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Here are some tools I've written and other bits of information collected over time that may be of interest to folks. The tools should work on most UNIX-like systems. Some can even be used on MS-Windows using cygwin.

The Programs

An easy to use text editor. Intended to be usable with little or no instruction. Provides both a terminal (curses based) interface and native X-Windows interface (in which case the executable is called xae). Features include pop-up menus, journalling (to recover from system crash or loss of connection), cut-and-paste, multiple buffers (associated with files or not), and much more.

ee An easy to use text editor. Intended to be usable with little or no instruction. Provides a terminal (curses based) interface. Features pop-up menus. A subset of aee.

cutview Now modified to work with GNOME! Really! December 28, 2006
A history mechanism for cut-n-paste operations. Also converts transparently between selections and cutbuffer0.  In the screen shot below cutview has 5 buffers, and the buffer containing the string 'neat stuff' is locked, so that the information in that buffer is persistent and is not replaced by subsequent selections.  Buffers that are not locked are replaced in a least recently used manner each time the user selects (or cuts or copies) text.  To make the contents of a cutview the current selection so it can be pasted, the user simply needs to click on the arrow next to the buffer.  Users can also print or edit the contents of a buffer via a menu.  cutview can be compiled with OpenMotif or Lesstif.

To work with GNOME cutview now uses pull-down menus.

Here is a version of cutview statically linked with OpenMotif on Fedora Core 4. I now use this on my laptop running Fedora Core 6.

hbiff

hbiff is a mail notification tool for X11. New mail is announced by flashing the hbiff and optionally displaying information about the messages (who each message is from, the subject line, and date).

ol2ical

ol2ical is a tool to convert MS Outlook calendar e-mail messages to ical events. ol2ical handles many types of events from Outlook and has some provision for time zone differences.

There is a similar program from Michael S. Tsirkin written in Perl and it is called outlook2ical.

Tunneling

• footunnel, a script to set up a tunnel using PPP over SSH. Documentation and sample config files also included.
• cheap-vpn.sxi, a slide persentation (OpenOffice) about SSH-based VPNs
• cheap-vpn.ppt, same as above, but saved in a proprietary format.
• OpenVPN is a nice OpenSSL-based VPN tool that works for both Linux/Unix and Windows (client and server).

Some other tools

• bindiff, a simple diff tool for binary files
• calc, a simple text-based calculator
• whence, print first occurrence of a command in user's PATH
• bigyear, print a calendar with one month per page
• mail_filter, a script that works via .forward to filter e-mail. Can separate out e-mail from mailing lists, for ol2ical (above), or primitive spam filtering.
• day, a Korn shell script that provides the date given an offset from today's date. For example, 'day -o -5' will give the date 5 days ago. (On Linux you will need pdksh or other ksh emulator to use this script.)
• hless, a wrapper script that kicks off an xterm running less with the file you specify or stdin. I like xless but prefer using keyboard commands in less, so developed this simple alternative.
• setup-ssh, a simple script that will create RSA keys (if not already present) on the local and remote system and then put the appropriate public key in the authorized_keys file on each system. Requires entering the password to the remote system once then afterwards you can ssh without using passwords!

Old Stuff

• Old IETF Policy-Based Management drafts

Please send questions or feedback about this page to hugh AT mahon DOT cwx DOT net.

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