Computers: Software

General
- Set of software guides by Chris Alfeld
- Digital Equipment's archive at gatekeeper.dec.com
- GNU software at prep.ai.mit.edu
- Jumbo!, an enormous shareware archive
- WU Archive
- Info-Mac HyperArchive (mirror 1; mirror 2)
- Mac archive at the University of Michigan (mirror)
- netlib, a massive software library collection
  - NHSE - National HPCC Software Exchange
- OTS Macintosh Software Archive
- Solaris 2.5 software
Astronomical
- AIPS - NRAO's Astronomical Image Processing System
- AIPS++ - the next generation of AIPS
  - AipsView visualization tool
- ASDS - Astronomical Software Directory Service
- Astronomical Software from the SAO Telescope Data Center
- ASTRO-D mission information, robot graphics software, etc.
- FITS - Flexible Image Transport System
  - FITS Support Office at NASA
  - FITS resources from HEASARC
  - ESO archive
  - NRAO archive
- IDL
  - IDL Astronomy Library
- IPAC infrared analysis tools, including IRSKY, ISSA-PS, XCATSCAN, and XSCANPI
- IRAF - Image Processing and Analysis Facility
  - FITSIO library for accessing FITS files
  - FTOOLS package for FITS file manipulation
  - GUI system (more info)
  - Help System
  - NEBULAR package
  - PROS, the IRAF x-ray package
  - RVSAO, Radial Velocity Package for IRAF
  - STSDAS - Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System
  - Newsgroups:
- Khoros, from Khoral Research, Inc.
- Linux for Astronomy CD-ROM
- MIDAS (including a FAQ)
- Physics Academic Software
- Pickles software for pointing HST
- SAOimage
- SAOtng - SAOimage, The Next Generation
- Space Physics software (xspace)
- Starlink
- STSDAS (Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System)
- Starlink
- xsimbad, X11-based interface for SIMBAD archive
Communications
- MacLayers, a multiple window VT-100 emulator
Games
- Macintosh
  - Info-mac game archive
Graphical
- ACE/gr, an X11/Motif-based plotting package
- AVS
  - The International AVS Center at MCNC
- Earth Science Data Formats
- FAQs from comp.graphics
- FAQ from news:sci.data.formats
- Ghostscript
- Graphics format descriptions
- HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
  - FAQ
  - HDF Information Server
- IDL
  - IDL FAQ - from the IDL news group
  - IDL WWW pages
- JPEG
  - Private JPEG archive
  - Public JPEG archive
- Lightwave 3D
- MacSpin, a 3-d graphics package for the Macintosh
- Movie viewers for the Amiga, Macintosh, MS DOS, and X11.
- MPEG
  - Huge MPEG archive
  - MPEG research at U.C. Berkeley, including mpeg_encode and mpeg_play
- NCSA visualization tools
- PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics, a successor to the GIF format
- QuickDraw GX
- SDSC Image Tools
- Supermongo - must be obtained with username: guest, password: XXXXXX.
- TIFF
- Utilities
  - Giftool and Animate
  - CID's Gif Transparentifier Thinga-Ma-Jiggy
  - Giftrans
  - TransWeb, for making transparent GIFs
  - Visioneering's Imaging Machine
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics, sci.data.formats
Mail
- Documentation
  - General Guide
  - Inter-network mail guide
- ELM
  - FAQ
  - simple instructions
  - tutorial and manual pages
  - ELM-PGP, ELM with PGP support
- MIME - Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions
- PINE
Mathematical
- DADiSP Worksheet, for graphical data analysis
- Mathematica from Wolfram
  - Mathematica World
- NAG - Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd
- StatLib statistical software library
Networking
- LAN Technology Scorecard, a comprehensive listing of LAN technologies
- ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  - ACTS ATM Internetwork (AAI), ARPA research network
  - ATM Dictionary
  - The ATM Forum
    - 53 Bytes, the ATM Forum Newsletter
  - ATM Internetworking, an excellent intermediate-level paper by Anthony Alles (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
  - ANPA - ATM Network Planners Association
  - BAGNet - Bay Area Gigabit Testbed
  - BEATMAN - Boulder ATM Area Network
  - CANARIE National Test Network, large Canadian ATM network
  - Cell Relay FAQ
  - Cell Relay Retreat, a large archive of ATM material
  - EXPLOIT, base for an extensive European network
  - Frame Relay Forum
  - Gigabit Testbed Initiative (from Yahoo)
  - IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm)
    - Charter
    - IP over ATM Working Group
  - iPOINT Project, an ATM Pulsar Switch project at UIUC
  - Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
  - Other docs from merit.edu
  - The Self-Similar Nalture of Ethernet, a popular study by
  - Telecommunication and ATM Reference Page
  - Tutorials
    - About ATM, a slide presentation by The ATM Forum
    - A Brief Tutorial on ATM, by Zahir Ebrahim
    - IP over ATM, by John David Cavanaugh
    - Tutorial on ATM and B-ISDN
  - User groups: Southeast Region ATM Interest Group
  - Vendors
    - Fastcomm Communications
    - FORE Systems
- Cable database from ConnectWorld
- CAP - Columbia Appletalk Protocol
- DataCom Mall
- Frame Relay
- ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
- netconfig, utility for network configuration options
- netperf, network performance testing software
- tcpdump, a network monitoring tool
Programming
- C++ Annotations
- FORTRAN
  - HPFA - High Performance Fortran Applications
- Object-Oriented Programming
  - The Object Management Group
- Parallel Programming
  - Advanced Computing Laboratory
  - CRPC - Center for Research on Parallel Computation
  - Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster
  - NPAC - Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
- Perl
  - Perl FTP Archive
  - Documentation
    - FAQ
    - Manual
    - Perl5 manuals in HTML, PostScript, and Info formats
    - Perl Guide from Jack Lund
    - Reference Card
    - Reference Guide
    - Examples from Programming Perl and Learning Perl
  - News group: comp.lang.perl
  - Source
    - Larry Wall's Perl source
    - MacPerl
- Tcl/Tk
  - FAQ
  - Tcl/Tk page at Sun Microsystems
  - Tcl WWW info from SCO
  - user-contributed Tcl/Tk stuff
  - Sybase Tools and other Tcl/Tk Applications, from Lick Observatory
  - Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl
Security
- FTP site for much security related software
- CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
- CIAC - Computer Incident Advisory Capability
  - Security patches
  - Listing of anonymous ftp sites for security patches
  - Patch Manager software
- COPS - Computer Oracle and Password System
- Crack, a password cracking program
- FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
- ISS - Internet Security Scanner
- NASIRC - NASA Automated Systems Incident Response Capability
- npasswd, a replacement passwd program
- PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
  - EFH PGP Workshop
  - FAQ and other documentation
  - MIT distribution site
  - PGP software by Michael Paul Johnson
  - Newsgroup: alt.security.pgp
- SATAN - Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
  - Courtney, a tool to monitor attacks by SATAN
- Securelib, a security tool for RPC
- TAMU, a UNIX auditing tool
- Tripwire, a UNIX filesystem integrity checker
- Viruses
  - Good Times virus hoax
  - Newsgroup: comp.virus
- Newsgroup: comp.security.announce
System Administration
- FAQ: Solaris 2 Frequently Asked Questions
- FAQ: Sun Computer Administration Frequently Asked Questions
- Sun-Managers Mailing List
  - Archive
  - FAQ
  - FTP archive
  - Newsgroup: mlist.sun-managers
- Sun Patches
- ftpd and other BSD UNIX source
- horror stories of system administration
- Linux Operating System
- RAID - Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
- sendmail
- tape utilities
Textual
- Desktop Publishing
  - Interleaf
- Editors
  - Alpha, an editor for the Macintosh
  - CRISP, a BRIEF-compatible editor
  - JED, an emacs-like editor
  - The RTF Format, used by Microsoft Word
  - Emacs
    - FAQ, FAQ, and FAQ
    - GNU Emacs on Windows NT and Windows 95
    - Gnus FAQ
    - Presentation by Denis Howe
    - Elisp code
    - XEmacs
  - nvi, an improved version of ex and vi
- pstotext
- Spelling Checkers
  - ispell, an interactive spelling checker
- TeX
  - CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (interface provided by O'Reilly & Associates)
  - Finger the current list of CTAN hosts.
  - The LaTeX Navigator
  - AASTeX, TeX macros for astronomical journal articles
  - AsTeR - the Audio System For Technical Readings (a very impressive demo)
  - latex2html, a translator
  - Macintosh
    - midway.uchicago.edu, a large FTP archive
    - ftp.maths.tcd.ie, a smaller but useful archive
  - metafont modes.mf files, as well as other TeX stuff
  - Solaris version of TeX
  - TeXhax archive
  - TeXsis, TeX macros for physicists
  - xdvi, an X11-based TeX previewer
  - Y & Y, Inc., makers of TeX programs and fonts
  - Newsgroups: bit.listserv.tex-l, comp.text.tex
- World of Words - Macintosh word processing resource from the folks at TidBITS
Utilities
- Macintosh
  - Apple System Software updates
    - Macintosh Easy Open 1.1.1 - for opening files with unknown type/creator
    - Multimedia Tuner 2.0.1 - improves sound and quicktime performance
  - Disinfectant - anti-virus software
  - ShrinkWrap 1.2 - for floppy disk image manipulation
Video
- MBONE
  - MBONE Information Web
  - FAQ (older version)
  - MBONE Utilities
  - MBONE Session Agenda
  - SNMP-Based MBone Management Project
  - documentation from USC ISI
  - Newsgroup: mlist.mbone-na
- video boards
  - SBus (Sun)
- videoconferencing
  - Basics
    - FAQ
    - Introduction
    - Tutorial from VTEL Corporation
    - Index of useful sites
    - Newsgroup: comp.dcom.videoconf
  - CLI systems
  - Collage, from NCSA
  - CU-SeeMe - videoconferencing application
  - CyberPhone, the "InternetTelephone" for audio conferencing
  - IVS - INRIA Videoconferencing System
  - MMCC - Multimedia Conference Control Program, from USC ISI
  - Nemesys Research
  - NeVoT - Network Voice Terminal (mirror)
  - PicturePhone Direct videoconferencing solutions
  - PictureTel systems
  - RSI Systems videoconferencing hardware
  - Tools from LBL: sd (session directory), vat (audio tool), vic (video tool), and wb (whiteboard)
  - Tools from Xerox PARC, including nv (video tool) and the multicasting/mrouted package
  - Vartalaap
  - VTEL Corporation, videoconferencing systems
  - Whiteboards
    - Shdr, from Xerox PARC
    - SketchPad
    - wb, from LBL
    - wscrawl - window-scrawl
WWW
- Acrobat, a reader for PDF files from Adobe
- Browsers
  - browser checkup
  - browser support programs
  - Arena, a WWW browser with support for HTML 3.0 (tables, math, etc.)
    - tour
  - Lynx, a text-based WWW browser
  - Mosaic, a WWW browser from NCSA
  - Netscape, a WWW browser from Mosaic Communications Corporation
    - FAQ
    - Handbook
    - BrowserWatch - plug-ins
    - Description of extensions to HTML
- FTP daemons
  - WU-Archive FTPD
    - FAQ
    - newsgroup: mlist.wu-ftpd
- Gopher software
- HoTMetaL, an HTML editor
- HTML Verification
  - htmlchek (source)
  - Weblint (source)
  - Webtest Tools
- HTTP Servers
  - Apache HTTP server
  - CERN httpd
  - NCSA httpd
- HYTELNET
- Java, from Sun Microsystems
- Macintosh
  - Fetch, an FTP client
  - The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh
  - Peter Lewis, author of FTPd and other WWW shareware
- MS Windows
  - SlipKnot, a WWW browser for Windows users over a serial connection
  - WinWeb, a WWW client for Windows
- Page access counters
  - Numbers for use in counters
  - page access counters from Yahoo
- Printing URLs
- SCG Software Archive
- url_get, a Perl script for downloading URLs
- VM/CMS web sites and tools
- VOL 1.0, a multi-lingual WWW browser from Video On Line
- VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
- WAIS software
  - FAQ
  - bibliography
  - software from WAIS Inc., including a directory of servers
  - software from CNIDR
- WebSite, a Windows-based WWW server from O'Reilly & Associates
- Websoft, a collection of miscellaneous WWW software
- WWW Tools from CERN and NCSA
X Window System
- The X Consortium
- FAQs
- Motif
- X Clients
  - "tee" clients
    - TeamConference
    - shX - Shared X
    - xmove
    - xmx - X Protocol Multiplexor
    - XTrap
    - xtv
  - xanim, movie player
  - xearth, display an image of the earth on the root window
  - xephem, interative astronomical ephemeris
  - xgobi, a 3d data visualization tool
  - xkeycaps, a graphical front-end to xmodmap
  - xspread, a spreadsheet
  - xv, graphics display
    - docs for version 3.00
  - Window managers
    - ctwm - Claude's TWM
- Programming
  - fresco, an object-oriented API
- Security
  - Securing X Windows
- Newsgroups

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