cdecl — Create/Explain C Type Declarations.cdecl — Create/Explain C Type Declarations.

Mr Pramod CE and his team developed a Phoenix Live CD for Physics with
Homemade Equipment and Innovative Experiments. Now this project is
maintained by NSC New Delhi. URL: http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/

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cdecl — Create/Explain C Type Declarations.

Summary:

Cdecl is a program for encoding and decoding C type declarations in
English language. It can run in interactive (shell-like) and
non-interactive mode (command line arguments).

In the interactive mode, cdecl will wait for your input in “cdecl> “
prompt. Enter “quit or exit” to exit. Enter “?” for help.
   

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install — Copy files and set attributes.

Prof. KalyanaKrishnan R and his team (IIT-Madras) done a wonderful
job to implement the MultiLingual Indian systems.
URL: http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/

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install — Copy files and set attributes.

Summary:

‘install’ will copy single/multiple source(s) to destination, sets
permission modes & owner/group and take backup of existing files. It
is very useful for writing the install scripts.

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dpkg — A medium-level package manager for Debian.

Mr Muthiah is released the G2 interface to Octave, which is used to
get the graphs in different formats like PNG, JPEG, PS, EPS, X11…
URL: http://octave-gtk.sf.net/octave-g2/

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dpkg — A medium-level package manager for Debian.

Summary:

dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage
Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for
dpkg is dselect(8).

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tac — Concatenate and Print files in reverse order.

Mr Anand Babu (FSF-India Member) has developed the BiosConfig tool,
which reads/writes fields in the CMOS non-volatile store, most of
which are associated with various functions of the BIOS.
URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/biosconfig

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tac — Concatenate and Print files in reverse order.

Summary:

`tac’ copies each file to standard output, reversing the records
(lines by default) in each separately. It is doing the reverse
function of the CAT command (TAC).
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umount — UnMount File System

BZip2 Translator Tool is developed by Venkataraman, Ankur and Shikka.
Using this translator, when mapped on a file, you can do bzip
compressed I/O (Like Read, Seek, Length).
URL: http://www.gnu-india.org/pipermail/gnu-india/20010307/000113.html

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umount — UnMount File System

Summary:

The umount command detaches the file system(s) mentioned from the file
hierarchy. A file system cannot be unmounted when it is `busy’, For
example, when there are open files on it, or when some process has its
working directory there, or when a swap file on it is in use.

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fsck — Linux File System Check and Repair Tool.

Gipi, a console based jumble like puzzle game is developed by
Mr Dinker Charak. URL: http://sarovar.org/projects/gipi/

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fsck — Linux File System Check and Repair Tool.

Summary:

‘fsck’ is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file
systems. If no file-systems are specified on the command line, fsck
will default to checking file-systems in /etc/fstab file.

In actuality, fsck is simply a front-end for the various file system
checkers (fsck.cramfs, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, fsck.jfs, fsck.msdos,
fsck.reiserfs, fsck.vfat, …) available under GNU/Linux OS.

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chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.

ndiX (Indian Language support for GNU/Linux OS), A modified X server
to support Indian languages using OpenType Fonts. Uses Unicode.
URL: http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix (Thanks FUG-Bglr)

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chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.

Summary:

‘chkconfig’ provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the
/etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators
of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in
those directories.

A runlevel is a software configuration of the system which allows only
a selected group of processes to exist (man init).
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printenv – Print All/Part of Environment

Revolution OS is a English documentary movie, about Linux based OS,
directed by Mr J.T.S.Moore. The DVD contains sub-titles for No .of
Languages. If you want to contribute for any of the Indian Language
sub-titles, Kindly contact Mr Shakthi “cyborg4k at yahoo dot com”.

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printenv – Print All/Part of Environment

Summary:

`printenv’ prints environment variables with its Name and Value.

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