Compilers and Interpreters


• Perl 5.005
  License:  Artistic
  TCP/IP, Object Orientation and Inheritance, GUI, rexeps, CGI, ODBC, OLE (e.g., create/manipulate Excel spreadsheets), System V IPC (i.e., shared memory), POSIX routines, and so much more. Everyone should know a little
  
  
• djgpp 2.01
  License:  GPL
  32-bit port of GNU C/C++ compiler and associated toolkit for any DOS platform.
  
  
• Cygwin B20.1
  License:  GPL
  Win32 port of GNU development tools. Aside from gcc and associated tools, cygwin most notably provides bash.
  
  

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Compression and Archiving


• GNU tar 1.12
  License:  GPL
  Powerful, standard *nix archiving program. Widely used for storage, backup, and transportation of files. Any GNU mirror should offer tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe
  
  
• gzip 1.2.4
  License:  GPL
  A de-facto standard, available for almost every platform, and better than common *.zip compression. Handles native .tgz/.gz files as well as .taz/.Z
  
  
• bzip2 0.9.5
  License:  BSDish
  Even better compression than gzip. Patch exists to add -y option to tar.
  
  
• Info-ZIP 2.2/5.4
  License:  Other Free
  Highly portable, public implementation of *.zip compression and decompression -- InfoZip code appears in a number of prominent, commercial programs. Self-extracting executables, encryption, and even GUI available.
  
  

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Network Tools


• netcat 1.1
  License:  Other Free
  The handiest of handy network tools. Described as the Swiss-Army knife of TCP/IP tools. Get it today.
  
  
• Console Internet Utilities various
  Kiraly Associates graciously provides command-line, Win32 versions of finger, host, and whois. How anyone lives without the last two, is beyond me.
  
  
• Blat 1.8.4
  Non-interactive SMTP mailer. Can be used for cheap CGI mailing or, better, automated system contact/notification.
  
  
• Stalkerlab Mailers various
  Command line mailers for NT, one specifically for CGI. Attachemnts, encoding, etc.
  
  
• wget 1.5.3
  License:  GPL
  Command line retrieval of webpages, with spidering/recursive retrieval options perfect for mirroring sites.
  
  

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Editors


• VIM 5.6a1
  Win32 port of Vi Improved Best editor ever.
  
  
• Emacs 20.4
  License:  GPL
  The famous editor available for NT. Best editor ever
  
  
• Mg 2a
  License:  Public Domain
  Compatible with GNU Emacs syntax and feel, but stripped of non-essential features and hence extremely tiny. Has been around since at least 1988, but expect improvements/updates from the *BSD folks.
  
  

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Remote Computing


• VNC 3.3.3
  License:  GPL
  Virtual Network Computing: fully interactive display of a remote GUI "desktop". Display your remote Windows/Mac/Unix/JVM desktop on your Windows/Mac/Unix/JVM workstation. This is usually the kind of remote interface that Win32 admins want.
  
  
• Tera Term Pro 2.3
  License:  Other Free
  Highly regarded terminal emulator, supporting telnet, serial port connections, etc.
  
  
• TTSSH 1.5.1
  License:  Other Free
  Plug-in adding ssh capabilities to the Tera Term telnet client.
  
  
• Secure Remote Password Protocol 2.2
  License:  Other Free
  As the name suggests, this is a protocol rather than an application. See the homepage for binaries incorporating srp into telnet clients.
  
  

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Web Servers


• TinyWeb 1.6
  License:  Other Free
  CGI capable, very small httpd. SSL version also available.
  
  
• apache 1.3.12
  License:  Other Free
  Experimental Win32 port for NT4 (though Win9x will work) of the most popular httpd on the Net
  
  

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