TINY Linux : list of packages <author>Odile Bénassy, <tt/ob@seul.org/ <date>03/04/2000 <sect>TINYBASE <sect1>DISK a1 <p>CONTENTS : aaa_base aoutlibs bash bsdlpr bzip2 devs umsprogs <p><em>aaa_base:</em> Basic Linux filesystem package. Sets up the basic directory structure and adds a few important binaries such as GNU mtools-3.8, fdutils-5.2, zip21, and unzip531. <p><em>aoutlibs:</em> a.out shared libraries: These shared libraries provide support for running older Linux programs compiled in the a.out binary format. /lib/libc.so.4.7.6 /lib/libcurses.so.0.1.2 /lib/libm.so.4.6.27 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libdb.so.1.85.1 /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib/libvga.so.1.2.9 <p><em>bash:</em> GNU bash-1.14.7 The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). Bash must be present for the system to boot properly. <p><em>bsdlpr:</em> BSD lpr-5.9-26 This is the lpr printing suite ported from BSD. It's the most standard UN*X printing system in current use. If you're interested in automatic detection of PostScript and DVI files, check out the apsfilter add-on in Slackware's contrib directory. <p><em>bzip2:</em> bzip2 version 0.9.0b (a block-sorting file compressor) Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting 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. Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org> is the author of bzip2. <p><em>devs:</em> Device files. This package creates special files in the /dev directory that represent your system's hardware. <p><em>umsprogs:</em> umsdos_progs 0.9 Various utilities needed by Jacques Gelinas' UMSDOS filesystem. <sect1>DISK a2 <p>CONTENTS : cpio e2fsbn elvis etc fsmods pciutils <p><em>cpio:</em> The GNU cpio backup and archiving utility v. 2.4.2 This is GNU cpio, a program to manage archives of files. This package also includes mt, a tape drive control program. cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their pathname, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. <p><em>e2fsbn:</em> Utilities for the second extended file system v. 1.14 Utilities needed to create and maintain ext2 filesystems under Linux. Included in this package are: chattr, lsattr, mke2fs, mklost+found, tune2fs, fsck, e2fsck, e2label, debugfs, dumpe2fs, and badblocks. These utilities were written by Remy Card (the developer and maintainer of the ext2 fs) and Theodore T'so. <p><em>elvis:</em> elvis-2.1. Elvis is a text editor. It is intended to be a modern replacement for the classic ex/vi editor of UNIX fame. Elvis supports many new features, including multiple edit buffers, multiple windows, and a variety of display modes. As elvis is Slackware's default vi, this is a required package. <p><em>etc:</em> System configuration files that go into the /etc directory. The /etc directory is traditionally the location where configuration files and administration binaries are found. Under Linux, the binaries have been moved out of the /etc directory and into the /sbin directory; the /etc directory is now reserved for configuration files only. <p><em>fsmods:</em> Filesystem modules for Linux 2.2.6. A kernel module is a piece of object code that can be dynamically loaded into the Linux kernel to provide new kernel functions. These modules support additional filesystems, such as HPFS, HFS, and NTFS. <p><em>pciutils:</em> pciutils-1.10 (Linux PCI utilities) lspci displays detailed information about all PCI buses and devices in the system, replacing the original /proc/pci interface. setpci allows reading from and writing to PCI device configuration registers. For example, you can adjust the latency timers with it. See manual pages for more details. <sect1>DISK a3 <p>CONTENTS: bin fileutls <p><em>bin:</em> Binaries that go in /bin and /usr/bin. Various required utilities and programs, such as apmd_3.0beta3-2, asapm-2.2, at-2.9b, Dillon's crond 2.2, file-3.24, GNU gawk 3.0.3, man-1.5b, patch 2.1b, sed 2.05, sharutils-4.1, time-1.7, splitvt-1.6.3, tput-1.0, unarj-230, hdparm-3.5, and zoo-2.10. <p><em>fileutls:</em> 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. These utilities are included: chgrp chmod chown cp dd df dircolors du ginstall ln ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv rm rmdir sync touch <sect1>DISK a4 <p>CONTENTS: elflibs find getty gpm <p><em>elflibs:</em> ELF shared libraries. This is a collection of shared libraries needed to run Linux code in the ELF binary format. ELF (Executable and Linking Format) is the standard Linux binary format, replacing the older a.out format. One of the main advantages of ELF over a.out is the ease of building and maintaining shared libraries. <p><em>find:</em> GNU findutils-4.1 This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. find and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2, as far as I know. They also support some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and some unique to GNU. <p><em>getty:</em> getty_ps 2.0.7j /sbin/getty and /sbin/uugetty. These control the process of logging into your system, and may be used instead of 'agetty', which is the default getty included with the util-linux package. getty_ps supports a number of enhancements such as ringback support. <p><em>gpm:</em> General purpose mouse support v1.14 This program is based on the 'selection' package, and allows you to use the mouse to cut and paste text from the screen. It also acts as a mouse server for applications running on the Linux console, such asgpm: the Midnight Commander file manager and dialog. NOTE: This program may cause problems when you start X on systems that do not use a serial mouse. If you get an 'unable to open mouse device' error from X, remove gpm from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. <sect1>DISK a5 <p>CONTENTS: glibc1 grep gzip hdsetup ldso less <p><em>glibc1:</em> glibc-2.0.7pre6 runtime support This package contains the shared libraries, binaries, and support files required to run most Linux applications linked with glibc. <p><em>grep:</em> GNU grep 2.3 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. This is the 'fastest grep in the west' (we hope). <p><em>gzip:</em> GNU zip compression utilities. (v. 1.2.4a) 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. <p><em>hdsetup:</em> The Slackware setup/package maintenance system v. 4.0.0 The full screen and tty versions of setup and pkgtool, two utilities included with Slackware that allow you to easily install software packages, remove software packages, and review the installed software packages. Also contains the command line utilities 'installpkg', 'removepkg', 'makepkg', 'explodepkg', and 'upgradepkg' that install, remove, build, examine, and upgrade software packages. Man pages are included. <p><em>ldso:</em> ld.so 1.9.9, the dynamic linker/loader. ld.so completes the final process of linking all necessary references to sharable objects and unreferenced symbols in an impure executable, (usually a dynamically linked executable), to produce a runnable file. Nearly all Linux binaries are 'incomplete' and require further linking at run time. ld.so's job is thus to complete the linking process started at compilation. ld.so was written by David Engel, Eric Youngdale, Peter MacDonald, Hongjiu Lu, Linus Torvalds, Lars Wirzenius and Mitch D'Souza. <p><em>less:</em> less-332 Less is a paginator similar to more (1), 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 (1). Less was written by Mark Nudelman. <sect1>DISK a6 <p>CONTENTS: glibc2 kbd sysklogd <p><em>glibc2:</em> glibc-2.0.7pre6 internationalization files International support files for glibc -- installed in usr/share/i18n. <p><em>kbd:</em> kbd 0.95 Load and save keyboard mappings. Needed if you are not using the US keyboard map. This package also contains utilities to change your console fonts - if you install it you'll get a menu later on that lets you select from many different fonts. If you like one, you can make it your default font. A new default font can be chosen at any time by typing 'fontconfig'. This package includes fonts from the kbd_fonts.tar.gz package uploaded to SunSITE. <p><em>sysklogd:</em> Sysklogd 1.3-31 Dr. Greg Wettstein and Stephen Tweedie's syslogd/klogd. This package contains a modified version of syslogd for the Linux environment. An additional utility, klogd, is included which allows kernel logging to be directed through the syslogd facility. Syslogd and klogd are started when your system boots. <sect1>DISK a7 <p>CONTENTS: ide lilo loadlin minicom modutils pnp <p><em>ide:</em> Linux kernel version 2.2.6, without SCSI support. A Linux kernel for computers that do not need SCSI support. You MUST install a kernel image in order for your system to boot. This kernel supports IDE hard drives and IDE CD-ROM drives. Other drivers (such as for CD-ROM drives on proprietary interfaces, or ethernet cards) may be loaded as modules. See /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for examples. <p><em>lilo:</em> LILO 20 Generic Boot Loader for Linux ('LInux LOader') by Werner Almesberger. LILO boots Linux from your hard drive. It can also boot other operating systems such as MS-DOS and OS/2, and can even boot DOS from the second hard drive. LILO comes with utilities and documentation that make it easier to install, such as 'liloconfig' and 'QuickStart'. NOTE: Installing boot loaders is inherently dangerous. Be sure to have some means to boot your system from a different media if you install LILO on your hard disk. <p><em>loadlin:</em> LOADLIN v1.6a LOADLIN.EXE, a loader (running under DOS) for LINUX kernel images fully supporting the kernel's command line feature. LOADLIN is the safest way to boot Linux from your hard disk, if you have a bootable DOS partition on your machine. LOADLIN is (C) 1994...1995 Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de) <p><em>minicom:</em> Minicom 1.82-3 Minicom - a full featured menu-driven communications package similar to the DOS program 'Telix'. Also includes sz/rz - utilities used to upload and download files using the Zmodem protocol. <p><em>modutils:</em> modutils-2.1.121 Utilities to use kernel modules. These tools are used for loading and unloading chunks of kernel code on the fly, to add support for a CD-ROM drive or ethernet card, for instance. Many Linux drivers are provided as kernel modules, and some packages (like the PCMCIA package) require the module utilities to work, so you probably want to install these. <p><em>pnp:</em> isapnptools-1.18 These programs allow ISA Plug-And-Play devices to be configured on a Linux machine. See the documentation in /usr/doc/isapnptools-1.18. <sect1>DISK a8 <p>CONTENTS: pcmcia procps sysvinit tar <p><em>pcmcia:</em> pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA support package. It includes a set of loadable kernel modules that implement a version of the PCMCIA Card Services applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards, and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand. It supports ``hot swapping'' of PCMCIA cards, so cards can be inserted and ejected at any time. <p><em>procps:</em> procps-2.0.2, psmisc-18, procinfo-16 Utilities for displaying process and memory information written by Michael K. Johnson, Werner Almesberger, Charles Blake, Branko Lankester, Robert Nation, David Engel, Larry Greenfield, Roger Binns, Sander van Malssen, and Brian Edmonds. <p><em>sysvinit:</em> sysvinit-2.76-3 System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that control the booting and shutdown of your system. These support a number of system runlevels, each with a specific set of utilities spawned. For example, the normal system runlevel is 3, which starts agetty on virtual consoles tty1 - tty6. Runlevel 4 starts xdm. Runlevel 0 shuts the system down. See the documentation in /usr/doc/sysvinit and the scripts in /etc/rc.d for more information. <p><em>tar:</em> GNU tar 1.12 Tape ARchiver - adds and extracts files and directories to/from tape or archive files. This version of tar also supports archive compression using GNU zip or bzip2. <sect1>DISK a9 <p>CONTENTS: scsi <p><em>scsi:</em> Linux kernel version 2.2.6, with SCSI support. A Linux kernel for computers with SCSI and/or IDE. You MUST install a kernel image in order for your system to boot. This kernel supports IDE and SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM drives. Other drivers (such as for CD-ROM drives on proprietary interfaces, or ethernet cards) may be loaded as modules. See /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for examples. <sect1>DISK a10 <p>CONTENTS: modules <p><em>modules:</em> Linux kernel modules for 2.2.6. A kernel module is a piece of object code that can be dynamically loaded into the Linux kernel to provide new kernel functions. Most of these modules provide support for devices such as CD-ROM drives, tape drives, and ethernet cards. You can choose which modules to load by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. <sect1>DISK a11 <p>CONTENTS: scsimods shadow <p><em>scsimods:</em> Linux SCSI, RAID, and CD-ROM kernel modules for Linux 2.2.6. A kernel module is a piece of object code that can be dynamically loaded into the Linux kernel to provide new kernel functions. These modules support SCSI interface cards, RAID (both IDE and SCSI), and non-SCSI CD-ROM drives (like the kind that attach to sound cards). <p><em>shadow:</em> Shadow password suite (shadow-19990307) This set of login related programs utilizes an alternate, non-readable file to contain the actual encrypted passwords. This is presumed to increase system security by increasing the difficulty with which system crackers obtain encrypted passwords. It was written by Julianne Frances Haugh and the Linux port is maintained by Marek Michalkiewicz. <sect1>DISK a12 <p>CONTENTS: sh_utils txtutils util zoneinfo <p><em>sh_utils:</em> GNU sh-utils-1.16 This is a package of small shell programming utilities. They are mostly compliant with POSIX.2, where applicable. The programs in this package are: basename chroot date dirname echo env expr false logname nice nohup pathchk printenv printf sleep stty tee test true tty uname who whoami yes <p><em>txtutils:</em> GNU textutils-1.22 These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) 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 in this package are: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, and wc. <p><em>util:</em> util-linux 2.9i - A huge collection of essential utilities agetty arch banner cal cfdisk clear clock col colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel cytune ddate dmesg fdformat fdisk fsck.minix getopt hexdump hostname hwclock ipcrm ipcs jaztool kbdrate last logger look losetup mcookie mesg mkfs mkfs.minix mkswap more mount namei rdev readprofile renice reset rev script setfdprm setserial setsid setterm sfdisk sln strings swapon tsort tunelp ul umount update wall whereis write ziptool <p><em>zoneinfo:</em> tzcode/data1999b - time zone utilities and database This package allows you to configure your time zone. Includes zic, zdump, yearistype, and the time zone database in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Use the timeconfig utility to set your local time zone. <sect>NETWORK <sect1>DISK n1 <p>CONTENTS: dip elm mailx metamail ppp wget <p><em>dip:</em> DIP - dialup IP connection handler 3.3.7o Uri Blumenthal's version of Fred N. van Kempen's DIP utility. DIP handles the connections needed for dialup IP links, like SLIP or CSLIP. It can handle both incoming and outgoing connections, using password security for incoming connections. <p><em>elm:</em> Menu-driven user mail program. (v. 2.4pl25) Elm is an interactive screen-oriented mailer program originally written by Dave Taylor, and continued by the Elm Development Group. <p><em>mailx:</em> BSD mailx 8.1.1. Mail is a intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. It's small; it's the standard; it's a good thing to install if you're going to use mail. <p><em>metamail:</em> metamail-2.7 Metamail is an implementation of MIME, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a proposed standard for multimedia mail on the Internet. Metamail implements MIME, and also implements extensibility and configuration via the "mailcap" mechanism described in an informational RFC that is a companion to the MIME document. <p><em>ppp:</em> PPP for Linux, versions 2.2.0f and 2.3.7 PPP for Linux -- Michael Callahan's ppp.c kernel driver and the pppd daemon (ported by Al Longyear). Linux PPP support is included as a loadable module in the modules.tgz package. This package also contains pppsetup, an easy-to-use, user-friendly utility for setting up your PPP daemon. <p><em>wget:</em> wget-1.5.3 GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background after having logged off. The author of Wget is Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>. <sect1>DISK n2 <p>CONTENTS: netmods <p><em>netmods:</em> Network support modules for linux-2.2.6. These modules can be loaded into the kernel to support many network cards and protocols. <sect1>DISK n3 <p>CONTENTS: tcpip1 <p><em>tcpip1:</em> TCP/IP networking programs and support files. This a basic set of TCP/IP utilities for Linux. Some of these were written from scratch and some were ported from various sources including BSD. The code was written and ported by Florian La Roche, Alan Cox, Fred N. van Kempen, Donald J. Becker, Rick Sladkey, Mark Shand, Orest Zborowski, Johannes Stille, Linus Torvalds, David A. Holland, Olaf Kirch, and others.<sect1>DISK p1 <sect>TEXT MODE PROGRAMS <sect1>DISK p1 <p>CONTENTS: ash diff groff joe manpages mc sudo texinfo <p><em>ash:</em> Kenneth Almquist's ash shell. A lightweight (62K) Bourne compatible shell. Great for machines with low memory, but does not provide all the extras of shells like bash, tcsh, and zsh. Runs most shell scripts compatible with the Bourne shell. Note that under Linux, most scripts seem to use at least some bash-specific syntax. The Slackware setup scripts are a notable exception, since ash is the shell used on the install disks. NetBSD uses ash as its /bin/sh. <p><em>diff:</em> GNU diffutils-2.7 The GNU diff utilities - finds differences between files. (to make source code patches, for instance) <p><em>groff:</em> GNU troff 1.11 document formatting system. The groff package provides versions of troff, nroff, eqn, tbl, and other Unix text-formatting utilities. Groff is used to 'compile' man pages stored in groff/nroff format into a form which can be printed or displayed on the screen. These man pages are stored in compressed form in the /usr/man/man? directories. <p><em>joe:</em> Joe text editor v2.8 Joseph H. Allen's easy to use text editor, similar to WordStar[tm]. <p><em>manpages:</em> Man-pages 1.23 Man pages are online documentation for Linux. This package includes many section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 man pages for Linux. The man-pages distribution is maintained by Andries E. Brouwer with the help of more writers, editors, and other contributors than we can name here. (See the list in /usr/man/man-pages-1.23.Announce) <p><em>mc:</em> Midnight Commander version 4.1.35 The Midnight Commander is a Norton Commander clone, a program that manipulates and manages files and directories. Useful, fast, and has color displays on the Linux console. Mouse support is provided through the gpm mouse server. mc was written by Miguel de Icaza and Mauricio Plaza. <p><em>sudo:</em> sudo-1.5.4 'sudo' is a command that allows users to execute some commands as root. The /etc/sudoers file (edited with 'visudo') specifies which users have access to sudo and which commands they can run. 'sudo' logs all its activities to /var/log/ so the system administrator can keep an eye on things. <p><em>texinfo:</em> GNU texinfo-3.12 'Texinfo' is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. Using Texinfo, you can create a printed document with the normal features of a book, including chapters, sections, cross references, and indices. From the same Texinfo source file, you can create a menu-driven, on-line Info file with nodes, menus, cross references, and indices. This package is needed to read the documentation files in /usr/info. <sect>PRINTING <sect1>DISK pr1 <p>CONTENTS: apsfilt enscript ghostscr gsfonts gv <p><em>apsfilt:</em> apsfilter-5.0.1. Apsfilter is a printer input filter. With apsfilter installed and configured, you can print many different file types (like ASCII, PostScript, and DVI, as well as compressed versions of all of these) directly with 'lpr', and apsfilter will automatically handle the conversion process on the fly. To configure apsfilter, run the SETUP program in /usr/lib/apsfilter. <p><em>enscript:</em> GNU enscript 1.6.1 Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools the generated output to a printer or saves it to a 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 for customizing printouts. <p><em>ghostscr:</em> Ghostscript version 5.10 Preview, print and process PostScript documents on both PostScript and non-PostScript devices. If you need X11 support, you should also install the package 'gs_x11' found on the XAP series. It contains a /usr/bin/gs with support for X11. <p><em>gsfonts:</em> Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter/previewer. These fonts come from ghostscript-fonts-other-5.10.tar.gz and ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10.tar.gz. <p><em>gv:</em> gv 3.5.8 gv is a PostScript and PDF previewer. It allows users to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. gv was written by Johannes Plass, using the source code for Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5 as a starting point. <sect>XBASE <sect1>DISK tcl1 <p>CONTENTS: tcl tk <p><em>tcl:</em> The Tcl script language, version 8.0.5. Tcl, developed by Dr. John Ousterhout, is a simple to use text-based script language with many built-in features which make it especially nice for writing interactive scripts. <p><em>tk:</em> The Tk toolkit for Tcl, version 8.0.5. Tk is an extension to Tcl that allows you to quickly and easily build X11 applications that have the look and feel of Motif apps. <sect1>DISK xb1 <p>CONTENTS: fvwm2 fvwmicns xaw3d xbin xcfg xdoc xfnts xfscl xfsrv xlib xman xpm xprog xps xset <p><em>fvwm2:</em> fvwm2_2.0.46-BETA Fvwm is a window manager for X11. It is a derivative of twm, redesigned to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3-D look to window frames, and provide a simple virtual desktop. <p><em>fvwmicns:</em> xpm3icons. Color icons from xpm3icons.tar.Z, found in the /pub/X11/contrib directory of metalab.unc.edu. These icons work great with fvwm. These icons go in the /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps directory. For more information on how to use these icons, see fvwm's manpage. <p><em>xaw3d:</em> Xaw3d-1.4 This is Release 1.4 (21 April, 1998) of a set of 3-D widgets by Kaleb S. Keithley based on the R6.3 Athena Widget set. The Three-D Athena may be used as a replacement for the Athena (Xaw) Widget set -- you may relink almost any Athena Widget based application and obtain a three dimensional appearance on some of the widgets. You can also replace your shared libXaw with libXaw3d and obtain the three dimensional appearance without even relinking. <p><em>xbin:</em> Basic client binaries required for XFree86 3.3.3.1. Installs the basic set of programs needed to run X in your /usr/X11R6/bin directory. <p><em>xcfg:</em> Configuration files for XFree86 3.3.3.1. Configuration files needed by X and xdm. <p><em>xdoc:</em> Documentation and release notes for XFree86 3.3.3.1. <p><em>xfnts:</em> Fonts for the X window system. This is the minimal set of fonts needed to run XFree86 3.3.3.1. These fonts are compressed to reduce disk usage. <p><em>xfscl:</em> Scaled fonts. Speedo and Type 1 scalable fonts for XFree86 3.3.3.1. <p><em>xfsrv:</em> xfs (X font server) Xfs is the X Window System font server. It supplies fonts to X Window System display servers. <p><em>xlib:</em> Various library files for XFree86 3.3.3.1. Files needed by X: bitmaps, locale files, and other configuration files found under /var/X11R6/lib. <p><em>xman:</em> Man pages for XFree86 3.3.3.1. <p>xpm: The Xpm shared and static libraries, v. 3.4k (with libXpm.so.4.11) xpm: These libraries provide a means for X programs to store and retrieve xpm: bitmaps. The shared libraries are needed to run programs compiled xpm: with Xpm, such as fvwm. <p>xprog: Libraries, include files, and configuration files for X programming. xprog: This is a set of include files (found in /usr/X11R6/include), static xprog: libraries (found in /usr/X11R6/lib/*.a) and configuration files xprog: (found in /var/X11R6/lib/config) needed to compile X programs under xprog: Linux. <p>xps: XFree86 documentation in PostScript format. xps: PostScript versions of the documentation for XFree86 3.3.3.1. This is xps: the same in content as the test-based versions, but formatted nicely xps: for printing on a PostScript printer or viewing with ghostview. xps: These documents take up quite a bit of space, so if you don't need xps: PostScript format you may want to skip this package. <p>xset: Graphical configuration utility for XFree86. xset: A graphical configuration utility. Produces an initial XF86Config xset: file, or tunes the existing one. Runs on the X desktop using TCL xset: (this also requires the vg16 X server) or runs on the Linux console xset: (using the dialog utility). <sect>X MODE PROGRAMS <sect1>DISK xp1 <p>CONTENTS: jpeg6 libgr xpaint xv <p><em>jpeg6:</em> Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software version 6b Software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression. JPEG (pronounced 'jay-peg') is a standardized compression method for full-color and gray-scale images. JPEG is intended for compressing 'real-world' scenes; cartoons and other non-realistic images are not its strong suit. JPEG is lossy, however, on typical images of real-world scenes, very good compression levels can be obtained with no visible change, and amazingly high compression levels are possible if you can tolerate a low-quality image. <p><em>libgr:</em> libgr-2.0.13 Shared and static graphics-related ELF libraries and header files. These libraries are included: libfbm, libjpeg, libpbm, libpgm, libpng, libpnm, libppm, librle, libtiff, libz. <p><em>xpaint:</em> XPaint 2.4.9. XPaint is a bitmap/pixmap editing tool. These are some of the features of xpaint: Usual paint operations: Brushes, Spray paint, Pencil, Lines, Arcs, Pattern Fill, Text, Boxes, Circles, Polygons. Works on multiple images simultaneously. Cut/Copy/Paste between all active images. Fatbits/Zoom on the image windows. <p><em>xv:</em> John Bradley's XV 3.10a GIF/TIFF/JPEG/PostScript image viewer. NOTICE: This program is unregistered shareware. Please read the license information included </article