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apache-1.3b3 Apache is arguably the most popular and versatile HTTP Server daemon in distribution. Please refer to The Apache HTTP Server Project for everything you ever wanted to know about Apache.
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autoconf-2.12 Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of UNIX-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf are independent of Autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to have Autoconf. Producing configuration scripts using Autoconf requires GNU m4.
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bash-2.02 Bash - GNU Bourne-Again Shell. Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
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binutils-2.9 This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers and debuggers plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. The programs that can be built with this package are: addr2line, as, gasp, nm, objdump, size, strip, ar, c++filt, gprof, objcopy, ranlib and strings.
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bison-1.25 Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1). It should be upwardly compatible with input files designed fo yacc. Input files should follow the yacc convention of ending in .y. Unlike yacc, the generated files do not have fixed names, but instead use the prefix of the input file. For instance, a grammar description file named parse.y would produce the generated parser in a file named parse.tab.c, instead of yacc's y.tab.c.
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bzip2-0.1 Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler blocksorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
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diction-0.7 Diction finds all sentences in a document, that contain phrases from a database of frequently misused, bad or wordy diction. It further checks for double words. If no files are given, the document is read from standard input. Each found phrase is enclosed in [ ] (brackets). Suggestions and advice, if any, are printed headed by a right arrow ->.
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diffutils-2.7 This directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are significantly faster. cmp has been moved here from the GNU textutils.
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ed-0.2 ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files. red is a restricted ed: it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Editing is done in two distinct modes: command and input.
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egcs 1.0.3a 1.1b Egcs is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers using an open development model to accelerate development and testing of GNU compilers and runtime libraries. Egcs contains many improvements and features not found in gcc-2.7 or gcc-2.8. Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major GNU/Linux systems! The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of SGI's STL release instead of a modified copy. Integrated GNU Fortran compiler. New instruction scheduler and a new alias analysis code.
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emacs-20.2 GNU Emacs is a version of Emacs, written by the author of the original (PDP-10) Emacs, Richard Stallman. The user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses everything other Emacs editors do, and it is easily extensible since its editing commands are written in Lisp. Emacs has an extensive interactive help facility and interactive tutorial which can teach beginners the fundamentals of Emacs in a few minutes. Emacs's Undo can undo several steps of modification to your buffers, so it is easy to recover from editing mistakes. GNU Emacs's many special packages handle mail reading (RMail) and sending (Mail), outline editing, compiling, running subshells within Emacs windows, and running a Lisp read-eval-print loop.

To achieve full functionality, you will also want to install ispell-3.1.20 (spelling checker), and gdb-4.16 (debugger).
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enscript-1.6.1 Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. If no input files are given, enscript processes standard input. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and it has many options which can be used to customize printouts.
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fileutils-3.16 These are the GNU file management utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. The programs that can be built with this package are: chgrp, chown, chmod, cp, dd, df, du, install, ln, dir, vdir, ls, mkdir, mvdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, sync and touch.
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findutils-4.1 This package contains the GNU find utilities. These utilities contain some different options from their Unix counterparts as well as new utilities. The programs that are contain within are: find, locate, updatedb, and xargs.
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flex-2.5.4a Flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex(). This file is compiled and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
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gawk-3.0.3 Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features found in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions. The command line consists of options to gawk itself, the AWK program text (if not supplied via the -f or --file options), and values to be made available in the ARGC and ARGV predefined AWK variables.
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gcc-2.7.2.3 Also includes C++ and G++. The GNU Foundation C and C++ compilers are integrated. Both process input files through one or more of four stages: preprocessing, compilation, assembly, and linking.
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gdb 4.16 4.17 The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is going on ``inside'' another program while it executes, or what another program was doing at the moment it crashes. GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:

Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
Make your program stop on specified conditions.
Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.

If you wish to use an X Windows interface with gdb, install xxgdb-1.12.
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glimpse-4.1 Glimpse is a very popular UNIX indexing and query system that allows you to search through a large set of files very quickly. Glimpse supports most of agrep's options including approximate matching, Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of regular expressions.
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gnuplot-3.5 Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. Plots any number of functions, built up of C operators, C library functions, and some things C doesn't have like **, sgn(), etc. Also support for plotting data files, to compare actual data to theoretical curves.
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grep-2.2 Gnu Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if no files are named, or the file name - is given) for lines containing a match to the given pattern. By default, grep prints the matching lines. In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are available. Egrep is similar (but not identical) to grep -E, and is compatible with the historical Unix egrep. Fgrep is the same as grep -F.
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gtk-1.0.6 GTK+, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented approach.
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gunzip (uncompressed/untarred binary) Gunzip can currently decompress files created by gzip, zip, compress, compress -H or pack. The detection of the input format is automatic. gunzip takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, _z or .Z and which begins with the correct magic number with an uncompressed file without the original extension.
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gzip-1.2.4 Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.

This package also includes a collection of other useful file compression utilities including:
gunzip (File de-compression utility)
gzexe (Creates self-extracting compression files)
zcat (File compression utility)
zcomp (Compares two compressed files for differences)
zdiff (Compares two compressed files for differences)
zforce (Forces a ".gz" extension on gzip compressed files)
zgrep (Search compressed files for a regular expression)
zmore (View a compresed file)
znew (Recompress a ".Z" to a ".gz" file)

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ispell-3.1.20 Ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the original file, and suggests possible corrections when it can figure them out. Compared to UNIX spell, it is faster and much easier to use. Ispell can also handle languages other than English.
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joe-2.8 JOE is a powerful ASCII-text screen editor. It has a "mode-less" user interface which is similer to many user-friendly PC editors. Users of Micro-Pro's WordStar or Borland's "Turbo" languages will feel at home. JOE is a full featured UNIX screen-editor. JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close immitation of WordStar. JPICO is a close immitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS immitation. RJOE is a restricted version of JOE, which allowes you to edit only the files specified on the command line.
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less-332 Less is a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi. Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals. (On a hardcopy terminal, lines which should be printed at the top of the screen are prefixed with a caret.) Commands are based on both more and vi.
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m4-1.4 M4 is a macro processor, in the sense that it copies its input to the output, expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either builtin or user-defined, and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion, m4 has builtin functions for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc...
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make 3.74 3.77 GNU Foundation version of make. The purpose of the make utility is to determine automati-cally which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them. You can use make with any programming language whose compiler can be run with a shell command. In fact, make is not limited to programs. You can use it to describe any task where some files must be updated automatically from others whenever the others change.

If your principle compiler is gcc, this GNU Foundation version of make is reportedly able to handle the compilations of GNU Foundation utilities with fewer problems than one might encounter using the make that ships with SolarisX86.
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mawk-1.2.2 Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. Mawk is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988. Mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 definition of the AWK language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, and mawk provides a small number of extensions.
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Midnight Commander-4.1.35 The Midnight Commander is a directory browser/file manager for Unix operating systems. Midnight Commander provides a view of two directories at the same time. One of the panels is the current panel (a selection bar is in the current panel). Almost all operations take place on the current panel. Some file operations like Rename and Copy by default use the directory of the unselected panel as a destination. You can execute system commands from the Midnight Commander by simply typing them. Everything you type will appear on the shell command line.
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perl 5.004.04 5.005.02 Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extraction information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical, easy to use, efficient and complete. Perl combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it. Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data--if you've got the memory, Perl can slurp in your whole file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth. And the tables used by hashes grow as necessary to prevent degraded per- formance. Perl uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of data very quickly. Although optimized for scanning text, Perl can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like hashes. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, then Perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk scripts into Perl scripts.
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pine 3.96 4.05 Pine is a screen-oriented message-handling tool. In its default configuration, Pine offers an intentionally limited set of functions geared toward the novice user, but it also has a growing list of optional "power-user" and personal-preference features. Pine supports MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), an Internet Standard for representing multipart and multimedia data in email. Pine allows you to save MIME objects to files, and in some cases, can also initiate the correct program for viewing the object. It uses the system's mailcap configuration file to determine what program can process a particular MIME object type. Pine's message composer does not have integral multimedia capability, but any type of data file --including multimedia-- can be attached to a text message and sent using MIME's encoding rules. This allows any group of individuals with MIME-capable mail software (e.g. Pine, PC-Pine, or many other programs) to exchange formatted documents, spread-sheets, image files, etc, via Internet email.
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python-1.5 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. The Python Library Reference documents built-in and standard types, constants, functions and modules. Finally, the Python Reference Manual describes the syntax and semantics of the core language in much detail. Python's basic power can be extended with your own modules written in C or C++. On most systems such modules may be dynamically loaded. Python is also adaptable as an extension language for existing applications.
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recode-3.4 GNU `recode' converts files between character sets and usages. When exact transliterations are not possible, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. This program recognizes or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair.
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rsync 2.0.18 2.1.1 2.2.1 rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speedup file transfers when the destination file already exists. The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the differences between `two sets of files across the network link, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package.
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screen-3.7.4 Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions (e.g. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows moving text regions between windows.
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sed-3.02 GNU Sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (such as \fIed\fP), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and is consequently more efficient. But it is sed's ability to filter text in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from other types of editors.
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sh-utils-1.16 This is a package of small shell programming utilities. The programs that can be built with this package are: basename, chroot, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, factor, false, groups, hostname, id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, pwd, seq, sleep, stty, su, tee, test, true, tty, uname, users, who, whoami and yes.
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sharutils-4.2 These are the GNU share utilities. Most of these programs have advantages over their Unix counterparts. The programs that can be built with this package are: mail-files, mailshar remsync, shar, unshar, uudecode and uuencode.
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ssh-1.2.22 Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
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sudo 1.5.4 1.5.6 Sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser (real and effective uid and gid are set to 0 and root's group as set in the passwd file respectively). sudo determines who is an authorized user by consulting the file /etc/sudoers. If an unauthorized user executes sudo, mail will be sent from the user to the local authorities (defined at installation time).
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tar-1.12 GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow tar to be used for incremental and full backups. This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server.
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tcl-8.0 Tclsh is a shell-like application that reads Tcl commands from its standard input or from a file and evaluates them. If invoked with no arguments then it runs interactively, reading Tcl commands from standard input and printing command results and error messages to standard output. It runs until the exit command is invoked or until it reaches end-of-file on its standard input. If there exists a file .tclshrc in the home directory of the user, tclsh evaluates the file as a Tcl script just before reading the first command from standard input.
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tetris-3.2.1 This is a game of "Tetris" for the X Window System. Key "j" moves the block left, "l" moves right, "k" rotates. Left-handed people may want to use "s", "d", "f" respectively. Or maybe someone wants to try the arrow keys... The space bar drops a block quickly.
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textutils-1.22 These are the GNU text file processing utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. The programs that can be built with this package are: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, and wc.
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tk-8.0 Wish is a simple program consisting of the Tcl command language, the Tk toolkit, and a main program that reads commands from standard input or from a file. It creates a main window and then processes Tcl commands. If wish is invoked with no arguments, or with a first argument that starts with ``-'', then it reads Tcl commands interactively from standard input. It will continue processing commands until all windows have been deleted or until end-of-file is reached on standard input.
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top-3.58 Top displays the top 15 processes on the system and periodically updates this information. Raw cpu percentage is used to rank the processes. If number is given, then the top number processes will be displayed instead of the default.
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traceroute-1.4a5 The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware, connected together by gateways. Tracking the route one's packets follow (or finding the miscreant gateway that's discarding your packets) can be difficult. Traceroute utilizes the IP protocol `time to live' field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to some host. The only mandatory parameter is the destination host name or IP number. The default probe datagram length is 40 bytes, but this may be increased by specifying a packet length (in bytes) after the destination host name.
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units-1.54 The `units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The units are defined in an external data file. You can use the extensive data file that comes with this program, or you can provide your own data file to suit your needs. You can use the program interactively with prompts, or you can use it from the command line.
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w3clibwww-5.1l Libwww is a general-purpose Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). With a highly extensible and layered API, it can accommodate many different types of applications including clients, robots, etc. The purpose of Libwww is to provide a sample implementation of HTTP and other Internet protocols and to serve as a testbed for protocol experiments. It comes with a lot of "plug-and-play" modules including a rudimentary HTML parser which can do the very basics.
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wget 1.4.5 1.5.3 Wget is a utility designed for retrieving binary documents across the Web, through the use of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and saving them to disk. Wget is non-interactive, which means it can work in the background, while the user is not logged in, unlike most of web browsers (thus you may start the program and log off, letting it do its work). Wget supports a full-featured recursion mechanism, through which you can retrieve large parts of the web, creating local copies of remote directory hierarchies.
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xboard-4.0.0 Xboard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface to the gnuchess chess engine. You can also use xboard as a chessboard to play through games. It will read and write game files and allow you to play through variations manually. You can use it to browse games off the net or review games you have saved.
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xpacman-1.0 This is a basic version of pacman. The game concentrates on the essentials of the original for now, which means a lot of features are absent (ie no scores, no fruit, no special items, no lives). When all the pills have been cleared from a level, the difficulty level is notched up, and a new level is generated. If you collide with a ghost, all the pills are replaced, and you restart the current level from scratch.
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xv-3.10a The xv program displays images in the GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PCX, IRIS RGB, XPM, Targa, XWD, possibly PostScript, and PM formats on workstations and terminals running the X Window System, Version 11. The documentation for XV is now distributed only as a PostScript file, as it has gotten enormous, and is no longer very well suited to the 'man' page format. Print a copy of the (100-ish page) manual found in docs/xvdocs.ps.
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xxgdb-1.12 Xxgdb is a graphical user interface to the gdb debugger under the X Window System. It provides visual feedback and mouse input for the user to control program execution through breakpoints, to examine and traverse the function call stack, to display values of variables and data structures, and to browse source files and functions.

In order for XXGDB to run, you will have to install gdb-4.16 (or some other version of GDB).
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