These are descriptions of the packages in the Slackware contrib directory: aps-23: * Apsfilter-2.3 aps-23: aps-23: Andreas Klemm's Apsfilter-2.3. aps-2 is an lineprinter input filter aps-23: for Unix Systems with Berkeley alike printing system (configuration aps-23: using /etc/printcap). Main features are AUTOMATIC FILE TYPE aps-23: RECOGNITION for the filetypes: * ASCII * DATA * POSTSCRIPT * DVI * aps-23: aps-23: aps-23: aps-23: aps-23: auis63L2-mail: * Andrew User Interface System - Mail System auis63L2-mail: auis63L2-mail: This package is aimed at those needing A BETTER MAIL INTERFACE auis63L2-mail: and those interested in a MULTI-MEDIA (MIME) MAIL INTERFACE auis63L2-mail: auis63L2-mail: REQUIREMENTS: auis63L2-mail: YOU MUST HAVE INSTALLED AUIS63L2-WP.TGZ FIRST. auis63L2-mail: /bin/csh (e.g. ln -sf /bin/tcsh /bin/csh) auis63L2-mail: X Window System auis63L2-mail: A WORKING MAIL SYSTEM (using mail/elm or whatever). auis63L2-mail: auis63L2-src: * Andrew User Interface System - For the Programmer auis63L2-src: auis63L2-src: This package is aimed at the SOURCE CODE DEVELOPER. auis63L2-src: auis63L2-src: REQUIREMENTS: auis63L2-src: YOU MUST HAVE INSTALLED AUIS63L2-WP.TGZ FIRST. auis63L2-src: /bin/csh (e.g. ln -sf /bin/tcsh /bin/csh) auis63L2-src: X Window System auis63L2-src: auis63L2-src: auis63L2-src: auis63L2-wp: * Andrew User Interface System - Word Processing auis63L2-wp: auis63L2-wp: This package is aimed at the WORD PROCESSING audience. auis63L2-wp: auis63L2-wp: ALSO REQUIRES: auis63L2-wp: /bin/csh (e.g. ln -sf /bin/tcsh /bin/csh) auis63L2-wp: X Window System auis63L2-wp: auis63L2-wp: auis63L2-wp: auis63L2-wp: dosemu.53p28: * An MSDOS emulator. dosemu.53p28: dosemu.53p28: This package allows you to run MS-DOS under Linux by setting up dosemu.53p28: a virtual machine (DOS box) capable of servicing BIOS calls and dosemu.53p28: other requirements of DOS while Linux continues to run in dosemu.53p28: protected mode. It runs most MS-DOS software that doesn't require dosemu.53p28: DOS extenders, etc, including Windows 3.0 in real mode. dosemu.53p28: dosemu.53p28: Configuration instructions are placed in /usr/doc/dosemu. dosemu.53p28: dosemu.53p28: gcl: * GNU common lisp 1.0 gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gcl: gpc-2.5.8: * GNU Pascal compiler. gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: Based on the GCC 2.5.8 compiler. gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: gpc-2.5.8: httpd: * NCSA httpd Web server. httpd: httpd: This is NCSA's public domain HTTP server. It allows your machine to httpd: act as a server for World Wide Web clients such as Mosiac, Lynx, and httpd: Netscape. httpd: httpd: This server was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing httpd: Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. httpd: httpd: httpd: ircII+term: * ircII2.3.17+tv1.1 with term support ircII+term: ircII+term: This is a version of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for the systems ircII+term: running TERM 2.x.x. It also includes voice support and other ircII+term: extra features. ircII+term: ircII+term: ircII+term: ircII+term: ircII+term: ircII+term: ircII: * ircII2.3.17+tv1.1 for TCP/IP ircII: ircII: This is a version of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for the systems ircII: with direct TCP/IP access (including SLIP/PPP). It also includes ircII: voice support and other extra features. ircII: ircII: ircII: ircII: ircII: ircII: lemacs-X11R6: * Lucid Emacs version 19.10 lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: This is a version of Emacs enhanced to work under X. This lemacs-X11R6: version has been linked with the shared libraries from XFree86 lemacs-X11R6: 3.1 (X11R6). lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: lemacs-X11R6: manpagesrc: * groff source for manpages manpagesrc: manpagesrc: This package contains the groff source for the manpages used in manpagesrc: Slackware, and is useful for creating hard copy of the manpages. manpagesrc: Why this is preferable to 'man', well.... I really don't know. manpagesrc: manpagesrc: manpagesrc: manpagesrc: manpagesrc: manpagesrc: nvi: * nvi - 'vi' clone. nvi: nvi: Version 1.34 of nex/nvi, a freely redistributable replacement for the nvi: Berkeley ex and vi text editors. nvi: nvi: nvi: nvi: nvi: nvi: nvi: samba-1.8.05: * Samba 1.8.05 samba-1.8.05: samba-1.8.05: Samba is a Unix based SMB file server. This allows a Unix host to samba-1.8.05: act as a file and print server for SMB clients. This includes samba-1.8.05: Lan-Manager compatible clients such as LanManager for DOS, Windows samba-1.8.05: for Workgroups, Windows NT, OS/2, Pathworks and many more. If you samba-1.8.05: have any PCs running SMB clients, such as a PC running Windows for samba-1.8.05: Workgroups, then you can mount file space or printers from a Linux samba-1.8.05: host, so that directories, files and printers on the Linux host samba-1.8.05: are available on the PC. samba-1.8.05: xgrabsc: * A screengrabber for X. xgrabsc: xgrabsc: Xgrabsc and xgrab allow you do take PostScript shapshots of individual xgrabsc: X clients, regions of the X screen, or the entire screen. xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: xgrabsc: