ASEL Software Database

• Tex/LaTeX We have a version of TeX/LaTeX called TeTeX installed in /usr/local/tetex.
• PCFileViewer This is a program which will display many types of PC Files (e.g. Excel and Word files) under Solaris only. It can be found as /usr/local/bin/PCFileViewer.
• StarOffice StarOffice is an office suite for Unix and Windows which does a fair job of reading/writing many file formats including MSOffice and FrameMaker. It is installed in /usr/local/Office51 for Solaris only.
  How to run Staroffice:
  1. Before you can run StarOffice the first time, you must run /usr/local/Office51/bin/setup to set up StarOffice.
  2. Thereafter, you can start StarOffice by running /usr/local/Office51/soffice.
  Note: StarOffice is big and slow. Don't run it on an old computer and expect it to be useable.
• SNNS 4.2This is the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator. More information can be found on The SNNS Homepage. SNNS is installed /usr/local/snns4.2 on Solaris only.
• C compilers Several C compilers are available on the ASEL systems:
  Solaris systems
  • SUNPRO compilers The SUNPRO compiler suite is available in /usr/local/SUNWSpro. The C compiler is /usr/local/SUNWspro/bin/cc.
  • GCC GCC 2.95 is /usr/local/gnu/bin/gcc.
  • /usr/ucb/cc This compiler should NOT be used.
  IRIX systems
  • MIPSPRO compilers The MIPSPRO compiler suite is in /opt/MIPSpro and the C compiler is /opt/MIPSpro/bin/cc.
  • GCC is /usr/freeware/bin/gcc.
• Speech_Tools: The Edinburgh Speech Tools Library, installed in /usr/local/est/. This includes several useful programs to manipulate waveform files, etc.... see the manual at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/speech_tools/manual-1.2.0/.

• CVS: This is CVS, the Concurrent Version Management system. Only the client-side program is available for Windows. See The CVS Homepage for more.
• Adobe Acrobat: This is the Windows version of Acrobat Reader. Use this to view PDF files.
• Netscape Communicator: This directory contains the current version of Netscape Communicator. Just run the .exe file to install it.
• NTP:The Network Time Protocol is used to keep time in sync on computers around the world. Install this software, point it at louie.udel.edu or another Time Server, and your computer's clock will be accurate to within a few milliseconds as long as you have a network connection.
  If you need help installing this, please email the sysadmins.
• Printer Drivers: This directory contains printer drivers for some ASEL printers, making it more convienient to set up some printers to work with your PC.
• Samba: This directory is for Sysadmin use only. It contains files which are used to set up new PCs to use the ASEL Unix filesystems.
• Unix for Windows: At last! Too good to be true! :). If you install this, you will get Windows versions of some popular GNU Unix utilities, such as awk, sed, and bash.
  To install: run the full.exe program found in this directory.
• TeraTerm: This is a terminal emulation package for Windows, similar to the Windows built-in telnet program. The file ttssh14.zip contains add-on support for ssh, which is a more secure version of telnet. All ASEL users are strongly encouraged to use ssh instead of telnet.
  To install:
  1. Install TeraTermPro by opening the ttermp23.zip file and running setup.exe. When the Setup program prompts you for a directory to install in, choose C:\Program Files\TTermPro.
  2. Open the file ttssh14.zip using WinZip and extract the contents of this archive in the C:\Program Files\TTermPro directory. Instruct Windows to replace files if it asks.
• Winzip: This allows you to open, extract and create .zip archive files. It's pretty much essential, as you'll need to have it to install the other Windows software listed here.
• Rename: This will allow you to rename large groups of files by specifying patterns. You could also do this with bash, available under "Unix for Windows" above.
• Y2000: Software to test your computer for Y2K compatibility.
• Ghostview: This allows you to view Postscript and PDF files on your PC, much like ghostview in Unix.
• Quicktime4: This is a viewer for Quicktime 4 files.
• SNNS: This is the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator. More information can be found on The SNNS Homepage. It only runs under Xwindows, so you will need to have Exceed or some other XServer package installed.
  How to install SNNS:
  1. Get and install Exceed, the Windows XServer. This is available on CD from the Systems Lab.
  2. Open the .zip file with WinZip (see above for stuff about WinZip).
  3. Select All (That's CTRL-A if you like keyboard shortcuts).
  4. Extract the files to C:\Program Files\local. You'll end up with SNNS installed in C:\Program Files\local\SNNSv4.1.
  How to run SNNS
  1. Start Exceed. (Just the Xserver part called Exceed).
  2. Run C:\Program Files\local\SNNSv4.1\snns.bat
• Dr. Solomon's AntiVirus: this is antivirus software for Windows. If your computer runs Windows, you should have this installed. To install, read the directions.