Skunkware 5.0 Description

Brief and Incomplete Description of Skunkware 5.0

The SCO Skunkware 5.0 CD-ROM contains a wide variety of contributed software. What follows is an overview of the components of Skunkware 5.0. This overview is not complete but should give the reader a fairly thorough understanding of the contents of the CD-ROM. For a complete sorted listing of every file and directory on SCO Skunkware 5, see the file /usr/skunk/CONTENTS.

Skunkware 5.0 is an High-Sierra/Rockridge filesystem CD-ROM and, as such, is mountable read-only. The packaging instructs the user to mount the CD-ROM with the command "mount -r /dev/cd0 /usr/skunk". Once the CD-ROM is mounted, the user is encouraged to peruse the following README.

Browsing the Skunkware 5.0 CD-ROM via Mosaic is a very good way to familiarize oneself with the contents of the CD.

Items of interest include :

SCO Object Tcl

SCO Help API

SCO Visual Tcl

Technical Library Supplements

Productivity Tools

Graphical X11 Clients

Games, Images and Animations.

SCO Object Tcl is a Tcl extension package that makes it possible to use object oriented programming concepts in Tcl and use/reuse C++ classes. SCO Object Tcl acts like an interpreted extension to C++.

The SCO Help API provides a low-level context-sensitive help api for use with the ScoHelp system. X11 graphical clients wishing to provide context-sensitive help via the ScoHelp facility can utilize the SCO Help API contained herein.

SCO Skunkware 5.0 includes two new contributions from the SCO Visual Tcl team :

Extending SCO Visual Tcl: The SCO Visual Tcl interpreter can be extended with additional commands that you create.
SCO Visual Tcl Reference Guide: An updated custom-installable reference guide.

The Technical Library Supplements are offered for experimental or educational use. They are not supported by SCO Support. In some cases, these are components or updates to existing SCO Software. Examples of Technical Library Supplements are the Athena Widget Library, Sample programs for direct console video i/o, Soundblaster driver and utilities, X/Y/Zmodem file transfer commands, Lynx character mode browser, and so on. See the TLS README for a complete list and description of the Technical Library Supplements on Skunkware.

The Productivity Tools consist of a wide variety of software tools ported to SCO OpenServer Release 5 by a diverse group of SCO employees and partners. These tools include :

GNU Development System Tools

Fresco,

an object-oriented API for development of window-based applications.

xsw,

a client/server based system resource monitoring tool

ausay,

takes a list of words and attempts to convert them to speech

bash,

GNU Project's interactive shell with Bourne shell syntax

bpatch,

a vi-like curses based binary editor and dump program

calc,

a multi-precision calculator

cproto,

generates C function prototypes from C source code

cvs,

a collection of programs that provide software revision control

ecu,

an asynchronous communications program

elm,

a screen oriented mail front-end

emacs,

version 19.22 of the GNU extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor and everything else you want

gawk,

GNU Awk 2.15, a pattern scanning and processing language

gdb,

the GNU debugger

gdiff,

GNU diff, diff3, sdiff and cmp utilities

getline,

command-line editing library with history

ghostview,

GNU graphical interface to the ghostscript Postscript viewer

glimpse,

an indexing and query system

gnucpio,

GNU clone of cpio with extra features

gnugrep,

GNU version of grep (very fast)

groff,

GNU version of troff, nroff, pic, tbl, man, ms & mm macros, etc.

ghostscript,

an X11 based postscript interpreter from GNU

gzip, gzip

file compressor/uncompressor and utils from GNU

hostbyaddr,

convert hex, octal or decimal internet address to dotted decimal notation and the hostname

inn, inn

InterNetNews, a suite of programs for accessing Usenet

ispell,

curses based interactive spelling checker and correcter

less,

a text pager, similar to more

libwais,

libraries which provide direct WAIS support for clients

linuxdoc-sgml,

a system for formatting documents using SGML

macgetaddr,

get the ethernet MAC address for an adaptor

maplay,

MPEG audio player version 1.2

md5,

compute a cryptographic message digest of a file or string

metamail,

can turn any mail-reading program into a multi-media mail reader

mkid,

builds a database of identifiers and which files they are found in

mpack,

encodes and decodes binaries in MIME format mail messages

mpeg_encode,

the Berkeley MPEG-1 video encoder

ncftp,

Internet file transfer program with features not in ftp

patch,

GNU utility to apply a set of diffs to a source tree

perl,

version 5.0 of the popular scripting language

rcs,

manages multiple revisions of files

sc,

a spreadsheet calculator

shar,

pack and unpack files/directories in "shar" format

sox,

translates sound samples between various file formats

tcsh,

csh implementation with dynamic command line editing and completion

term,

serial line multiplexor

texinfo,

documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output

tin,

full-screen easy to use threaded Netnews reader

ucblogo,

Logo programming language interpreter

unzip,

list, test or extract a ZIP archive

xc,

expanded xcomm 2.2 Unix dialout telecommunications program

zip,

compression and file packaging utility

zoo,

create and maintain collections of files in compressed form

And these newly contributed SCO Skunkware 5 Productivity Tools :

SCO Object Tcl
SCO Help API
SCO Visual Tcl Reference Guide
Extending SCO Visual Tcl
Custom installable Skunkware SSO's
Buttons, Icons, Lines & Dingbats
Useful Little Scripts
Mesa
Archie
Awf
Bsdinstall
Expect
Flock
Glimpse Http
Gnu Diff
Gnu Patch
Ile
Imap
Keycode
Lsof
Lynx
Man2html
Mpeg_stat
Mtools
Pcal
Pidentd
Pine
Readline
Screen
Tcl
Tk
Vim
Vuser
FreeWAIS-sf

The Graphical X11 Clients include :

Mosaic: version 2.4 of the networked information browser from NCSA
coral: calculate and display aggregating particles
endo: iterate a map of the plane and display dynamics graphically
hop: iterate a system of parametric equations
httpd: NCSA's hypertext transfer protocol deamon
ImageMagick: a suite of image processing utilities
julia/mandel: calculate and display Julia and Mandelbrot sets
lds: calculate and display lattice dynamical systems
lyap: calculate and display Lyapunov exponents of an iterated map
pbmplus: suite of utilities for converting various image formats
mpeg_play: the Berkeley MPEG video software decoder
splines: uses bouncing balls as control points for generating cubic curves
spore: calculate and display an aggregating particle
stars: simulate the viewport of the starship Enterprise
wais: Wide Area Information Server searches and retrieves information
xanim: display animations in various formats
xgrab: grab and dump arbitrary portions of X-Window screens
xlock: screen locking program with several modes
xmartin: root window decorator based on iterated equations
xmcd: Motif-based CD audio player and database
xpaint: a program to paint pictures and icons
xpm: pixmap manipulation library
xtopo: calculate and display a topographic map of an artificial landscape
xv: version 3.10 of this popular image viewer

And these newly contributed SCO Skunkware 5 Graphical X11 Clients :

Desktop Configuration
Aquarium
Ashe
Cpicker
Dox
Gasket
Hexcalc
HTML Widgets
Mfsm
Periodic
Sunclock
Tcl Motif
Unclutter
Viola
Willow
Xantfarm
Xarchie
Xascii
Xearth
Xkeycaps
Xmbase Grok
Xmcolor
Xmessage
Xmmix
Xneko
Xprompt
Xrename
Xroach
Xscreensaver
Xsm
Xtartan
Xtetris
Xwall
Xwator

A few of the Games included on Skunkware 5.0 are :

Acm
Battleship
Catclock
Dinkum3
Gtetris
Ishido
Lptalk
Mandel
Xtile
Nethack
Reve
Roids
Sfs
Spatial
Spy vs. Bob
Warp
Xballs
Xblockbuster
Xboing
Xconq
Xephem
Xfishtank
Xhearts
Xinvaders
Xjewel
Xlife
Xmille
Xmine
Xmoria
Xmris
Xpipeman
Xrobots
Xsnake
Xsokoban
Xspringies

And these newly contributed SCO Skunkware 5 Games :

Frisk
Net Fortune
Antipolix
Connx
Fly 8
Flying
Mandel Spawn
Net 3D
Xblast
Xmemory
Xpilot

Images and animations include MPEG, FLC, FLI, AVI and GIF format files. Skunkware animations can be viewed with mpeg_play or xanim. The GIF images included selections from classical art, popular recording artists, fractal mathematics, the ocean and NASA space images.

Digitized audio files can be played back on an SCO system with a sound card after installing the appropriate TLS's (SoundBlaster, VoxWare, NAS). Skunkware 5.0 provides audio play utilities play_snd and maplay as well as audio conversion tools like sox.

Have fun and be productive, rr@ronrecord.com

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