Dan's Software

UNIX/Linux Software

The RPMs found here which I packaged are signed with my PGP key.

• fv (ver. 1.3), a program for listing archive directories. It lets you quickly see what files are contained in an archive with the command 'fv archive-file'. It supports 91 archive file extensions from standard ones like .tar.gz and .zip to obscure ones like .rpp and .cf as well as archive-like formats like .uue and .iso. fv calls the appropriate archiving program (which must be installed on your system) for each archive type.
  • man page
  • source tarball for *NIX (8k)
  • architecture independent RPM package (rev. 1.3) (10k)
  • architecture independent RPM package for rpm 2.x (rev. 1.3) (9k)
  • source RPM package (rev. 1.3) (12k)
• fvcbm (ver. 3.0), a program for listing Commodore archive directories
  • man page
  • source code for MS-DOS & *NIX (44k)
• autospec, a program which creates Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) spec files automatically from a tar ball. This makes it easy to create your own RPMs.
  • LSM entry
  • man page
  • architecture independent RPM package (rev. 0.8) (46k)
  • architecture independent RPM package for rpm 2.x (rev. 0.8) (43k)
  • source RPM package (rev. 0.8) (48k)
  • compressed tar file (rev. 0.8) (43k)
  • Freshmeat project page
  Please note that SuSE seems to use an unrelated program called autospec in their build system. The gbuild package also includes an unrelated program called autospec.

  There are a few other programs out there that do something similar to autospec:

  • rpmbuilder
  • rpmrebuild
  • slurp
  • alien
  • checkinstall

  I'm also making Felipe Sanchez' CheckInstall package available here for download, since it includes installwatch, which can be used in conjunction with autospec to give better results with programs with complex installation scripts.

  • checkinstall glibc2 i386 binary RPM (ver. 1.5.3)
  • source code gzipped tar ball (ver. 1.5.3)
  • checkinstall glibc2 i386 binary RPM (ver. 1.4.1)
  • source code gzipped tar ball (ver. 1.4.1)
• cbmfs, an installable Linux kernel module implementing a read only Commodore 1541/1581 filesystem for Linux versions 1.1.86 through 2.0.39. David Weinehall has modified cbmfs to work with the 2.2.x series of kernels.
  • LSM entry
  • source code (rev. 0.3) (44k)
• weedu (ver. 1.0), a WeeDNS client for updating domain addresses using the WhyI dynamic DNS service. Note that it requires at least ver. 6.1 of curl. Weedu is designed for resource constrained applications like firewall boxes and therefore is very simple and has minimal dependencies.
  • source code for *NIX (3k)
  Note that the WeeDNS protocol is now deprecated by WhyI, so weedu won't be much good for long. GnuDIP (gdipc) is a simple alternative written in Perl.
• slackrpm, a program which creates Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages from Slackware packages. It can be used to upgrade a Linux system from Slackware to RedHat by converting already-installed Slackware packages to RPM format.
  • LSM entry
  • man page
  • Installation instructions
  • architecture independent RPM installation package (rev. 0.3) (29k)
  • source RPM package (rev. 0.3) (31k)
  • compressed tar file (rev. 0.3) (29k)
• mvmmessage, and mvmbiff, simple programs for use with mvm, a Minimal Voice Mail system for Linux using vgetty. mvmmessage is a simple GUI front end to mvm which allows pointing and clicking at voice messages. mvmbiff waits for voice mail to arrive and plays a sound file periodically when it does to attract attention. They require the Python interpreter with Tkinter extensions.
  • mvmmessage (rev. 1.5) (14k)
  • mvmbiff (rev. 1.1) (3k)
  
  Also available here are the RPM packages I created of mvm (authored by Marc Schaefer). Note that a newer version of mvm is available, but it has not been tested with mvmmessage.
  • mvm-1.2-1.i386.rpm (156k)
  • mvm-1.2-1.src.rpm (161k)
  
  
  I've compiled a list of voice modem chipsets that are supported by vgetty ver. 1.1.10 to help you determine if your voice modem will work (note that this list is a decade out of date and is pretty useless now).

DOS Software

• fvcbm is also available for DOS (see above).
• My update of Simple News (ver. 1.91), a USENET newsreading program for the DOS/Windows uucp MTA UUPC/extended, which is great for people who don't have full Internet access or who have to pay high per-minute long-distance phone rates to get connected.
  • an overview
  • tips for installing and using SNews ver. 1.91
  • a description of the many SNews version forks
  • executables for MS-DOS (138k)
  • executables for OS/2 (170k)
  • source code (72k)
• A new version of Simple News is currently in the testing stages and will be released eventually (I hope).
  • a preliminary list of changes to the new version
  • mail me to become a beta tester for the latest SNews
• WATBORL is a set of macros that can make porting software from Borland C to Watcom C easier. It provides translations from many Borland C console I/O and disk routines to the Watcom C equivalents to let you compile many programs without modification.
  • the WATBORL README
  • source code (5k)

Reusable Software

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Last updated 2007-06-04