex/nvi, a freely redistributable replacement for the
- Berkeley ex and vi text editors.
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- noweb.tgz: A literate-programming tool like FunnelWEB or nuweb, only simpler.
-
- smail/: Smail 3.2. Smail is a mail-handling system. Some find it easier to
- maintain and configure than BSD sendmail, especially for use with UUCP.
-
- pdksh.tgz: A Korn shell look-alike, version 5.2.3.
-
- slirp-1.0c.tar.gz: Source for a program to emulate SLIP/CSLIP from a Unix(R)
- shell account on the Internet.
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