The ``Software Home Pages'' page

This page is an index of home pages on the World Wide Web of various software packages.

This software is generally free and distributed in source form; you must build it yourself.

This list contains whatever software I use or have come across.  Suggestions for additions welcome.

Software Web Pages

Graphics

• X Window System - (ftp from ftp.x.org or a mirror site)
  (latest public release: Release 6.5.1, 20 Aug 2000 (as of 2000-11-29))
• GIMP - image manipulation program - (ftp from ftp.gimp.org:/pub/gimp/ or a mirror site)
  (latest stable release: version 1.2.3 (as of 2002-06-19))
• xloadimage
• Ghostscript - PostScript interpreter
  (latest public release: 7.04, 2002-01-31 (as of 2002-03-05))

Text formatting

• TeX.  (I use the Web2c version.)
• LaTeX
• Preview-LaTeX.  Preview your LaTeX markup in Emacs.  Very cool.
• dvips - DVI to PostScript translator.
  (another manual)
• LaTeX2HTML - LaTeX to HTML Translator
  (latest release: "2002 (1.66)", April 14, 2002 (as of 2002-04-16))
• tth - TeX to HTML translator - strong on equations
• Texinfo - markup language for documentation.
  
• Hyperlatex - This is a separate language from LaTeX.  I haven't used it.  I write in LaTeX and convert with LaTeX2HTML (see above).
• HyperTeX - hyperlink information in TeX (and LaTeX).
• a2ps - ASCII (or anything) to PostScript converter
  (latest public release: version 4.12, Feb 16, 1999 (as of 1999-03-05))
• less - page-at-a-time display of text
  (latest release: version 358, 8 Jul, 2000 (as of 2001-11-16))

Mail

• mh-e - Emacs front-end to MH and nmh
  (latest public release: 6.0, December 2001 (as of 2001-01-04))
• MH - the all-powerful mail handler
• nmh - new MH - (ftp from ftp.math.gatech.edu:/pub/nmh/)
  (latest public release: version 1.0, Feb 6, 1999 (as of 1999-05-03))
• sendmail
  (latest public release: 8.12.3, 2002/04/05 (as of 2002-04-05))
  (See also the book Sendmail: Theory and Practice).

System

• Bash - (ftp from slc2.ins.cwru.edu:pub/dist/ or ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/bash/)
  (latest public release: version 2.05a, 16 Nov 2001 (as of 2002-02-28))

System Administration

• BIND - (includes named)
  (latest public release: 9.2.1, May 1, 2002 (as of 2002-06-06))
  (BIND 8.3.1, the latest BIND 8 (as of 2002-04-05), was released Feb 2, 2002)
  (BIND 4.9.8, the latest BIND 4 (as of 2002-04-05), was released Jan 27, 2001)
• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• INN - netnews server
• HylaFax - fax software
• NTP and xntpd - (ftp from ftp.udel.edu:/pub/ntp/)
  (latest releases: 4.0.99a on 15 Jan 2000 and 3-5.93e an Aug 10, 1998 (as of 2000-01-18))
• Samba - share files and printers with DOS.  (ftp from samba.anu.edu.au:/pub/samba/)
  (latest release: 2.0.7, 25 April 2000 (as of 2000-05-15))
• Kerberos - (ftp from athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/kerberos)
  (latest public release: Version 5, Release 1.0.5, on 1998/02/17 (as of 1999-02-03))
• Ssh (Secure Shell) - remote login program.
  (latest release: 2.0.10, 1998/09/17 (as of 1998-11-04))
• sudo - CU version.
  (latest public release: version 1.6.2p3, Feb 26, 2000 (as of 2000-03-24))

Web

• Lynx - a text-based Web browser - (ftp from www.slcc.edu:/pub/lynx/fote/)
  (latest public release: version 2.8.1, Oct 24, 1998 (as of 1999-05-03))
• Emacs/W3 - a Web browser written in Emacs Lisp.
• Analog - WWW logfile analysis program.
  (latest public release: version 3.11 (as of 1999-02-03))
• Weblint - An HTML syntax and style checker.
  (ftp from ftp.cre.canon.co.uk:/pub/weblint/ (and CPAN mirrors))
  (latest public release: 1.020, 10 September 1997 (as of 1999-02-03))

Software Development

• Perl
  (latest stable release: 5.6.0, 18 April 2000 (as of 2000-11-17))
• Expect
• imake.  (Also distributed with the X Window System, see above.)
  (See also the book Software Portability with imake.)
• CVS - (ftp from download.cyclic.com:/pub/)
  (latest released version: 1.10, 14 Aug 1998 (as of 2000-02-21))
• PRCS - Project Revision Control System, another front end to RCS.  (ftp from ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu:/pub/prcs/)
  (latest public release: 1.2.14, 17 Mar 1999 (as of 1999-08-18))
• GDB - the GNU debugger.
  (latest public release: 4.18, 12 Apr 1999 (as of 1999-04-13))

Dancing

• Sd - a square dance caller's helper
  (latest release: 34.3, Dec 13, 2000 (as of 2000-12-14))

Software without Web pages

• pgp.el - PGP interface for Emacs mail user agents
  (ftp from u2.netgate.net:/u/jack/pgp-el.tar.gz)
  (latest public release: version 211, 1998/06/15 (as of 1999-06-11))
• RCS - (ftp from ftp.cs.purdue.edu:pub/RCS/)
  (latest public release: 5.7, June 1995 (as of 1999-02-03))

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