Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!rlh2 From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Tools info wanted Message-ID: <5224@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 1 Aug 90 09:25:29 GMT References: <853@imsl.UUCP> Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 49 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <853@imsl.UUCP> dy@imsl.UUCP (Demetrios Yannakopoulos) writes: > I would like to know what is out there (either free or for sale) for > the following: > o debugging tool. I currently have xdbx. Is it good bad, reliable, > is there anything better? There is "ups" available from the Software Tools Group here at UKC. It costs money but it runs under X and SunView. I wouldn't leave home without it. Its a completely new graphical debugger with a built in C interpreter for conditional breakpoints, an expandable view of the current stack trace and lots of other goodies. For more details contact Mark Wheadon or myself. > o mail tool. I have xmail. Is there anything better? If you use "mh" try "xmh". Its available in the standard MIT Distribution (SMD11.4 8-) of X11R4 under mit/clients/xmh. > o TeX/LaTeX previewer. > I have xtex. Is there anything better? "xdvi" which was sent to comp.sources.x and is also on expo.lcs.mit.edu for anon ftp (I think). > o calendar/appointments tool. > DEC workstations have a nice tool but then the > Sun users have to rsh to a DEC..... Try "xcal" posted to comp.sources.x a few months ago. Check in an archive somewhere. > o emacs for X. i.e. all the key/mouse buttons bound. I have > gnu. Is there anything better? I remember something called "epoch", a multi-window emacs??? > o Is there a lock screen tool (like the one in SunView) ? "xlock" posted by Dan Heller to comp.sources.x, again probably in an archive. Richard Hesketh : @nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:rlh2@ukc.ac.uk : rlh2@ukc.ac.uk ..!mcsun!ukc!rlh2 --- Computing Lab., University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 227 764000 ext 7620/3682