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Usage, Installation and Caveat |
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filelen.c
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This little program tells you the size of a file in bytes, it is
useful in shell scripts when you don't want to parse the output
of ls or dir
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Source
Binary
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mean.c
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This small program takes an input file consisted of a list of
data, and output the average. I wrote it to process the
simulation results accumulated from multiple runs, you can
easily modify it to do other things.
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Source
Binary
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AbsExtr.pl
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This PERL script will extract the abstract from a LaTeX source
file and save it as a plain text file. It will remove all the
math delimiter $, the \command structure, and everything between
a { and } structure if they are on the same line. It also
replaces all the `` and '' with the standard ".
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Source
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asctable.c
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Yet another ASCII table generator... this one also does
key/ascii bi-directional lookup, plus the table shows control
keys. Please note that for lookup keys such as "I" and "/" which
might have special meaning for the shell, you have to use the
quote charaters to enclose it.
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Source
Binary
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filecut.c
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My own file splitting program, this one uses a fixed memory
buffer size, so there is no worry of "not sufficient amount of
memory" type of problem, modify the source code for your needs
(need cygwin1.dll).
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Source
Binary
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endian.c
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This simple program tells you whether your current system uses
little-endian or big-endian date type. It also reports the
values of a few common environment variables.
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Source
Binary
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reformat.c
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Chinese text file reformatter, use it to fit your Chinese text
file to a specific margin (margin has to be even to allow for
double-character information), useful for saving paper when
printing long electronic Chinese text.
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Source
Binary
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ttf2pcf.sh
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This is a shell script for converting Windows TrueType fonts
to UNIX PCF fonts which can be used by XWindow. It requires
ttf2bdf and bdftopcf. Please refer to my
TTF to PCF Conversion tutorial
for usage details.
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Source
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epsbb.c
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This is a small program to output the Bounding Box of a given
EPS file. Although the same task can be easily achieved by
directly looking into the EPS file, this utility could be
useful in batch processing. It has three output formats:
BoundingBox, image dimension, or the %%BoundingBox line in
the original EPS file.
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Source
Binary
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LaTeX Poster Template
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This is a template for writing posters in LaTeX, it is designed
for ECE students in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
and contains the UIUC log. I'm not the original author, and it
has been modified by many people.
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Package
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latex.sh
fixtoc.pl
rbform.tex
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This is a shell script which acts as a wrapper for LaTeX, and a
perl script which "fixes" the table-of-contents file. If you are
a UIUC ECE graduate student, this is for you :-) might save you
from going insane! rbform.tex is the latex template file for
filling out the famous Red Border Form, so you don't have to beg
a secretary to type it up for you.
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latex.sh
fixtoc.pl
rbform.tex
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choice.cpp
choice.c
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This is a small utility that acts as a replacement for the
MSDOS "choice" utility, which is missing in UNIX and Windows.
Download choice.cpp for Windows and choice.c for UNIX/cygwin.
This program is mostly useful in batch files for testing user
response.
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C++ Source
C Source
Binary
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settitle.cpp
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This tiny program sets the title for the current window for the
Windows OS. Win2K comes with its own "title" command, but
Win9x/ME doesn't. Useful for setting console window title.
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Source
Binary
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fgbg.exe
fgbg.tk
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This GUI program gives you a preview how your HTML page would look
by setting three colors: background color for the document,
background color for the text, and foreground color for the
text.
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TK Source
Win32 Binary
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