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Archiving Utilities. This includes utilities for compression, ascii encoding, Binary-II encoding, and related functionality.
Communications Utilities.
Cryptography.
Daemons. These are programs which run periodically in the background, or asynchronously as required.
Documentation Utilities. These are utilities intended for viewing and maintaining documentation, and for locating other utilties.
Editors, Word Processors, and Document Viewers.
File Conversion Utilities. This includes utilities for newline conversion, entabbing and detabbing, stripping control characters, and file format translations.
File Manipulation Utilities, for copying, renaming, or deleting files, changing file attributes, and similar operations.
Games. This also includes programs that are not really games, but fall under this category in a traditional UNIX environment such as text banners, reminder programs, and sound and music players.
Graphics Programs.
GUI. Most GNO programs are intended for use with the text interface. This list includes graphics programs such as window managers and their modules.
Programming Languages. Assemblers, compilers, and interpreters.
Libraries.
Mail Readers.
Networking Utilities.
News Readers.
Patch Programs.
Personal Productivity (calculators, calendars, etc)
Programming Utilities.
Scripting Utilities.
Shells.
Sound and Music Utilities. These are programs for creating, editing, or playing music and sound files.
System Utilities. These are system interface related utilities. They include programs for logging in, directory manipulation, machine status, and job control.
System Administration Utilities.
Text Utilities. This includes search and selection utilities. They are often used in shell scripts.
Unsorted. These are utilities which have not yet been classified.

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