Col. G. L. Sicherman's Unix-Style Software

All packages are formatted as GNUzipped shell archives except where noted.

Utilities

  • car - auto maintenance reminder
  • chop - select columns or fields from text
  • ilint - check calling sequences in Informix-4GL
  • od - octal/hex dump
  • pnmtoico - convert portable anymap file to Windows icon
  • top - select the first part of a file
  • uuencode (in Perl)

    • Games and Uselessities

  • c4 - play Connect Four
  • dutchname - print Dutch girls' names
  • kana - learn Japanese syllabic writing (GNUzipped tar)
  • minesweeper - find the bombs
  • nobs - play cribbage
  • rain - rain on your terminal
  • spider - play Spider solitaire (version 1.07, GNUzipped tar)
  • xvortex - vortex on your X terminal
  • bingo - print bingo cards (C program)

    • Apocryphal Man Pages

  • miff(1) - mail notification program

    • Prize-Winning C Program

    I won the prize for Worst Abuse of the Preprocessor in the 1985 Obfuscated C Code Contest. Can you figure out how it works?
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