Software Available on tigger.cc.uic.edu

Tigger is an IBM Pseries/620 model 6F1 runing AIX UNIX version 4.3.3.

Any UIC faculty or staff member is eligible for an account on tigger. It can be accessed by network or dialin and it is typically used for email, newsgroups, word processing, small to medium computations, and for developing and serving personal, departmental, and class-related Web pages.

Larger compute-intensive tasks should be run on the ACCC's Beowulf cluster, argo.cc.uic.edu. Faculty, staff, and students with a faculty sponsor may use argo. See the argo home page for more information and instructions on how to open an account.

This document is a list of the software packages available on tigger, with links to information on their use, including, in most cases, their man pages.

• For more information on using the ACCC's UNIX servers, see UNIX 101: Quick Introduction to ACCC UNIX. Basic information on using UNIX is also available in that document: UNIX 101: Basic UNIX.
  
  
• For more information on using tigger and AIX, use the info command on tigger to see a full set of IBM AIX manuals online.
  
  
• tigger man pages online (UIC only)
  
  
• For more information on all aspects of UNIX (including UNIX shells, applications, and programming, and also detailed information on the GNU software packages, see Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center. (Though the University of Utah's GNU Info Tree is perhaps a better place to look for info on GNU software.)
  
  
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• 3270, IBM 3270 emulator, for remote logins to IBM VM/CMS systems
• Arc/Info geographic information system (GIS)
• acroread, X Windows reader for Adobe Acrobat .pdf files
• the elm email utilities, but not the elm email package itself
• info, InfoExplorer, online access to a full set of IBM AIX manuals (for in text mode and for X Windows)
• irc, Internet Relay Chat, a "real time" chat program
• kermit, for file transfer from Unix to a local machine attached via a modem and a terminal emulation program supporting Kermit file transfer protocols
• lynx, VT100 World Wide Web browser
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web browser
• netscape, X Windows version of the Netscape World Wide Web browser
• pgp, Pretty Good Privacy encryption system for email and files
• ph, telephone directory database client; use: ph name
• pine, easy to use mail system for sending, receiving, and managing mail; includes a newsreader and database for email addresses
• procmail, a system for filtering incoming mail
• softlist, a command on tigger to display this list of software
• tin and trn, threaded newsreader for VT100 connections, and xrn, newsreader for X Windows
• xarchie, an X Windows program to search FTP sites for publicly available files
• ytalk, a more fully featured "talk" client, replacing the standard UNIX talk command
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• bison, GNU parser generator
• c: cc, xlc and c89, IBM C compilers for AIX
• c++: xlC, IBM C++ compiler for AIX
• flex, generates lexical analyzers; a fast version of flex with more features
• FORTRAN: xlf, IBM FORTRAN 77 compiler for AIX
• gawk, GNU version of awk, UNIX's pattern scanning and processing language
• gcc and g++, GNU's integrated C and C++ compiler
• gdb, GNU source code debugger
• make, GNU version of make; much more robust than the standard make command
• Pascal: xlp, IBM Pascal compiler for AIX
• perl, interpreted programming and script language for UNIX
• rexx, Regina port of the REXX programming language
• tcl, tickle programming and script language; used with tk toolkit and xf widget manipulation for X Windows programming
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• Arc/Info geographic information system (GIS)
• b34s, full featured econometrics package with strengths in time series and non-linear modeling
• gnuplot, GNU interactive function plotter infinite precision
• octave, MATLAB clone
• gnuplot, GNU interactive function plotter infinite precision
• maple and xmaple, interactive symbolic math, calculus, graphics, infinte precision package
• minitab, the MINITAB statistical analysis system for UNIX
• speakez -e (text mode) and speakez (X Windows), interactive math package for matrix manipulation, eigenanalysis, statistics, and more
• spss, the SPSS statistical analysis system for UNIX
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• diffutils, set of GNU utilities to compare files
• emacs, GNU full featured text editor
• grep, GNU's version of grep pattern matching utility
• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• ispell, GNU spelling checker
• less, pager with more features than the standard more command
• pgp, Pretty Good Privacy encryption system for email and files
• pico, text editor used by the pine mail system; can be used as an alternate to vi
• the also known as x, UNIX clone of the CMS text editor XEDIT (and also the PC text
• xwp, X Windows version of the popular wordprocessing package, WordPerfect
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• CCSO nameserver, directory database client/server software from UIUC's CCSO, also known as ph
• diffutils, set of GNU utilities to compare files
• the elm email utilities, but not the elm email package itself
• Restore files from backups: dsmc (text mode) and dsm (X Windows), restores copies of tigger files from Computer Center overnight backups
• dsreg command to register a faculty or staff desktop machines for ADSM/Datasave backups over the ADN network. The tigger dsreg command has been replaced by a Web page: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/dsreg.pl
• grep, GNU's version of grep pattern matching utility
• GNU file compression utilities, including gzip, which produces .gz compressed files, gunzip, which unzips many types of compressed files, and more
• ispell, GNU spelling checker
• make, GNU version of make; much more robust than the standard make command
• metamail, encoder and decoder for MIME mail, used by trn newsreader
• monitor, displays snapshot of the system and its running processes
• patch, patches source files using diff output
• sed, GNU stream editor
• syncsort, faster sort utility for large files
• tar, GNU's implementation of tar, the Tape ARchiver
• tcsh, a superset of the C shell with additional features
• unzip, uncompresses zipped files; for full file compression utilities, see the GNU GZip utilities
• zsh, an interactive shell with many of the best features of ksh and csh
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• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• html_analyzer, searches html files in a directory and checks for broken links
• linklint, walks through html files, searching for broken links
• lynx, VT100 World Wide Web browser
• mapedit, tool to convert images to WWW hotmaps
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web browser
• netscape, X Windows version of the Netscape World Wide Web browser
• weblint, World Wide Web html syntax checker, patterned after lint
• Plus other Web publishing tools, including an image mapper, a Web form-to-email tool, a Web log analyzer, a search engine to use for your Web pages, security tools, a PostScript to PDF coverter, and instructions on how to use CGI scripts; see Web Publishing at UIC: Advanced Web Publishing.
• A set of commands to convert almost any type of input (including text, TIFF graphics, and troff) to PostScript; see the Distiller on the Web instruction page.

• Arc/Info geographic information system (GIS)
• gs, Ghostscript X Windows PostScript viewer
• ghostview, user interface for ghostscript X Windows PostScript viewer
• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• info, InfoExplorer, online access to a full set of IBM AIX manuals (for in text mode and for X Windows)
• maple and xmaple, interactive symbolic math, calculus, graphics, infinte precision package
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web browser
• netscape, X Windows version of the Netscape World Wide Web browser
• speakez -e (text mode) and speakez (X Windows), interactive math package for matrix manipulation, eigenanalysis, statistics, and more
• spss, the SPSS statistical analysis system for UNIX
• tk toolkit, and xf widget manipulation, both for use with tcl programming language for X Windows programs
• xarchie, an X Windows program to search FTP sites for publicly available files
• xgopher, X Windows gopher client
• xloadimage, fast X Windows image display tool
• xrn, X Windows newsreader
• xv, interactive image display for X Windows
• xwp, X Windows version of the popular wordprocessing package, WordPerfect
• x3270, IBM 3270 emulator for X Windows, for remote logins to IBM VM/CMS systems
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