Locally Installed Software
Installed on the math cluster and the department's Sun Workstations are many mainstream applications and programs; including Mathematica, Maple, teTeX, dvips, latex2html, ghostview, Netscape, and Acrobat. The goal of this page is to provide the user with a glimpse of what is available. Follow the links to find out more about these programs. For additional help, take a look at the local help page and also learn to use the man pages -- they are your friend.
 Editors |
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| dtpad | a simple text editor | |
| emacs | a text editor (among other things ;-) ) | |
| nedit | an editor for those accustomed to Notepad or Wordpad (Windows text editors) | |
| pico | pine's message composition editor. This is a standalone version of the editor that comes with pine | |
| textedit | an XView-based text editor | |
| vi/vim/gvim | the editor for files (vi is the original, vim is an extended vi, and gvim is a gui version) | |
| xedit | a simple text editor | |
| xemacs | another editor (a more graphical version of emacs?!?) | |
| Mail User Agents (MUA) |
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(excerpts from the Mail-HowTos) |
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| mutt | is the recommended MUA. Set the editor to your favorite editor(It is descended from elm and has similar commands by default, but is much more powerful and configurable) |
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| mush | (has a rather complex interface and is designed for sophisticated mail users) |
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| The following are not recommended: | ||
| pine | If you use pine for its editor, change the editor in the recommended MUA to pico. (...designed for novices; it includes news-reading capability and built-in support for IMAP) |
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| elm | (...has been stagnant for years now and is being displaced by Mutt) |
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| netscape | (I don't recommend this; it doesn't specialize in being an MUA, and therefore does not offer many of the services that real MUAs do) |
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| dtmail | A graphical MUA from Sun. If it doesn't seem to work you probably need to add /usr/dt to your path. Note: you can't use this if you have telnetted to math | |
| mh/xmh | (...has a rather complex interface) |
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| mail/mailx/rmail | BSD mail (...only of historical interest) |
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| Window Managers |
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| cde | Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a commercial graphical user interface for UNIX. It is Sun's standard operating environment. | |
| ctwm | is an extension to twm - it features multiple virtual screens | |
| fvwm | ||
| fvwm2 | ||
| olwm | Sun will not be supporting Open Look in the future | |
| twm | Tab Window Manager (Tom's) | |
| Mathematics |
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| gnuplot | an interactive plotting program | |
| knotscape | The original purpose was to provide convenient access to tables of knots. Its purpose has expanded somewhat, particularly with the inclusion of the hyperbolic invariants. | |
| macaulay2 | a computer algebra system for mathematical computations in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra (executable is M2) | |
| maple | ...symbolic solver, numerical processor, graphics generation, visualization tools, and a programming language. | |
| mathematica | ...computational algorithms, symbolic solver, numerical processor, graphics generation, visualization tools, a high-level programming language, conversion to tex, html, and other formats | |
| matlab | ...numerical processor, graphics generation, programming language, and visualization tools | |
| TeX-Related |
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| teTeX | a complete TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems; based on Web2c distribution | |
| xdvi | ||
| ghostscript/ghostview | ||
| acrobat viewer | ||
| transfig | translates figures created in xfig (fig files) or PICs into LaTeX | |
| lyx | a gui editor and front end for LaTeX, ...and more | |
| latex2html | translates latex files into html | |
| Shells |
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| bash | Bourne again shell | |
| csh | C shell | |
| ksh | Korn shell | |
| sh | Bourne shell | |
| tcsh | Tenex C shell -- a version of the Berkeley C-Shell, with the addition of: a command line editor, command and file name completion, listing, etc. and a bunch of small additions to the shell itself | |
| zsh | Z shell | |
| General |
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| bzip2 | a block-sorting file compressor | |
| cut | cut out selected fields of each line of a file | |
| C-Kermit | file transfer, management, and communication software programs | |
| gimp | a drawing program | |
| grader | a local gradebook program to track grades | |
| grep | searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern | |
| groff | front end for the groff document formatting system | |
| gtk | The Gimp toolkit. | |
| gzip/gunzip/zcat | compress or expand files | |
| Internet Explorer | web browser | |
| ircII | interface to the Internet Relay Chat system | |
| ispell | spell checks text files | |
| less | browse or page through a text file (is better than more) | |
| lynx | a general purpose web browser | |
| melvyl | California Digital Library -- catalog of books for UC and California State Library. California Periodicals Database of titles for UC and for California's academic, public, and medical libraries Journal article information, abstracts, and text in major subject areas |
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| more | browse or page through a text file | |
| ncftp | a full-featured user interface to standard FTP | |
| nethack | a time waster thoroughly enjoyed by a few. | |
| netpbm | set of programs used to convert to different graphic formats | |
| netscape | an integrated program that allows one to browse the web, read mail and newsgroups, create html, and chat | |
| pftp | GNU's version of pftp -- a data transfer program | |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy -- provides encryption capability | |
| scp | for copying to/from remote machines. It is intended to replace rcp and ftp | |
| screen | a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes | |
| script | make record of a terminal session | |
| ssh | for logging into a remote machine and executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh | |
| talk | is a program that allows unix users to have a real time "conversation" via the network. | |
| tar | archives and extracts files to and from a single file | |
| top | display and update information about the top cpu processes | |
| tr | copies the standard input to the standard output with substitution or deletion of selected characters | |
| trn | a threaded newsgroup reader | |
| uniq | report or filter out repeated lines in a file | |
| wc | display a count of lines, words and characters in a file | |
| write | similar to talk | |
| xargs | construct argument lists and invoke utility | |
| xfig | a drawing program | |
| xv | displays the following image formats: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, BMP, PCX, IRIS RGB, XPM, Targa, XWD, and others. | |
| Programming |
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| bison | ||
| gawk | GNU pattern scanning and processing language | |
| gcc | GNU Compiler Collection | |
| gdb | GNU debugger | |
| gdbm | GNU dbm | |
| m4 | GNU m4 - is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor | |
| make | ||
| perl | ||
| python | ||
