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| antiword | 0.35 | GPL | MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter | Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, BeOS and RISC OS. It converts the documets from Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to ASCII and Postscript. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact. |
| ascii | 3.6 | GPL | Interactive ASCII name and synonym chart | The ascii utility provides easy conversion between various byte representations and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character table. It knows about a wide variety of hex, binary, octal, Teletype mnemonic, ISO/ECMA code point, slang names, XML entity names, and other representations. Given any one on the command line, it will try to display all others. Called with no arguments it displays a handy small ASCII chart. |
| aspell | 0.50.4.1 | LGPL | A Free and Open Source interactive spelling checker program. | GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. |
| autodia | 1.8 | GPL | Automatic Dia/UML generator | AutoDia is a modular application that parses source code or data (if a handler is available) and produces an XML document in Dia format, essentially a Dia diagram autocreation package. The diagrams its creates are standard UML diagrams showing dependencies, superclasses, packages, classes and inheritances, as well as the methods, etc of each class. |
| avlmap-utils | 0.10.2 | LGPL | Various utilities using the libavlmap0 library | Various utilities using the libavlmap0 library * linesort - Perform a simple sort of input lines via string mapping. * wordstat - Count the frequency of different word items in the input. * wordstat - Count the frequency of different word items in the input. * wordscan - like wordstat but don't actually do anything with mappings. |
| banner | 1.2.1 | GPL | Print text as banner on the console | Banner fills an apparent hole in Linux - that is, that is does not provide a "banner" program itself, while nearly all UNIX systems seem to do so. Banner prints a "banner" on the screen that corresponds to the first 10 characters of a string entered on the command line, in a way similar to what you might see when using Solaris or AIX. There are fancier things out there, but this is nice and simple. |
| bibletime | 1.4.1 | GPL | BibleTime 1.4.1 is an easy to use Bible study tool for KDE2. | BibleTime 1.4.1-1mdk is a free and easy to use bible study tool for UNIX systems. BibleTime provides easy handling of digitized texts (Bibles, commentaries and lexicons) and powerful features to work with these texts (search in texts, write own notes, save, print etc.). Bibletime is a frontend for the SWORD Bible Framework. |
| demoroniser | 19980116 | Public Domain | Demoroniser corrects incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications. | Corrects moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications. Also can be useful on just text to get rid of the "smart quotes" Microsoft applications like to use. |
| dictd-client | 1.9.7 | GPL | DICT client | The DICT Protocol, described in RFC 2229 is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases. This packages contains dict(1) which can access DICT servers from the command line. |
| dog | 1.7 | GPL | Dog better than cat | Dog is intended as a replacement for the obscure utility "cat". In addition to emulating all of the behavior of cat, dog also has some functionality that would normally require a freaky perl hacker to spew out line noise for perl to interpret. This includes extracting ranges of lines of text and strfry()ing text. |
| dos2unix | 0.8.1 | GPL | Converts DOS-style EOLs to UNIX-style EOLs and vice versa. | hd2u is "Hany's Dos2Unix converter". It provides 'dos2unix'. 'dos2unix' is filter used to convert DOS-style EOLs to UNIX-style EOLs and vice versa (EOL - End Of Line character). |
| ed | 0.2 | GPL | The GNU line editor. | Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably won't use it much. |
| empy | 3.3 | GPL | System for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text | System for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. |
| gawk | 3.1.2 | GPL | The GNU version of the awk text processing utility. | The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Gawk should be upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs research version of awk and is almost completely compliant with the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text. |
| gnomesword | 2.0.0 | GPL | Bible Study Software for Linux and the Gnome Desktop | GnomeSword is a GNOME interface to the Sword Project (http://www.croswire.org/sword) The SWORD Bible Framework allows easy manipulation of Bible texts, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, etc. |
| grc | 1.0.6 | GPL | Generic Colouriser | Generic Colouriser is yet another colouriser for beautifying your logfiles or output of commands. |
| groff | 1.19 | GPL | A document formatting system | Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer. Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more. You should install groff if you want to use it as a document formatting system. Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you'll also need to install the groff-gxditview package. |
| groff-for-man | 1.19 | GPL | Parts of the groff formatting system that is required for viewing manpages | The groff-for-man package contains the parts of the groff text processor package that are required for viewing manpages. For a full groff package, install package groff. |
| groff-gxditview | 1.19 | GPL | An X previewer for groff text processor output | Gxditview displays the groff text processor's output on an X Window System display. If you are going to use groff as a text processor, you should install gxditview so that you preview your processed text files in X. You'll also need to install the groff package and the X Window System. |
| groff-perl | 1.19 | GPL | Parts of the groff formatting system that require Perl. | The groff-perl package contains the parts of the groff text processor package that require Perl. These include the afmtodit font processor for creating PostScript font files, the grog utility that can be used to automatically determine groff command-line options, and the troff-to-ps print filter. |
| gtml | 3.5.3 | GPL | An html preprocessor | gtml is an HTML pre-processor which adds some extra features specially designed for maintaining multiple Web pages. Using gtml you can create and use macros to save typing, create a "project file" with the names of all your Web pages to update them all with one command, give specific alias to filename to make it is easy to move files and have links preserved, specify a tree-like hierarchy of Web pages to have Next, Previous and Up links added automatically, include files into all your HTML files, include a timestamp, use conditional commands to create different versions of the output, and generate output to different irectories to generate different versions of your site. |
| gtypist | 2.7 | GPL | Gtypist is a universal typing tutor | GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal typing tutor. You can learn correct typing and improve your skills by practicing its exercises on a regular basis. |
| helptool | 2.4 | GPL | A graphical user interface tool which searches for help files. | The helptool provides a unified graphical user interface for searching through many of the help sources available (including man pages and GNU texinfo documents). Install helptool if you'd like to use it to search for help files. You'll need to have the X Window System installed to use the helptool. |
| howto-utils | 0.2.13 | GPL | Index generator for LDP html formatted HOWTO documents | Linux HOWTOs are parts of the Linux Documentation Project. They are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Linux HOWTOs are a great source of practical information about your system. The latest versions of these documents are located at http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto Currently, availlable tools are : - makehowtoindex is an index generator for html formatted HOWTO documents - mirror_howtos mirror howtos and mini-howtos - untar_howtos process a howto mirror (obtained by mirror_howtos) |
| ispell | 3.2.06 | GPL | The GNU interactive spelling checker program | Ispell is the GNU interactive spelling checker. Ispell will check a text file for spelling and typographical errors. When it finds a word that is not in the dictionary, it will suggest correctly spelled words for the misspelled word. You should install ispell if you need a program for spell checking (and who doesn't...). Note this package has only the spell checker engine; you also need to install the dictionary files from the ispell-* package for your language. |
| letterize | 1.2 | GPL | Generate pronounceable mnemonics from phone numbers | Generate all possible alphabetic mnemonics for a phone number, then filter them for phonetic plausibility in English. |
| libaspell15 | 0.50.4.1 | LGPL | Shared library files for aspell | Shared library files for the aspell package. |
| libwmf | 0.2.8 | GPL | A library to convert wmf files. | libwmf is a library for unix like machines that can convert wmf files into other formats, currently it supports a gd binding to convert to gif, and an X one to draw direct to an X window or pixmap. |
| lout | 3.25 | GPL | The Lout document formatting language. | Lout is a high-level language for document formatting. Lout reads a high-level description of a document (similar in style to LaTeX) and can produce a PostScript(TM) file for printing or produce plain text. Lout supports the typesetting of documents which contain floating figures, table, diagrams, rotated and scaled text or graphics, footnotes, running headers, footers, an index, a table of contents and bibliography, cross-references, mathematical equations and statistical graphs. Lout can be extended with definitions that should be easier to write than other languages, since Lout is a high-level language. Lout supports (with hyphenation) a variety of languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Install the lout package if you'd like to try the Lout document formatting system. Unless you're already a Lout expert, you'll probably want to also install the lout-doc package, which contains the documentation for Lout. |
| lyx2html | 0.2 | GPL | lyx2html is a simple lyx to html converter | "lyx2html" is a very simple Lyx to HTML converter. As the name suggests, it takes a ".lyx" document as input and generates an HTML-file following a few simple rules. "lyx2html" can be very useful for generation documentation. This is a beta-release, meaning there are probably still a lot of bugs in the program, and that it might not generate the expected output or that it might even segfault on you. |
| makesig.pl | 0.0.9 | GPL | A very flexible random signature generator | makesig.pl is a very flexible random signature generator for those who don't fear the power of the command line. It comes together with some tools to format your signature. makesig.pl can also read fortune files. |
| par | 1.52 | Distributable - Copyright (C) 2000 by Adam M. Costello | A paragraph reformatter | Par is a paragraph reformatter, similar to the standard Unix fmt filter, but better. It uses a dynamic programming algorithm, which produces much better-looking line breaks than the greedy algorithm used by fmt. It can also deal correctly with a variety of quotation and comment conventions. |
| patch | 2.5.9 | GPL | The GNU patch command, for modifying/upgrading files. | The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file). Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading applications. |
| patchutils | 0.2.26 | GPL | Patches utilities | Patchutils contains interdiff and filterdiff. You can use interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are against a common source tree. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards. |
| pdftohtml | 0.36 | GPL | A PDF to HTML converter. | PDFTOHTML converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to HTML format. This release converts text and links. Bold and italic face are preserved, but high level HTML structures ( like lists or tables ) are not yet generated. Images are ignored ( but you can extract them from the PDF file using pdfimages, distributed with the Xpdf package ). The current version is tested on Linux and Solaris 2.6 |
| perl-Text-Autoformat | 1.12 | Artistic | Text-Autoformat module for perl | Text::Autoformat provides intelligent formatting of plaintext without the need for any kind of embedded mark-up. The module recognizes Internet quoting conventions, a wide range of bulleting and number schemes, centred text, and block quotations, and reformats each appropriately. Other options allow the user to adjust inter-word and inter-paragraph spacing, justify text, and impose various capitalization schemes. The module also supplies a re-entrant, highly configurable replacement for the built-in Perl format() mechanism. |
| perl-Text-Reform | 1.11 | Artistic | Manual text wrapping and reformatting | The form() subroutine may be exported from the module. It takes a series of format (or "picture") strings followed by replacement values, inter- polates those values into each picture string, and returns the result. The effect is similar to the inbuilt perl format mechanism, although the field specification syntax is simpler and some of the formatting beha- viour is more sophisticated. |
| perltidy | 20031021 | GPL | Script which indents and reformats Perl scripts | Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful. |
| pyDict | 0.2.5.1 | GPL | pyDict - A English/Chinese Dictionary written with python/gtk | This is a English/Chinese Dictionary wirtten by Daniel Gau with python/gtk. The word base was originally got from xdict, and was converted and modified by Daniel Gau and bv1al.This program can be run in both console mode and X Window GUI mode. |
| python-cheetah | 0.9.15 | BSD | Template engine and code generator | Cheetah: * generates HTML, SGML, XML, SQL, Postscript, form email, LaTeX, or any other text-based format. * cleanly separates content, graphic design, and program code. This leads to highly modular, flexible, and reusable site architectures; faster development time; and HTML and program code that is easier to understand and maintain. It is particularly well suited for team efforts. * blends the power and flexibility of Python with a simple template language that non-programmers can understand. * gives template writers full access to any Python data structure, module, function, object, or method in their templates. * makes code reuse easy by providing an object-orientated interface to templates that is accessible from Python code or other Cheetah templates. One template can subclass another and selectively reimplement sections of it. * provides a simple, yet powerful, caching mechanism that can dramatically improve the performance of a dynamic website. * compiles templates into optimized, yet readable, Python code. |
| recode | 3.6 | GPL | GNU recode | The GNU recode utility converts files between various character sets. |
| regexxer | 0.6 | GPL | GUI search/replace tool supporting Perl regular expression | regexxer is a nifty search/replace tool for the desktop user. It features recursive search through directory trees and Perl-style regular expressions (using libpcre). |
| rgrep | 0.99.16 | GPL | A grep utility which can recursively descend through directories. | The rgrep utility can recursively descend through directories as it greps for the specified pattern. Note that this ability does take a toll on rgrep's performance, which is somewhat slow. Rgrep will also highlight the matching expression. Install the rgrep package if you need a recursive grep which can highlight the matching expression. |
| sagasu | 2.0.5 | GPL | GNOME text searching tool | Sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can optionally ignore CVS directories. Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search." |
| spellutils | 0.7 | GPL | Programs for helping spell checking. | Spellutils is a suite of programs which are used to isolate some parts or texts from various types of files and hand them over to another program which may change the texts; it is typically a spell checker. Afterwards the possibly changed text parts are copied back in place in the original file. The programs in the Spellutils package are: * newsbody which can isolate your own text from headers, quotes and signature in e-mail or Usenet messages * pospell which can isolate translations in .po files * More programs are likely to follow |
| stardict | 2.4.2 | GPL | StarDict is an international dictionary written for GNOME | StarDict is an international dictionary written for the GNOME environment. It has evolved from Motif/Lesstif based Chinese dictionary, into a full featured international dictionary written in GTK+. Here are some of its features: - Instantly popup word definition when word is selected on screen - Wildcard search ( e.g. "wo?d*" ) - Fuzzy query - Dock into notification area - Find text in word definition - Many dictionaries available, including freedict, *quick, xdict, dict.org dictionaries |
| tidy | 0.99 | W3C license | Program for tidying up messy HTML | tidy is a program for tidying up messy html, for example, when we do html in vi, and we make the text italic with the <i> </i> tag some of us may forget to end the italic text with </i>. tidy fixes this. Install this if you need a program to help you tidy up your HTML. |
| typist | 2.6.2 | GPL | Typing tutor package | Typist is a typing tutor package built using ncurses. The package contains a number of tutorials, drills, and practice sessions to help with mastering touch typing on the standard computer keyboard. The accent is on the US keyboard layout, but the lessons may also be useful with other layouts, and new lessons can be written by the user. A Dvorak lesson and Spanish lesson are included. |
| unix2dos | 2.2 | distributable | Unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter | A utility that converts plain text files in UNIX format to DOS format. |
| unrtf | 0.19.0 | GPL | RTF to other formats converter | UnRTF is a moderately complicated converter from RTF to other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, text, and PostScript. Converting to HTML, it supports tables, fonts, colors, embedded images, hyperlinks, paragraph alignment among other things. All other conversions are "alpha"--just begun. |
| wdiff | 0.5 | GPL | Word-based diff front end | GNU wdiff is a front-end to GNU diff. It compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with terminals and pagers (notably with less). GNU wdiff is particularly useful when two texts differ only by a few words and paragraphs have been refilled. |
| wiggle | 0.6 | GPL | A tool for applying patches with conflicts | Wiggle is a program for applying patches that 'patch' cannot apply due to conflicting changes in the original. Wiggle will always apply all changes in the patch to the original. If it cannot find a way to cleanly apply a patch, it inserts it in the original in a manner similar to 'merge', and report an unresolvable conflict. Such a conflict will look like: |
| words | 2 | Public Domain | A dictionary of English words for the /usr/dict directory | The words file is a dictionary of English words for the /usr/dict directory. Programs like ispell use this database of words to check spelling. |
| xchm | 0.8.11 | GPL | xCHM - the CHM viewer for UNIX | xCHM - the CHM viewer for UNIX |
| yodl | 1.31.18 | GPL | Yet oneOther Document Language. | Yodl is a package that implements a pre-document language and tools to process it. The idea of Yodl is that you write up a document in a pre-language, then use the tools (eg. yodl2html) to convert it to some final document language. Current converters are for HTML, ms, man, LaTeX SGML and texinfo, plus a poor-man's text converter. Main document types are "article", "report", "book" and "manpage". The Yodl document language is designed to be easy to use and extensible. |
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[Ernie] Ball says. [...] “We were raided by armed Federal Marshals
and completely shut down for a day. Then you have to swear you won't
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business,” he says. “I don’t believe you should treat a customer
that way.” [...] The company ended up paying a [USD]$90,000
settlement.
Ball [...] decided at that moment his company would become
“Microsoft free.” According to Ball, “Everyone said we couldn’t do
it. It took us about one year” [to convert to] a Linux-based network
and UNIX mainframe.
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