Viewers for [2002/04/03]

GNU Photo Archiving software? [2002/01/21]

Hardware To Archive/Manage Large Collection Of Images? [ 2000/08/04]

banner(1) - print strings in large letters {oss}

strings(1) - find printable strings in a file {oss}

tail(1) - display the last part of a file {oss}

od(1) - octal, decimal, hex, ascii dump {oss}

hexdump(1) - ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump {oss}

fmt(1) - simple text formatter {oss}

head(1) - give first few lines {oss}

fold(1) - fold long lines for finite width output device {oss}

look(1) - display lines beginning with a given string {oss}

grep egrep fgrep(1) - print lines matching a pattern {oss}

colcrt(1) - filter nroff output for CRT previewing {oss}

lesskey(1) - specify key bindings for less {oss}

less more(1) - view files on a crt {oss}

man(1) - display the on-line manual pages {oss}

unvis(1) - revert a visual representation of data back to original form {oss}

MAS text viewer/search tool - The main goal of the program is to be a work a like of the ever popular command more. The difference is, that it runs in a graphic scrolled window with some widgets for text search, etc. It integrates very well with Motif applications and CDE. {(L)GPL}

Gmas Text Viewer for GTK+ - The main goal of the program is to be a work a like of the ever popular command more. The difference is, that it runs in a graphic scrolled window with some widgets for text search, etc. The input may come from reading files or stdin. {(L)GPL}

GIT - , the GNU Interactive Tools package, includes: an extensible file system browser, an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer, and other related utilities and shell scripts. {GPL,GNU}

Ghostview - provides a graphical front end to Ghostscript allowing a Postscript or PDF file to be previewed using an X Window interface. {GPL,GNU}

Ghostscript - is an interpreter for the Postscript and PDF graphics languages. {GPL,GNU}

xinfo - is an X-windows program for reading Info files. {GPL,GNU}

cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output {GPL,GNU}

fmt - simple optimal text formatter {GPL,GNU}

fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width {GPL,GNU}

head - output the first part of files {GPL,GNU}

nl - number lines of files {GPL,GNU}

od - dump files in octal and other formats {GPL,GNU}

tail - output the last part of files {GPL,GNU}

gman-0.9.2 - A user-friendly graphical front end for the man system

paicc-1.4 - Paint Changed Characters

bbpager-0.3.0 - A pager for the Blackbox window manager

roottail-0.0.10 - Simple utility to tail files/logs to a root X window

spager-0.15 - A pager for sawfish without GNOME

wmcp-1.2.8 - A dockable pager for Window Maker

dog-1.7 - Dog writes the contents of each given file, URL, or stdin

gtkdps-0.3.2 - Gtk bindings for the Display GhostScript System

ja-vfxdvi600-17 - DVI Previewer for X. + Japanese patch + vector font support

ja-xdvik-vflib-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pk118-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pk240-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pk300-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pk360-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pk400-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

ja-xdvik-vflib-pkall-22.15 - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. + jp-patch

acrobatviewer-1.1 - Viewer for the PDF files written in Java(TM)

felis-1.0 - A tool which displays one or more files as a single line of text

pg-010103 - An implementation of System V's pg pager

histring-1.0.0 - A tool to highlight strings using the ANSI terminal escape sequences

44bsd-more-20000521 - The pager installed with FreeBSD before less(1) was imported

gutenbook-0.1.10 - GTK+ based reader for Project Gutenberg Etexts

videotext-0.6.19991029 - X11/Xview TV Videotext/Teletext page viewer (.vtx files)

i18n-man-1.1 - Browse I18N capable UNIX manual pages with Mule, Emacs and XEmacs.

indexme-0.1 - Links files into a HTML index for viewing and easy overview

grc-1.0.2 - Generic Colouriser

gutenfetch-1.1 - Fetch listings and books from Project Gutenberg

p5-Data-HexDump-0.02 - A simple hexadecimal dumper

pybook-0.6f - A Project Gutenberg e-texts reader

reed-5.2 - A text pager with autoscrolling and more

since-0.3 - View the end of a file like tail(1), but save state between sessions

sgrep-0.99 - A 'grep' for structured text like SGML and HTML.

tcb-1.4a - File viewer for terminal.

viz-1.1.1 - Convert invisible (binary) characters to a visible form

dvi2tty-1.0 - A dvi-file previewer for text only devices.

mgv-3.1.5 - A PostScript and PDF previewer.

psutils-a4-1.17_1 - Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents

ja-tgif2tex-2.05 - Converting texts in figure by tgif to LaTeX commands (for Japanese)

transfig-3.2.3d - Tools to convert Xfig's .fig files

virtualpaper-1.4_1 - Virtual Paper document storage and viewing software

xdvi-pl20 - A DVI Previewer for the X Window System. [X]

xdvik-20a - DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X. [X]

catdoc-0.91.4_1 - Convert MS Word/Excel documents to plain ASCII or TeX. TK viewer included

ja-gxditview-1.17.2_1 - Japanese enhancement of GNU xditview

latex2html-99.2b8 - Convert LaTeX documents to HTML

man2html-3.0.1 - convert nroff(1) man pages to HTML

mgdiff-1.0 - A graphical front end to the Unix diff command

sgmlformat-1.7 - Generates groff and HTML from linuxdoc and docbook SGML documents

texi2html-1.64 - Texinfo to HTML converter

tth-2.78 - A TeX to HTML translator

word2x-0.005 - Converter from MS Word to text, HTML or LaTeX

dgs-0.5.9 - a display ghostscript system

kwatch-2.2.0_1 - KDE/Qt log file viewer

lv-4.49.4 - Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

most-4.9.0 - A pager (like less) which has support for windows and binary files

tkinfo-2.5 - A tk script to read GNU "info" files and display them

tkman-2.1 - A Tcl/Tk based manual browser

xd-2.3 - Yet another dump utility

xless-1.7 - An X11 viewer for text files. Useful as an add-on tool for other apps. [X]

asprint-1.0 - A simple browser to allow a user to print.

detex-2.6 - Strips TeX/LaTeX codes from a file

dvips2ascii-1.3 - PostScript (created by dvips) to ascii converter

dviselect-1.3 - Extract pages from DVI files.

ggv-1.0.2_1 - GNOME ghostscript viewer

ghostview-1.5 - An X11 front-end for ghostscript, the GNU postscript previewer.

gsfonts-5.10 - Fonts used by GNU Ghostscript

gv-3.5.8 - A PostScript and PDF previewer

maint - full-screen file/dir maintenance tool {oss}

most-3.2 - most-3.2 -- more/less replacement, V3.2 {oss}

less.patch - Patches for more/less interoperability {oss}

fmtr - Simple text formatter {oss}

pr2 - a simple page formatter similar to 'pr' {oss}

less2 - New version of less {oss}

mcat.new - A cat(1) for mmap'able devices {oss}

ff - Simple text formatter for flexible uniform formatting {oss}

client_man - Client/server context diffs to 4.2BSD man.c {oss}

head - Public implementations of head(1) and ctags(1) {oss}

strings.coff - Find printable strings in COFF files {oss}

hgrep - Highlighting grep filter {oss}

fmtr.patch - Patches to fmtr {oss}

xfmt - A simple formatter {oss}

root-tail-0.0.6.tgz - tails a given file anywhere on your X11 root window

ghostscript_encrypt-aladdin.tgz - encrypted pdf add-on for ghostscript

ghostscript_encrypt-gnu.tgz - encrypted pdf add-on for ghostscript

wv - Microsoft Word 8 document viewer {GPL}

g3vga {GPL}

Zgv - graphic file viewer for VGA and SVGA displays {GPL}

gv - user interface to ghostscript interpreter {x,GPL}

Colortail - Colorized tail. {GPL}

xpcd - PhotoCD browser {x,GPL}

Quick Image Viewer - A very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlibimage viewer {x,GPL}

Xpdf - Viewer for Adobe PDF files {x,GPL}

LyX - Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11 {x,GPL}

Acrobat Reader - Acrobat reader for linux and other unices {x,free to use but restricted}

XV - Very popular image viewer, many formats, thumbnails {x,free for non-commercial use}

Hexdump.C - Hex/ASCII file dump utility {oss}

Line.C - Filter to add line numbers to a file {oss}

Remtab.C - Convert tabs to spaces {oss}

Head.C - Unix head work-alike {oss}

Tail.C - Print last n (default = 5) lines of a file {oss}

Thumb - Configurable image directory thumbnail viewer {GPL}

Gtk See - An image viewer based on the X-Window system and GTK+ [X] {GPL}

ja-less-3.32p2.48.tgz - less + zcat + ISO-2022 - a pager similar to more and pg

ja-less-3.32p2.48.tgz - less + zcat + ISO-2022 - a pager similar to more and pg

Applications and Utilities

p5-HTML-Pager-0.03 - Perl module for handling CGI HTML paging of arbitrary data

p5-File-Tail-0.98 - Perl Module to read the end of a file as it's appended to

More.H, Moreproc.C, Adjscrol.C, More.C - Bob Stout's readable screen display functions (DOS but easily "portablized") {oss}

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