# Viewing Current Entries

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By Category:
  - Archiving Utilities. This includes utilities for compression, ascii encoding, Binary-II encoding, and related functionality.
  - Communications Utilities.
  - 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.
  - 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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