Welcome to the a2i User Bin
This page tells you everything you wanted to know
About the Bin, about Using the Bin,
about the Contents of the Bin, and about
Contributing to the Bin.
The a2i User Bin is a collection of programs and scripts that a2i users have
made available for their fellow a2i users. With the a2i User Bin, we can use
software that a2i does not want to support and newer versions that a2i has not
upgraded to yet. Whenever one person contributes something, everyone else
benefits by not having to install, maintain, and use disk space for their own
copies.
This project was inspired by
NUGLOPS
(Netcom User Group List of Programs & Scripts) and the
Pack Rat Network (at CRL
Network Services). These Internet service providers no longer exist.
See the History of the Bin and
Bylaws of the Bin for more information about the
Bin.
To use the programs and scripts, put this in your .cshrc
file:
set path = (/local/userbin/os/bin $path)
To use the man pages, put this in your .login file:
if ($?MANPATH) then
setenv MANPATH /local/userbin/os/man:$MANPATH
endif
See Seriously Using the Bin for more information
about using the Bin.
Each entry lists the following information:
Available as: the names of the commands (the User Bin often
provides both generic and version-specific names), or the name of the
library
Available for: which operating systems this thing runs on
Version: the version number
Location: where this thing actually is (just in case you want to
examine a script)
Requires: other things you need
Documentation: where to read the fornicating
manual
Other files: examples, source code, or other stuff
Home: where this thing originally came from
Description: what this thing does
Differences: if a2i has a copy of this thing, the differences
between the User Bin's version (usually newer) and a2i's version (usually
older)
Contributor: the person who contributed this thing (and their
email address)
The contents are listed by type (commands
(SunOS and FreeBSD),
CGIs, and libraries) and by
contributor. The contents are followed by the
current managers of the Bin.
Access to some links is restricted to a2i users. If you are an a2i user, you
can obtain access from your a2i account.
Commands
- SunOS Commands
- bed
- an editor for binary files
- bzip2
- a block-sorting file compressor
- c-archie
- query the Archie anonymous FTP databases using Prospero
- cal
- display a calendar
- Chipmunk BASIC
- 'BASIC' language interpreter
- ctags
- generate C and C++ language tag files for use with vi
- CVS
- Concurrent Versions System
- elvis
- a clone of vi/ex
- ex
- Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
- Gopher
- connect to gopher document server
- groff
- front end for the groff document formatting system
- gzip
- compress or expand files
- html-check
- check html files for syntax/conformance errors
- iso2asc
- converts ISO Latin 1 to readable ASCII
- Kermit
- file transfer and management, terminal connection
- less
- opposite of more
- LHa
- compress or extract files in LHa archives
- lwp-download
- fetch large files from the net
- lwp-mirror
- simple mirror utility for WWW
- lwp-request
- simple WWW user agent
- lwp-rget
- retrieve WWW documents recursively
- Lynx
- a general-purpose browser for the World Wide Web
- man2html
- converts UNIX man pages to HTML
- mcvert
- MacBinary <=> BinHex 4.0 and more file conversion utility
- mimeqp
- decoder/encoder for mime quoted-printable
- most
- browse or page through a text file
- mpack
- pack a file in MIME format, or unpack messages in MIME
- NcFTP
- browser program for the File Transfer Protocol
- Par
- filter for reformatting paragraphs
- parchie
- query the Archie anonymous FTP databases using Prospero
- Perl
- Practical Extraction and Report Language
- pico
- simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer
- pilot
- simple file system browser in the style of the Pine Composer
- Pine
- a Program for Internet News and Email
- procmail
- autonomous mail processor
- rdist
- remote file distribution client program
- slrn
- an easy to use NNTP based newsreader
- tin
- a Usenet newsreader
- UNARJ
- list, test, and extract compressed files in ARJ archives
- unsit
- extract/list files in a Macintosh StuffIt archive file
- unzip
- list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
- urls
- extracts URLs and displays them with lynx
- userbin
- displays the User Bin web page
- uuencode
- encode/decode a file
- uuexplode
- yet another smart multipart uudecoder
- vi
- Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
- Vim
- Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
- vttest
- test VT100-type terminal
- w3m
- text mode browser for World Wide Web
- wget
- a non-interactive network retriever
- whereis
- locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
- xbin
- convert mailable format BinHex file into binary
- xxd
- make a hexdump or do the reverse
- zip
- package and compress (archive) files
- FreeBSD Commands
- bzip2
- a block-sorting file compressor
- cal
- display a calendar
- JDK
- Java Development Kit
- Kermit
- file transfer, management, and terminal connection
- less
- opposite of more
- LHa
- compress or extract files in LHa archives
- lwp-download
- fetch large files from the net
- lwp-mirror
- simple mirror utility for WWW
- lwp-request
- simple WWW user agent
- lwp-rget
- retrieve WWW documents recursively
- Lynx
- a general-purpose browser for the World Wide Web
- mpack
- pack a file in MIME format, or unpack messages in MIME
- Par
- filter for reformatting paragraphs
- Perl
- Practical Extraction and Report Language
- slrn
- an easy to use NNTP based newsreader
- tin
- a Usenet newsreader
- UNARJ
- list, test, and extract compressed files in ARJ archives
- userbin
- displays the User Bin web page
- w3m
- text mode browser for World Wide Web
- wget
- a non-interactive network retriever
- whereis
- locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
- CGIs
- cgiemail
- generates formatted email messages from WWW forms
- mailform
- mails contents of WWW form to user
- man
- displays UNIX man pages
- Libraries
- Perl
- CGI
- parses and interprets query strings passed to CGI scripts
- Digest::MD5
- calculates MD5 digests
- HTML::Parser
- parses HTML documents
- HTML::Tagset
- contains HTML tag information
- libnet
- FTP, NNTP, PH, POP3, SMTP, SNPP, and Time client classes
- libwww-perl
- a library for WWW access
- MIME::Base64
- Base64 and Quoted-Printable encoder/decoders
- URI
- accesses and manipulates URI strings
- Contributors
- Managers
Although there are many things in the Bin, these things are not really "in"
the Bin. Each thing is stored by the user that contributed it. The User Bin
directories just contain symbolic links to everything.
To submit something to the Bin, install it somewhere and change the
permissions so everyone can read and execute it. If there are man pages or other
documentation, please install those files too. Then send email describing the
thing, where it is installed, and where it originally came from. The information
for the listing will be researched and/or verified before the submission is
added to the User Bin.
Please send any comments, corrections, submissions, or suggestions regarding
the User Bin to
<userbin@rahul.net>.

a2i User Bin / 20 Mar 2004