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Utility

REP

The program has been successfully compiled on the Linux and Applix 1616 systems.

eg: To have rep monitor the results of a directory listing (ls -l) because there is a file due in soon then this command with issue the "ls -l" UNIX command repeatedly until told to stop. Control-C is the only way to stop the program.

rep ls -l

(Compiled using a ix86 Slackware 7.0 distribution)

Utility

DIALDSUM

Results are reported to STDOUT.

diald is a program that will initiate a PPP connection to a host ISP whenever it detects IP traffic that must pass through the gateway. Needless to say diald must run on a gateway, firewall and computer that must connect to the outside.

diald is also a standard release program with any Linux distribution.

The log files are expected to by located in /var/log/diald.log

(Compiled using a ix86 Slackware 3.2 distribution)

Utility

Irnetd 1.0.1
IrDA internet connection manager 

That means IrDA can be used as a normal internet packet carry medium where two IR equipped devices can communicate using internet methods.

To ensure that this communication works reliably, and establishment of new connections with new devices that come into range, means a program such is "irnetd" watches and maintains the IR connection. 

This implementation performs the job of managing all active "irnet" connections to, and from, an IR equipped device allowing full internet communications to occur between them and setup small sized internet subnets they can use. The IP addresses allocated is dynamically created by using the IrDA MAC address which is assured to be unique.

"IrNet" is a protocol is standard in Linux and has also been adopted for Win 2K. 

(Compiled using ix86 Slackware 8)

Utility

Kevlotto 0.10.0
Lotto game manager 

Kevlotto is a program that will check a set of drawn numbers against an existing database of games. Most players will not play many games because of the cost and effort in them. However, if you happen to play a lot of games, or test games for other entrants then this program will help.

It is designed to use the given draw against one, or many, set of games. Each set of games is represented in a single readable text file that can contain many thousands of games.

It can also generate tens of thousands of games, all unique, that can be purely random, or evenly distributed across the all allowed numbers. And it can handle standard games with, or without, supplementary numbers, System games and different game types.

The program is written to be run from the command line, with the potential of wrapping its main logic in a GUI wrapper.

Module/Driver

Netframe 0.1.0
Network driver skeleton for Linux 2.4.x 

Netframe is a network driver skeleton suitable for the Linux 2.4.x kernels. It is a network driver which has on one side the bottom of the IP router and the other its interface hardware. Its purpose is to join the two together and manage the hardware correctly.

It has most features needed to get a basic network driver started and running. As it stands, after downloading, the driver can be compiled and loaded into a live Linux system. The new "netframe" network interface will show with a network device name "skel".

There is already a i386 compiled version of the source code held in the download archive so it can be tested immediately.

To load the driver these steps need to be followed:

Although IP packets will not go far once they enter the driver (because there is no hardware to drive) it will make it easier for the programmer to adapt this skeleton code so that will process the IP packets leading in and out of the driver for new hardware designs. That means more effort can be focused on getting the hardware driver side of it working correctly.

(Compiled using ix86 Slackware 8)

Utility

PERFECT

This program, adapted to both MSDOS and UNIX, will apply two methods of searching for Perfect Numbers.

To start it using the Linear method then the invocation command would look like this:

perfect -L

To start it using the Power method then the invocation command would look like this:

perfect -P

Click here for full details in what a Perfect Number is.

(Compiled using a ix86 Slackware 7.0 distribution)

Utility

ROMLOAD V2.20.04

This utility (source code included) converts Motorola formatted "S" record files to an image suitable for placing into a ROM device. It can deliver the image out to the printer port, when connected to an EPROM programmer or ROM emulator, and can pad out unused space in the ROM image to zeros.

Since Motorola "S" record files can have records and data scattered all through it so that nothing lines up it must first need to be read, decoded and written out to a RAM buffer. The resultant image will be in the RAM buffer correctly aligned where it can be written out to a file of sent off to the printer port.

To find out what the program supports ask it to print out a help menu using this command line:

romload -h

However, a typical usage line for this program would convert a single Motorola "S" formatted file to a single binary image file:

romload file.srec

(Compiled using a ix86 Slackware 8.0 distribution)

Daemon

SREDIRD (Serial port redirector - Terminal server)
Version 1.1.8

Data transmitted by the Target Transputer can be seen using a telnet session into a TCP port (2000) defined for that purpose on the server. For example: To connect to the UART of the target Transputer can be accomplished using this command line either from a UNIX or WIN9x command shell:

telnet transputer.cate.com.au 2000

TTY speeds will be set automatically to match the default speeds used by the target Transputer CPU system.

(Compiled using ix86 Slackware 3.2)

Module/Driver

Transputer (B004) INMOS Transputer board driver 0.8b for Linux 1.2.x kernels

The driver provides a communication path to the Transputer target system which should have a hardware interface similar to the INMOS B004 Transputer cards. If so then it is going to work well.

(Compiled using ix86 Slackware 3.2)

Credit for this work goes to Christoph Niemann

Module/Driver

Transputer (B004) INMOS Transputer board driver 0.91 for Linux 2.2.x & 2.4.x kernels

The tar file also contains a stripped down Iserver source tree that is written only for Linux. Thus the software can not be compiled for MSDOS or any other architecture other than Linux. It will behave as any other iserver program does. That means you can run all existing Transputer programs that have been written to communicate via the iserver communicaion protocol.

It also contains the original UDP and TCP interface drivers to allow communication to a Transputer server across a network.

(Compiled using ix86 Slackware 7.0)

Credit for this work goes to Mark Bowyer and -Kev.