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Frequently asked questions

  1. Who do I contact for Unix Application support? Please send requests for service concerning Unix or Linux systems to estech@k-state.edu

Software Systems Support

The following programs and packages have been installed on the updated Unix server in addition to the standard programs distributed with Solaris 10.

ApplicationDescriptionStatus
123 Lotus 123 spread sheet Staroffice
a2ps Formats an ascii file for printing on a postscript printer Upgraded
acad AutoCAD R12 Not Installed
acedb A Caenorhabditis elegans Data Not Installed
acroread Adobe Acrobad .pdf viewer Upgraded
aggis Convert to/from IP CIDR notation Not Installed
amanda Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver NetBackup
arc ESRI Arc/Info GIS software Not Installed
archie Interface to Anonymous FTP archive search Ncftp or ftp or scp
arcview ESRI ArcView GIS software Not Installed
bash Bourne Again SHell System
bison GNU YACC implementation System
bzip2 Data compression package System
calc Arbitrary precision calculator Not Installed
callpager Send a message to a KSU pager Not Installed
cdecl C declaration to english translator Not Installed
checkuser Mail debugging script Upgraded
cjpeg Compress an image file to a JPEG file System
clisp Common Lisp Interpreter Not Installed
color_edit Color editor hacked for the fvwm2 stuff Not Installed
color_xterm Xterminal program with support for color Not Installed
contool Contool A Better X Console Window Not Installed
cxterm Chinese Xterm Not Installed
dclock Very basic no frills digital clock Not Installed
dejagnu Not Installed
dvips Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript Upgraded
elm Elm Not Installed
emacs GNU Emacs Upgraded
expect Programmed dialogue for interactive programs Not Installed
f2c Convert Fortran 77 to C or C++ Not Installed
f2c Fortran to C translator Not Installed
fetchmail POP/IMAP transfer program Not Installed
filter The filter email filtering program split from elm. Not Installed
flex Fast lexical analyzer generator Upgraded
flip Unix<to>Dos newline conversion Dos2unix or unix2dos
forward Set/Reset/Query email forwarding address EID Web-page
freeze Compression program (obsoleted by gzip) Not Installed
fsp Anonymousftp style archive called FSP Not Installed
ftptool X interface to ftp Not Installed
fvwm Motif styled virtual window manager for X Not Installed
fvwm2 Fvwm2 window manager Not Installed
gaintool Audio control panel Not Installed
gbuffy Xbifflike program that supports IMAP and multiple mailboxes Not Installed
gcc GNU C C++ ObjectiveC and Java compiler Upgraded
gcg Genetics Computer Group Wisconson Package Upgraded
gcmp GNU binary comparison utility Not Installed
gdb GNU debugger Not Installed
gdbm GNU dbm hash database routines Not Installed
gdiff GNU text comparison utility Diff
geomview Interactive geometric shape viewer Not Installed
gfind GNU find utility Find
ggrep GNU grep utility (also gegrep gfgrep) Being installed
ghostview View PostScript documents using ghostscript Not Installed
giftool GIF image editor Gimp
gimp Gnu's image manupilation program Gimp
glut OpenGL programming utilities Not Installed
gmake GNU make Make gmake
gnupg The GNU Privacy Guard [www.gnupg.org.] a Free PGP replacement Not Installed
gnuplot Ploter Not Installed
graphics The LaTeX Colour and Graphics Packages Not Installed/use latest tex/latex tools
groff GNU roff processor/text formatter Not Installed
gs Ghostscript a PostScript interpereter Not Installed
gzip GNU compression utility Upgraded
hztty Chinese 'zW/HZ' encoding translator for cxterm Not Installed
ileaf6 Interleaf document processing system Not Installed
imaputils Command line programs for fetching and copying mailboxes via IMAP Not Installed
imsl Imsl function libraries Installed
indent Utility to indent and format C program source code Upgraded
info GNU hypertext help system Upgraded
irc Internet Relay Chat client program Upgraded
irssi Internet Relay Chat client program Installed
ispell Interactive spelling checking Aspell
jws Java Workshop System
kermit Kermit file transfer protocal system Not Installed
khoros Image processing system Gimp
kterm Japanese xterm Not Installed
LaTeX LaTeX extensions to TeX typesetting package Not installed/use latest tex/latex tools
less Improved version of 'more' System
libdes Encrypt or decrypt data using DES Openssl
libpng
libtabe Needed for xcin Not Installed
lisrel8 Structural Equation Modeling package Not Installed
lsof List open files System
lynx Character based WWW browser Upgraded
md5 Message-Digest algorithm 5 digest
m4 M4 macro processor System
magic VLSI layout editor Not Installed
makepass Encrypt passwords Not Installed
mathematica Commercial mathematical program Upgraded
mathematica Mathematica Upgraded
mathematica Mathematica Upgraded
mathematica Mathematical analysis program Upgraded
matlab Mathematics package Upgraded
matlab Matlab Upgraded
mcvert Mac file format (BinHex) conversion tool Not Installed
md5 Secure hash (checksum) generator Not Installed
metamail Multimedia mail processing system Not Installed
mikmod Play MOD/XM/669/S3M/MTM music files Not Installed
mosaic NCSA Mosaic WWW browser Not Installed
move_folders Move pine folders to IMAP Not Installed
move_folders Move pine folders to IMAP Not Installed
mozilla Mozilla web browser System
mpeg_lib Mpeg libs Not Installed
mpeg_play Mpeg format animation player for X Not Installed
Mtools Tools to access MSDOS diskettes Not Installed
MusicTeX TeX addition for making sheet music Not Installed
mutt The Mutt Mail User Agent Not Installed
mwm The Motif Window Manager Not Installed
mxgdb Motif based interface to the gdb debugger Not Installed
ncftp File transfer utility (improved ftp client) Upgraded
nedit Motifbased X text editor Not Installed
netpbm Toolkit for conversion of images Gimp
netscape Netscape System mozilla
nn Usenet news reader Mozilla
nscal Netscape Calendar Not Installed
nscal Netscape Calendar client Not Installed
ntalk New talk program Not Installed
p2c Pascal to C translator Not Installed
patch Utility to apply diffs to files System
pbmplus Graphic file conversion tools Gimp
perl PERL programming language System
perl curses Curses screen handling for Perl System
perlmenu Cursesbased menus and data entry for Perl Not Installed
pgp Pretty Good Privacy encryption system Not Installed
pine The pine email agent Upgraded
procmail Mail processing utilitiy Not Installed
proe Pro/ENGINEER Modeling Tool Not Installed
pvm Parallel Virtual Machine System Version 3 Not Installed
Python Scripting language System
rcs Revision Control System Upgraded
R Software environment for Statistical computing and graphics Installed
rn Usenet news reader Mozilla
splus The SPLUS program Upgraded
s3mod Play MOD/S3M music files Not Installed
sas SAS statistical program Upgraded
sc Simple Spreadsheet Calculator Staroffice
screen Screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation Upgraded
sha Secure Hash Algorithm Openssl
sharutils GNU shar utilities Not Installed
silvaco Silicon device simulation tools Not Installed
sml Standard ML of New Jersey Not Installed
soundtool Audio waveform display Not Installed
spice Circuit simulator Not Installed
spss Professional Statistics Package Not Installed
ssh Secure shell System
staroffice Star Office 7 System
strn Usenet news reader Mozilla
sysinfo Display system information System
tar GNU tar System tar and gtar
Tcl Tcl command language Use tclsh
tcsh Default interactive command System
TeX TeX Typesetting program Upgraded
textutils GNU Text Utilities Upgraded
tidy Tidy up HTML web pages Not Installed
tiff Lots of tiff related things System
tk Tk programming toolkit System
tn3270 TN3270 terminal emulator Not Installed
top Display information on running processes Upgraded
tracker Play amiga MOD/Protracker music files Not Installed
trn Usenet news reader Not Installed
unarj ARJ archive extraction utility Not Installed
unzip InfoZip package and compression utilities Upgraded
ups Graphical C/FORTRAN debugger Not Installed
us UltraScan II 4.0 Analysis tool Not Installed
vhe HCIL Visible Human Explorer Not Installed
vim Text Editor Installed
vnc Vnc viewer/server for X Not Installed
wget Fetch HTTP/FTP files from the command line Upgraded
WindowMaker Window maker window manager Not Installed
wp Wordperfect 6.0 document processor Use Staroffice
x3270 X based IBM3270 terminal emulator Not Installed
xanim Multiformat animation/video/audio viewer for X Not Installed
xautolock Automatic X display locking utility Not Installed
xbuffy X program to watch multiple mailboxes Not Installed
xco Color viewer for X Not Installed
xdelta Sccsdelta delta make a delta to an SCCS file Not Installed
xdu Display the output of "du" in an X window Not Installed
xdvi DVI previewer for X Not Installed
xe UniXEDIT text editor Not Installed
xemacs Xemacs editor Not Installed
xfig Figure drawing program for X Not Installed
xgraph Graphing program for X Not Installed
xgrasp Grasp format animation viewer Not Installed
xless Xbased less (a better "more") Not Installed
xli Image display utility (xsetbg xview) Not Installed
xmeter Xbased system perf monitor Not Installed
xmgr Exploratory Data Analysis tool Not Installed
xpaint Simple X paint program ver. 2.1.1 Not Installed
xphoon X PHase of the mOON Not Installed
xplaygizmo Utility to play audio files for X Not Installed
xpm X PixMap library routines Not Installed
xrn Usenet news reader for X Not Installed
xspread Simple X spreadsheet tool Not Installed
xv Interactive image display for X Not Installed
xvgr Obsolete use "xmgr" instead Not Installed
xviewgl Grasp library viewer for X Not Installed
xxgdb X windowing interface to GDB Not Installed
xyzzy Magic word Not Installed
zip InfoZip package and compression utilities Upgraded
zlib Libs needed for gimp Upgraded
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