This is disk 2 from the "Gold Fish" series, which is a collection of some of the best games, programs, examples, demos, etc from the Freely Distributable Amiga Software Library (aka "Fish disks"). Disk 2 contains a selection of some of the communication utilities and aids that a user might need to get started telecommunicating. It also contains some of the more commonly required developer aids, such as a text editor, "make" utility, and reasonable shell. Not all the programs are available from the WorkBench. You have to use the CLI interface to run some of them ("compress" for example). Comm A nice terminal program with support for a phone number database and function key bindings. This is my current terminal program of choice for everyday use. Version 1.34, binary only, source on disk number 75. Author: DJ James Compress Compress reduces the size of the files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings. Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes less time to compute. This is version 4.0, binary only, source on disk number 51. Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others Csh Version 2.06 of Matt Dillon's csh like shell, modified for Manx C. Binary only, source on disk 85. Author: Matt Dillon, Manx'ified by Steve Drew FixObj Strip extraneous garbage off the end of object files transfered with xmodem. Does not require preknowledge of actual file length, uses knowledge of Amiga file structure. Version 1.1, binary only, source on disk number 38. Author: John Hodgson HunkPad Fixes an executable program, in a manner acceptable to AmigaDOS, such that it is a multiple of 128 bytes in length, thus making it immune to automatic padding by xmodem transfer protocols. Binary only, source on disk number 84. Author: J. Hamilton Kermit Port of the popular "C-kermit" program, a flexible virtual terminal and file transfer program from Columbia University. Binary only, source on disk number 26. This is version 4C(057). Author: Misc, ported to Amiga by Davide Cervone Make Public domain make from mod.sources, Volume 7, number 91. It has been cleaned up, Manx'ified, and some new features added, by Steve Walton. Binary only, source on disk number 69. Author: "caret@fairlight.OZ" MG1b Release 1b of the Amiga version of MicroGNUEmacs, a small but powerful text editor that also runs on many other computer systems besides the Amiga. One of MG's major goals is to be compatible with its "cousin" GNU Emacs. Binary only, source available on disk number 68. Author: Dave Conroy, extensive enhancements by Mike Meyer Mic Kaczmarczik, Bob Larson, and Dave Brower. Shar A program which can pack and unpack archives compatible with the Unix "shar" (shell archiver) program. Binary only, source on disk number 28. Author: Dave Wecker Tracker Program which converts a boot-load disk (such as a kickstart disk) into a group of files for electronic transmission and reassembly. Completely preserves the original disk structure so the target disk will be an exact duplicate of the original. From disk number 35, binary only. Author: Brad (Lord Bradford) Wilson UUencode Programs to encode/decode binary files for transmittal via mail or other text-only methods. The binary file is expanded by approximately 35% for transmittal. This release is an update to the version on disk number 38, and includes a simple line-by-line checksum technique that can read and write files compatible with the older uuencode/uudecode. Binary only, source on disk number 53. Author: Mark Horton with mods by Alan Rosenthal Vt100 Version 2.6 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator with kermit and xmodem file transfer. It just keeps getting better and better. Binary only, source on disk number 55. Author: Dave Wecker