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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 title="Mach mit!" href="http://www.piratenpartei.de/navigation/politik/unsere-ziele">
109 <img src="http://res.tst.eu/denke_selbst.gif" alt="Werde Pirat!" width="468" height="60" border="0" />
110 </a>
111 <br />
112 <a href="http://www.piratenpartei.de/navigation/politik/unsere-ziele">
113 <img src="http://res.tst.eu/piraten1.png" alt="Piratenpartei" width="468" height="60" border="0" />
114 </a>
115 <br />
116 <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">
117 <img src="http://www.deliantra.net/images/deliantra.png" border="0" alt="Deliantra Free MMORPG" style="display: inline"/>
118 <br />
119 The free as in beer, liberal, code &amp; content retro-style graphical MMORPG :)
120 </a>
121 </div>
122 EOF
123 }
124
125 sub ftr {
126 print <<EOF;
127 <hr class='footer'/>
128 <p class='footer'>
129 Contact for this page: <a href="mailto:schmorpforge\@schmorp.de">Marc Lehmann &lt;schmorpforge\@schmorp.de&gt;</a>.
130 </p>
131 </body>
132 </html>
133 EOF
134 }
135
136 sub res_irc {
137 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";
138 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";
139 }
140
141 $_ = <DATA>;
142 for (;defined $_;) {
143 my ($name, @args) = split /\s+/;
144
145 next unless $name;
146
147 my $desc = "";
148 $desc .= $_ while (defined ($_ = <DATA>) and !/^\S/);
149 $desc =~ s/^(.*?)\n\s*\n//s
150 or die "malformed desc in $name: $desc";
151
152 my $short = $1;
153
154 $index{$name} = "<tr><th id='$name'><a href='pkg/$name.html'>$name</a></th><td>$short</td></tr>";
155
156 open STDOUT, ">", "software.schmorp.de/pkg/$name.html"
157 or die "software.schmorp.de/pkg/$name.html: $!";
158
159 my $bg = (grep /cpan/, @args) ? "bg-perl" : "bg-ede";
160 hdr $name, $bg;
161
162 print <<EOF;
163 <h2>$name</h1>
164 <p class='short-desc'>$short</p>
165
166 <h2>Blurb</h2>
167 <p class='blurb'>$desc</p>
168 <h2>Resources</h2>
169 <table class='resources'>
170 EOF
171 if (grep /git/, @args) {
172 print <<EOF;
173 <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>
174 <tr><td><tt class="icon">GIT</tt></td><td class='rr'>Read-only GIT checkout: <tt>&#160;git-clone http://git.ta-sa.org/$name.git</tt>
175 </td></tr>
176 <tr><td><tt class="icon">CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'>Contributor CVS access (command requires CVS version &gt;= 1.12.11):<br />
177 <tt>cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver:USER\@ruth.plan9.de/gitroot/$name.git" co -d $name master</tt>
178 </td></tr>
179 EOF
180 } else {
181 my $modules = $name;
182 $modules = "$1" if grep /modules\((.*)\)/, @args;
183
184 print <<EOF;
185 <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>
186 <tr><td><tt class="icon">CVS</tt></td><td class='rr'>Anonymous CVS:
187 <tt>&#160;cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous\@cvs.schmorp.de/schmorpforge co $modules</tt>
188
189 <small>
190
191 <!--
192 <p>The warning
193 <b>cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history file /schmorpforge/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied</b>
194 is expected and harmless, just ignore it. It simply means you have no write access to the repository.
195 </p>
196 -->
197
198 <!--
199 <p>The CVS server moved again on 2008-02-21, you can use the following
200 (untested) snippet to update your CVS checkout. Run it in the top level
201 checked out directory:</ br>
202
203 <pre>
204 find . -name CVS | xargs -I% find % -name Root |
205 xargs perl -i -pe 's%:pserver:anonymous\\\@cvs.schmorp.de:636/schmorpforge%:pserver:anonymous\\\@cvs.schmorp.de:/schmorpforge%'</pre>
206 </p>
207 -->
208
209 </small>
210
211 </td></tr>
212 EOF
213 }
214
215 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://dist.schmorp.de/$name/'>File Releases</a></td></tr>\n"
216 if grep /dist/, @args;
217 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"
218 if grep /cpan$/, @args;
219 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"
220 if grep /cpan-elmex/, @args;
221 for (@args) {
222 if (/list\((.*)\)/) {
223 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";
224 }
225 }
226 res_irc;
227 print "</table>";
228
229 if (my @files = grep $_, map /(cvs-co|cvs-pod|git-pod|git-co)\((\S+)\)/ && [$1, $2], @args) {
230 print "<h2>Additional Documents</h2><table class='resources'>";
231
232 for (@files) {
233 my ($type, $arg) = @$_;
234
235 if ($type eq "cvs-co") {
236 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://cvs.schmorp.de/$name/$arg'>$arg</a></td></tr>";
237
238 } elsif ($type eq "cvs-pod") {
239 my ($file, $desc) = $arg =~ /(.*),(.*)/ ? ($1, $2) : ($arg, $arg);
240 $desc ||= "<b>Main Manual Page</b>";
241 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>POD</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/$name/$file'>$desc</a></td></tr>";
242
243 } elsif ($type eq 'git-co') {
244 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>FILE</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://git.ta-sa.org/$name/$arg'>$arg</a></td>";
245
246 } elsif ($type eq "git-pod") {
247 my ($file, $desc) = $arg =~ /(.*),(.*)/ ? ($1, $2) : ($arg, $arg);
248 $desc ||= "<b>Main Manual Page</b>";
249 print "<tr><td><tt class='icon'>POD</tt></td><td class='rr'><a href='http://pod.tst.eu/http://git.ta-sa.org/$name/$file'>$desc</a></td></tr>";
250
251 }
252 }
253
254 print "</table>";
255 }
256
257 ftr;
258 }
259
260 open STDOUT, ">software.schmorp.de/index.html";
261
262 hdr "Project List", "bg-bluete";
263
264 print <<EOF;
265
266 <h2>About</h2>
267 <p class='blurb'>This page briefly documents the Schmorpforge Ta-Sa Software Repository and
268 lists all projects available here.</p>
269
270 <table class='resources'>
271 <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>
272 <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>
273 <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>
274 <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>
275 <!--<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>-->
276 EOF
277
278 res_irc;
279
280 print <<EOF;
281 </table>
282
283 <h2>Project List</h2>
284 <table class='overview'>
285 EOF
286
287 print $index{$_} for sort { (lc $a) cmp (lc $b) } keys %index;
288
289 print "</table>";
290 ftr;
291
292 __DATA__
293 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)
294 rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt.
295
296 <p>If you have a problem, please have a look at the
297 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html">FAQ</a>
298 <em>first</em>.</p>
299
300 Its main features (many of them unique) over rxvt are:
301
302 <ul>
303 <li>Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4).</li>
304 <li>Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale,
305 rxvt-unicode will display correctly.</li>
306 <li>Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which
307 improves memory usage and startup time considerably.</li>
308 <li>Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement opportunities, such as:
309 <ul>
310 <li>Tabbed terminal support.</li>
311 <li>Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly select shell arguments, urls etc.</li>
312 <li>Selection-transformation and option popup menus.</li>
313 <li>Automatically transforming the selection once made.</li>
314 <li>Incremental scrollback buffer search.</li>
315 <li>Automatic URL-underlining and launching.</li>
316 <li>Remote pastebin, digital clock, block graphics to ascii filter and
317 whatever you like to implement for yourself.</li>
318 </ul>
319 </li>
320 <li>Crash-free. At least I try, but rxvt-unicode certainly crashes much less often than
321 rxvt and its many clones, and reproducible bugs get fixed immediately.</li>
322 <li>Completely flicker-free.</li>
323 <li>Re-wraps long lines instead of splitting or cutting them on resizes.</li>
324 <li>Full combining character support (unlike xterm :).</li>
325 <li>Multiple fonts supported at the same time: No need to choose between
326 nice japanese and ugly latin, or no japanese and nice latin characters :).</li>
327 <li>Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination.</li>
328 <li>Can easily be embedded into other applications.</li>
329 <li>All documentation accessible through manpages.</li>
330 <li>Locale-independent XIM support.</li>
331 <li>Many small improvements, such as improved and corrected terminfo, improved secondary screen modes,
332 italic and bold font support, tinting and shading.</li>
333 <li>Encapsulation of privileged operations in a separate process (improves security).</li>
334 <li>Optimised for local <i>and</i> remote connections.</li>
335 </ul>
336
337 <br />
338 And its main <em>missing</em> features (which users request but are not (yet?) implemented) are:
339
340 <ul>
341 <li>Complex script support, such as arabic or tibetian - more info is needed. (use mlterm)</li>
342 <li>Right-to-Left rendering - more info is needed. (use mlterm)</li>
343 <li>IIIMF (Intranet/Internet Input Method Framework) support. (use scim)</li>
344 </ul>
345
346 <br />
347
348 There is an IRC channel for discussion on <a
349 href='irc://irc.freenode.net/rxvt-unicode'><tt>irc.freenode.net
350 #rxvt-unicode</tt></a>.
351
352 libptytty dist list(rxvt-unicode) cvs-pod(doc/libptytty.3.pod) cvs-co(Changes)
353 libptytty is an offspring of rxvt-unicode that handles pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling
354 in mostly OS-independent ways, so it's less of a hassle for you :)
355
356 gtkbfc cvs-pod(README)
357 Gtk+ bash file chooser replacement.
358
359 <b>gtkbfc</b> is a hack that replaces the dreaded, slow and hard-to-use GTK+
360 file chooser by a rxvt-unicode window with a little script that lets you use
361 readline tab-completion to enter filenames.
362
363 Again, its a dire hack and will not work with all programs. It does work
364 for gimp, firefox, gedit at least, though.
365
366 Async-Interrupt cpan cvs-pod(Interrupt.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
367 Allow C/XS libraries to interrupt perl asynchronously.
368
369 This is a module implementing a rarely-needed, very advanced technique
370 to interrupt a running perl interpreter from another thread, or similar,
371 context, at very low overhead.
372
373 CV cpan cvs-pod(bin/cv,) cvs-co(Changes)
374 Gtk2::CV is a perl module that implements an image viewer.
375
376 It comes with its own demo app, named <tt>cv</tt>, which is loosely
377 modeled after the classic <tt>xv</tt>, although it displays images much
378 faster than the great original. Stable releases are also found on CPAN.
379
380 kgsueme cpan list(kgsueme) cvs-co(Changes)
381 This perl module is about reverse engineering the
382 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/kgsueme/doc/protocol.html">protocol</a>
383 (<a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/kgsueme/doc/protocol.xml">xml source</a>)
384 of the popular <a href="http://kgs.kiseido.com">Kiseido Go Server</a>.
385
386 It features a sample Gtk+2 client (<a
387 href="http://kgsueme.schmorp.de/screenshot.jpg">screenshot</a>), a gtp
388 and a igs interface. It mostly focuses on documenting the protocol and
389 delivering a stable reference implementation which makes it easy to write
390 your own clients, bots and so on. It also contains Gtk2 modules for
391 KGS-independent rendering of beautiful Go boards. For a introduction to
392 the game of go, look <a href="http://playgo.to/interactive/">here</a>.
393
394 Net-Knuddels cvs-pod(Net/Knuddels.pm,)
395 This perl module provides an API for group communications using the
396 <a href="http://www.knuddels.de/">www.knuddels.de</a> protocol. It is outdated
397 and only provided as reference.
398
399 This module implements the knuddels.de chat protocol. Since it was created
400 the protocol changed in unknown ways, so this module no longer works. It is
401 provided as reference, though, in case the protocol didn't change much,
402 so one can learn about the protocol.
403 It could be used to write Knuddels clients, bots and even servers
404 (although the latter doesn't make much sense, the protocol is rather
405 ugly. If you want to implement your own group communication server, use
406 IRC instead).
407
408 AnyEvent-IRC cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/IRC.pm,) git-co(Changes) git-co(samples/anyeventirccl) git-co(samples/anyeventirc) list(anyevent)
409 This module provides an alternative to the Net-IRC and Net-IRC2
410 modules. Its design rationale is offering a 100% non-blocking
411 callback-based interface, RFC-compliant parsing and a lightweight
412 approach to modularity and reusability.
413
414 Guard cpan cvs-pod(Guard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
415 This small module implements scope and object guards, that is, code blocks
416 that are executed when a scope is being exited (or an object is destroyed).
417
418 Much effort was invested into these guards behaving "sensibly" in the
419 presence of thrown exceptions, errors and other adverse conditions, as
420 well as into good performance.
421
422 Net-IRC-Server cvs-pod(Net/IRC/Server.pm,)
423 This module provides a simple API for handling the IRC Protocol
424 aiming at implementing lightweight IRC-Servers.
425
426 PApp-SQL cpan cvs-pod(SQL.pm,)
427 Absolutely easy yet fast and powerful SQL access.
428
429 This module wraps the DBI prepare/bind/execute calls into a single "sql_exec" call,
430 complete with statement caching, so you get the efficiency of prepare, the safety
431 of using placeholders and the speed of bound result values in a simple call.
432
433 Example:
434
435 <pre>
436 my $st = sql_exec \my ($id, $name),
437 "select id, name from db where name like %",
438 "pfx%";
439 while ($st->fetch) {
440 print "$id $name\n";
441 }
442 </pre>
443
444 libcoro cvs-co(README) cvs-co(coro.h)
445 This C-library implements coroutines (cooperative multitasking) in a
446 portable fashion.
447
448 As long as your system implements the <tt>ucontext</tt> (Unix) or the
449 older <tt>sigaltstack</tt> interfaces it should work out of the box, with
450 minimal configuration (it consists of only a single <tt>.h</tt> and a
451 single <tt>.c</tt> file). It is known to run on a wide variety of unix
452 systems (SunOS, IRIX, GNU/Linux, HP-UX) and also on Windows, does not use
453 any assembly language and is architecture-independent.
454
455 deliantra/server cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
456 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game server.
457
458 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
459
460 deliantra/maps cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
461 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game maps.
462
463 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
464
465 deliantra/arch cvs-co(Changes) cvs-co(COPYING.Affero)
466 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game resources.
467
468 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
469
470 deliantra/Deliantra-Client cvs-pod(bin/deliantra,) cvs-co(Changes)
471 A modern, fullscreen client for <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a>, written using Perl
472 and leveraging only OpenGL for display and thus being easily portable.
473 See its <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/client.html">homepage</a>.
474
475 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>,
476 <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/">SDL_image</a>, <a href="http://www.pango.org">PanGo</a> (with freetype2 and
477 cairo backends at the moment), and the BDB, AnyEvent, Pod::POM, EV and
478 <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/deliantra/Deliantra.html">Deliantra</a> perl modules.
479
480 deliantra/Deliantra
481 Perl module family for the <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> game.
482
483 They can be used to read/write/cache archetypes, image packs and map files.
484 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
485
486 deliantra/gde cvs-pod(bin/gde,)
487 The <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> editor, written in Perl + Gtk2.
488
489 The editor for the game Deliantra, written in Perl.
490 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
491
492 deliantra
493 <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> server, archetypes, maps,
494 editor, client and support modules distribution.
495
496 Follow the link to <a href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> for background info.
497
498 cfmaps
499 This is a collection of scripts that I use to create the <a
500 href="http://www.deliantra.net/">Deliantra</a> maps at <a
501 href="http://maps.deliantra.net/">maps.deliantra.net</a>.
502
503 They are not documented and somewhat specialised, but the scripts might
504 be of some use.
505
506 Faster cpan cvs-pod(Faster.pm,)
507 A perl module that makes perl run, well, faster, using a very primitive just in time compiler.
508
509 As the name implies, using this module makes your perl program run
510 faster. Actually, much slower initially, as it compiles every function
511 to C and later to a shared object, but then you can expect a performance
512 increase by 10-50%, depending on what your program does.
513
514 liblzf cvs-co(README) cvs-co(lzf.h) dist
515 LibLZF is a very small data compression library.
516
517 It consists of only two .c and two .h files and is very easy to
518 incorporate into your own programs. The compression algorithm is very,
519 very fast, yet still written in portable C. More info and the latest
520 release can be found at the <a href="http://liblzf.plan9.de">LibLZF
521 Homepage</a>.
522
523 root-tail cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
524 Full-featured program to print text directly to the X11 root window.
525
526 More info, screenshots, documentation and current releases can be found
527 at the <a href="http://root-tail.plan9.de">root-tail homepage</a>.
528
529 xcb cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
530 A fork of the unmaintained xcb (x cut buffers) program implementing better i18n.
531
532 lmainit cvs-co(NEWS)
533 A sysvinit replacement that can even be configured to be sysvinit-compliant.
534
535 See <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/marc/lmainit.html">its homepage</a> for more info.
536
537 Algorithm-FEC cpan cvs-pod(FEC.pm,) cvs-co(README.fec) cvs-co(Changes)
538 Perl module implementing forward error correction using Vandermonde matrices
539
540 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/Irssi.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::Irssi) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/IOAsync.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync) cvs-pod(lib/AnyEvent/Impl/POE.pm,AnyEvent::Impl::POE) list(anyevent)
541 This module offers a simple API for I/O, timer, signal, child process
542 and completion events, independent of a specific event loop.
543
544 <p>This module allows module authors to use those events internally
545 without forcing users of the module to use a specific event loop, without
546 adding noticable overhead. Currently supported event loops are EV, Event,
547 Glib/Gtk2, Tk, Qt, Event::Lib, Irssi, IO::Async and POE (and thus also
548 WxWidgets and Prima). It also comes with a very fast (see benchmarks in
549 the main manual page) Pure Perl event loop and doesn't rely on XS, which
550 ensures that your program will always run even when no C-based event loop
551 is available.</p>
552
553 <p>In addition to the event core (which might be all you need), AnyEvent
554 comes with an optional, fully asynchronous, pure-perl DNS resolver
555 library supporting UDP, TCP and EDNS0, with many utility functions to
556 "just resolve" stuff without having to instantiate even a resolver object
557 (and including an equivalent of C<getaddrinfo>).</p>
558
559 <p>The AnyEvent::Socket offers utility functions to make handling TCP
560 connections (100% non-blocking, including DNS resolution, with both IPv4
561 and IPv6) and addresses as easy as possible, to the point of making IPv6
562 completely transparent.</p>
563
564 <p>Lastly, AnyEvent::Handle offers a powerful framework for asynchronous and
565 buffered protocol handling. You can push multiple read event handlers
566 to parse your protocol and start TLS/SSL negotiation transparently (and
567 fully non-blocking) at any time, in both server and client mode.</p>
568
569 AnyEvent-FastPing cpan cvs-pod(FastPing.pm,) list(anyevent)
570 This module implements a very fast and relatively flexible
571 ping (ping as in icmp echo request).
572
573 This module allows you to quickly send ipv4 and ipv6 pings at a defined
574 rate to whole address ranges. It is fully event-driven (doesn't block
575 the perl interpreter) and can easily generate hundreds of thousands of
576 pings per second. Target specification is done by specifying one or
577 more address ranges, to which pings will be distributed according to a
578 least-load principle.
579
580 A command line utility (<tt>fastping</tt>) is included.
581
582 AnyEvent-HTTP cpan cvs-pod(HTTP.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
583 A simple and plain event based http and https client.
584
585 This module implements a simple, stateless and non-blocking HTTP
586 client. It supports GET, POST and other request methods, cookies and more,
587 all on a very low level. It can follow redirects supports proxies and
588 automatically limits the number of connections to the values specified in
589 the RFC.
590
591 It should generally be a "good client" that is enough for most HTTP
592 tasks. Simple tasks should be simple, but complex tasks should still be
593 possible as the user retains control over request and response headers.
594
595 The caller is responsible for authentication management, cookies (if
596 the simplistic implementation in this module doesn't suffice), referer
597 and other high-level protocol details for which this module offers only
598 limited support.
599
600 AnyEvent-DBI cpan cvs-pod(DBI.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
601 A relatively simple wrapper around DBI to make asynchronous
602 SQL requests.
603
604 This module implements asynchronous DBI access my forking or executing
605 separate "DBI-Server" processes and sending them requests.
606
607 It means that you can run DBI requests in parallel to other tasks.
608
609 AnyEvent-HTTPD cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/HTTPD.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
610 A simple and plain event based http web application server Perl module.
611
612 This is a very basic HTTP server that allows the user/programmer to install
613 hooks for URL paths to generate the output. It uses AnyEvent to be easily
614 embeddable into other applications. The main objective was to make it
615 easier to make simple HTTP frontends in Perl for Perl programs and Perl modules.
616
617 AnyEvent-IGS cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/IGS.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
618 A Perl module that interfaces to the International Go Server.
619
620 This module is an Anyevent-based interface to the International Go Server
621 protocol.
622
623 AnyEvent-EditText cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/AnyEvent/EditText.pm,) git-co(Changes) list(anyevent)
624 A Perl module which allows editing any text via an editor in a separate process.
625
626 A utility Perl module that will start a terminal/editor for you and will
627 wait non-blocking for you to finish editing that file. Very useful to embed
628 content edititing in event based programs that have a AnyEvent compatible
629 event loop.
630
631 Array-Heap cpan cvs-pod(Heap.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
632 A Perl module that implements C++ STL-like binary heap operations.
633
634 Audio-Play-MPG123 cpan cvs-pod(MPG123.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
635 A Perl module implementing an interface to mpg123.
636
637 Compress-LZV1 cpan cvs-pod(LZV1.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
638 A Perl module implementing the LZV1 compression algorithm. See
639 <tt>Compress::LZF</tt> for a better algorithm and module.
640
641 Compress-LZF cpan cvs-pod(LZF.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
642 A Perl module implementing the LZF compression algorithm, and simple
643 to use data structure serialising.
644
645 Convert-CD cvs-pod(lib/Convert/CD.pm,) cvs-pod(bin/cvtiso,cvtiso) cvs-co(doc/) cvs-co(Changes)
646 Unfinished Perl project implementing CD image formats. Extracting ISO images
647 already works.
648
649 Convert-Scalar cpan cvs-pod(Scalar.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
650 Perl module to convert between different representations of Perl scalars.
651
652 Convert-UUlib cpan cvs-pod(UUlib.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
653 Perl interface to the uulib library (a.k.a. uudeview/uuenview), which
654 allows easy decoding of multipart mime, uuencode and a whole lot of
655 differently encoded messages. You basically throw files at it, and
656 it extracts the files in them. This module is used by the popular <a
657 href="www.amavis.org">amavis virus scanner</a>.
658
659 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)
660 A large Perl module family that implements cooperative multitasking in
661 Perl. It supports filehandle and event abstraction and also implements
662 continuations as well as the necessary directives to implement a slightly
663 limited call/cc in Perl.
664
665 Coro-Mysql cpan cvs-co(Changes) cvs-pod(Mysql.pm,)
666 Lets other threads run while doing mysql requests via DBD::mysql.
667
668 This perl module patches libmysqlclient/DBD::mysql at runtime to allow
669 multiple Coro-based threads to make database accesses concurrently,
670 instead of blocking the whole process.
671
672 Crypt-Twofish2 cpan cvs-pod(Twofish2.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
673 A Perl module implementing the twofish encryption algorithm in Perl. It has
674 mostly been superceded by the Crypt::Twofish module. However, it supports
675 an easy and fast CBC mode natively.
676
677 Digest-Hashcash cpan cvs-pod(Hashcash.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
678 Perl module to generate and parse <a href="http://www.hashcash.org">hashcashes</a>.
679 Follow the link to learn more. This module is currently faster than
680 the hashcash reference library.
681
682 EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-pod(../libev/ev.pod,libev-documentation) cvs-pod(EV/MakeMaker.pm) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
683 A thin wrapper around <a href="/pkg/libev.html">libev</a>, a
684 high-performance event loop. Intended as a faster and less buggy
685 replacement for the Event perl module. Efficiently supports very high
686 number of timers, scalable operating system APIs such as epoll, kqueue,
687 solaris's ports, inotify, eventfd, signalfd, child/pid watchers and much
688 more.
689
690 A <a href="http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev">mailing
691 list</a> for discussion and support is now available.
692
693 EV-ADNS cpan cvs-pod(ADNS.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
694 An asynchronous stub resolver that integrates efficiently into
695 the EV event loop. Uses adns/libadns as backend.
696
697 EV-Loop-Async cpan cvs-pod(Async.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
698 Small module that runs an EV event loop in another thread
699 and uses an Async-Interrupt object to signal new events
700 to perl.
701
702 Net-SNMP-EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
703 An adaptor that integrates the Net-SNMP Perl module into the EV event loop.
704 Loading it suffices to make background requests in EV programs.
705
706 libev cvs-co(README) cvs-pod(ev.pod) dist list(libev)
707 A full-featured and high-performance (<a
708 href="http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html">see benchmark</a>) event loop that
709 is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. It is
710 used, among others, in the <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gvpe">GNU Virtual Private Ethernet</a> and
711 <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html">rxvt-unicode</a> packages, and in
712 the Deliantra MORPG Server and Client.
713
714 Features include child/pid watchers, periodic timers based on wallclock
715 (absolute) time (in addition to timers using relative timeouts), as well
716 as epoll/kqueue/event ports/inotify/eventfd/signalfd support, fast timer
717 management, time jump detection and correction, and ease-of-use.
718 <p />
719
720 It can be used as a libevent replacement using its emulation API or
721 directly embedded into your programs without the need for complex
722 configuration support. A full-featured and well-documented
723 <a href="EV.html">perl interface</a> is also available.
724 <p />
725 A <a href="http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/libev">mailing
726 list</a> for discussion and support is now available.
727
728 libeio dist cvs-pod(eio.pod,) cvs-co(eio.h) cvs-co(demo.c) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
729 Event-based fully asynchronous I/O library for C (used by IO::AIO).
730 Currently in BETA!
731
732 <p>Libeio is a full-featured asynchronous I/O library
733 for C, modelled in similar style and spirit as <a
734 href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html">libev</a>. Features
735 include: asynchronous read, write, open, close, stat, unlink, fdatasync,
736 mknod, readdir etc. (basically the full POSIX API). sendfile (native on
737 solaris, linux, hp-ux, freebsd, emulated everywehere else), readahead
738 (emulated where not available).</p>
739
740 <p>It is fully event-library agnostic and can easily be integrated into any
741 event-library (or used standalone, even in polling mode). It is very
742 portable and relies only on POSIX threads.</p>
743
744 <p>Its code, documentation, integration and portability quality is
745 currently below that of libev, but should soon be ready for use in
746 production environments.</p>
747
748 libspf cvs-co(README)
749 Libspf is a C library that implements the <a
750 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework"> Sender
751 Policy Framework</a>. It allows software to identify and reject forged
752 envelope-from addresses, a typical nuisance in e-mail spam. SPF is
753 defined in Experimental RFC 4408.
754
755 This is not the original home of libspf, but its author (apparently)
756 has vanished for a few years now, and this place took over as a central
757 place to collect patches and possibly make releases.
758 <p />
759 James Couzens, if you read this and want to take over, feel free to
760 contact <a href="mailto:libspf@schmorp.de">me</a>, I'd be thrilled :)
761
762 File-Rdiff cpan cvs-pod(Rdiff.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
763 A Perl module that generates remote signatures and patches files using
764 librsync: basically your interface to librsync.
765
766 EV-Glib cpan cvs-pod(Glib.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
767 This perl module embeds the default Glib mainloop into the EV event loop. This makes it
768 possible to use callbacks or modules using the Glib module (e.g. Gtk2 programs) within EV programs. Just
769 loading it suffices. See the <a href="/pkg/Glib-EV.html">Glib::EV</a> module for the reverse approach.
770
771 Glib-EV cpan cvs-pod(EV.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
772 This perl module patches the default libglib main loop context to use the EV module. This makes
773 it possible to use callbacks or modules using the EV module within Glib and Gtk2 programs. Just
774 loading it suffices. See the <a href="/pkg/EV-Glib.html">EV::Glib</a> module for the reverse approach.
775
776 Glib-Event cpan cvs-pod(Event.pm,) cvs-co(Changes) list(libev)
777 This perl module patches the default libglib main loop context to use the Event module. This makes
778 it possible to use callbacks or modules using the Event module within Glib and Gtk2 programs. Just
779 loading it suffices.
780
781 GPS
782 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-working interface to some GPS
783 devices in Perl.
784
785 Linux-DVB cpan cvs-pod(DVB.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
786 A perl module that implements a very direct interface to the Linux DVB
787 API. Also contains utility functions to decode SI data.
788
789 Devel-FindRef cpan cvs-pod(FindRef.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
790 A Perl module that tries to track down references to perl values. Can
791 be a great aid in debugging leak problems by showing where a value
792 is still being referenced.
793
794 BDB cpan cvs-pod(BDB.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
795 A Perl module implementing an interface to BerkeleyDB versions 4.4 and later.
796 Unlike the BerkeleyDB and DB_File modules, this module has a much more
797 C-like interface exposing all the features of the underlying library
798 and also executes all database changes asynchronously using a thread pool.
799
800 IO-AIO cpan cvs-pod(AIO.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
801 A Perl module that implements asynchronous I/O using pthreads. Apart
802 from AIO reading and writing, this module also allows asynchronous
803 <tt>stat</tt>, <tt>open</tt>, <tt>unlink</tt> (and more) calls,
804 which often are a substantial blocking problem. See also its (outdated)
805 brother <tt>Linux-AIO</tt>.
806
807 JSON-XS cpan cvs-pod(XS.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
808 JSON::XS implements JSON (http://www.json.org) for Perl. Unlike other
809 modules, its primary goal is to encode to syntactically correct JSON and
810 flag invalid JSON while decoding. It ensures round-trip integrity of
811 datatypes while being intuitive to use. Currently being the fastest of the
812 JSON encoders available for Perl, it supports a variety of format options,
813 such as single-line, ASCII-only or pretty-printed and can be tuned for
814 speed or memory usage. It comes with a wealth of documentation describing
815 usage and implementation details.
816
817 Games-Go-SimpleBoard cpan cvs-pod(SimpleBoard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
818 A Perl module representing a go board.
819
820 This Perl module represents a Go game. It can check for valid moves,
821 capture stones, stores move history and can represent a variety of
822 additional annotations (circles, labels, grayed-out stones etc.).
823
824 Gtk2-GoBoard cpan cvs-pod(GoBoard.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
825 A Perl module implementing a go board widget.
826
827 This Perl module implements a beautiful go board (see <a
828 href="http://data.plan9.de/kgsuemel.jpg">example</a>), implemented as a
829 Gtk2 widget.
830
831 Linux-AIO cpan cvs-pod(AIO.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
832 A Perl module that implements asynchronous I/O using <tt>clone</tt>
833 on Linux. Apart from AIO reading and writing, this module also allows
834 asynchronous <tt>stat</tt>, <tt>open</tt> and <tt>close</tt> (and more)
835 calls, which often are a substantial problem. See also its (newer) brother
836 <tt>IO-AIO</tt>.
837
838 Linux-Inotify2 cpan cvs-pod(Inotify2.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
839 A better/less buggy/more portable interface to the Linux Inotify
840 subsystem then what Linux::Inotify has to offer. Inotify lets you receive
841 file change, create, move etc. events for directories in files in a more
842 scalable fashion than dnotify, the older mechanism.
843
844 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)
845 A Perl module that helps implementing netblock block device servers and
846 set up NBD instances. A sample application allowing you to mount most CD
847 images is included.
848
849 Mozilla-Plugin
850 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl plug-in
851 for Mozilla (Netscape, Opera, IE...), that allows embedding Tk, Gtk etc.
852 plugins directly in the browser.
853
854 Net-FCP cpan cvs-pod(FCP.pm,) cvs-co(Changes)
855 Perl module implementing the <a href="http://www.freenetproject.org">Freenet</a>
856 client protocol, including client-side Metadata handling and CHK Key generation.
857 Includes a mass downloader (similar to fuqid) as sample application.
858
859 Net-Whois-IP
860 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl module
861 that tries to find the corresponding whois entry for a given IP, by querying
862 various registries.
863
864 OpenSSL
865 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished-but-somewhat-working Perl module
866 interfacing to libssl.
867
868 PDL-Audio cpan cvs-pod(audio.pd,) cvs-co(Changes)
869 Perl module extending PDL with all sorts of audio functions for generating, analyzing,
870 loading and saving sounds. Ever so popular is the "birds" demo script :)
871
872 Tree-M cpan
873 Perl interface to the broken M-Tree library by these italian guys...
874
875 Video-Capture-V4l cpan cvs-co(README) cvs-co(Changes)
876 Full-featured interface to Video for Linux, including real-time grabbing
877 and jpeg compression, VPS etc. decoding and many sample scripts that
878 facilitate automatica sender search and detection, EPG decoding and
879 viewing and video grabbing.
880
881 XML-DB
882 Undocumented, unreleased and unfinished Perl module implementing an "XML
883 database", i.e. a tree-based database, on top of a conventional SQL
884 database.
885
886 basex
887 Very old, very portable ANSI-C program that implements something
888 that is similar to yencode. yencode is more "standard", so don't use this.
889
890 dinfo
891 Undocumented and working tools to extract the data from the D-Info CD.
892
893 syncmail
894 Unfinished, undocumented and not working.
895
896 thttpd
897 A personally hacked version of thttpd, suitable for lots of file
898 transfers (normal thttpd has problems with this).
899
900 wvsniff
901 Undocumented but nicely working wavelan sniffer that I wrote for use
902 with my cisco aironet card. If you get it working, praise yourself.
903
904 ermyth cvs-pod(doc/poddoc/documentation.pod) cvs-co(Changes)
905 This is a fork of Atheme IRC Services.
906
907 Ermyth IRC Services is a set of Services for IRC networks that allows
908 users to manage their channels in a secure and efficient way and
909 allows operators to manage various things about their networks.
910 Ermyth has been ported to C++ and goes its way using modern concepts
911 and the object oriented paradigm.
912
913 dhcpping cvs-pod(dhcping.pod,)
914 A version of dhcpping enhanced by <a href="mailto:marco@nethype.de">Marco Maisenhelder</a>
915 to support passing dhcp options. Intended to test dhcp server implementations.
916
917 Object-Event cpan-elmex git-pod(lib/Object/Event.pm,) git-co(Changes)
918 A simple event callback API for Perl.
919
920 This is just a very simple event callback registration and call API
921 which new Perl classes can inherit. It's mainly used by AnyEvent::XMPP.
922
923 psycpp git
924 A project that was aimed to implement a PSYC server in C++.
925
926 This is a mostly abandoned project at the moment, however, the repository
927 contains interesting C++ code that might be useful to someone, especially
928 the C++ JSON implementation might be of interest. The project is mostly
929 dead at the moment though...
930
931 GT.M git-co(README)
932 GT.M Database
933
934 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/">GT.M</a>
935 is a a vetted, industrial strength, transaction
936 processing application platform consisting of a
937 database engine optimized for high TP throughput and
938 a compiler for the M (aka MUMPS) programming language.
939
940 fcrackzip cvs-co(fcrackzip.html)
941 <b>fcrackzip</b> is a zip password cracker, similar to fzc, zipcrack and others.
942
943 <h3>Why, the hell, another zip cracker?</h3>
944
945 Naturally, programs are born out of an actual need. The situation with
946 fcrackzip was no different... I'm not using zip very much, but recently
947 I needed a password cracker. "Sure", I thought, "there are hundreds of
948 them out there, I'll just gonna get one!". This wasn't so easy, in fact,
949 none of the zipcrackers I found were able to find the passwords, either
950 they didn't accept more than one zipfile, were awfully slow, or didn't do
951 brute force attacks (which I needed). The worst thing was: no source!.
952
953 <h3>Why is <i>no source</i> such a bad thing?</h3>
954
955 [insert big chapter about the free software spirit here ;)], anyway
956 people will never learn... You will find reasons why it's much better to
957 provide source to your programs here, at opensource.org, and here, at the
958 Free Software Foundation. Now, what are the features of fcrackzip?
959
960 <ul><li>
961 <p>FREE</p>
962
963 <p>It doesn't cost anything, it will run on many architectures, and
964 the source is freely available, so you can customise it to your
965 needs. If you make improvements, don't hesitate to mail them to me,
966 and I will include them in fcrackzip!</p>
967
968 <p>One goal of fcrackzip was to provide a free but still fast
969 zipcracker, so that other people can improve and contribute it
970 further, in an open developement style.</p>
971
972 <p>Other programs, like fzc, come not only without source, but the
973 executable is even encrypted, so improving it or customizing it is
974 difficult at best. (Maybe the programmers of other crackers don't
975 want that people see how crappy their code actually is? Nobody
976 knows for sure, but I see no other reason for this strange, but
977 common, behaviour)</p>
978
979 </li><li>
980 <p>FAST</p>
981
982 <p>On my old machine (a pentium-90), the portable C version is 12%
983 slower than fzc, the fastest cracker I could find. Small parts of
984 fcrackzip have been converted to x86 assembly, so it performs a bit
985 faster (around 4%) than fzc now, on the same hardware (note: this
986 is highly os/compiler dependent). Since the author of fzc claims
987 that it is written fully in assembler, further improvements might
988 well be possible. Incidently, on my new P-II machine, fcrackzip is
989 almost twice as fast as fzc ;)</p>
990
991 </li><li>
992 <p>PORTABLE</p>
993
994 <p>fcrackzip was written in ISO-C, and should run on most platforms,
995 even 64 bit ones (maybe after some tweaking). I'll be glad to hear
996 about portability problems so I can fix them.</p>
997
998 </li><li>
999 <p>FEATUREFUL</p>
1000
1001 <p>fcrackzip will, at some later stage at least, support many more
1002 useful operation modes than other crackers. It already supports
1003 multiple zip files with multiple files. Remember that the code is
1004 only a few hours old!</p>
1005
1006 <p>However, since version 0.2.0 fcrackzip also includes a mode to
1007 brute force cpmask'ed images, something no other program (that I
1008 know of) can do, so at least there is one feature other crackers
1009 don't have.</p>
1010
1011 <p>And you can always implement your own modes.</p>
1012
1013 </li></ul>
1014
1015 <h3>Caveat, Imperator!</h3>
1016
1017 <p>Naturally, there are also some drawbacks. At the moment, fcrackzip
1018 is a bit slower than necessary, and lacks some important (or nice)
1019 features, like automatic unzip-testing and others. On the other hand,
1020 fcrackzip-0.0.1 was hacked together in under ten hours, and you can
1021 always modify the source (and send me patches!!!) (I hope I've made it
1022 clear now ;)</p>
1023
1024 lsys cvs-co(README) cvs-co(NEWS)
1025 lsys is a program that interprets lindenmeyer-systems.
1026
1027 <p>lsys is a full-featured program that understands most of the syntax
1028 of the original l-systems language, which is far more complex and
1029 powerful than most available l-system interpreters.</p>
1030
1031 <p>See <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/marc/lsys.html">the original homepage</a>
1032 for more explanations and some images.