alex@otter.acslab.umbc.edu (Alex S. Crain) (03/18/90)
some monthes ago, someone posted a list of lisp sources available via ftp. I've lost the list, but I remember that it was quite large, containing many things from generic common lisp to explorer specific code. Unfortunately, I've lost the original posting, so: Is there an archive of this newsgroup anywhere? does this posting sound familiar? could somebody mail me a copy? Thanx for any pointers. ################################# :alex. #Disclamer: Anyone who agrees # University of Maryland Baltimore County #with me deserves what they get.# alex@umbc3.umbc.edu #################################
alex@otter.acslab.umbc.edu (Alex S. Crain) (03/22/90)
My, my. Mondo responses on this one, I wish all my queries were so so fruitful. Most of the responses were "please forward an info ...", so here it is: Arun Welch offers: > The two that I know of are rascal.ics.utexas.edu and > tut Which is nice, but the award goes to Jamie Zawinski <jwz@teak.berkeley.edu>, who replied with: > That was me. FTP to spice.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.254.139), log in as "anonymous", > any password, cd to /usr/jwz/public/ (in one step, /usr/jwz/ and /usr/ are > not accessible) and get the file "_readme.text". > .cis.ohio-state.edu. Tut's mostly got Interlisp/Xerox Medley stuff. I did, let me tell you, christmas came early this year! here's the _readme.text file, ftp & enjoy. -*- Mode:Text -*- This file has short descriptions of the files in this directory. Most of the files have better descriptions in comments at the top. In the following list, if a file names are preceded by special chars indicating their portability: * means portable Common Lisp; + means enough of the code is portable Common Lisp to be runnable in any Lisp, but contains TI Explorer dependencies, usually graphics or a wizzy user interface. These parts are (usually) easy to reimplement, and if you do so, you should send the code to me so nobody else will need to. - means the code is Explorer specific, and you probably can't run it without hacking on it, but it would be easy or medium-easy to port to a new implementation. (And if you do so...) <space> means it's really really Explorer specific. It might be of use on a Symbolics, but who knows. For other implementations there's really no point, unless you just want to read it or something. If a file is also preceded by a ! then I think it is way cool and everybody should use it all the time. (Just trying to help you prune your search...) The file _recent-changes.text describes recent additions and modifications to this archive. If you have any useful or interesting Lisp code that you would like me to add to this archive, send mail to jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu or jwz@teak.berkeley.edu. Since most of this code was developed on TI Explorers, and since the Explorer editor (Zmacs) supports multiple fonts, some of the source code contains font-change information, which will make the code unreadable on non-Explorer Lisps. If you have this problem, use the code in "strip-explorer-fonts.lisp" to remove the font-change codes. If you find things in this archive useful, send me your name and I will add you to a mailing list announcing new and wonderful things that arrive. - ANDREW-DATASTREAM Code to read and display multimedia bulletin boards in the CMU Andrew datastream format. The bboard- reader part of this isn't quite finished yet, but the parser/displayer works pretty well. APROPOS-PROPERTY Defines a function for finding symbols with a given property (or with properties whose names match a given pattern). * AUDIO-TAPE Code for generating PostScript to print tape labels. - AUDIO-TAPE-INTERFACE A friendly ZMACS interface to the above code. See AUDIO-TAPE.TEXT for documentation. BIBTEX-MODE A ZMACS major mode for editing BibTeX bibliography databases. By Kenneth Traub. BIFF Puts a little mailbox icon in your wholine. The little flag will go up when you have mail. Requires the file BIFF-FONT.XLD in this directory. * BIG-DICTIONARY.TXT An ISpell-format dictionary for use with the spelling checker in the PUBLIC; directory. I created this dictionary by merging the dictionary from CSC.TI.COM with two others I found at CMU. It has about 60,000 words, I think. * BIG-DICTIONARY.TXT.Z A compressed version of the above, which may or may not be more convenient for you to transfer. BIT-ARRAY-EDITOR A more recent version of the bit array editor from the PUBLIC; directory. By Clint Hyde. ! BOLD-LOCK Code for using the Bold Lock and Italic Lock keys on the Explorer keyboard. This defines a Zmacs minor- mode, "Bold-Lock Mode", which automatically changes the current font to correspond to the state of the keys. See the file BOLD-LOCK.TEXT for documentation. (This code is FAR superior to the code in the file SYS:PUBLIC;FONT-LOCK-KEYS.LISP from TI release 6! It "knows" that hl12b is the bold version of hl12, instead of always using font #n for bold, etc) BREAKOUT The Atari game. Works in color or monochrome. - CHANGELOG Code for automating the changelog process - it defines a ZMACS command, COM-INSERT-CHANGELOG, which moves the cursor to the end of the current buffer's changelog, and inserts the current date and user ID. END moves the cursor back to its original position. CHOOSE-COLOR Redefines the Profile color requester menu to display the colors on the menu, along with their names. CLEAR-RINGS Clear the output history, command history, and kill rings to free up memory. By David Forster. COLORBARS Displays standard video colorbars on a color monitor. COMPARE-WINDOWS Zmacs command like the GNU command. By David Forster. COMPILE-MACRO-CALLERS Compile all callers in the current buffer of a prompted-for macro. COMPRESS Paul Fuqua's port of the Unix 'compress' program. - COMPRESS-POSTSCRIPT Code that converts a bitmap to PostScript, compressing the encoded data using run-length encoding. This makes it print much faster. The PostScript half is portable, the Lisp half is Lispm specific. * CONX Given a body of text, this code will collect a word- occurance histogram and generate random sentences. Better than Zippy! Written by Skef Wholey. DESCRIBE-DEFSTRUCT-DIFF Given two structs of the same type, points out the differing slots. By David Forster. ! DESCRIBE-SYMBOL Alters DESCRIBE so that it doesn't say so much about NIL, and so that describing a symbol which names a DEFSTRUCT describes that kind of structure. + DICTIONARY-CLIENT Code for talking to the Webster's Dictionary server on pasteur.berkeley.edu. Defines Zmacs commands that will give you the dictionary definition of any word; bold words in the def are mousable, and clicking on them gives you their definitions. Mostly portable. + DICTIONARY-CLIENT-MIT Same idea as DICTIONARY-CLIENT, but this one works with the Webster protocol used by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu. By John Nguyen. !- DOMAIN-STUBS/ This directory contains a Domain Stub Resolver for the explorer, written by Bjorn Victor. With this, you don't need to have every host you ever want to contact in your network namespace - if there is a reference to an unknown host, an Arpa nameserver is contacted, and a namespace entry is built for that host (including exported services, system type, etc). Very cool. Don't forget to get the subdirectories of this as well. EDIT-NEWSRC For use with the code in the NEWS/ directory - lets you edit your list of newsgroups like Edit Buffers. ! EDIT-PRINT-QUEUE Extends the PEEK utility to have an Edit Print Queue command, which allows the user to alter the state of the print queue on the local machine or a remote print server. Must be loaded on both machines. The remote-machine part of this code depends on the file PRINTER-REQUESTS-PATCH.LISP, also in this directory. EPSILONS The Zmacs code for writing diagram lines to files is severely broken. This is the fix. EVALSERVER Defines a server which allows evaluation of arbitrary forms on a remote machine. Returns the result. FGREP Searches for a string in a file. Can show the line with that string, or the paragraph. Case-sensitive, no pattern matching. ! FINGER Patches the finger daemon to print out more information, which is obtained from the namespace. So if someone fingers "foo@explorer" and "foo" isn't logged in to "explorer", the person calling finger will still be told "foo"'s real name, office number, etc. If there is a file called "explorer:foo;plan.text", that file will be dumped. This pathname can be overridden on a user-by-user basis. Also does phonetic matching, so misspelled names still work. - FIREWORKS-JWZ A simple fireworks simulation. Works as a screensaver. - FIREWORKS-PEZARIS A different fireworks simulation. Both of these are different from the one in the SYS:PUBLIC; directory. FONT-BITMAPS Given a bitmap and a rectangle in it, store that image into some character of a font (creating or adjusting the font as necessary). Useful for creating replacements for the TI-LOGO font. FONTS/ This directory contains TI versions of most of the fonts distributed with X11r3; these fonts were created with the code in READ-BDF-FONT.LISP in this directory. There are four compressed "tar" archives here; uncompress them with the Unix "uncompress" program, and then extract the XLD files from each of them with tar, as in "tar -vxf <filename.tar>" _README.TEXT: Long listing of tar file contents. FONTS-ADOBE.TAR.Z: Times, Helvetica, Courier, Schoolbook, Symbol, and Charter in 8,10,14,18,24. FONTS-ANDY.TAR.Z: The Andrew fonts. FONTS-MAC.TAR.Z: Fonts from Bmug and Info-Mac. FONTS-X.TAR.Z: X10 fonts: cursor, xtrek, 8x13, etc. The Adobe and X fonts are the same as the fonts which are present in the SYS:X11M.FONTS.75DPI; directory of TI release 6, but the names are different, and they don't have lots of X-server info on their plists. GENERATE-ETC-HOSTS Code to generate a UNIX /etc/hosts or /usr/lib/aliases file from an Explorer namespace. Also code to show the machines in the Explorer namespace sorted by IP or CHAOS addresses, or alphabetically. - GREP Searches for files containing given strings. Doesn't do regexp comparisons, though; it uses the and/or syntax that APROPOS uses. - GREYNETIC Draws random grey (or color!) rectangles on the screen or a window. Very fast. - HELIX A neat graphics hack by John Nguyen. Screensaver. - HOPALONG Draws pretty fractal patterns. Uses color if available. - HYPERCUBE Spins a hypercube under keyboard control. Color. Works as a screensaver. * IFF/ This directory contains code for reading and displaying Amiga picture files, playing Amiga sound files, reading Sculpt-Animate 3D files, and displaying scaled fonts which are stored in the SA3D format. See the file iff/_readme.text for details. IMAGEN-PATCHES Some patches to the TI's Imagen print driver. By John Nguyen. INSPECTOR-CONFIG Defines two new inspector configurations, which have larger history windows, and have all of the scrollbars at the left edge of the screen (big win). - INTERFERENCE Interactively frobbing circular interference patterns. KEYMAP Allows arbitrary remapping of the (raw) TI keyboard. LISP-SCRIBBLE Makes Mouse-Left and Mouse-Middle on Lisp Listeners draw and erase lines, for doodling purposes... ! LIVE-LISTENER Alters the Lisp Listeners, typeout windows, and break loops to make everything printed with PRIN1 or PRINC be mousable, much like Symbolics listeners. Kind of like a hybrid Listener/Inspector. ! LOAD-PATCH If LOAD is called on a pathname or string whose TYPE component is not specified, and the source version is newer than the binary, then the behavior is controlled by a variable, whose value is :SOURCE, :BINARY, or :QUERY. * LOGICAL-PATHNAMES An implementation of Explorer-like logical pathnames for Vax Lisp and CMU Common Lisp. By David Forster. LOST-CONNECTION-HACK Scenario: you have a long-running program reading from a multi-megabyte file on a different machine. Someone reboots the remote machine on which the file lives. Shafted? No. This code will reopen the file, and bash on the dead stream object enough that you can proceed with the connection invisibly reestablished! Just go down the stack and reinvoke READ-CHAR. ! MAIL-ABBREV When the point is the TO: or CC: fields of a send-mail buffer, word-abbrev mode is automatically on. Defines a function for automatically generating send-mail-mode word-abbrevs from the :USER class of the namespace. Saves much typing, avoids much bounced mail. ! MAIL-CLASSES The Zmacs mailer doesn't have mail classes, but it does handle multiple saved-mail files; this defines some read-mail commands that relieve you of the burden of remembering and typing mail file names, letting you use symbolic names instead. MAIL-APPEND Defines a new editor command, Append Message to File, for use in Read Mail Mode. ! MAIL-FONT-PATCH Various redefinitions that cause the Mail Reader to allow multi-font messages. This interacts well with the code in both BOLD-LOCK.LISP and MAIL-APPEND.LISP !+ MANDELBROT Window-based utility for exploring the Mandelbrot fractal set. Uses a quad-tree approach to generating the image, and is bat-out-of-hell FAST. + MAZE Code for generating and displaying random mazes. Works as a screensaver. MEMORY-MONITOR Memory-consumption graph; by John Nguyen. MINOR-MODES-HACK If you hate the interation between *INITIAL-MINOR- MODES* and buffer switching, this is for you. * MKSYS A portable Common Lisp 'make' utility with a more sane syntax than DEFINE-SYSTEM. MODE-LINE-PERCENT Adds a percent through file notation to the ZMACS mode line. - MODEM-H19 Code to simulate a Heath 19 terminal, talking to a modem on the local machine's serial port. ! MOUSE-RECORD Code for recording and playing back mouse and keyboard activity. The system cannot tell the difference between playback and an actual user moving an actual mouse. MULT-MAIL-DOMAINS Patches things so that all mail domains are searched, not just the first one. By Eric Karlson. - NARRATE You give it a number, and it reads it in english. Requires the file NARRATE-SAMPLES.XLD in this directory. !- NATIONAL-DEBT Display the current US national debt in the wholine. Updated every second. NEWS/ An NNTP netnews reader that runs in Zmacs. This is the same as the one on CSC.TI.COM. More current version in Rel6 public directory. NEWS-FILTER A ``kill file'' utility for the code in the NEWS/ directory. By David Forster. ! NEWS-FONTS Makes the header fields of a news article be in a different font, thus easier to read. Other patches too. !+ NSA-FILTER Makes the world just a little bit safer for democracy. ! PATHNAME-MODS Some incredible functionality extensions to Explorer pathnames, by James Rice and Rich Acuff. Lets you do things like "LM: FOO; (and L* (not LOGIN-INIT)).LISP" to match L*.LISP except LOGIN-INIT.LISP + PHONEGEN Given a phone-mnemonic, return the phone number; or, given a phone number generate every possible mnemonic. Or, given a phone number, generate every possible mnemonic that is a real word (requires the spelling dictionary to be loaded). * PHONES These two files comprise a mouse-based phone number PHONES-INTERFACE and address database program. Many kinds of searches are possible. Mousing on a network address tosses you into a mail buffer; mousing on a postal address tosses you into an editor buffer with a Scribe letter template begun; and much more. ! PIPE-STREAM Defines a general pipe utility, sort of like in Unix. Also Includes a patch to Zmacs so that when you visit a file whose name ends in ".Z", the file will be uncompressed as it is read - this part requires the code from the file COMPRESS.LISP in this directory. PRINTER-REQUESTS-PATCH Various enhancements/fixes to the TI print request code. See the comments at the top of the file. Do not load this along with the LPR code in REXEC/. PROCESS-MONITOR Load-average graph; by John Nguyen. PS-FONT-MAP The default TI->PostScript font map is scaled so that the right side of the page is at 80 columns. This file defines a function that lets you adjust that (scaling the font map as a whole). This file also adds the Adobe fonts (fromt the FONTS/ directory of this archive) to the font map. - QATTRACTION A neat graphics hack by John Nguyen; swirling qix-like forms. Screensaver. - QIX Half-done implementation of the QIX video game. Works as a demo... feel free to finish it! There's some interesting code here for dividing regions into rectangles. - QUAD-TRIANGLE A neat graphics hack by John Nguyen; symetrical qix-like forms. Screensaver. RAINBOW Color monitor only - displays a scrolling rainbow pattern on the whole screen using colormap cycling. - READ-BDF-FONT Translates X Windows or Andrew font files to TI screen-fonts. There are over 600 such fonts included with the X11r3 distribution, about half of which are included here in the FONTS directory. * READ-ANDREW-RASTER Reads Andrew Toolkit image bitmaps. * READ-SUN-RASTER Reads Sun Raster file bitmaps. * READ-X11-RASTER Reads and writes X10 or X11 format (C source) bitmaps. REBOOT Defines a function, REBOOT, which does the same thing as calling SI:SHUTDOWN, and then doing Meta-Control-Meta-Control-Rubout. ! REDEFINITION-PATCH Redefines QUERY-ABOUT-REDEFINITION so that it will time out to a default answer after N seconds. Unattended compiles which get a redefinition query will eventually continue. RESERVATIONS Code for reserving time on an Explorer; useful if you share a machine with several people. Will warn the logged-in user when their time is almost up, and will complain at anyone logging in when someone else is scheduled. By David Forster. - REXEC/ Code that implements the RSHELL, REXEC, and LPD protocols. This means that you can print files from an Explorer to a printer on a Unix machine. This does *not* get along with the code in EDIT-PRINT-QUEUE and PRINTER-REQUESTS-PATCH. - ROCKS A neat graphics hack by John Nguyen; something like the Sun JumpDemo - this one's an asteroid field. - RORSCHACH-SCREENHACK Draws random inkblot-like patterns. Screensaver. ! SAMPLE-EDITOR A window-based utility for recording, modifying, and saving digitally recorded sound. - SCHOOL-OF-FISH A neat graphics hack by John Pezaris. A group of guppy-like fish schooling around very realistically. Requires the font in FISHES-FONT.XLD in this directory. ! SCREENSAVER-PATCHES Various improvements to the version of the ScreenSaver from SYS:PUBLIC;SCREEN-SAVER-MIT. Makes it work in color, among other things (some might say "makes it work, period"). - SCRIBE-MODE Defines a minor mode which is to .MSS files what Electric Font Lock Mode is to .LISP files. See the file SCRIBE-MODE.TEXT for documentation. - SEARCH-FILES Another GREPalike, this one by David Forster. SENDMAIL-FINGER When you send mail from Zmacs, the addresses and hosts printed will be mousable; clicking on them will fire up FINGER in a popup window. SHOW-COMTAB Code to display and search Zmacs comtabs. * SOUNDEX Code for recognising similar words. By David Forster. This is what FINGER.LISP uses for phonetic matching. SPACE-WAR A one or two player space battle game. By John Nguyen. SPACE-WAR-NET A multi-player version of the above that works over the network. Both of these require the file SPACE-DUEL-FONT.XLD, also in this directory. SPELLER-ADDITIONS Enhancements to the code in SYS:PUBLIC.SPELLER; - See the file SPELLER-ADDITIONS.TEXT for documentation. SPIN Graphics hack by John Pezaris; kind of like ROCKS but the objects follow spiral trajectories. SPLINE-SCREENHACK Bounces a spline around the screen. Screensaver. * STRIP-EXPLORER-FONTS CommonLisp code to strip out Explorer font-change information from a source file. Some of the code in this directory has font information in it, so if you want to use it on another machine, you need to filter the code through this first. SUBDIR Some code for walking directory trees - includes a function like the Unix 'du' program. SYMBOL-HELP Makes the keyboard that comes up with Symbol-Help display the current font instead of the default font. + TALK/ This directory contains code for translating english text to phonetics, and speaking it using the D/A converter. The speaking part doesn't quite work; the translation part is portable Common Lisp. See the file talk/_readme.text for details. TALKSERVER Sets up a server for recording sound on the local host and playing it on a remote machine - "want to go to lunch?" TELNET-NEWLINE-FIX When telnetting in to a TI from a Unix machine, you cannot type Newline - so there is no way to complete a READ-LINE. This fixes that. TERM-N-FIX It is possible to see old notifications with the PRINT-NOTIFICATIONS function - but if you saw the notifications with Terminal-N (because they were deferred, as by a screensaver) then once you have viewed them they are gone. This fixes that. TETRIS The dropping-blocks game; this has a two-player competition mode as well. By John Nguyen. Requires the file TETRIS-FONT.XLD from this directory. TIMER-QUEUE A 'cron' like facility; more efficient than spawning a process for some applications. By Dan Cerys. UNIX-MANUAL Defines "Meta-X Manual Entry" to contact a unix machine and (with REXEC) look up an entry in the unix manual. The manual entry is put into a buffer, with some minor fontification (headings are bold, and underlining is turned into italics). Requires the code in the REXEC/ subdirectory of this archive. + UUMAPS Code for parsing the UUCP map files; includes an almost-working 'pathalias' program. UWM-INTERFACE For use with the KSL desktop; gives a 'uwm'-like window management facility. By John Nguyen. * VIDEO-TAPE Code for generating pretty PostScript labels for video tapes. This should have a whizzy UI like AUDIO-TAPE does, but... VOICEMAIL A very simpleminded voicemail system. Requires the code in EPSILONS.LISP and MAIL-FONT-PATCH.LISP. WHOIS Given a user ID, looks up info in the namespace and tells you about the user - real name, home host, address, etc - in a pretty format. This is obsoleted by the better code in FINGER.LISP. * WRITE-PBM-RASTER Write a section of a bitmap to a PBM file. (PBM is the common file format of a collection of image format conversion tools by Jef Poskanzer.) ZWEI-AUTOSAVE An auto-save mode for Zmacs. By John Nguyen. Requires the file TIMER-QUEUE.LISP from this directory. ! ZWEI-METHOD-DOCUMENTATION Redefines the Describe Function (and Show Arglist) commands to be much more clever. Describing SEND really describes the method being sent; it's clever about sends to SELF; describes all submethods of a generic function; and lots more. See the documentation in the file. ZWEI-UNKNOWN-FONTS-PATCH If you visit a file which has a Fonts: field in its -*- line which refers to a font which does not exist on your system, Zmacs dives into the debugger. This redefines things so that a *warning* is printed, and the default font is substituted for the bad one. This is very useful if someone (like me) uses custom fonts that someone else (like you) doesn't have. ################################# :alex. #Disclamer: Anyone who agrees # University of Maryland Baltimore County #with me deserves what they get.# alex@umbc3.umbc.edu #################################