Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!vax5!ut6y From: ut6y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: What are these files, and what do they do? Message-ID: <19283@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:12:10 GMT References: <200373@hrc.UUCP> Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Reply-To: mshappe@vax1.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Shappe) Organization: Not in my apartment, there isn't. Lines: 64 Disclaimer: Cornell Info Tech just barely acknoledges my existance. They're certainly not about to claim that I speak for them. Thus said dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) in article <200373@hrc.UUCP> --> >Now that osu-cis has a Telebit, I am going to add GNU stuff to >my Arizona archive site. But, first, before I pay the phone charges, >would a few kind souls tell me what these files are, and what they do? You asked for it.... NOte: I simply deleted the ones I don't know from the list to save bandwidth >GNU Bash BASH aka Bourne Again SHell. FSF's replacement for the standard 'sh'. Includes filename completion and KSH/NeXTCSH-like history scrolling using EMACS or VI keymaps. That is, you can hit "Ctrl-P" and have the last command you typed pop back up. Runs most SHell scripts, tho' not all. >GNU Bison FSF's replacement for YACC. Used in creating parsers. >GNU Indent FSF's replacement for BSD indent. Program takes C-code as input and outputs the same code indented to one of a number of indenting standards. >GNU Lex aka 'FLEX'. Replacement for standard Lex. Used in creating parsers. >Gnews FSF netnews program. >Ispell Spell checker >JOVE Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs. A smaller EMACS than GNU, but limited. For most everyday uses, however, an excellent program, particularly if you don't have the space for GNU Emacs. >KA9Q A networking program for PCs, I believe. >MIT C Scheme MIT's dialect of LISP >NNTP NetNews Transfer Protocol. System for sending NetNews over the InterNet. Allows for remote reading over the Internet, as well -- that is, the news doesn't have to be stored on the machine you read from. >RFCs and IDEAS RFC's are InterNet standards-in-waiting. They describe software to be implemented. Note: they are NOT the programs themselves, but rather describe what future programs written to handle a given problem should do. For example, the infamous RFC822 describes the system of headers that should be found on InterNet mail messages. >Tcsh Just as BASH is a replacement for the Bourne shell, this is a replacement for older CShells. Many newer CShells have the same features as TCSH (notable, NeXT CSH). Mike Shappe Cornell Info. Tech.