These are descriptions of the packages in the Slackware contrib directory: bind-4: bind-4.9.7-REL. bind-4: bind-4: The named daemon and support utilities such as dig, dnsquery, host, bind-4: nslookup, nsquery, and nstest. Documentation on setting up a name bind-4: server can be found in /usr/doc/bind-4.9.7-REL/. bind-4: bitchx: ircii-pana-75p3 (BitchX) - an advanced Internet Relay Chat client bitchx: bitchx: BitchX is a VERY heavily modified ircII client. It bitchx: includes many things such as built in CDCC (XDCC) offer- bitchx: ing, built in flood protection, etc. It is easier to bitchx: script things in BitchX because unlike plain, vanilla bitchx: ircII, half the script does not have to be devoted to bitchx: changing the appearance of ircII. It also includes many bitchx: other new features, such as port scanning, advanced TCL, a bitchx: CD player, a mail client, screening process, etc. bitchx: cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10. cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: CVS is a freely available collection of programs that provide for cvs-1.10: software release and revision control functions in a UNIX cvs-1.10: environment. cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: cvs-1.10: diald-0.16.5: diald-0.16.5. diald-0.16.5: diald-0.16.5: Diald is a daemon that provides on demand IP links via SLIP or diald-0.16.5: PPP. The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that diald-0.16.5: you have a permanent connection to a remote site. Diald sets up a diald-0.16.5: "proxy" device which stands in for the physical connection to a diald-0.16.5: remote site. It then monitors the proxy, waiting for packets to diald-0.16.5: arrive. When interesting packets arrive it will attempt to diald-0.16.5: establish the physical link to the remote site using either SLIP diald-0.16.5: or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic from the proxy diald-0.16.5: to the physical link. fvwm-1.23b: FVWM version 1.23b fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: Fvwm is a window manager for X11. It is a derivative of twm, fvwm-1.23b: redesigned to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3-D look to fvwm-1.23b: window frames, and provide a simple virtual desktop. fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: fvwm-1.23b: epic: epic4_pre2.004-19990718 - Internet Relay Chat client epic: epic: The ircII/EPIC program is a character oriented user agent to epic: Internet Relay Chat. It is a fully functional ircII client with epic: many useful extensions. This version works with all modern irc epic: server classes as of early 1999. Program written by Michael epic: Sandrof (ms5n+@andrew.cmu.edu). The copyright holder is Matthew epic: Green (mrg@mame.mu.oz.au). This software is maintained by Jeremy epic: Nelson (jnelson@acronet.net) on behalf of the EPIC project epic: (ircii-epic@concentric.net). epic: gcc-2.7.2.3: gcc-2.7.2.3 gcc-2.7.2.3: gcc-2.7.2.3: This is gcc 2.7.2.3, with support for C only. This is useful for gcc-2.7.2.3: building 2.0.x kernels and some system software. gcc-2.95.1: gcc-2.95.1 gcc-2.95.1: gcc-2.95.1: This is GNU GCC 2.95.1, compiled to support C, C++, Objective-C, gcc-2.95.1: Fortran-77, Java, and Chill. It is supplied as an alternate gcc-2.95.1: compiler for Slackware. It's not very well tested at this time for gcc-2.95.1: things like compiling the kernel and system software, so if you use gcc-2.95.1: it for such things you are on your own. To make this your default gcc-2.95.1: compiler, just install it with 'installpkg'. If you decide later gcc-2.95.1: to switch back to egcs, just remove this package with 'removepkg' gcc-2.95.1: and then reinstall egcs with 'installpkg'. gcc-2.95.1: ncurses-4.2: ncurses-4.2 ncurses-4.2: ncurses-4.2: The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of ncurses-4.2: curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, ncurses-4.2: supports pads, color, multiple highlights, forms, characters, ncurses-4.2: and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses ncurses-4.2: enhancements over BSD curses. ncurses-4.2: ncurses-4.2: ncurses-4.2: ncurses-4.2: ircd: ircd - The Internet Relay Chat Program Server ircd: ircd is the server (daemon) program for the Internet Relay ircd: Chat Program. The ircd is a server in that its function ircd: is to "serve" the client program irc(1) with messages and ircd: commands. All commands and user messages are passed ircd: directly to the ircd for processing and relaying to other ircd: ircd sites. The irc(1) program depends upon there being ircd: an ircd server running somewhere (either on your local ircd: UNIX site or a remote ircd site) so that it will have ircd: somewhere to connect to and thus allow the user to begin ircd: talking to other users. icewm: This is icewm-0.8.9, a window manager for X11. icewm: icewm: The goal of IceWM is to provide a small, fast and familiar window icewm: manager for the X11 window system. Compatibility with the mwm window icewm: manager is desired and will be implemented where appropriate. icewm: icewm: The IceWM is designed to emulate the look of Motif, OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 icewm: Warp 3 and Windows 95. Others might added in the future. icewm: icewm: It also tries to combine the feel of the above systems whenever it is icewm: compatible. blackbox: blackbox-0.51.3.1 blackbox: blackbox: BlackBox is a lean and clean X11 window manager. blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: blackbox: wmaker: This is WindowMaker-0.51.2, a window magager for X11. wmaker: wmaker: Window Maker is a X11 window manager with a NEXTSTEP look. wmaker: It tries to emulate NeXT's look as much as possible, but wmaker: it deviates from it as necessary. wmaker: wmaker: wmaker: wmaker: wmaker: wmaker: ircii-4.4: IRC clients ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: Contains the ircii-4.4 IRC client, as well as the ircii-pana_0.74p2 ircii-4.4: (BitchX) IRC client. ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: ircii-4.4: noweb-2.8a: Noweb is a literate-programming tool like FunnelWEB or nuweb, only noweb-2.8a: simpler. A noweb file contains program source code interleaved with noweb-2.8a: documentation. When noweb is invoked, it writes the program source noweb-2.8a: code to the output files mentioned in the noweb file, and it writes noweb-2.8a: a TeX file for typeset documentation. The author recommends using noweb-2.8a: LaTeX; noweb comes with an efficient LaTeX->HTML converter, so the noweb-2.8a: resulting programs can easily be browsed on the World-Wide Web. noweb-2.8a: More info can be found at URL http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nr/noweb noweb-2.8a: and on the USENET news group comp.programming.literate. noweb-2.8a: noweb-2.8a: nvi-1.79: nvi - 'vi' clone. nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: Version 1.79 of nex/nvi, a freely redistributable replacement for the nvi-1.79: Berkeley ex and vi text editors. nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: nvi-1.79: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-5.2.14 pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: A freely distributable Korn shell clone. pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: pdksh-2.1.14: xgrabsc: A screengrabber for X. xgrabsc: xgrabsc: Xgrabsc and xgrab allow you do take PostScript shapshots of individual xgrabsc: X clients, regions of the X screen, or the entire screen. xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: f2c: A Fortran-77 to C translator. f2c: f2c: Contains libf2c.so.0.11, ported by Rob Hooft. This package uses f2c: an 'f77' script that hides the C translation process from the user. f2c: f2c: f2c: f2c: f2c: f2c: f2c: emacspeak-9.0: Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow emacspeak-9.0: someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. emacspeak-9.0: (Until now, the only option available to visually impaired emacspeak-9.0: users has been to use a talking PC as a terminal.) emacspeak-9.0: Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once you start emacs emacspeak-9.0: with emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback for emacspeak-9.0: everything you do. Your mileage will vary depending on emacspeak-9.0: how well you can use Emacs. There is nothing that you emacspeak-9.0: cannot do inside Emacs :-). This package supports the emacspeak-9.0: DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice speech emacspeak-9.0: synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for separate emacspeak-9.0: driver packages. qv-utils: qv-utils. qv-utils: qv-utils: This package contains utilities for use with Casio's QV-10, QV-10a, qv-utils: QV-11, QV-30, QV-100, and QV-300 digital cameras. It may also work qv-utils: with other Casio cameras. qv-utils: qv-utils: qv-utils: qv-utils: qv-utils: qv-utils: xcdroast: xcdroast-0.96e. xcdroast: xcdroast: xcdroast is an X11 based frontend for programs like cdrecord and xcdroast: mkisofs. With a few simple mouse clicks you can copy or create your xcdroast: own CDs, without long study of any command line parameters. xcdroast: xcdroast: xcdroast: xcdroast: xcdroast: xcdroast: afterstep: AfterStep 1.0 (with patches from AfterStepClassic 1.1beta2) afterstep: afterstep: AfterStep is a window manager with quite an interesting history. It afterstep: was originally a continuation of the Bowman window manager (based afterstep: on fvwm), but is now its own project. This is a classic version of afterstep: AfterStep, which offers a single configuration file (.steprc) and afterstep: NEXTSTEP-like widgets. It's a lean, mean, window managing machine. afterstep: afterstep: For the new version of AfterStep, check out afterstep: http://www.afterstep.org afterstep: amp: amp 0.7.6 amp: amp: amp is a command line MP3 player. It's written by Tomislav Uzelac amp: and is supported by many frontends available on the Internet. Most amp: of the current MP3 players out there got their start by using amp amp: as a code base. amp: amp: REQUIREMENTS: Well, you'll probably want to have ann MP3 file or amp: two and also sound support in your kernel (/dev/dsp). :) amp: amp: cmatrix: CMatrix 1.0b cmatrix: cmatrix: An ncurses program that displays a vertical scrolling "matrix" cmatrix: of text and numbers. This was made popular by the movie Matrix cmatrix: from 1999. It comes with fonts for console mode as well as cmatrix: running in an xterm (or other X terminal program). cmatrix: cmatrix: Enjoy! It makes for a nice screen saver. :) cmatrix: cmatrix: cmatrix: qcam: qcam-0.91j qcam: qcam: qcam is a library and a set of utilities for using the Connectix qcam: Black and White Parallel QuickCam under Linux. It does not support qcam: the color or serial versions of the camera. This version has JPEG qcam: image support so that the images you take can be stored to a JPEG qcam: file. qcam: qcam: qcam: qcam: rexima: rexima 1.0 rexima: rexima: rexima is a simple ncurses-based audio mixer. It's designed to rexima: be small, fast, and straightforward. It also offers a command rexima: line mode so you can script mixer settings. rexima: rexima: NOTE: root will need to set the permissions on the appropriate rexima: /dev/mixer* devices to allow users to adjust the sound settings. rexima: rexima: rexima: rio: rio 1.07-modified rio: rio: Command line utility for working a Diamond Rio portable MP3 player. rio: You can format it, send and receive files, and run diagnostics. This rio: version adds a patch to let you specify the track number when you rio: want to delete a file or download a file from the Rio to the computer. rio: rio: (Patch added by Logan Johnson <logan@slackware.com>) rio: rio: rio: socket: socket 1.1 socket: socket: The program Socket implements access to TCP sockets from shell socket: level. First written for the need to open a server socket and socket: read and write to the socket interactively for testing purposes, socket: it quickly evolved into a generic tool providing the socket socket: interface for shell script and interactive use. socket: socket: socket: socket: up: up 0.3 up: up: up is intended as a replacement for the uptime command that comes up: with Slackware Linux. It calculates the uptime all the way out to up: decades (or whatever is most applicable to your current uptime), up: instead of just stopping at days. It does not display the number of up: users logged in or load average information. up: up: up: up: xanim: XAnim 2.80.1 xanim: xanim: XAnim is a program for playing a wide variety of animation, video xanim: and audio formats under X11. It was written mainly for machines xanim: running unix(or a unix derivatives), but can also be compiled and xanim: run on VAX VMS machines(although without audio support). It has xanim: also been ported to the Amiga and to W95/NT. xanim: xanim: xanim: xanim: xfstt: xfstt 0.9.99 xfstt: xfstt: xfstt is a TrueType font server for the X Window System. It allows xfstt: applications such as Netscape and the GIMP to take advantage of the xfstt: wide selection of TrueType fonts available. xfstt: xfstt: NOTE: No TrueType fonts are provided. You will need to obtain those xfstt: on your own. xfstt: xfstt: xfstt: