X11 SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON UNIX


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)
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

& 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.

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