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| PROGRAM | DESCRIPTION | COMMAND | FROM ROOT MENU CHOOSE | |||
| PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS | ||||||
| File manager | file management, viewing | filemgr & | DeskTop | |||
| Clock tool | digital or analog, any time zone | clocktool & | DeskTop | |||
| Calendar Mgr. | appointment/schedule book | DeskTo p | ||||
| Print tool | manage print jobs | printtool & | DeskTo p | |||
| Audiotool | play audio files (workstation only) | audiotool & | Programs | |||
| Audemo | play and record audio (runs on X terminals) | audemo & | Programs | |||
| Autool | quick audio player (runs on X terminals) | autool & | ||||
| Calculator | pushbutton calculator | |||||
| Xfontsel | view X11 fonts | xfontselect & | ||||
| xrolodex | rolodex program | xrolodex & | ||||
| xaddressbook | name and address database | xaddressbook& | ||||
| TEXT EDITING | ||||||
| CDE Text editor | text editor | dtpad & | DeskTop | |||
| textedit | text editor | textedit & | DeskTop | |||
| axe | " " | axe & | ||||
| xcoral | " " | xcoral & | ||||
| WORD PROCESSING | ||||||
| FrameMaker | word processor | maker & | ||||
| WordPerfect7.0 | word processor | wp & | ||||
| GRAPHICS | ||||||
| TGIF | easytouse drawing program | tgif & | ||||
| XFig | easytouse drawing program | xfig & | ||||
| XPaint | paintbrush program | xpaint & | ||||
| CorelDraw | drawing &graphics | coreldraw & | ||||
| CorelPaint | painting, image processing | corelpaint & | ||||
| CorelChart | color bar charts | corelchart & | ||||
| CorelMosaic | manages graphics files | corelmosaic & | ||||
| CorelShow | create presentations | corelshow & | ||||
| CorelTrace | extract vector objects from bitmap images | |||||
| xv | view files in many graphics formats can be used to convert formats |
xv & | Programs | |||
| snapshot | capture part of screen as bitmapped image | snapshot & | Programs | |||
| GhostScript | X11 Postscript Viewer | ghostview & | ||||
| Pageview | NeWS " " | pageview & (won't run on Xterminals) |
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| Imagetool | graphic & PostScript viewer | imagetool& | Programs | |||
| mpeg_play | play .mpeg movies | mpeg_play & | ||||
| Acrobat | Adobe .pdf viewer | acroread& | ||||
| xanim | animation player: FLI,FLC,IFF,GIF87a,GIR89a, DL, RLE,AVI,Quicktime, MPEG, WAV | xanim filename & | ||||
| NETWORK | ||||||
| xarchie | Search for FTP archives | xarchie & | Internet | |||
| mailtool | mailer | mailtool & | Internet | |||
| xvnews | news reader | xvnews & | Internet | |||
| xrn | " | xrn & | ||||
| xgopher | X11 version of gopher | xgopher & | ||||
| Netscape | WorldWideWeb multimedia Internet Navigator | netscape & | Internet | |||
| hotjava | WorldWideWeb multimedia Internet Navigator | hotjava & | Internet | |||
| ftptool | X11 File Transfer Protocol interface | ftptool & | Internet | |||
| STATISTICS | ||||||
| SAS | Statistical Analysis System (Type 'machines p sas' for a list of servers licensed to run sas. See the Computer Services Web page for complete info on using SAS.) |
sas & | ||||
| SPSS | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences | spss & | ||||
| BMDP | Biomedical Data Processing | bmdp & | ||||
| MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ||||||
| GDE | Genetic Data Environment most BIRCH programs can be run through GDE. | gde & | ||||
| treetool | phylogenetic tree editor | treetool & | ||||
| ospX | oligonucleotide search program | ospX & | ||||
| visa | Visual protein analysis | visa & | ||||
| acedb | mol. biol. laboratory database | acedb | ||||
| Entrez | Sophisticated database search GenBank, MEDLINE etc. | entrez & | ||||
| Cn3D | Protein 3D structure viewer | Cn3D & | ||||
| sequin | Enter and submit sequence to GenBank | sequin & | ||||
| blastcli | BLAST database searches | blastcli & | ||||
| phylo_win | distance, parsimony & ML phylogeny | phylo_win& | ||||
| ACeDB | molecular biology database | see website | ||||
| SyBase | professional database management Requires special account or client software |
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& typing '&' after any Unix command runs it in the background. This is recommended for most X11 programs.
NOTE: some programs require /usr/local/pdsoft/bin to be in your $path.
This can be set in your .login file.