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1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2
3 umask 022;
4
5 mkdir "software.schmorp.de", 0755;
6 mkdir "software.schmorp.de/pkg", 0755;
7 mkdir "software.schmorp.de/img", 0755;
8 system "rsync -av *.jpg software.schmorp.de/img/";
9
10 sub hdr($$) {
11 print <<EOF;
12 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
13 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
14 <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
15 <head>
16 <title>$_[0]</title>
17 <style type='text/css'>
18 body {
19 background: white;
20 color: black;
21 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
22 font-size: 12pt;
23 }
24
25 .bg-ede { background: url(/img/ede.jpg) no-repeat; padding: 20px; width: 100%; height: 82px; }
26 .bg-perl { background: url(/img/perl.jpg) no-repeat; padding: 20px; width: 100%; height: 194px; }
27 .bg-bluete { background: url(/img/bluete.jpg) no-repeat; padding: 20px; width: 100%; height: 148px; }
28
29 a:link { color: #00f; }
30 a:visited { color: #008; }
31 a:hover { color: #800; }
32 a:active { color: #f00; }
33
34 .back {
35 margin: 0;
36 font-size: 8pt;
37 }
38
39 h1 {
40 color: #034;
41 }
42 .short-desc {
43 font-weight: bold;
44 padding: 3px 3px 3px 8px;
45 margin: 1em 1px 1px 13px;
46 }
47 h2 {
48 color: #069;
49 font-weight: bold;
50 border: solid red;
51 border-width: 0 0 0 12px;
52 padding: 3px 3px 3px 8px;
53 margin: 1em 1px 1px 1px;
54 }
55 p {
56 padding: 3px 3px 3px 8px;
57 margin: 1em 1px 1px 13px;
58 }
59 h3 { color: #034; }
60 h4 { color: #034; }
61
62 img { display: block; }
63
64 .resources {
65 margin-left: 13px;
66 margin-right: 13px;
67 padding: 3px 3px 3px 8px;
68 border-spacing: 1px 2px;
69 }
70
71 .rr {
72 background: #eef;
73 padding: 1px 1em 1px 1ex;
74 }
75
76 tt.icon {
77 display: block;
78 font-family: "Andale Mono", "Lettergothic", monospace;
79 border: 1px solid #88f;
80 background: #ccf;
81 padding: 1px 1em 1px 1em;
82 margin-right: 0;
83 text-align: center;
84 width: 4en;
85 }
86
87 tt { font-family: "Andale Mono", "Lettergothic", monospace; }
88
89 .overview {
90 margin-top: 1em;
91 margin-left: 13px;
92 margin-right: 13px;
93 padding: 3px 3px 3px 8px;
94 border-spacing: 1px 2px;
95 }
96
97 .overview th { border-top: 1px dashed #aaa; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding: 0.2ex; }
98 .overview td { border-top: 1px dashed #aaa; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding: 0.2ex; }
99
100 hr.footer { display: none; }
101 .footer { font-size: 8pt; border-top: 1px solid red; }
102 </style>
103 </head>
104 <body>
105 <p class='back'><a href='/'>Schmorpforge Ta-Sa Software Repository</a></p>
106 <h1 class="$_[1]">$_[0]</h1>
107 <div style="text-align: center; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em">
108 <a href="http://www.piratenpartei.de/navigation/politik/unsere-ziele">
109 <img src="http://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/common/piratenbanner1" alt="Piratenpartei" border="0"/>
110 </a>
111 <br />
112 <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">
113 <img src="http://www.deliantra.net/images/deliantra.png" border="0" alt="Deliantra Free MMORPG" style="display: inline"/>
114 <br />
115 The free as in beer, liberal, code &amp; content retro-style graphical MMORPG :)
116 </a>
117 </div>
118 EOF
119 }
120
121 sub ftr {
122 print <<EOF;
123 <hr class='footer'/>
124 <p class='footer'>
125 Contact for this page: <a href="mailto:schmorpforge\@schmorp.de">Marc Lehmann &lt;schmorpforge\@schmorp.de&gt;</a>.
126 </p>
127 </body>
128 </html>
129 EOF
130 }
131
132 sub res_irc {
133 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>IRC</tt></td><td class='rr'>Server <tt><b><a href='http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=ba7bec4f0f493fde9b226a13c375edbd&server=irc.schmorp.de&channel=%23schmorp&noServerNotices=true&autoConnect=true'>irc.schmorp.de</a></b></tt>, channel <tt>#schmorp</tt>, users <tt>schmorp</tt> and <tt>elmex</tt> <b>(say hi and <i>wait a few minutes</i>)</b></td></tr>\n";
134 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>IRC</tt></td><td class='rr'>Server <tt><b>irc.freenode.net</b></tt>, channel <tt>#schmorp</tt>, users <tt>schmorp</tt> and <tt>elmex</tt></td></tr>\n";
135 }
136
137 $_ = <DATA>;
138 for (;defined $_;) {
139 my ($name, @args) = split /\s+/;
140
141 next unless $name;
142
143 my $desc = "";
144 $desc .= $_ while (defined ($_ = <DATA>) and !/^\S/);
145 $desc =~ s/^(.*?)\n\s*\n//s
146 or die "malformed desc in $name: $desc";
147
148 my $short = $1;
149
150 $index{$name} = "<tr><th id='$name'><a href='pkg/$name.html'>$name</a></th><td>$short</td></tr>";
151
152 open STDOUT, ">", "software.schmorp.de/pkg/$name.html"
153 or die "software.schmorp.de/pkg/$name.html: $!";
154
155 my $bg = (grep /cpan/, @args) ? "bg-perl" : "bg-ede";
156 hdr $name, $bg;
157
158 print <<EOF;
159 <h2>$name</h1>
160 <p class='short-desc'>$short</p>
161
162 <h2>Blurb</h2>
163 <p class='blurb'>$desc</p>
164 <h2>Resources</h2>
165 <table class='resources'>
166 EOF
167 if (grep /git/, @args) {
168 print <<EOF;
169 <tr><td><tt class="icon">GIT</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://git.ta-sa.org/?p=$name.git;a=summary'>Browsable GIT repository '$name'</a></li></tr>
170 <tr><td><tt class="icon">GIT</tt></td><td class='rr'>Read-only GIT checkout: <tt>&#160;git-clone http://git.ta-sa.org/$name.git</tt>
171 </td></tr>
172 <tr><td><tt class="icon">CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'>Contributor CVS access (command requires CVS version &gt;= 1.12.11):<br />
173 <tt>cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver:USER\@ruth.plan9.de/gitroot/$name.git" co -d $name master</tt>
174 </td></tr>
175 EOF
176 } else {
177 my $modules = $name;
178 $modules = "$1" if grep /modules\((.*)\)/, @args;
179
180 print <<EOF;
181 <tr><td><tt class="icon">CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://cvs.schmorp.de/$name'>Browsable CVS module '$name'</a></td></tr>
182 <tr><td><tt class="icon">CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'>Anonymous CVS:
183 <tt>&#160;cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous\@cvs.schmorp.de/schmorpforge co $modules</tt>
184
185 <small>
186
187 <!--
188 <p>The warning
189 <b>cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history file /schmorpforge/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied</b>
190 is expected and harmless, just ignore it. It simply means you have no write access to the repository.
191 </p>
192 -->
193
194 <!--
195 <p>The CVS server moved again on 2008-02-21, you can use the following
196 (untested) snippet to update your CVS checkout. Run it in the top level
197 checked out directory:</ br>
198
199 <pre>
200 find . -name CVS | xargs -I% find % -name Root |
201 xargs perl -i -pe 's%:pserver:anonymous\\\@cvs.schmorp.de:636/schmorpforge%:pserver:anonymous\\\@cvs.schmorp.de:/schmorpforge%'</pre>
202 </p>
203 -->
204
205 </small>
206
207 </td></tr>
208 EOF
209 }
210
211 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://dist.schmorp.de/$name/'>File Releases</a></td></tr>\n"
212 if grep /dist/, @args;
213 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>CPAN</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/Marc_Lehmann/'>File Releases (CPAN)</a></td></tr>\n"
214 if grep /cpan$/, @args;
215 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>CPAN</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/E/EL/ELMEX/'>File Releases (CPAN)</a></td></tr>\n"
216 if grep /cpan-elmex/, @args;
217 for (@args) {
218 if (/list\((.*)\)/) {
219 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>LIST</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/" . ($1 || $name) . "'>Mailing List '" . ($1 || $name) . "'</a></td></tr>\n";
220 }
221 }
222 res_irc;
223 print "</table>";
224
225 if (my @files = grep $_, map /(cvs-co|cvs-pod|git-pod|git-co)\((\S+)\)/ && [$1, $2], @args) {
226 print "<h2>Additional Documents</h2><table class='resources'>";
227
228 for (@files) {
229 my ($type, $arg) = @$_;
230
231 if ($type eq "cvs-co") {
232 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://cvs.schmorp.de/$name/$arg'>$arg</a></td></tr>";
233
234 } elsif ($type eq "cvs-pod") {
235 my ($file, $desc) = $arg =~ /(.*),(.*)/ ? ($1, $2) : ($arg, $arg);
236 $desc ||= "<b>Main Manual Page</b>";
237 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>POD</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/$name/$file'>$desc</a></td></tr>";
238
239 } elsif ($type eq 'git-co') {
240 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://git.ta-sa.org/$name/$arg'>$arg</a></td>";
241
242 } elsif ($type eq "git-pod") {
243 my ($file, $desc) = $arg =~ /(.*),(.*)/ ? ($1, $2) : ($arg, $arg);
244 $desc ||= "<b>Main Manual Page</b>";
245 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>POD</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://pod.tst.eu/http://git.ta-sa.org/$name/$file'>$desc</a></td></tr>";
246
247 }
248 }
249
250 print "</table>";
251 }
252
253 ftr;
254 }
255
256 open STDOUT, ">software.schmorp.de/index.html";
257
258 hdr "Project List", "bg-bluete";
259
260 print <<EOF;
261
262 <h2>About</h2>
263 <p class='blurb'>This page briefly documents the Schmorpforge Ta-Sa Software Repository and
264 lists all projects available here.</p>
265
266 <table class='resources'>
267 <tr><td><tt class='icon'>CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'>All CVS modules can be browsed <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/">here</a></td></tr>
268 <tr><td><tt class='icon'>GIT</tt></td><td class='rr'>All GIT repositories can be found <a href="http://git.ta-sa.org/">here</a></td></tr>
269 <tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'>All file releases can be found <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/">here</a> or on CPAN (for Perl modules)</td></tr>
270 <tr><td><tt class='icon'>LIST</tt></td><td class='rr'>All mailinglists can be found <a href="http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo">here</a></td></tr>
271 <!--<tr><td><tt class='icon'>WIKI</tt></td><td class='rr'>The Wiki can be found <a href="http://wiki.schmorp.de/">here</a></td></tr>-->
272 EOF
273
274 res_irc;
275
276 print <<EOF;
277 </table>
278
279 <h2>Project List</h2>
280 <table class='overview'>
281 EOF
282
283 print $index{$_} for sort { (lc $a) cmp (lc $b) } keys %index;
284
285 print "</table>";
286 ftr;
287
288 __DATA__
289 rxvt-unicode dist list(rxvt-unicode) cvs-pod(doc/rxvt.1.pod,) cvs-pod(doc/rxvt.7.pod,FAQ) cvs-pod(src/urxvt.pm,Perl) cvs-co(Changes)
290 rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt.
291
292 <p>If you have a problem, please have a look at the
293 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html">FAQ</a>
294 <em>first</em>.</p>
295
296 Its main features (many of them unique) over rxvt are:
297
298 <ul>
299 <li>Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4).</li>
300 <li>Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale,
301 rxvt-unicode will display correctly.</li>
302 <li>Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which
303 improves memory usage and startup time considerably.</li>
304 <li>Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement opportunities, such as:
305 <ul>
306 <li>Tabbed terminal support.</li>
307 <li>Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly select shell arguments, urls etc.</li>
308 <li>Selection-transformation and option popup menus.</li>
309 <li>Automatically transforming the selection once made.</li>
310 <li>Incremental scrollback buffer search.</li>
311 <li>Automatic URL-underlining and launching.</li>
312 <li>Remote pastebin, digital clock, block graphics to ascii filter and
313 whatever you like to implement for yourself.</li>
314 </ul>
315 </li>
316 <li>Crash-free. At least I try, but rxvt-unicode certainly crashes much less often than
317 rxvt and its many clones, and reproducible bugs get fixed immediately.</li>
318 <li>Completely flicker-free.</li>
319 <li>Re-wraps long lines instead of splitting or cutting them on resizes.</li>
320 <li>Full combining character support (unlike xterm :).</li>
321 <li>Multiple fonts supported at the same time: No need to choose between
322 nice japanese and ugly latin, or no japanese and nice latin characters :).</li>
323 <li>Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination.</li>
324 <li>Can easily be embedded into other applications.</li>
325 <li>All documentation accessible through manpages.</li>
326 <li>Locale-independent XIM support.</li>
327 <li>Many small improvements, such as improved and corrected terminfo, improved secondary screen modes,
328 italic and bold font support, tinting and shading.</li>
329 <li>Encapsulation of privileged operations in a separate process (improves security).</li>
330 <li>Optimised for local <i>and</i> remote connections.</li>
331 </ul>
332
333 <br />
334 And its main <em>missing</em> features (which users request but are not (yet?) implemented) are:
335
336 <ul>
337 <li>Complex script support, such as arabic or tibetian - more info is needed. (use mlterm)</li>
338 <li>Right-to-Left rendering - more info is needed. (use mlterm)</li>
339 <li>IIIMF (Intranet/Internet Input Method Framework) support. (use scim)</li>
340 </ul>
341
342 <br />
343
344 There is an IRC channel for discussion on <a
345 href='irc://irc.freenode.net/rxvt-unicode'><tt>irc.freenode.net
346 #rxvt-unicode</tt></a>.
347
348 libptytty dist list(rxvt-unicode) cvs-pod(doc/libptytty.3.pod) cvs-co(Changes)
349 libptytty is an offspring of rxvt-unicode that handles pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling
350 in mostly OS-independent ways, so it's less of a hassle for you :)
351
352 gtkbfc cvs-pod(README)
353 Gtk+ bash file chooser replacement.
354
355 <b>gtkbfc</b> is a hack that replaces the dreaded, slow and hard-to-use GTK+
356 file chooser by a rxvt-unicode window with a little script that lets you use
357 readline tab-completion to enter filenames.
358
359 Again, its a dire hack and will not work with all programs. It does work
360 for gimp, firefox, gedit at least, though.
361
362 Async-Interrupt cpan cvs-pod(Interrupt.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
363 Allow C/XS libraries to interrupt perl asynchronously.
364
365 This is a module implementing a rarely-needed, very advanced technique
366 to interrupt a running perl interpreter from another thread, or similar,
367 context, at very low overhead.
368
369 CV cpan cvs-pod(bin/cv,) cvs-co(Changes)
370 Gtk2::CV is a perl module that implements an image viewer.
371
372 It comes with its own demo app, named <tt>cv</tt>, which is loosely
373 modeled after the classic <tt>xv</tt>, although it displays images much
374 faster than the great original. Stable releases are also found on CPAN.
375
376 kgsueme cpan list(kgsueme) cvs-co(Changes)
377 This perl module is about reverse engineering the
378 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/kgsueme/doc/protocol.html">protocol</a>
379 (<a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/kgsueme/doc/protocol.xml">xml source</a>)
380 of the popular <a href="http://kgs.kiseido.com">Kiseido Go Server</a>.
381
382 It features a sample Gtk+2 client (<a
383 href="http://kgsueme.schmorp.de/screenshot.jpg">screenshot</a>), a gtp
384 and a igs interface. It mostly focuses on documenting the protocol and
385 delivering a stable reference implementation which makes it easy to write
386 your own clients, bots and so on. It also contains Gtk2 modules for
387 KGS-independent rendering of beautiful Go boards. For a introduction to
388 the game of go, look <a href="http://playgo.to/interactive/">here</a>.
389
390 Net-Knuddels cvs-pod(Net/Knuddels.pm,)
391 This perl module provides an API for group communications using the
392 <a href="http://www.knuddels.de/">www.knuddels.de</a> protocol. It is outdated
393 and only provided as reference.
394
395 This module implements the knuddels.de chat protocol. Since it was created
396 the protocol changed in unknown ways, so this module no longer works. It is
397 provided as reference, though, in case the protocol didn't change much,
398 so one can learn about the protocol.
399 It could be used to write Knuddels clients, bots and even servers
400 (although the latter doesn't make much sense, the protocol is rather
401 ugly. If you want to implement your own group communication server, use
402 IRC instead).
403
404 AnyEvent-IRC cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/IRC.pm,) git-co(Changes) git-co(samples/anyeventirccl) git-co(samples/anyeventirc) list(anyevent)
405 This module provides an alternative to the Net-IRC and Net-IRC2
406 modules. Its design rationale is offering a 100% non-blocking
407 callback-based interface, RFC-compliant parsing and a lightweight
408 approach to modularity and reusability.
409
410 Guard cpan cvs-pod(Guard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
411 This small module implements scope and object guards, that is, code blocks
412 that are executed when a scope is being exited (or an object is destroyed).
413
414 Much effort was invested into these guards behaving "sensibly" in the
415 presence of thrown exceptions, errors and other adverse conditions, as
416 well as into good performance.
417
418 Net-IRC-Server cvs-pod(Net/IRC/Server.pm,)
419 This module provides a simple API for handling the IRC Protocol
420 aiming at implementing lightweight IRC-Servers.
421
422 PApp-SQL cpan cvs-pod(SQL.pm,)
423 Absolutely easy yet fast and powerful SQL access.
424
425 This module wraps the DBI prepare/bind/execute calls into a single "sql_exec" call,
426 complete with statement caching, so you get the efficiency of prepare, the safety
427 of using placeholders and the speed of bound result values in a simple call.
428
429 Example:
430
431 <pre>
432 my $st = sql_exec \my ($id, $name),
433 "select id, name from db where name like %",
434 "pfx%";
435 while ($st->fetch) {
436 print "$id $name\n";
437 }
438 </pre>
439
440 libcoro cvs-co(README) cvs-co(coro.h)
441 This C-library implements coroutines (cooperative multitasking) in a
442 portable fashion.
443
444 As long as your system implements the <tt>ucontext</tt> (Unix) or the
445 older <tt>sigaltstack</tt> interfaces it should work out of the box, with
446 minimal configuration (it consists of only a single <tt>.h</tt> and a
447 single <tt>.c</tt> file). It is known to run on a wide variety of unix
448 systems (SunOS, IRIX, GNU/Linux, HP-UX) and also on Windows, does not use
449 any assembly language and is architecture-independent.
450
451 deliantra/server cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
452 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game server.
453
454 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
455
456 deliantra/maps cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
457 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game maps.
458
459 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
460
461 deliantra/arch cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
462 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game resources.
463
464 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
465
466 deliantra/Deliantra-Client cvs-pod(bin/deliantra,) cvs-co(Changes)
467 A modern, fullscreen client for <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a>, written using Perl
468 and leveraging only OpenGL for display and thus being easily portable.
469 See its <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/client.html">homepage</a>.
470
471 To install it, you need <a href="http://www.libsdl.org">SDL</a>, <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/">SDL_mixer</a>,
472 <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</a>, <a href="http://www.pango.org">PanGo</a> (with freetype2 and
473 cairo backends at the moment), and the BDB, AnyEvent, Pod::POM, EV and
474 <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/deliantra/Deliantra.html">Deliantra</a> perl modules.
475
476 deliantra/Deliantra
477 Perl module family for the <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game.
478
479 They can be used to read/write/cache archetypes, image packs and map files.
480 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
481
482 deliantra/gde cvs-pod(bin/gde,)
483 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> editor, written in Perl + Gtk2.
484
485 The editor for the game Deliantra, written in Perl.
486 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
487
488 deliantra
489 <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> server, archetypes, maps,
490 editor, client and support modules distribution.
491
492 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
493
494 cfmaps
495 This is a collection of scripts that I use to create the <a
496 href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> maps at <a
497 href="http://maps.deliantra.net/">maps.deliantra.net</a>.
498
499 They are not documented and somewhat specialised, but the scripts might
500 be of some use.
501
502 Faster cpan cvs-pod(Faster.pm,)
503 A perl module that makes perl run, well, faster, using a very primitive just in time compiler.
504
505 As the name implies, using this module makes your perl program run
506 faster. Actually, much slower initially, as it compiles every function
507 to C and later to a shared object, but then you can expect a performance
508 increase by 10-50%, depending on what your program does.
509
510 liblzf cvs-co(README) cvs-co(lzf.h) dist
511 LibLZF is a very small data compression library.
512
513 It consists of only two .c and two .h files and is very easy to
514 incorporate into your own programs. The compression algorithm is very,
515 very fast, yet still written in portable C. More info and the latest
516 release can be found at the <a href="http://liblzf.plan9.de">LibLZF
517 Homepage</a>.
518
519 root-tail cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
520 Full-featured program to print text directly to the X11 root window.
521
522 More info, screenshots, documentation and current releases can be found
523 at the <a href="http://root-tail.plan9.de">root-tail homepage</a>.
524
525 xcb cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
526 A fork of the unmaintained xcb (x cut buffers) program implementing better i18n.
527
528 lmainit cvs-co(NEWS)
529 A sysvinit replacement that can even be configured to be sysvinit-compliant.
530
531 See <a href="http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/lmainit.html">its homepage</a> for more info.
532
533 Algorithm-FEC cpan cvs-pod(FEC.pm,) cvs-co(README.fec) cvs-co(Changes)
534 Perl module implementing forward error correction using Vandermonde matrices
535
536 AnyEvent cpan cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent.pm,) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Intro.pod,Introduction/Tutorial) cvs-co(Changes) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Util.pm,AnyEvent::Util) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Handle.pm,AnyEvent::Handle) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Socket.pm,AnyEvent::Socket) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/DNS.pm,AnyEvent::DNS) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/EV.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::EV) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Event.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Event) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Glib.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Glib) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Tk.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Tk) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Perl.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Perl) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/Qt.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Qt) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/EventLib.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::EventLib) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/IOAsync.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/POE.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::POE) list(anyevent)
537 This module offers a simple API for I/O, timer, signal, child process
538 and completion events, independent of a specific event loop.
539
540 <p>This module allows module authors to use those events internally
541 without forcing users of the module to use a specific event loop, without
542 adding noticable overhead. Currently supported event loops are EV, Event,
543 Glib/Gtk2, Tk, Qt, Event::Lib, IO::Async and POE (and thus also WxWidgets
544 and Prima). It also comes with a very fast (see benchmarks in the main
545 manual page) Pure Perl event loop and doesn't rely on XS, which ensures
546 that your program will always run even when no C-based event loop is
547 available.</p>
548
549 <p>In addition to the event core (which might be all you need), AnyEvent
550 comes with an optional, fully asynchronous, pure-perl DNS resolver
551 library supporting UDP, TCP and EDNS0, with many utility functions to
552 "just resolve" stuff without having to instantiate even a resolver object
553 (and including an equivalent of C<getaddrinfo>).</p>
554
555 <p>The AnyEvent::Socket offers utility functions to make handling TCP
556 connections (100% non-blocking, including DNS resolution, with both IPv4
557 and IPv6) and addresses as easy as possible, to the point of making IPv6
558 completely transparent.</p>
559
560 <p>Lastly, AnyEvent::Handle offers a powerful framework for asynchronous and
561 buffered protocol handling. You can push multiple read event handlers
562 to parse your protocol and start TLS/SSL negotiation transparently (and
563 fully non-blocking) at any time, in both server and client mode.</p>
564
565 AnyEvent-FastPing cpan cvs-pod(FastPing.pm,) list(anyevent)
566 This module implements a very fast and relatively flexible
567 ping (ping as in icmp echo request).
568
569 This module allows you to quickly send ipv4 and ipv6 pings at a defined
570 rate to whole address ranges. It is fully event-driven (doesn't block
571 the perl interpreter) and can easily generate hundreds of thousands of
572 pings per second. Target specification is done by specifying one or
573 more address ranges, to which pings will be distributed according to a
574 least-load principle.
575
576 A command line utility (<tt>fastping</tt>) is included.
577
578 AnyEvent-HTTP cpan cvs-pod(HTTP.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
579 A simple and plain event based http and https client.
580
581 This module implements a simple, stateless and non-blocking HTTP
582 client. It supports GET, POST and other request methods, cookies and more,
583 all on a very low level. It can follow redirects supports proxies and
584 automatically limits the number of connections to the values specified in
585 the RFC.
586
587 It should generally be a "good client" that is enough for most HTTP
588 tasks. Simple tasks should be simple, but complex tasks should still be
589 possible as the user retains control over request and response headers.
590
591 The caller is responsible for authentication management, cookies (if
592 the simplistic implementation in this module doesn't suffice), referer
593 and other high-level protocol details for which this module offers only
594 limited support.
595
596 AnyEvent-DBI cpan cvs-pod(DBI.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
597 A relatively simple wrapper around DBI to make asynchronous
598 SQL requests.
599
600 This module implements asynchronous DBI access my forking or executing
601 separate "DBI-Server" processes and sending them requests.
602
603 It means that you can run DBI requests in parallel to other tasks.
604
605 AnyEvent-HTTPD cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/HTTPD.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
606 A simple and plain event based http web application server Perl module.
607
608 This is a very basic HTTP server that allows the user/programmer to install
609 hooks for URL paths to generate the output. It uses AnyEvent to be easily
610 embeddable into other applications. The main objective was to make it
611 easier to make simple HTTP frontends in Perl for Perl programs and Perl modules.
612
613 AnyEvent-IGS cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/IGS.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
614 A Perl module that interfaces to the International Go Server.
615
616 This module is an Anyevent-based interface to the International Go Server
617 protocol.
618
619 AnyEvent-EditText cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/EditText.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
620 A Perl module which allows editing any text via an editor in a separate process.
621
622 A utility Perl module that will start a terminal/editor for you and will
623 wait non-blocking for you to finish editing that file. Very useful to embed
624 content edititing in event based programs that have a AnyEvent compatible
625 event loop.
626
627 Array-Heap cpan cvs-pod(Heap.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
628 A Perl module that implements C++ STL-like binary heap operations.
629
630 Audio-Play-MPG123 cpan cvs-pod(MPG123.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
631 A Perl module implementing an interface to mpg123.
632
633 Compress-LZV1 cpan cvs-pod(LZV1.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
634 A Perl module implementing the LZV1 compression algorithm. See
635 <tt>Compress::LZF</tt> for a better algorithm and module.
636
637 Convert-CD cvs-pod(lib/Convert/CD.pm,) cvs-pod(bin/cvtiso,cvtiso) cvs-co(doc/) cvs-co(Changes)
638 Unfinished Perl project implementing CD image formats. Extracting ISO images
639 already works.
640
641 Convert-Scalar cpan cvs-pod(Scalar.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
642 Perl module to convert between different representations of Perl scalars.
643
644 Convert-UUlib cpan cvs-pod(UUlib.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
645 Perl interface to the uulib library (a.k.a. uudeview/uuenview), which
646 allows easy decoding of multipart mime, uuencode and a whole lot of
647 differently encoded messages. You basically throw files at it, and
648 it extracts the files in them. This module is used by the popular <a
649 href="www.amavis.org">amavis virus scanner</a>.
650
651 Coro cpan cvs-co(Changes) cvs-pod(Coro.pm,) cvs-pod(Coro/AIO.pm,Coro::AIO) cvs-pod(Coro/AnyEvent.pm,Coro::AnyEvent) cvs-pod(Coro/BDB.pm,Coro::BDB) cvs-pod(Coro/Channel.pm,Coro::Channel) cvs-pod(Coro/Debug.pm,Coro::Debug) cvs-pod(Coro/EV.pm,Coro::EV) cvs-pod(Coro/Event.pm,Coro::Event) cvs-pod(Coro/Handle.pm,Coro::Handle) cvs-pod(Coro/LWP.pm,Coro::LWP) cvs-pod(Coro/MakeMaker.pm,Coro::MakeMaker) cvs-pod(Coro/RWLock.pm,Coro::RWLock) cvs-pod(Coro/Select.pm,Coro::Select) cvs-pod(Coro/Semaphore.pm,Coro::Semaphore) cvs-pod(Coro/SemaphoreSet.pm,Coro::SemaphoreSet) cvs-pod(Coro/Signal.pm,Coro::Signal) cvs-pod(Coro/Socket.pm,Coro::Socket) cvs-pod(Coro/Specific.pm,Coro::Specific) cvs-pod(Coro/State.pm,Coro::State) cvs-pod(Coro/Storable.pm,Coro::Storable) cvs-pod(Coro/Timer.pm,Coro::Timer) cvs-pod(Coro/Util.pm,Coro::Util) list(anyevent)
652 A large Perl module family that implements cooperative multitasking in
653 Perl. It supports filehandle and event abstraction and also implements
654 continuations as well as the necessary directives to implement a slightly
655 limited call/cc in Perl.
656
657 Coro-Mysql cpan cvs-co(Changes) cvs-pod(Mysql.pm,)
658 Lets other threads run while doing mysql requests via DBD::mysql.
659
660 This perl module patches libmysqlclient/DBD::mysql at runtime to allow
661 multiple Coro-based threads to make database accesses concurrently,
662 instead of blocking the whole process.
663
664 Crypt-Twofish2 cpan cvs-pod(Twofish2.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
665 A Perl module implementing the twofish encryption algorithm in Perl. It has
666 mostly been superceded by the Crypt::Twofish module. However, it supports
667 an easy and fast CBC mode natively.
668
669 Digest-Hashcash cpan cvs-pod(Hashcash.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
670 Perl module to generate and parse <a href="http://www.hashcash.org">hashcashes</a>.
671 Follow the link to learn more. This module is currently faster than
672 the hashcash reference library.
673
674 EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-pod(../libev/ev.pod,libev-documentation) cvs-pod(EV/MakeMaker.pm) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
675 A thin wrapper around <a href="/pkg/libev.html">libev</a>, a
676 high-performance event loop. Intended as a faster and less buggy
677 replacement for the Event perl module. Efficiently supports very high
678 number of timers, scalable operating system APIs such as epoll, kqueue,
679 solaris's ports, inotify, eventfd, signalfd, child/pid watchers and much
680 more.
681
682 A <a href="http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev">mailing
683 list</a> for discussion and support is now available.
684
685 EV-ADNS cpan cvs-pod(ADNS.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
686 An asynchronous stub resolver that integrates efficiently into
687 the EV event loop. Uses adns/libadns as backend.
688
689 EV-Loop-Async cpan cvs-pod(Async.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
690 Small module that runs an EV event loop in another thread
691 and uses an Async-Interrupt object to signal new events
692 to perl.
693
694 Net-SNMP-EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
695 An adaptor that integrates the Net-SNMP Perl module into the EV event loop.
696 Loading it suffices to make background requests in EV programs.
697
698 libev cvs-co(README) cvs-pod(ev.pod) dist list(libev)
699 A full-featured and high-performance (<a
700 href="http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html">see benchmark</a>) event loop that
701 is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. It is
702 used, among others, in the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gvpe">GNU Virtual Private Ethernet</a> and
703 <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html">rxvt-unicode</a> packages, and in
704 the Deliantra MORPG Server and Client.
705
706 Features include child/pid watchers, periodic timers based on wallclock
707 (absolute) time (in addition to timers using relative timeouts), as well
708 as epoll/kqueue/event ports/inotify/eventfd/signalfd support, fast timer
709 management, time jump detection and correction, and ease-of-use.
710 <p />
711
712 It can be used as a libevent replacement using its emulation API or
713 directly embedded into your programs without the need for complex
714 configuration support. A full-featured and well-documented
715 <a href="EV.html">perl interface</a> is also available.
716 <p />
717 A <a href="http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev">mailing
718 list</a> for discussion and support is now available.
719
720 libeio dist cvs-pod(eio.pod,) cvs-co(eio.h) cvs-co(demo.c) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
721 Event-based fully asynchronous I/O library for C (used by IO::AIO).
722 Currently in BETA!
723
724 <p>Libeio is a full-featured asynchronous I/O library
725 for C, modelled in similar style and spirit as <a
726 href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html">libev</a>. Features
727 include: asynchronous read, write, open, close, stat, unlink, fdatasync,
728 mknod, readdir etc. (basically the full POSIX API). sendfile (native on
729 solaris, linux, hp-ux, freebsd, emulated everywehere else), readahead
730 (emulated where not available).</p>
731
732 <p>It is fully event-library agnostic and can easily be integrated into any
733 event-library (or used standalone, even in polling mode). It is very
734 portable and relies only on POSIX threads.</p>
735
736 <p>Its code, documentation, integration and portability quality is
737 currently below that of libev, but should soon be ready for use in
738 production environments.</p>
739
740 libspf cvs-co(README)
741 Libspf is a C library that implements the <a
742 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework"> Sender
743 Policy Framework</a>. It allows software to identify and reject forged
744 envelope-from addresses, a typical nuisance in e-mail spam. SPF is
745 defined in Experimental RFC 4408.
746
747 This is not the original home of libspf, but its author (apparently)
748 has vanished for a few years now, and this place took over as a central
749 place to collect patches and possibly make releases.
750 <p />
751 James Couzens, if you read this and want to take over, feel free to
752 contact <a href="mailto:libspf@schmorp.de">me</a>, I'd be thrilled :)
753
754 File-Rdiff cpan cvs-pod(Rdiff.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
755 A Perl module that generates remote signatures and patches files using
756 librsync: basically your interface to librsync.
757
758 EV-Glib cpan cvs-pod(Glib.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
759 This perl module embeds the default Glib mainloop into the EV event loop. This makes it
760 possible to use callbacks or modules using the Glib module (e.g. Gtk2 programs) within EV programs. Just
761 loading it suffices. See the <a href="/pkg/Glib-EV.html">Glib::EV</a> module for the reverse approach.
762
763 Glib-EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
764 This perl module patches the default libglib main loop context to use the EV module. This makes
765 it possible to use callbacks or modules using the EV module within Glib and Gtk2 programs. Just
766 loading it suffices. See the <a href="/pkg/EV-Glib.html">EV::Glib</a> module for the reverse approach.
767
768 Glib-Event cpan cvs-pod(Event.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
769 This perl module patches the default libglib main loop context to use the Event module. This makes
770 it possible to use callbacks or modules using the Event module within Glib and Gtk2 programs. Just
771 loading it suffices.
772
773 GPS
774 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-working interface to some GPS
775 devices in Perl.
776
777 Linux-DVB cpan cvs-pod(DVB.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
778 A perl module that implements a very direct interface to the Linux DVB
779 API. Also contains utility functions to decode SI data.
780
781 Devel-FindRef cpan cvs-pod(FindRef.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
782 A Perl module that tries to track down references to perl values. Can
783 be a great aid in debugging leak problems by showing where a value
784 is still being referenced.
785
786 BDB cpan cvs-pod(BDB.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
787 A Perl module implementing an interface to BerkeleyDB versions 4.4 and later.
788 Unlike the BerkeleyDB and DB_File modules, this module has a much more
789 C-like interface exposing all the features of the underlying library
790 and also executes all database changes asynchronously using a thread pool.
791
792 IO-AIO cpan cvs-pod(AIO.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
793 A Perl module that implements asynchronous I/O using pthreads. Apart
794 from AIO reading and writing, this module also allows asynchronous
795 <tt>stat</tt>, <tt>open</tt>, <tt>unlink</tt> (and more) calls,
796 which often are a substantial blocking problem. See also its (outdated)
797 brother <tt>Linux-AIO</tt>.
798
799 JSON-XS cpan cvs-pod(XS.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
800 JSON::XS implements JSON (http://www.json.org) for Perl. Unlike other
801 modules, its primary goal is to encode to syntactically correct JSON and
802 flag invalid JSON while decoding. It ensures round-trip integrity of
803 datatypes while being intuitive to use. Currently being the fastest of the
804 JSON encoders available for Perl, it supports a variety of format options,
805 such as single-line, ASCII-only or pretty-printed and can be tuned for
806 speed or memory usage. It comes with a wealth of documentation describing
807 usage and implementation details.
808
809 Games-Go-SimpleBoard cpan cvs-pod(SimpleBoard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
810 A Perl module representing a go board.
811
812 This Perl module represents a Go game. It can check for valid moves,
813 capture stones, stores move history and can represent a variety of
814 additional annotations (circles, labels, grayed-out stones etc.).
815
816 Gtk2-GoBoard cpan cvs-pod(GoBoard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
817 A Perl module implementing a go board widget.
818
819 This Perl module implements a beautiful go board (see <a
820 href="http://data.plan9.de/kgsuemel.jpg">example</a>), implemented as a
821 Gtk2 widget.
822
823 Linux-AIO cpan cvs-pod(AIO.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
824 A Perl module that implements asynchronous I/O using <tt>clone</tt>
825 on Linux. Apart from AIO reading and writing, this module also allows
826 asynchronous <tt>stat</tt>, <tt>open</tt> and <tt>close</tt> (and more)
827 calls, which often are a substantial problem. See also its (newer) brother
828 <tt>IO-AIO</tt>.
829
830 Linux-Inotify2 cpan cvs-pod(Inotify2.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
831 A better/less buggy/more portable interface to the Linux Inotify
832 subsystem then what Linux::Inotify has to offer. Inotify lets you receive
833 file change, create, move etc. events for directories in files in a more
834 scalable fashion than dnotify, the older mechanism.
835
836 Linux-NBD cpan cvs-pod(lib/Linux/NBD.pm) cvs-pod(lib/Linux/NBD/Client.pm) cvs-pod(lib/Linux/NBD/Server.pm) cvs-co(Changes)
837 A Perl module that helps implementing netblock block device servers and
838 set up NBD instances. A sample application allowing you to mount most CD
839 images is included.
840
841 Mozilla-Plugin
842 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl plug-in
843 for Mozilla (Netscape, Opera, IE...), that allows embedding Tk, Gtk etc.
844 plugins directly in the browser.
845
846 Net-FCP cpan cvs-pod(FCP.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
847 Perl module implementing the <a href="http://www.freenetproject.org">Freenet</a>
848 client protocol, including client-side Metadata handling and CHK Key generation.
849 Includes a mass downloader (similar to fuqid) as sample application.
850
851 Net-Whois-IP
852 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl module
853 that tries to find the corresponding whois entry for a given IP, by querying
854 various registries.
855
856 OpenSSL
857 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl module
858 interfacing to libssl.
859
860 PDL-Audio cpan cvs-pod(audio.pd,) cvs-co(Changes)
861 Perl module extending PDL with all sorts of audio functions for generating, analyzing,
862 loading and saving sounds. Ever so popular is the "birds" demo script :)
863
864 Tree-M cpan
865 Perl interface to the broken M-Tree library by these italian guys...
866
867 Video-Capture-V4l cpan cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
868 Full-featured interface to Video for Linux, including real-time grabbing
869 and jpeg compression, VPS etc. decoding and many sample scripts that
870 facilitate automatica sender search and detection, EPG decoding and
871 viewing and video grabbing.
872
873 XML-DB
874 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished Perl module implementing an "XML
875 database", i.e. a tree-based database, on top of a conventional SQL
876 database.
877
878 basex
879 Very old, very portable ANSI-C program that implements something
880 that is similar to yencode. yencode is more "standard", so don't use this.
881
882 dinfo
883 Undocumented and working tools to extract the data from the D-Info CD.
884
885 syncmail
886 Unfinished, undocumented and not working.
887
888 thttpd
889 A personally hacked version of thttpd, suitable for lots of file
890 transfers (normal thttpd has problems with this).
891
892 wvsniff
893 Undocumented but nicely working wavelan sniffer that I wrote for use
894 with my cisco aironet card. If you get it working, praise yourself.
895
896 ermyth cvs-pod(doc/poddoc/documentation.pod) cvs-co(Changes)
897 This is a fork of Atheme IRC Services.
898
899 Ermyth IRC Services is a set of Services for IRC networks that allows
900 users to manage their channels in a secure and efficient way and
901 allows operators to manage various things about their networks.
902 Ermyth has been ported to C++ and goes its way using modern concepts
903 and the object oriented paradigm.
904
905 dhcpping cvs-pod(dhcping.pod,)
906 A version of dhcpping enhanced by <a href="mailto:marco@nethype.de">Marco Maisenhelder</a>
907 to support passing dhcp options. Intended to test dhcp server implementations.
908
909 Object-Event cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/Object/Event.pm,) git-co(Changes)
910 A simple event callback API for Perl.
911
912 This is just a very simple event callback registration and call API
913 which new Perl classes can inherit. It's mainly used by AnyEvent::XMPP.
914
915 psycpp git
916 A project that was aimed to implement a PSYC server in C++.
917
918 This is a mostly abandoned project at the moment, however, the repository
919 contains interesting C++ code that might be useful to someone, especially
920 the C++ JSON implementation might be of interest. The project is mostly
921 dead at the moment though...
922
923 GT.M git-co(README)
924 GT.M Database
925
926 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/">GT.M</a>
927 is a a vetted, industrial strength, transaction
928 processing application platform consisting of a
929 database engine optimized for high TP throughput and
930 a compiler for the M (aka MUMPS) programming language.
931
932 fcrackzip cvs-co(fcrackzip.html)
933 <b>fcrackzip</b> is a zip password cracker, similar to fzc, zipcrack and others.
934
935 <h3>Why, the hell, another zip cracker?</h3>
936
937 Naturally, programs are born out of an actual need. The situation with
938 fcrackzip was no different... I'm not using zip very much, but recently
939 I needed a password cracker. "Sure", I thought, "there are hundreds of
940 them out there, I'll just gonna get one!". This wasn't so easy, in fact,
941 none of the zipcrackers I found were able to find the passwords, either
942 they didn't accept more than one zipfile, were awfully slow, or didn't do
943 brute force attacks (which I needed). The worst thing was: no source!.
944
945 <h3>Why is <i>no source</i> such a bad thing?</h3>
946
947 [insert big chapter about the free software spirit here ;)], anyway
948 people will never learn... You will find reasons why it's much better to
949 provide source to your programs here, at opensource.org, and here, at the
950 Free Software Foundation. Now, what are the features of fcrackzip?
951
952 <ul><li>
953 <p>FREE</p>
954
955 <p>It doesn't cost anything, it will run on many architectures, and
956 the source is freely available, so you can customise it to your
957 needs. If you make improvements, don't hesitate to mail them to me,
958 and I will include them in fcrackzip!</p>
959
960 <p>One goal of fcrackzip was to provide a free but still fast
961 zipcracker, so that other people can improve and contribute it
962 further, in an open developement style.</p>
963
964 <p>Other programs, like fzc, come not only without source, but the
965 executable is even encrypted, so improving it or customizing it is
966 difficult at best. (Maybe the programmers of other crackers don't
967 want that people see how crappy their code actually is? Nobody
968 knows for sure, but I see no other reason for this strange, but
969 common, behaviour)</p>
970
971 </li><li>
972 <p>FAST</p>
973
974 <p>On my old machine (a pentium-90), the portable C version is 12%
975 slower than fzc, the fastest cracker I could find. Small parts of
976 fcrackzip have been converted to x86 assembly, so it performs a bit
977 faster (around 4%) than fzc now, on the same hardware (note: this
978 is highly os/compiler dependent). Since the author of fzc claims
979 that it is written fully in assembler, further improvements might
980 well be possible. Incidently, on my new P-II machine, fcrackzip is
981 almost twice as fast as fzc ;)</p>
982
983 </li><li>
984 <p>PORTABLE</p>
985
986 <p>fcrackzip was written in ISO-C, and should run on most platforms,
987 even 64 bit ones (maybe after some tweaking). I'll be glad to hear
988 about portability problems so I can fix them.</p>
989
990 </li><li>
991 <p>FEATUREFUL</p>
992
993 <p>fcrackzip will, at some later stage at least, support many more
994 useful operation modes than other crackers. It already supports
995 multiple zip files with multiple files. Remember that the code is
996 only a few hours old!</p>
997
998 <p>However, since version 0.2.0 fcrackzip also includes a mode to
999 brute force cpmask'ed images, something no other program (that I
1000 know of) can do, so at least there is one feature other crackers
1001 don't have.</p>
1002
1003 <p>And you can always implement your own modes.</p>
1004
1005 </li></ul>
1006
1007 <h3>Caveat, Imperator!</h3>
1008
1009 <p>Naturally, there are also some drawbacks. At the moment, fcrackzip
1010 is a bit slower than necessary, and lacks some important (or nice)
1011 features, like automatic unzip-testing and others. On the other hand,
1012 fcrackzip-0.0.1 was hacked together in under ten hours, and you can
1013 always modify the source (and send me patches!!!) (I hope I've made it
1014 clear now ;)</p>
1015
1016 lsys cvs-co(README) cvs-co(NEWS)
1017 lsys is a program that interprets lindenmeyer-systems.
1018
1019 <p>lsys is a full-featured program that understands most of the syntax
1020 of the original l-systems language, which is far more complex and
1021 powerful than most available l-system interpreters.</p>
1022
1023 <p>See <a href="http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/lsys.html">the original homepage</a>
1024 for more explanations and some images.