Technical Note 3 - Third-party products which complement Sysquake

This technical note describes third-party products which may be useful to Sysquake users. This information is provided as a convenience for Sysquake users; Calerga does not endorse nor recommend their use. Some of the products are commercial or shareware; they must be purchased directly from their resellers.

Macintosh

Archive utilities

Aladdin StuffIt Expander

Aladdin Stuffit Expander is a free utility which can expands Stuffit archives (.sit, compressed archives), Binhex files (.hqx, ASCII encoding system for Macintosh files), MacBinary files (.bin, binary encoding system for Macintosh files), ZIP files (.zip, compressed archives usually created on Windows machines), tar (.tar, uncompressed archives usually created on Unix machines), and gzip files (.gz, compressed files).

MacZip

MacZip is a free port of Info-Zip's Zip for Mac OS 9, by Dirk Haase. It's useful mainly to create ZIP archives to be sent to the DOS world.

Text editors

Simple Text

Simple Text is a basic text editor distributed with Mac OS. It is limited to 32 KBytes, and it lacks some important features such as tabulators or going directly to a specified line. Its main advantage is that you are almost certain to find it somewhere on your hard disk.

BBEdit Lite

BBEdit was the freeware version of BBEdit, by Bare Bones Software. It is not distributed anymore.

BBEdit

BBEdit is a powerful text editor, by Bare Bones Software

Windows

Archive utilities

WinZIP

ZIP is the de facto standard for archive and compression in Windows. WinZip is a shareware.

Text editors

Notepad

Notepad is a simple text editor by Microsoft, provided with Windows.

Unix

Archive utilities

tar

tar is a utility to archive a complete directory in a single file, and to restore it. The archive ("tar file") is not compressed; you typically use gzip in a second phase. Type "man tar" for more information.

gzip

gzip is a utility to compress (removing any redundancy) and uncompress files. Type "man gzip" for more information.

uuencode/uudecode

uuencode is utility to convert any kind of file to a text file which can be sent by e-mail without any risk of corruption. uudecode converts back to the original file. Type "man uuencode" for more information.

Text editors

pico

pico is a simple text editor you can find on many Unix system. It's a text-mode application, but it has easy-to-use menus. You can't get lost with it.

vi

vi is a powerful text editor you are almost sure to find on any Unix system. It is not totally intuitive to use, though. If you run it and do not know what to do to quit it, type Esc :q! Return, then read its man page!

Emacs

Emacs is an even more powerful text editor, distributed under the GNU license (i.e. it is free, open-source, and free).