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Available Unix Programs

NQS - SMU Batch Queing System
Special Use Programs
VLSI tools
Drawing Utilities
Mathematical/Engineering Tools
Graphing Utilities
Spreadsheets
Color Maps
Utilities
Picture/Icon Viewers
Usenet News Readers
Web Browsers
Mail Readers
Window Managers
Text Holders
Compilers/Debuggers
Text Previewers
Formatters/Spelling tools
Editors

NQS - SMU Batch Queing System

Getting started with NQS : Network Queuing System
- Usage: Refer to the URL link
- Platform: Tru64 only
- URL: http://engr.smu.edu/co/help/nqsgs.html

Special Use Programs

FLUENT Flow Modeling Software : Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, is the use of mathematical techniques to model fluid flow.
- Usage: fluent
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm
OPNET Modeler : Network Modeling and Simulation Environment
- Usage: opnet
- Platform: Linux and Solaris
- URL: http://www.opnet.com/products/modeler/home.html

VLSI tools

magic : A VLSI Layout System
- Usage: magic
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://vlsi.cornell.edu/magic/
Cadence : Cadence design tools
- Usage: Refer to the URL link
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://engr.smu.edu/cadence/
Synopsys : Synopsys design tools
- Usage: Refer to the URL link
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://engr.smu.edu/linux/synopsys/index.html
espresso : Boolean Minimization
- Usage: espresso [options] [file]
- Platform: Linux and Solaris
- URL: http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/downloads/espresso/index.htm
SIS : Sequential Interactive System
- Usage: sis [options] [file]
- Platform: Linux and Solaris
- URL: http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/Alumni/pchong/sis.html
VIS - Verification Interacting with Synthesis : A system for formal verification, synthesis, and simulation of finite state systems.
- Usage: vis
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~vis/

Drawing Utilities

xfig : Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11
- Usage: xfig
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfig.org/
pro : The Pro Engineer drawing program
- Usage: pro
- Platform: Ultrix only
xpaint : Simple paint program
- Usage: xpaint
- Platform: Linux and Ultrix
- URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/

Mathematical/Engineering Tools

matlab : A tool for doing numerical computations with matrices and vectors.
- Usage: matlab
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/lab/ms/matlab/matlab.html
ampl : A comprehensive, powerful and flexible algebraic modeling language for the linear, nonlinear and integer programming problems often encountered in optimization.
- Usage: ampl
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://www.ilog.com/products/ampl/
gams - General Algebraic Modeling System : GAMS is a modeling system for mathematical optimization problems, both linear, non-linear and mixed-integer.
- Usage: gams
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://www.gams.com/
cplex : Mathematical Programming Optimizers
- Usage: cplex
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://www.ilog.com/products/cplex/
bc : An arbitrary precision calculator language
- Usage: bc [ -lws ] [ file ... ]
- Platform: All
xcalc : Scientific calculator for X
- Usage: xcalc
- Platform: All
R : A language for data analysis and graphics
- Usage: R [options] [< infile] [> outfile] // R CMD command [arguments]
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://www.r-project.org/

Graphing Utilities

Gnuplot : Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
- Usage: gnuplot
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnuplot.info/
pdraw : 3D plotting program for X and Postscript
- Usage: pdraw
- Platform: Ultrix only
xgraph : Draw a graph on an X11 Display
- Usage: xgraph [ options ] [[-geometry |=]WxH+X+Y ] [ -display host:display.screen ] [ file ... ]
- Platform: Linux, Solaris and Ultrix
- URL: http://www.atl.lmco.com/projects/csim/xgraph/xgraph.html
ACE/gr - graphics for exploratory data analysis : ACE/gr is a data/function plotting tool for workstations or X-terminals
- Usage: xvgr
- Platform: Ultrix only
4va : 4D object tumbler for X-Windows and object generation programs
- Usage: 4va [datafile] [options]
- Platform: Ultrix only
- URL: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/4va-1.21/man.html
tecplot : A data visualization package developed explicitly for engineers and scientists.
- Usage: tecplot
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://web.mit.edu/tecplot/www/home.html

Spreadsheets

Gnumeric - The Gnome Office Spreadsheet : The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment.
- Usage: gnumeric
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

Color Maps

xcmap : Displays the default colormap of X11 displays
- Usage: xcmap
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
xstdcmap : X standard color map utility
- Usage: xstdcmap
- Platform: All

Utilities

xwd : Dumps a copy of an X window into a file
- Usage: xwd [filename.xwd]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xwd.1.html
dxcalendar : DECwindows calendar program
- Usage: dxcalendar
- Platform: Ultrix only
xcalendar : A graphical calendar
- Usage: xcalendar
- Platform: Ultrix only
xkal : A graphical calendar with appointment
- Usage: xkal
- Platform: Ultrix only
xwininfo : A window information utility for X
- Usage: xwininfo
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xwininfo.1.html
man : Manual page viewer
- Usage: man [command]
- Platform: All
props : Workspace property editor
- Usage: props
- Platform: Ultrix only
xmag : Magnify parts of the screen
- Usage: xmag [ -mag magfactor ] [ -source geom ] [ -toolkitoption ... ]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xmag.1.html
xmodmap : Utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in X
- Usage: xmodmap [-options ...] [filename]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/xmodmap.1.html
xev : Print contents of X events
- Usage: xev [-display displayname] [-geometry geom] [-bw pixels] [-bs {NotUseful,WhenMapped,Always}] [-id windowid] [-s] [-name string] [-rv]
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xev.1.html
xgrab : An X window screen grabber
- Usage: xgrab
- Platform: Ultrix only
- URL: http://www.go.dlr.de/pdinfo_dv/xgrab.html
arc : An archiving utility for .arc
- Usage: arc {amufdxerplvtc}[biswnoq][g<password>] <archive> [<filename> . . .]
- Platform: Ultrix only
zip : A file compression utility for for .zip
- Usage: zip [-options] [-b path] [-t mmddyyyy] [-n suffixes] [zipfile list] [-xi list]
- Platform: All
unzip : A file expansion utility for .zip
- Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d exdir]
- Platform: All
gzip : A file compression utility for .gz
- Usage: gzip [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
- Platform: All
gunzip : A file expansion utility for .gz
- Usage: gunzip [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
- Platform: All
bzip2 : A file compression utility for .bz2
- Usage: bzip2 [ -cdfkqstvzVL123456789 ] [ filenames ... ]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.bzip.org/
bunzip2 : A file expansion utility for .bz2
- Usage: bunzip2 [ -fkvsVL ] [ filenames ... ]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.bzip.org/
tar : The tar archiving utility
- Usage: tar [ - ] A --catenate --concatenate | c --create | d --diff --compare | --delete | r --append | t --list | u --update | x --extract --get [ options ] pathname [ pathname ... ]
- Platform: All

Picture/Icon Viewers

xv : Xv is a shareware program to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.
- Usage: xv
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv
The GIMP : The GNU Image Manipulation Program or just GIMP is a Free Software bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics.
- Usage: gimp
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GIMP
bitmap : Bitmap editor and converter
- Usage: bitmap
- Platform: All
xwud : Image displayer for file dumped by command xwd
- Usage: xwud -in filename.xwd
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xwud.1.html
dxfc : BDF to PCF font compiler
- Usage: dxfc [-p#] [-u#] [-m] [-l] [-M] [-L] [-t] [-i] [-o pcf file] [bdf file]
- Platform: Ultrix only
- URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/manpages/dxfc.html
GQview : GTK based multiformat image viewer
- Usage: gqview [options] [path]
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://gqview.sourceforge.net/

Usenet News Readers

Trn : threaded news reading program
- Usage: trn
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trn
pan : GUI news reader for GNOME
- Usage: pan
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://pan.rebelbase.com/

Web Browsers

netscape : Graphical Web Browser
- Usage: netscape
- Platform: All
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
lynx : Lynx is a text-only Web browser and Internet Gopher client for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals.
- Usage: lynx
- Platform: All
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Mozilla Firefox : Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser
- Usage: firefox
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox

Mail Readers

Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email : Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.
- Usage: pine
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Elm : Elm, a text-based e-mail client commonly found on Unix systems
- Usage: elm
- Platform: All
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_email_client

Window Managers

Twm (Tab Window Manager) : Twm (Tab Window Manager, or sometimes Tom's Window Manager, after the principal author Tom LaStrange) provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings.
- Usage: twm
- Platform: All
- URL: http://xwinman.org/vtwm.php
ctwm - Claude's Tab Window Manager : CTWM is a window manager created by Claude Lecommandeur. It allows for several virtual screens
- Usage: ctwm
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://xwinman.org/ctwm.php
tvtwm : Another window manager that allows virtual screens
- Usage: tvtwm
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvtwm
olwm : The OPEN LOOK window manager.
- Usage: olwm
- Platform: Ultrix only
- URL: http://xwinman.org/olvwm.php
ndwm : local X window manager for NCD Display Stations
- Usage: ncdwm
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://doc.cri74.org/informatique_reseaux/logiciel/systeme_exploitation/Unix/AIX/man_pages/doc/ncdwm.1.html
fvwm : FVWM is an extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for the X Window system.
- Usage: fvwm
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://www.fvwm.org/

Text Holders

xcb : Allows you to store your cut buffers for later use
- Usage: xcb
- Platform: Ultrix only
xclipboard : Another Post-It style text saver
- Usage: xclipboard
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xclipboard.1.html

Compilers/Debuggers

GCC : GNU C compiler
- Usage: gcc
- Platform: All
- URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
G++ : GNU C++ compiler
- Usage: g++
- Platform: All
- URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
CC : Vendor C compiler
- Usage: cc
- Platform: All
CXX : DEC C++ compiler
- Usage: cxx
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
PC : DEC Pascal compiler
- Usage: pc
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
F77 : Fortran compiler
- Usage: f77
- Platform: Linux, Ultrix and Tru64
G77 : Gnu Fortran compiler
- Usage: g77
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/fortran/fortran.html
ic : Compiler for language support database
- Usage: ic
- Platform: Ultrix only
Prolog : Prolog Development System
- Usage: prolog
- Platform: Linux only
xlisp : An object oriented version of lisp
- Usage: xlisp
- Platform: Ultrix only
dbx : Source level debugger
- Usage: dbx
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
GDB: The GNU Project Debugger : GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.
- Usage: gdb
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
xxgdb : X11 interface to GNU debugger
- Usage: xxgdb
- Platform: Solaris and Tru64
- URL: http://www.cs.uni.edu/Help/xxgdb.html
DDD - Data Display Debugger : GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger, or the Python debugger
- Usage: ddd
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
dis : Object file disassembler
- Usage: dis [-h] [-V] [-d] [-S] [-Idirectory] [-p procname] [-s section] [-demangled_name_info] [-mangled_name_only] [-mangled_name_also] file...
- Platform: Solaris, Ultrix and Tru64
GNU Common Lisp : An implementation of Common Lisp
- Usage: gcl
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/
eclipse : Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.
- Usage: eclipse
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://www.eclipse.org/

Text Previewers

Ghostview : Ghostview is an X11 user interface for Ghostscript, allowing you to view and navigate PostScript files.
- Usage: gv
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gv/
Ghostscript : Ghostscript is a software package that interprets Adobe's PostScript and PDF languages, including a few additional features.
- Usage: gs
- Platform: All
- URL: http://seth.positivism.org/man.cgi/1/gs
xdvi : xdvi is a program to display TeX .dvi files under the X Window System.
- Usage: xvdi
- Platform: Linux, Solaris and Tru64
- URL: http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi.html
view : View a document using the Vi commands
- Usage: view [filename]
- Platform: All
more : Displays text one screen at a time.
- Usage: more [filename]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umore.htm
less : Improved more
- Usage: less [filename]
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uless.htm

Formatters/Spelling tools

TeX : A text formatting and typesetting program.
- Usage: tex
- Platform: Linux, Solaris and Tru64
- URL: http://www.math.upenn.edu/TeX.html
GNU Troff (Groff) : A typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
- Usage: groff
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
diction : Identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases
- Usage: diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -f PatternFile ] [ -n ] File ...
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/diction.htm
explain : Provides an interactive thesaurus
- Usage: explain or diction Filename | explain
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
- URL: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/explain.htm
style : Analyzes surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures
- Usage: style [-ml] [-mm] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P] file...
- Platform: Ultrix and Tru64
ispell : Interactive spell checker. Ispell is a program that helps you to correct spelling and typographical errors in a file.
- Usage: ispell
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/ispell/ispell.html

Editors

Vi : A command to edit files.
- Usage: vi [filename] (eg: vi test.c)
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/general/vimanual.html
Vim : Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
- Usage: vim [filename] (eg: vim test.c)
- Platform: All
- URL: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/
Emacs : Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
- Usage: emacs [filename] (eg: emacs test.c)
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html
Xemacs : XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system.
- Usage: xemacs [filename] (eg: xemacs test.c)
- Platform: Linux and Tru64
- URL: http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html
Pico : A screen-based text editor.
- Usage: pico [filename] (eg: pico test.c)
- Platform: All
- URL: http://www.uni.edu/its/us/document/sun/picoqref.html
Nano : An improved pico editor
- Usage: nano [filename] (eg: nano test.c)
- Platform: Linux only
- URL: http://www.nano-editor.org/docs.php

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