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- 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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