Col. George Sicherman's Unix-Style Software

All packages are formatted as GNUzipped shell archives except where noted.

Utilities

  • car — auto maintenance reminder
  • chop — select columns or fields from text
  • ilint — check calling sequences in Informix-4GL
  • od — octal/hex dump
  • pnmtoico — convert portable anymap file to Windows icon
  • top — select the first part of a file
  • uuencode (in Perl)
  • Games and Uselessities

  • c4 — play Connect Four
  • dutchname — print Dutch girls' names
  • kana — learn Japanese syllabic writing (GNUzipped tar)
  • minesweeper — find the bombs
  • nobs — play cribbage (GNUzipped tar)
  • rain — rain on your terminal
  • spider — play Spider solitaire (version 1.10, GNUzipped tar)
  • xvortex — vortex on your X terminal
  • bingo — print bingo cards (C program)
  • Apocryphal Man Pages

  • miff(1) — mail notification program
  • Prize-Winning C Program

    I won the prize for Worst Abuse of the Preprocessor in the 1985 Obfuscated C Code Contest. Can you figure out how it works? (If you compile it with GCC, you must use the --traditional-cpp option.)
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