C

C

a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix; so called because many features derived from an earlier compiler named `B' in commemoration of its parent, BCPL. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

C

n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2. ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix; so called because many features derived from an earlier compiler named `B' in commemoration of its parent, BCPL. (BCPL was in turn descended from an earlier Algol-derived language, CPL.) Before Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named `D' or `P'. C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. See also languages of choice, indent style. C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language". From Jargon Dictionary

C programming language

Point: The language is quirky, difficult for beginners to learn, and really just an accident of history. Despite this, one must grok the language in order to become an elite hacker. Key point: The large number of buffer overflow exploits is directly related to poor way that C protects programmers from doing the wrong thing. On the other hand, these lack of protections leads directly to its high speed. From Hacking-Lexicon

C Shell

A Linux shell written to look sort of like the C programming language. It prompts you with %. Its program name is csh. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

C++

/C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n. Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but it requires a language lawyer to know what is and what is not legal-- the design is almost too large to hold in even hackers' heads. Much of the cruft results from C++'s attempt to be backward compatible with C. Stroustrup himself has said in his retrospective book "The Design and Evolution of C++" (p. 207), "Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out." [Many hackers would now add "Yes, and it's called Java" --ESR] From Jargon Dictionary

c++

GNU project C++ Compiler From whatis

c++filt

Demangle *(C+ and Java symbols. From whatis

c-sig

A signature tool for GNU Emacs C-sig is a signature insertion tool for GNU Emacs. Features in c-sig include: - registering signatures interactively - learning facility - expanding signatures dynamically - modifying signatures through elisp functions From Debian 3.0r0 APT

C128

Commodore 128 [computer] (Commodore) From VERA

c2050

Lexmark 2050 Color Jetprinter Linux Driver Filter to convert a Postscript file to Lexmark 2050 format. This driver allow you to print at 300dpi in color on A4 paper. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

c2hs

C->Haskell Interface Generator C->Haskell is an interface generator that simplifies the development of Haskell bindings to C libraries. The tool processes existing C header files that determine data layout and function signatures on the C side in conjunction with Haskell modules that specify Haskell-side type signatures and marshaling details. Hooks embedded in the Haskell code signal access to C structures and functions -- they are expanded by the interfacing tool in dependence on information from the corresponding C header file. Haskell 98 is "the" standard lazy functional programming language. More info plus the language definition is at http://www.haskell.org/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

c2html

Highlight C sources for WWW presentation c2html can highlight your source for presentation in the WWW. It can also be used as a CGI script and can detect whether the client browser supports compressed data to save bandwidth. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

C2IS

Command and Control Information Systems (mil., USA) From VERA

c2man

generate manual pages from C source code From whatis

c2man

Graham Stoney's mechanized man page generator C2man is an automatic documentation tool that extracts comments from C source code to generate functional interface documentation in the same format as sections 2 & 3 of the Unix Programmer's Manual. It requires minimal effort from the programmer by looking for comments in the usual places near the objects they document, rather than imposing a rigid function-comment syntax or requiring that the programmer learn and use a typesetting language. Acceptable documentation can often be generated from existing code with no modifications. conformance: supports both K&R and ISO/ANSI C coding styles Features: * generates output in nroff -man, TeXinfo, LaTeX or HTML format * handles comments as part of the language grammar * automagically documents enum parameter & return values * handles C (/* */) and C++ (//) style comments Problems: * doesn't handle C++ grammar (yet) * doxygen does this job better From Debian 3.0r0 APT

c2ph

Dump C structures as generated from *(C`cc -g -S*(C' stabs From whatis

C3I

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (mil., USA) From VERA

C3IIS

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Information Systems (mil., USA), "C3I/IS" From VERA

C4

Command, Control, Communications and Computers (mil., USA) From VERA

C4I

Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (mil., USA) From VERA

C64

Commodore 64 [computer] (Commodore) From VERA

c89

ANSI (1989) C compiler From whatis

CA

Cell Arrival (ATM) From VERA

CA

Certification Authority (cryptography) From VERA

CA

Computer Animation From VERA

CA

Computer Associates (manufacturer) From VERA

ca-certificates

Common CA Certificates PEM files It includes the followings PEM files of CA certificates * Mozilla builtin CA certificates * db.debian.org certificate This is useful for any openssl applications to verify SSL connection. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAAD

Computer Aided Architectural Design From VERA

cabextract

a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files Cabextract is a program which unpacks cabinet (.cab) files, which are a form of archive Microsoft uses to distribute their software and things like Windows Font Packs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAC

Channel Access Code (Bluetooth) From VERA

CAC

Computer Aided Crime From VERA

CAC

Connection Admission Control (UNI, ATM) From VERA

CACEAS

Computer-Assisted Circuit Engineering and Allocating System From VERA

cache

A small fast memory holding recently accessed data, designed to speed up subsequent access to the same data. Most often applied to processor-memory access but also used for a local copy of data accessible over a network etc. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

Cache

A storage area that keeps frequently accessed data or program instructions readily available so that you don't have to retrieve them repeatedly from slow storage. Caches improve storage by storing data or instructions in faster sections of memory and by using efficient design to increase the likelihood that the data needed next is in the cache. From QUECID

cache

A temporary storage area for currently-used or recently-accessed data. Cache can be system-level (residing in dedicated cache memory on the motherboard or physically etched on the central processing unit) or disk-based (residing in main memory such as a hard disk drive or RAM). From Redhat-9-Glossary

cache

In general computer science, the word cache means simply to keep things around in case they are used again. For example, when you log onto your system, your username and password are stored in a cache in memory, because they are repeatedly used by the system every time you access a resource. Key point: Sometimes systems can be exploited through the cache. Examples are: HTTP proxy servers Companies use these so that thousands of users can share a single Internet connection. They store recently used webpages so that when multiple users access the same web-site, the proxy server only has to go across the link once in order to fetch the page for all the users. A never ending series of bugs leads to conditions whereby when one user logs into a website, other users can see that first user's data. Web-browser history/file cache Once a hacker breaks into a machine, he/she can view the history cache (list of URLs) or file cache (the actual contents of the web-sites) in order to spy on where the user has been. Embarrassing, inadvertent disclosure of this information by users with certain surfing habits is common. Web-browser cookie cache Lots of web-sites store passwords within cookies, so that stealing somebody's cookie information will allow a hacker to log in as that user. From Hacking-Lexicon

cacti

Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services Cacti is a complete frondend to rrdtool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering also. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CACTIS

Community Automated Counter-Terrorism Intelligence System (mil., USA) From VERA

CAD

Computer Aided Dispatch / Drafting From VERA

CAD

Computer Aided Design (CIM) From VERA

cadaver

command-line client for WebDAV server Useful for WebDAV server testing and scripting. Works like command line FTP clients. This Version supports HTTPS, including Client Site Certificates. Briefly: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CADE

Computer Aided Document Engineering (Microstar) From VERA

CADS

Computer-Assisted Display System From VERA

cadubi

Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian CADUBI is an application written in Perl that allows you to draw text-based images that are viewable on typical unix-based consoles. Usually the applications that emulate these consoles support various text modes, such as background and foreground colors, bold, and inverse. This text art, commonly called "ASCII art," is used in various places such as online BBSes, email and login prompts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAE

Client Application Enabler (IBM, DB) From VERA

CAE

Common Application Environment (X/Open) From VERA

CAE

Computer Aided Education From VERA

CAE

Computer Aided Engineering (CIM) From VERA

CAEN Linux

The CAEN RedHat 6.1 (BlueHat) distribution was an effort put together by CAEN to provide a free, downloadable release of RedHat 6.1 that would be "secure out of the box" and well configured for the University of Michigan environment. The site seems to have been last updated in September 2000. Distribution development is not all that active. From LWN Distribution List

CAI

Computer Aided Inspection (CIM) From VERA

CAI

Computer Aided Instruction From VERA

CAIP

Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (conference) From VERA

CAIS

Common APSE Interface Specification From VERA

CAIT

Center for the Application of Information Technology (org., USA) From VERA

CAIT

Central Academy of Information Technology (org., MITI) From VERA

Caixa Magica

The desktop version "Computador Magico" is available now. The server version "Servidor Magico" will be available soon. This distribution is partialy based on Debian and SuSE, but much of it was rewritten, and localized in Portuguese. It includes OpenOffice. Added to list July 8, 2002. Version 8.01 was released May 21, 2003. From LWN Distribution List

CAL

Client Access License (Lotus, MS) From VERA

CAL

Computer Aided Logistics From VERA

CAL

Computer Assisted Learning From VERA

cal

displays a calendar and the date of easter From whatis

cal

Displays a simple calendar. If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

calamaris

Log analyzer for Squid or Oops proxy log files Calamaris is a Perl script which generates nice statistics out of Squid or Oops log files. It is invoked daily before the proxy rotates its log files and mails the statistics or puts them on the web. There are quite a number of options to choose what kind of report should be generated (domain-report, peak-report, performance-report etc.). This can be tuned in /etc/cron.daily/calamaris An example of such a report can be found on http://www.cord.de/tools/squid/calamaris/calamaris-2.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT

calc

An advanced calculator and mathematical tool for Emacs This is an advanced calculator and mathematical tool for GNU Emacs. XEmacs has calc built-in, so you only need this package if you are using GNU Emacs. Very roughly based on the HP-28/48 series of calculators, calc's many features include: * Choice of algebraic or RPN (stack-based) entry of calculations. * Arbitrary precision integers and floating-point numbers. * Arithmetic on rational numbers, complex numbers (rectangular and polar), error forms with standard deviations, open and closed intervals, vectors and matrices, dates and times, infinities, sets, quantities with units, and algebraic formulas. * Mathematical operations such as logarithms and trigonometric functions. * Programmer's features (bitwise operations, non-decimal numbers). * Financial functions such as future value and internal rate of return. * Number theoretical features such as prime factorization and arithmetic modulo M for any M. * Algebraic manipulation features, including symbolic calculus. * Moving data to and from regular editing buffers. * "Embedded mode" for manipulating Calc formulas and data directly inside any editing buffer. * Graphics using GNUPLOT, a versatile (and free) plotting program. * Easy programming using keyboard macros, algebraic formulas, algebraic rewrite rules, or extended Emacs Lisp. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

calcoo

Scientific calculator (GTK+) Calcoo is a scientific calculator designed to provide maximum usability. The features that make Calcoo better than (at least some) other calculator programs are: - bitmapped button labels and display digits to improve readability - no double-function buttons - you need to click only one button for any operation (except for arc-hyp trigonometric functions) - undo/redo buttons - both RPN (reverse Polish notation) and algebraic modes - copy/pase interaction with X clipboard - display tick marks to separate thousands - two memory registers with displays - displays for Y, Z, and T registers From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CALEA

Communications Assistance Law Enforcement Act (USA) From VERA

calendar

reminder service From whatis

calife

Provides super user privileges to specific users. Calife is a lightweight alternative to Sudo. It allows selected users to obtain a shell with the identity of root, or another user, after entering their own password. This permits the system administrator to grant root privileges without sharing the root password. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CALS

Computer aided Acquisition and Logistics Support From VERA

cam

Cpu's Audio Mixer for Linux An audio mixer for Linux, based originally on aumix. Supports both OSS/Free and OSS/Linux. The DOSEMU package provides the vga font which xcam (a script to run cam nicely in an xterm) needs to run properly, but it will run without it. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAMAC

Computer Automated Measurement And Control From VERA

camas

A versatile WebMail system for the Caudium WebServer CAMAS is a WebMail system created for the Caudium WebServer. It features multi-lingual interface (most European languages are already present in the distribution), full themability of the user interface, mailbox sorting, on-line mail notification, global and local address books, import from the Pine or Netscape address books and much more. CAMAS is written in the Pike language. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

came

Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2 camE is a rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2 Features include: * Uses Imlib2 * TTF fonts * Blended transparent text * Title text * Options in ~/.camErc * Message read from separate file (eg echo "eating my dinner" > ~/.caminfo) * Color the text as you like * Text background any color/alpha value * scp support for uploading * And more... From Debian 3.0r0 APT

camediaplay

Still Camera Digital Interface A downloading/controlling tool for digital cameras with Sanyo firmware. Cameras with Sanyo firmware include all Olympus products, Epson products, Agfa products, and of course, Sanyo digital cameras. KNOWN TO WORK WITH The following lines list is based on Japanese product code. (US product code is in parentheses - EPSON's naming scheme is too confusing) - Olympus "Camedia" C-400L (Olympus D-200L) - Olympus "Camedia" C-820L (Olympus D-320L) - Olympus "Camedia" C-1000L (Olympus D-500L) - Olympus D-450Z - Olympus "Camedia" C-2020Z - Sanyo DSC-V1 (Sanyo VPC-G200E) - EPSON "Colorio Photo" CP-100 (EPSON PhotoPC) - EPSON "Colorio Photo" CP-200 (EPSON PhotoPC 500) - EPSON "Colorio Photo" CP-500 (EPSON PhotoPC 600) - Nikon CP-900 SHOULD WORK WITH Any camera with Sanyo firmware/CPU. Olympus, Epson, Agfa and Sanyo digital cameras falls into this category, reportedly. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

Camel Book

n. Universally recognized nickname for the book "Programming Perl", by Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates 1991, ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (second edition 1996, ISBN 1-56592-149-6). The definitive reference on Perl. From Jargon Dictionary

camlidl

Stub code generator for Objective Caml CamlIDL generates stub code for interfacing Caml with C from an IDL description of the C functions. Thus, CamlIDL automates the most tedious task in interfacing C libraries with Caml programs. It can also be used to interface Caml programs with other languages, as long as those languages have a well-defined C interface. This package contains the CamlIDL executable. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAMM

Computer Assisted Material Management From VERA

camserv

stream video out onto the web Takes a video-for-linux video stream, generally from a camera, and streams it out live to requesting clients. Works with Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, and (under protest) Microsoft Internet Explorer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

camserv-relay

relay camserv streaming video This connects as a client to a camserv streaming video server, and then acts as a camserv server, streaming the same data to clients. Useful when the computer doing the streaming has insufficient CPU, I/O, or network bandwidth to stream to the required number of clients. A tree of camserv relays can handle massive loads. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

camstream

collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices CamStream is (going to be) a collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices, enhancing your Linux system with multimedia video. All written in C++ and with a nice GUI frontend. The interface is based on Qt, an excellent GUI framework. The aim of this project is build a set of programs for: * Webcamming, that is saving an image and uploading it to a server at regular intervals; * Video conferencing; * Webcam broadcast (including server); * Recording movie clips (AVI, Quicktime) from a webcam (and playing them back); * Using a webcam as a security camera. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAN

Complete Area Networks (SNI) From VERA

CAN

Controller Area Network From VERA

canna

A japanese input system (server and dictionary). Canna is a Japanese input system available in Free Software. Canna provides a unified user interface for inputing Japanese. Canna supports Nemacs(Mule), kinput2 and canuum. All of these tools can be used by a single customization file, romaji-to-kana conversion rules and conversion dictionaries, and input Japanese in the same way. Canna converts kana to kanji based on a client-server model and supports automatic kana-to-kanji conversion. This package includes cannaserver program and dictionary files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAO

Computer Aided Office From VERA

CAP

Carrierless Amplitude Phase [modulation] (ADSL, AT&T) From VERA

CAP

Communications-electronics Accommodation Program From VERA

CAP

Component Approval Process From VERA

CAP

Computer Aided Planning (CIM) From VERA

CAP

Computer Aided Publishing From VERA

CAPE

Computer Applications in Production and Engineering (conference, IFIP) From VERA

CAPI

Communication Application Program Interface (ISDN, API) From VERA

CAPI

Cryptography Application Programming Interface (cryptography, API) From VERA

CAPP

Computer Aided Process Planning From VERA

cappuccino

an utility to let your boss think that you're working hard Run this software on your computer when you are not motivated to work, and enjoy doing something different. If your boss come in your cubicle, he'll think "Yeah, he's doing something different since his computer is really busy - He's doing something really important". From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAPSL

CAnnon Printing System Language (Canon), "CaPSL" From VERA

captain

Graphical front-end for command line programs (Qt version) Captain is a universal graphical front-end (Qt) based on context-free grammars. The program kaptain reads a file containing grammatical rules for generating text. It builds a dialog from the grammar and generates the text according to the user's settings. There's also KDE version of this package (kaptain) if you have already installed KDE desktop. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

captoinfo

convert a termcap description into a terminfo description From whatis

CARDVM

Card Virtual Machine (Java, Sun), "CardVM" From VERA

CARE

Computer Assistance Resource Exchange From VERA

CARLOS

Computer Aided Real Language Orthographic System From VERA

CAS

Column Address Strobe (IC, DRAM) From VERA

CAS

Communicating Applications Specification (FAX, Intel, DCA) From VERA

CAS

Computer Aided Selling From VERA

CAS

Computer Algebra System From VERA

CAS

Computerized Autodial System From VERA

CASE

Common Application Service Element (ISO, OSI) From VERA

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering From VERA

case sensitive

Of or relating to the handling of character casing in data input and output. UNIX (TM) and UNIX-compatible operating systems (such as Red Hat Linux) are case-sensitive in that they treat the same defined term differently if the terms are not cased identically (such as foo and FOO). From Redhat-9-Glossary

CASH

Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H." From VERA

casio

Backup utility for the CASIO diary. It is a package ported from DOS to allow communication to the CASIO series of hand-held organizers. It allows backup from CASIO to your computer and restore a backup file from your computer to the CASIO. It can also output human readable file from CASIO. Currently supports: phone, calendar, schedule, memo, and reminder. Read the documentation before using this program! From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAST

Computer Aided Software Testing From VERA

Castle

Castle is a server distribution from the ALT Linux Team in Russia. Installation instructions and some other documentation is available in English. A 'secured' distribution. From LWN Distribution List

castle-combat

enclose land and destroy your opponent's castle It's a clone of the old DOS game Rampart. Up to four players (or more in future versions) build castle walls, place cannons inside these walls, and shoot at the walls of their enemy(s). If a player can't build a complete wall around one of his castles, he loses. The last surviving player wins. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

casu

Communication and Status Utilities This package contains 2 utilities: 1. flon -- lists your friends who are logged on 2. to -- sends a short message to another user flon simply uses the ~/.friends file to instruct it on which users to display. Flon can also act like a BSD style who(1), if invoked with the -w option or from a symlink named 'who'. to is rather like write(1), except that it accepts input as command line arguments rather than on the standard input. It uses ~/.torc for configuration, and can be configured to autoreply to messages in different ways depending on whether you're logged in or not or if your terminal is idle, and can also exclude individual users from sending messages to your terminal. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAT

Common Authentication Technology (IETF, RFC 1511) From VERA

CAT

Computer Aided Technology (fair) From VERA

CAT

Computer Aided Telephony From VERA

CAT

Computer Aided Testing From VERA

cat

concatenate files and print on the standard output From whatis

cat

[from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt. 1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause (syn. blast). 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also dd, BLT. Among Unix fans, cat(1) is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files, and because it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with any sort of data. Among Unix haters, cat(1) is considered the canonical example of bad user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name. It is far more often used to blast a file to standard output than to concatenate two files. The name cat for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr. Of such oppositions are holy wars made.... See also UUOC. From Jargon Dictionary

catalog

Tool to create,maintain and display Yahoo! like directories. Catalog is a perl program that allows to create, maintain and display Yahoo! like directories. The user interface is 100% HTML. It requires a MySQL database to run. The general idea behind the design of Catalog is that creating a catalog is mainly a matter of organizing objects in a structured tree. For Catalog the objects are records in a table of the SQL database. The structured tree is a set of tree nodes and relations between these nodes. The maintainer of the catalog is in charge of building the tree and placing objects in this tree. Here is a short list of the functions provided by Catalog: * Display structured trees of resources. * Display chronologically ordered resources and associated calendar. * Display alphabetical indexes of resources. * Allow full text search in the resources and the category names. * Powerful HTML based administration of catalogs. * On-Line editing of resource records. * Handle an arbitrary number of catalogs. * High performances using mod_perl and Apache. * Easy customization of the user view using HTML template files. * It is possible to define more than one view of the same catalog. * Load and unload a thematic catalog in XML. * Create an HTML dump of a structured tree to publish a static version. * Complete documentation including a guide and a reference manual. * Ready to use example. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

catatonic

adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no response. If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed). "There I was in the middle of a winning game of nethack and it went catatonic on me! Aaargh!" Compare buzz. From Jargon Dictionary

catchsegv

Catch segmentation faults in programs From whatis

catdoc

MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports everything up to Word-97. It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is this very thing which is important to LaTeX users. Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets and outputs it in comma-separated-value format. This package suggests tk because it also includes wordview, an optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc. The MIME config provided in this package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it is not. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

catdvi

DVI to plain text translator CatDVI translates a TeX Device Independent (DVI) file into a readable plaintext file. It aims to generate high-quality output that reproduces all aspects of the DVI file within the limits of the output medium. CatDVI uses Unicode internally and can output ASCII, ISO Latin 1 and UTF-8 Unicode. CatDVI can be used for previewing TeX documents on character-cell displays such as traditional terminals and terminal emulators. It is also possible to use it in generation of plain text documents from TeX source, assuming that the document is written with this conversion in mind. CatDVI is under development and as such yet incomplete. However, it is quite useful even in its current form and already outperforms some of its competition in some areas. CatDVI requires that the TFM files for all fonts used in its input DVI files are installed or can be generated by kpathsea. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CATI

Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing From VERA

CATIS

Computer-Assisted Tactical Information System (mil., USA) From VERA

catman

create or update the pre-formatted manual pages From whatis

CATNIP

Common ArchiTecture for Next generation Internet Protocol (IPNG, RFC 1707) From VERA

CATS

CodeWarrior Analysis Tools From VERA

CAUCE

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (org., Internet, spam, UCE) From VERA

caudium

An extensible WWW server written in Pike Caudium is a modern, fast and extensible WWW server derived from Roxen. Caudium is by default compatible with Roxen 1.3 although some incompatible options, mostly introduced to improve the performance, security etc. of the server, can be turned on. Caudium features built-in log parsing engine (UltraLog), XSLT parser, native PHP4 support, multiple execution threads and many more features - see http://caudium.net/ and http://caudium.org/ for more information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CAV

Constant Angular Velocity (CD, HDD, MOD) From VERA

CAVE

Cave for Automated Virtual Environment (VR) From VERA

CAVO

Computer Associates - Visual Objects (CA, DB), "CA-VO" From VERA

CBASIC

Commercial Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) From VERA

cbb

The Check-Book Balancer - a Quicken clone CBB is a perl and tk application which can handle several bank accounts. CBB make transfers, balancing, spending analysis a breeze. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CBC

Cipher Block Chaining [mode] (DES, DESE, RC5, cryptography) From VERA

CBCP

CallBack Control Protocol From VERA

CBCS

Computer Based Conversation System (BBS) From VERA

CBDF

Character Bitmap Distribution Format (Adobe) From VERA

CBDS

Connectionless Broadband Data Service (Europe) From VERA

CBE

Certified Banyan Engineer (Banyan, VINES) From VERA

cbedic

Text-mode Bulgarian/English Dictionary CBE Dictionary is a command-line Bulgarian to English and English to Bulgarian electronic Dictionary. It can work in interactive mode too. The dictionary databases are not included in this package. You have to download bedic-data.tar.gz from http://kbedic.sourceforge.net/download.php. Install the files buleng.dat and engbul.dat in /usr/local/share/bedic. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CBEMA

Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (org.) From VERA

CBF

Code Behind Form (MS, Access, DB) From VERA

CBGA

Ceramic Ball and Grid Array (IC) From VERA

CBIOS

Compatibility Basic Input Output System (IBM, BIOS) From VERA

CBMS

Connectionless Broadband Data Service From VERA

CBQ

Class Based Queueing From VERA

CBR

Constant Bit Rate (ATM, VBR, ABR, UBR, QOS) From VERA

cbrowser

a C/C++ source code indexing, querying and browsing tool Cbrowser is a graphical C/C++ source code searching and browsing tool, and a hierarchical function call viewer. Cbrowser is a front-end to the popular source code indexing and querying program cscope and the alternative cs, both free software. Author: Chris Felaco <cfelaco@users.sourceforge.net> Home Page: http://cbrowser.sourceforge.net/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CBS

Certified Banyan Specialist (Banyan, VINES) From VERA

CBSR

Candidate BootStrap Router (PIM, BSR, Multicast), "C-BSR" From VERA

CBT

Canon Buffer Transmission (Fax) From VERA

CBT

Computer-Based Training From VERA

CBT

Core Based Tree [multicast protocol] (IP, RFC 1949/2189, ST, Multicast) From VERA

CBX

Computerized Branch eXchange (PBX) From VERA

CC

Carbon Copy From VERA

CC

Continuity Cell (ATM) From VERA

CC

Country Code (MS-ISDN, GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA

CC

Cross Connector From VERA

cc

GNU project C and C++ Compiler (gcc-2.95) From whatis

ccache

Compiler results cacher, for fast recompiles. ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up re-compilation of C/C++ code by caching previous compiles and detecting when the same compile is being done again. This is similar (but faster) than the compilercache package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CCAF

Call Control Agent Function (IN) From VERA

ccal

Colorised calendar utility CCAL is a drop in replacement for the standard unix calendar program. It includes support for color and daily, weekly, and yearly reminders/appointments. This release contains bug fixes and new features including support for reading "reminder" data files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CCC

Chaos Computer Club (org.) From VERA

CCC

Computer Control Center From VERA

CCC

Cube Connected Cycles (MP) From VERA

CCCA

Campus Computer Communication Association (org., USA) From VERA

cccd

A small GTK+ CD player program cccd is a small GTK+ CD player program with many features: * Works with SCSI devices * CDDB lookups (local and remote) and local storing * Uses very little screen space * Handles CD Extras (mixed mode CDs) From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CCCH

Common Control CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA

CCCI

Center for Cyber Communities Initiative (org., Japan) From VERA

CCD

Charge Coupled Device From VERA

CCE

Connection Control Entity From VERA

cce

Console Chinese Environment - display Chinese (GB) on console CCE is a Console Chinese Environment like WZCE, yact & chdrv that lets you display and input Chinese (GB) at the console. Input methods include PinYin, WuBi, ShuangPin and ZiranMa. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CCE

[visual basic] Control Creation Edition (VB, ActiveX, MS) From VERA

CCETT

Centre Commun d'Etudes de Telediffusion et Telecommunications (org., France) From VERA

CCF

??? (org.) From VERA

CCF

Capsulated Color Filter (NEC) From VERA

CCF

Central Computer Facility From VERA

CCF

Connection Control Function (IN) From VERA

CCF

Controller Configuration Facility From VERA

CCFL

Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (LCD) From VERA

CCFT

Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube (LCD, Display) From VERA

CCIRN

Coordinating Committee of International Networks (org.) From VERA

CCIS

Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (AT&T) From VERA

CCITT

Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique (org., ITU, predecessor) From VERA

CCL

Cerberus Central Limited (manufacturer) From VERA

CCM

Change Configuration Management From VERA

ccmakedep

create dependencies in makefiles using a C compiler From whatis

ccmalloc

A memory profiler/debugger This is a memory profiling package. It can be used to debug various memory allocation problems, including: o memory leaks o multiple deallocation of the same data o under writes and over writes o writes to already deallocated data From Debian 3.0r0 APT

ccmtcnvt

convert C++ comments to C comments From whatis

CCNC

Common Channel Network Controller From VERA

CCNC

Computer / Communications Network Center From VERA

CCNUMA

Cache-Coherent Non Uniform Memory Access (SMP, NUMA), "cc-NUMA" From VERA

CCP

Command Console Processor (CP/M) From VERA

CCP

Communications Control Program (OS, IBM) From VERA

CCP

Compact Communication Products (TPS) From VERA

CCP

[PPP] Compression Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1962) From VERA

CCR

Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery (OSI) From VERA

CCR

Current Cell Rate (ATM) From VERA

CCRMA

Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (org., Stanford, UK) From VERA

CCS

Cambridge Cybernetic Society (org.) From VERA

CCS

Coded Character Set (CCS, Unicode) From VERA

CCS

Common Channel Signaling (IN) From VERA

CCS

Common Command Set (SCSI) From VERA

CCS

Common Communications Support (IBM, SAA) From VERA

CCS

Communications-Computer Systems, "C-CS" From VERA

CCS

Cyprus Computer Society (Org, Zypern) From VERA

CCS7

Common Channel signaling System 7 (IN, Telekom, CCITT) From VERA

CCSID

Coded Character Set IDentification (IBM) From VERA

CCSY

Cooperative Computing System Program (HP) From VERA

CCT

China Coast Time [+0800] (TZ) From VERA

CCTA

Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (org., UK) From VERA

CCTLD

Country Code Top Level DOMAIN (Internet, ICANN), "ccTLD" From VERA

CCU

Cache Control Unit (Wyse) From VERA

CCU

Customer Control Unit From VERA

CCV

C-bit Coding Violation [error event] (DS3/E3) From VERA

CCW

COM Callable Wrapper (MS, COM, Java) From VERA

CD

Carrier Detect (MODEM, RS-232) From VERA

CD

Change Directory (DOS, Unix, OS/2) From VERA

cd

change directory - ; cd .. moves you backwards to the next higher subdirectory level; cd / moves you to the highest directory level. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

CD

Committee Draft (ISO) From VERA

CD

Compact Disk (CD) From VERA

cd tilde

/C-D til-d*/ vi. To go home. From the Unix C-shell and Korn-shell command cd ~, which takes one to one's $HOME (cd with no arguments happens to do the same thing). By extension, may be used with other arguments; thus, over an electronic chat link, cd ~coffee would mean "I'm going to the coffee machine." From Jargon Dictionary

cd-circleprint

prints round shaped cd-labels a program to create round shaped cd-labels written in perl, using perl-tk as frontend. It has four lines of nice round shaped text for each label, additional four fields with normal text, choosable text-size, font colour, background colour and background images. You can squeeze the whole page if your printer doesn't generate correct circles and you can move the circle on the sheet. The output is postscript so it should be usable on any system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cd-discid

CDDB DiscID utility cd-discid is a backend utility to get CDDB discid information from a CD-ROM disc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CD-ROM

see compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM). From Redhat-9-Glossary

CDA

Communications Decency Act (Internet, USA) From VERA

CDA

Compound Document Architecture (DEC) From VERA

cdable_vars

If this is set, an argument to the cd builtin command that is not a directory is assumed to be the name of a variable whose value is the directory to change to. From Rute-Users-Guide

cdadd

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDB

Command Descriptor Block From VERA

cdbackup

CD-R(W) backup utility cdbackup and cdrestore are a pair of utilities designed to facilitiate streaming backup to and from CD-R(W) disks. Specificially, they were designed to work with dump/restore, but tar/cpio/whatever you want should work, so long as it writes to stdout for backups and reads from stdin for restores. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdbakeoven

common GUI for writing CDs under KDE CD Bake Oven (CDBO) is a graphical CD-creation/copying tool designed which aims to combine the power and stability of great command line utilities with a contemporary, easy-to-use user interface. CDBO enables you to create data or music CDs in the most intuitive matter, while enabling you to control every aspect of the process. It is built on top of very well known cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav and cdparanoia, encapsulating most of the options those utilities provide. This makes creating professional quality media as easy as making a few mouse clicks. Features include: o creating custom CDs by drag'n'drop'ing files from Konqueror or CDBO into the compilation list and clicking 'Create' o auto-detection of CD writers, supplemented by a Custom Devices Dialog for simple custom device configuration o a fully customize CD creation/duplication/erasing process (the CDBO Settings Dialog is split into convenient sections, such as o Audio CD copy, ISO Image creation, CDBO defaults, etc.) o a number of other features, such as: the ability to listen to o audio CDs while copying; ISO image creation; ISO image preview; Burn-At-Once support; BurnProf support (must be supported by the (hardware); bootable (El Torito) CD creation; and multiplatform CD creation. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDBS

Connectionless Data Bearer Service From VERA

CDBX

Computerized Digital Branch eXchange (PBX) From VERA

CDC

Connected Device Configuration (JVM) From VERA

CDC

Control Data Corporation (manufacturer) From VERA

CDC

Cult of the Dead Cow (org.), "cDc" From VERA

cdcd

command line or console based CD player cdcd works in two ways, accepting commands directly off the command line or in a query mode similar to other UNIX programs. To pass a command to cdcd, simply run cdcd with the command as the argument (e.g. cdcd play). This is great for using cron and cdcd together to make a CD alarm clock. Or you can run cdcd without arguments and you will be given the cdcd command prompt. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdcontrol

A parallel burner that allow you to write to one or more CD-Writter at once CDcontrol is a parallel CD burner program. It's allow you write to a unlimited number or CD writers (IDE and SCSI) at once time. The CDcontrol is the first burning system of that type that I know for *nix operating system and it's all under GPL license. Some of it's features are better than commercial systems that I've hear about (and fully support CD images and all data type supported by cdrecord program), one of these features is the separated control of each recorder once the recording is started (avoid problems due a fail or speed problem in other writers). The CDcontrol itself has a daily production report for each writter and fails of writting, in cases of more serious errors, a technical report is also written (it's content is a full cdrecord output for that writter, plus the time when it happens). Other interesting feature is the automatic calculation of copies, enabling only the writers requested to complete the number and skipping all that are disabled. The CDcontrol come with the following tools: cd-memoria - Read the CD image and write it on the permanent memory (HD, Raid, CDRW, etc). memoria-cd - Read the CD image and write it on all writers. apagar-cdcontrol - Delete a CD image from permanent memory config-cdcontrol - Allow you to manually enable/disable one or more writers. rel-cdcontrol - Allow you to read the success/fail reports of each day (the technician report is found at the subdirectory $LOG_DIR/tec and should be read as any text file in the system). From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdcover

Creating Data-CD Covers cdcover is a little commandline tool which creates user-defined data-cd covers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdctrl

command line CDROM control From whatis

CDD

Component Design Document From VERA

CDDA

Compact Disk - Digital Audio (CD, Digital audio), "CD-DA" From VERA

cdda2wav

Cdda2wav is a sampling utility for CD-ROM drives that is capable of providing CD audio data in digital form to your host. Audio data read from the CD can be saved as .wav or .sun format sound files. Recording formats include stereo/mono, 8/12/16 bits, and different rates. Cdda2wav can also be used as a CD player. From Redhat 8.0 RPM

cdda2wav

Creates WAV files from audio CDs cdda2wav lets you digitally copy audio tracks from a CD-ROM, avoiding the distortion that is introduced when recording via a sound card. Data can be dumped into wav or sun format sound files. Options control the recording format (stereo/mono; 8/16 bits; sampling rate, etc). From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cddb

CD DataBase support tools This package provides a location for programs to store files from the CDDB in and contains a simple program to query CDDB servers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDDI

Copper Distributed Data Interface (FDDI, UTP) From VERA

CDE

Certified Directory Engineer (Novell, Netware) From VERA

CDE

Common Desktop Environment From VERA

CDE

Compact Disk - Erasable (CD), "CD-E" From VERA

CDE

Cooperative Development Environment (Oracle) From VERA

CDE (Common Desktop Environment)

UNIX has not traditionally been intended as a desktop operating system, and therefore has lacked many of the features of Windows and Macintosh PCs. CDE is a standard supported by numerous UNIX vendors to supply a common desktop environment on top of X Windows and RPC. Of interest to hackers are the following, services: ToolTalk rpc.ttdbd Provides the core of most "desktop" services. Provides an inter-application communication library that can be linked to applications. ToolTalk has had two major remote exploits providing root access. In 1999, a buffer-overflow was discovered. In 2001, a format-string exploit was discovered. Both resulted in widespread compromises. From Hacking-Lexicon

cdebconf

Debian Configuration Management System (C-implementation) Debconf is a configuration management system for Debian packages. It is used by some packages to prompt you for information before they are installed. This is a reimplementation of the original debconf version in C. Installing this package is rather dangerous now. It will break debconf. You have been warned! From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdecl

Turn english phrases to C or C++ declarations Cdecl is a program which will turn English-like phrases such as "declare foo as array 5 of pointer to function returning int" into C declarations such as "int (*foo[5])()". It can also translate the C into the pseudo- English. And it handles typecasts, too. Plus C++. And in this version it has command line editing and history with the GNU readline library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdeject

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDF

Channel Definition Format (MS, Internet, XML) From VERA

CDF

Compound Document Framework (IBM, OLE) From VERA

CDFS

Compact Disk File System (CD, OS/2, IBM) From VERA

cdfs-src

shows the tracks on a CD as normal files CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (WAVE audio and VideoCD tracks)... The primary goal for developing this file system was to `unlock' information in old ISO images. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDG

Compact Disk + Graphics (CD), "CD+G" From VERA

CDI

Compact Disk - Interactive (CD), "CD-I" From VERA

cdialog

Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces. Dialog is called from within a shell script. The following dialog boxes are implemented: yes/no, menu, input, message, text, info, checklist, radiolist, and gauge. Install dialog if you would like to create TTY dialog boxes. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

CDIF

CASE Data Interchange Format (CASE) From VERA

cdindex-client

cdindex is intended to be the open source replacement of cddb(tm) cdindex is a system that allows the web based submission of title, artist information of CDs and the retrieval. It is completely web based (cgi / html / xml) and uses a web browser for submission / retrieval. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdinfo

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

cdir

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDK

Control Development Toolkit (MS, VB) From VERA

cdlabelgen

generates front cards and tray cards for CDs cdlabelgen was designed to simplify the process of generating labels for CDs. It originated as a program to allow auto generation of front cards and tray cards for CDs burned via an automated mechanism (specifically for archiving data), but has now become popular for labelling CD compilations of mp3's, and copies of CDs. Note that cdlabelgen does not actually print anything--it just spits out postscript, which you can then do with as you please. Author: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com> Homepage: http://www.red-bean.com/~bwf/software/cdlabelgen/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDLinux

CDlinux is a CD based mini Linux distribution, which runs from a CDROM. It aims to be an administration/rescue tool for Eastern Asian (CJK) users. CDlinux is also highly user configureable, and supports a wide range of hardware (PCMCIA/SCSI/USB). Version 0.4.3 was released June 10, 2003. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List

CDLinux

This CDLinux was a Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on a CD. Last update, March 30, 2001. Distribution development is not all that active. From LWN Distribution List

cdloop

Restart a CD when it ceases playing From whatis

CDM

Compressed Data Mode From VERA

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access (DFUe) From VERA

CDMIDI

Compact Disk + Musical Instruments Digital Interface (CD, MIDI), "CD+MIDI" From VERA

CDMO

Compact Disk - Magneto Optical (CD), "CD-MO" From VERA

CDMS

Communication Driver Maintenance System (ISDN, HST) From VERA

CDNC

Chinese DOMAIN Name Consortium (org., Internet, DOMAIN) From VERA

CDO

Collaboration Data Objects (WSH, MS) From VERA

cdown

query cddb database for info on a disc From whatis

cdp

Cdp is a program for playing CDs on the Linux console. Cdp includes a full-screen ncurses mode and a command line mode for scripts. From Redhat 8.0 RPM

cdparanoia

An audio extraction tool for sampling CDs. Unlike similar programs such as cdda2wav, cdparanoia goes to great lengths to try to extract the audio information without any artifacts such as jitter. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdparanoia

This CDDA reader distribution ('cdparanoia') reads audio from the CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a fileor pipe as .wav, .aifc or as raw 16 bit linear PCM. cdparanoia is a complete rewrite of Heiko Eissfeldt's 'cdda2wav' program, and generally is much better at succeeding to read difficult discs with cheap drives. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

cdpause

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDPC

Cellular Digital Packet Data From VERA

CDPD

Cellular Digital Packet Data (mobile-systems) From VERA

cdplay

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDR

Compact Disk - Recordable (CD), "CD-R" From VERA

CDRA

Character Data Representation Architecture From VERA

CDRAM

Cached Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC) From VERA

cdrdao

Cdrdao records audio CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode, based on a textual description of the CD contents. Recording in DAO mode writes the complete disc (lead-in, one or more tracks, and lead-out) in a single step. DAO allows full control over the length and the contents of pre-gaps, the pause areas between tracks. From Redhat 8.0 RPM

cdrdao

Write audio or mixed mode CD-Rs in disk-at-once mode cdrdao creates audio or mixed mode CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode driven by a description file. In DAO mode it is possible to create non standard track pre-gaps that have other lengths than 2 seconds and contain nonzero audio data. This is for example useful to divide live recordings into tracks where 2 second gaps would be irritating. It is also possible to create hidden tracks or track intros as found on commercial CDs. This tool can produce audio and mixed mode CDs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdrdao

Writes audio CD-Rs in disc-at-once (DAO) mode allowing control over pre-gaps (length down to 0, nonzero audiodata) and sub-channel information like ISRC codes. Alldata that is written to the disc must be specified witha text file. Audio data may be in WAVE or raw format. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

cdrecord

A command line CD/DVD writing tool cdrecord allows you to create CDs on a CD recorder (SCSI or ATAPI). It supports writing data, audio, mixed, multi-session, and CD+ and DVD discs, on just about every type of CD recorder out there. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cdreset

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDRM

Cross DOMAIN Resource Manager (VTAM, SSCP, IBM) From VERA

CDROM

Compact Disk - Read Only Memory (CD, ROM), "CD-ROM" From VERA

CDROMXA

Compact Disk - ROM / eXtended Architecture (CD, MPC, ROM), "CD-ROM/XA" From VERA

cdrtoaster

Tcl/Tk front-end for burning cdrom. CDR-Toaster is a Tcl/Tk front-end for cdrecord, cdparanoia and mkisofs. It is very userful for burning data and audio cdrom. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDRW

Compact Disk - ReWritable (CD), "CD-RW" From VERA

CDS

Cell Directory Service (DCE) From VERA

CDS

Current Directory Structure (BIOS. DOS) From VERA

CDSA

Common Data Securuty Architecture (HP, cryptography) From VERA

cdshuffle

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDSS

Creative Decision Stimulation Systems (AI, DSS) From VERA

CDT

Cell Delay Tolerance (ATN) From VERA

CDT

Central Daylight Time [-0500] (TZ, CST, USA) From VERA

cdtool

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

cdtool

some text-based commands for managing a CD cdtool contains cdplay, cdeject, cdstop, cdpause, and several other utilities that let you control your CD-ROM drive from a command line. Also, it comes with cdir, a utility that uses a workman-style database to keep track of the contents of different CDs. It now includes a commandline utility for controlling a CD-ROM called cdctrl. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CDTV

Commodore Dynamic Total Vision (Commodore) From VERA

CDV

Cell Delay Variation (UNI, ATM, QOS) From VERA

cdvolume

play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s) From whatis

CDVT

Cell Delay Variation Tolerance (UNI, ATM, CDV) From VERA

CDWO

Compact Disk - Write Once (CD), "CD-WO" From VERA

CE

Communaute / Comunique Europeenne (Europe) From VERA

CE

Communications-Electronics, "C-E" From VERA

CE

Compact Edition (MS, Windows) From VERA

CE

Connection Endpoint (UNI) From VERA

CEARCH

Cisco Educational ARCHive (Cisco, WWW) From VERA

CEBIT

welt CEntrum Buero Information Telekommunikation (fair), "CeBIT" From VERA

CECI

CICS Enhanced Command Interpreter (IBM, CICS) From VERA

CEDA

??? (CICS, IBM) From VERA

CEDR

[Microsoft Windows] Compact Edition Driver Repository (MS, Windows, CE) From VERA

CEECEB

Central and Eastern European Countries EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "CEEC/EB" From VERA

CEG

Continuous Edge Graphics (Grafik, IC) From VERA

CEI

Connection Endpoint Identifier (UNI) From VERA

celestia

A real-time visual space simulation Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space. Choose a point within the Local Group of galaxies, and Celestia will show you an approximation of how it would appear to your eyes were you actually there. Some of what Celestia shows is necessarily hypothetical--the farther away from Earth you get, the less real data there is and the more guesswork is involved. Thus Celestia supplements observational data with good guesses based on models of stellar and planetary processes. Celestia is unique in its ability to allow you to navigate at an immense range of scales. Orbit a couple kilometers above the surface of a tiny, irregular asteroid, then head off toward Jupiter, watching it grow from a bright point of light into a looming sphere filling your field of vision. Leave our solar system entirely and observe the sun as it fades from a brilliant disk to a bright star, disappearing almost entirely as you head off toward the Upsilon Andromeda system to orbit around its innermost giant planet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CELP

Card Edge Low Profile [socket] From VERA

CELP

Code Excited Linear Prediction From VERA

CEM

Contract Equipment Manufacturer From VERA

CEMT

??? (CICS, IBM) From VERA

CEN

Comite Europeen de Normalisation (Europe, Brussels) From VERA

CENELEC

Comite Europeen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique (org., CEN, Europe) From VERA

centericq

A text-mode ICQ client based on ncurses Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. ICQ, Yahoo! and MSN protocols are now supported. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes and, contacts, mass message send, search for users (including extended "whitepages search"), view users' details, maintain your contact list directly from the program (including non-icq contacts), view the messages history, register a new UIN and update your details, be informed on receiving email messages, automatically set away after the defined period of inactivity (on any console), and have your own ignore, visible and invisible lists. It can also associate events with sounds, has support for Hebrew and Arabic languages and allows to arrange contacts into groups. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CENTR

Council of European National Top level DOMAIN Registries From VERA

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The component of a computer in which data processing takes place.From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology

central processing unit (CPU)

The component which controls the computation and operation of a computer system. Units within the CPU perform math and logic operations and translate and execute instructions. From Redhat-9-Glossary

CEPAC

CMOS-Ein-Platinen-Allzweck-Computer (IC, CMOS, C'T) From VERA

CEPIS

Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (org., Europe) From VERA

CEPT

Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications administrations (org., CCITT, conference, Europe) From VERA

CER

Cell Error Ratio (ATM) From VERA

CERFNET

California Educational and Research Federation NETwork (network), "CERFNet" From VERA

CERN

Conseil Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (org., Europe, Geneva) From VERA

CERN Linux

CERN Linux is based on Red Hat Linux, with modifications to the kernel (to better support their hardware) and with additional software for High Energy Physics (HEP). It is used mostly at CERN and a few of the smaller HEP institutes worldwide, running on farm machines, servers, desktops and embedded PCs. CERN 7.3.2 was released April 9, 2003. Added to list June 17, 2003. From LWN Distribution List

cern-httpd

The CERN HTTP (World-Wide Web) server The CERN HTTP daemon allows you to run an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) server on your computer. HTTP is the main transport protocol used in the World Wide Web. Unless you wish only to serve files to users of your system, you must be hooked up to a TCP/IP network. This HTTP server is fairly outdated, and no longer maintained upstream. It does serve as a fairly nice local server, though. CERN ACKNOWLEDGMENT: This product includes computer software created and made available by CERN. This acknowledgment shall be mentioned in full in any product which includes the CERN computer software included herein or parts thereof. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team (DARPA, CMU, Internet) From VERA

Certificate Authority

An issuer of Security Certificates used in SSL connections. From Matisse

cervisia

KDE based CVS frontend Cervisia is a graphical frontend for the CVS client. It provides access to the following features: * Updating or retrieving the status of a working directory or single files. * Files are displayed in different colors depending on their status, and the shown files can be filtered according to their status. * Common operations like adding, removing and commiting files. * Advanced operations like adding and removing watches, editing and unediting files, locking and unlocking. * Checking out and importing modules. * Graphical diff against the repository and between different revisions. * Blame-annotated view of a file. * View of the log messages in tree and list form. * Resolving of conflicts in a file. * Tagging and branching. * Updating to a tag, branch or date. * A Changelog editor coupled with the commit dialog. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CES

C-bit Errored Seconds (DS3/E3) From VERA

CES

Character Encoding Scheme (CSS, Unicode) From VERA

CES

Circuit Emulation Service From VERA

CES

Consumer Electronics Show (fair, USA) From VERA

CESAR

Central Employment Search And Retrieval (WWW) From VERA

CET

Central European Time [+0100] (TZ, MET) From VERA

CET

Centro de Estudes de Telecomunicoes (org., Portugal) From VERA

CF

Carry Flag (assembler) From VERA

CF

Compact Flash [card] From VERA

CFA

Center for Architecture (org., JIEO, DISA) From VERA

CFA

Code Fiels Address (Forth) From VERA

CFB

Cipher FeedBack [mode] (cryptography, DES) From VERA

CFD

Call For Discussion (Internet) From VERA

CFD

Computational Fluid Dynamics [applications] From VERA

cfdisk

Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux From whatis

cfdisk-utf8

A small UTF8 capable version of cfdisk This package contains the cfdisk program linked against the UTF8 libraries. Do not install it unless you really need a fdisk programs which needs to handle with UTF8, or unless you need if for a small Linux root filesystem like this on the boot-floppies. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CFE

Center for Engineering (org., JIEO, DISA) From VERA

cfe

Console Font Editor cfe is a console font editor which works well both on the console and the terminal. It includes such abilities as various glyph transforming, multi-level undo, and comparing the glyphs of two fonts. cfe automatically supports loading of .psf and raw binary fonts. Other types of fonts can be opened using the proper options. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cfengine

Tool for configuring and maintaining network machines The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and permissions on files when collaborating with other users. It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder how you ever lived without it! From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CFF

Compact Font Format (Adobe) From VERA

CFI

CAD Framework Initiative (org., CAD) From VERA

cfi

Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture. Copyright does not exist: Book about hacker culture, folklore and history by Linus Walleij. This is a translation from the original Swedish text. In HTML format. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cfingerd

Configurable finger daemon This is a free replacement for standard finger daemons such as GNU fingerd and MIT fingerd. Cfingerd can enable/disable finger service to individual users, rather than to all users on a given host. Cfingerd is able to respond to a finger request to a specified user by running a shell script (e.g., finger doorbell@mysite.mydomain might cause a sound file to be sent) rather than just a plain text file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cfitsio2

Shared library for I/O with FITS format data files FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in astronomy. cfitsio is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. A set of Fortran-callable wrapper routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran programmers. This package contains what you need to run programs that use this library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cflow

C function call hierarchy analyzer The cflow command reads the given program source and attempts to print a graph of the program's function call hierarchy to the standard output. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cflow

print a function call hierarchy From whatis

CFM

ConFiguration Management (FDDI, SMT) From VERA

CFMC

Committee to Fight Microsoft Corporation (org., MS) From VERA

CFML

Cold Fusion Markup Language From VERA

CFP

Call For Papers From VERA

CFS

Center for Standards (org., JIEO, DISA) From VERA

CFS

Cryptographic FileSystem (Linux, cryptography) From VERA

cfs

Cryptographic Filesystem CFS pushes encryption services into the Unix(tm) file system. It supports secure storage at the system level through a standard Unix file system interface to encrypted files. Users associate a cryptographic key with the directories they wish to protect. Files in these directories (as well as their pathname components) are transparently encrypted and decrypted with the specified key without further user intervention. CFS employs a novel combination of DES stream and codebook cipher modes to provide high security with good performance on a modern workstation. CFS can use any available file system for its underlying storage without modification, including remote file servers such as NFS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cftp

A full-screen ftp client. Cftp is an ftp client where you just use the arrow keys to move around and get what you want. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CFV

Call For Vote (Internet, Usenet), "CfV" From VERA

cfv

tests and creates .sfv, .csv and md5 files cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv (Simple File Verify) .csv, and md5sum files. These files are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or storage of data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CGA

Colour Graphics Adapter From VERA

CGA

Graphics Communications Association (org.) From VERA

CGARI

Graphics Communications Association Research Institute (org., CGA) From VERA

CGDC

Computer (???) Game Developers' Conference From VERA

CGI

Common Gateway Interface (WWW) From VERA

CGI

Computer Generated Imagery From VERA

CGI

Computer Graphics Interface From VERA

CGI

Computer Graphics International (conference) From VERA

CGI (Common Gateway Interface)

An interface between a Web site and a user. It allows forms, surveys and other documents to be filled on-line and the results automatically sent to the web site's UNIX server. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology

CGI (Common Gateway Interface)

Used on Web servers to transmit data between scripts and/or applications and then return the data to the Web page or browser. CGI scripts are often created using the Perl language, and can generate dynamic Web content (including e-commerce shopping baskets, discussion groups, survey forms, current news, etc.). From I-gloss

cgi-bin

The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGIprograms are stored. From Matisse

cgiemail

CGI Form-to-Mail converter cgiemail is a flexible CGI-based tool that will allow non-programmers to create forms to be emailed. Note that it's no longer actively maintained upstream and has a history of security problems, so you may wish to use another package, such as mailto. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cgilib

Simple CGI Library This library provides a simple programming API to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). It features HTTP Redirect, provides read access to FORM variables, sets HTTP Cookies and reads them. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cgiwrap

allows ordinary users to run their own CGI scripts a gateway that allows more secure user access to CGI programs on an HTTPd server than is provided by the http server itself. The primary function of CGIwrap is to make certain that any CGI script runs with the permissions of the user who installed it, and not those of the server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CGM

Computer Graphics Metafile (ISO 8632) From VERA

CGMS

Copy Generation Management System (CD) From VERA

cgoban

Complete Go board Cgoban (Complete Goban) is a computerized board on which you can play the game of Go against another player, view and edit smart-go files, and connect to Go servers on the Internet. It can also interface with computer Go programs that speak Go modem protocol. You will need some sort of image converter if you wish to use the utility provided to capture "screen shots" of a cgoban game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CGRM

Computer Graphics Reference Model (ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC 11072) From VERA

CGVDI

Computer Graphic Virtual Device Interface, "CG-VDI" From VERA

cgvg

command-line source browsing tool. cgvg is a pair of Perl scripts ("cg" and "vg") which are meant to assist a programmer in doing command-line source browsing. The idea is you can easily search for keywords in the code, and jump to the file and line where a match is found. Used with ctags(1), this can really help with jumping around and following code. Some features include a human-readable output, coloring, bolding (and alternate bolding), and just sheer convenience for a programmer. cgvg uses the Perl internal find and does it's own searching, rather than being a wrapper for UNIX find(1) and grep(1). There is a ~/.cgvgrc file for per-user configuration, and some nice features like coloring, and multiple log files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chage

change user password expiry information From whatis

CHAID

CHisquard Automatic Interaction Detector / Detection (SPSS) From VERA

ChainSaw Linux

ChainSaw Linux had video production, but as of May 4, 2002, the original Editing Edition is seen as "the ultimate goal for ChainSaw Linux." A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. From LWN Distribution List

challenge (challenge-response)

A method to authenticate users that avoids sending passwords over the network. It goes something like this (though the details among various programs are different). the client requests access the server sends back random data the client then encrypts/hashes the data using the password the server checks the result In this manner, the client proves it knows the correct password without ever sending it across the wire. Key point: In most cases the user is prompted for the password, which the client then stores in memory. In the use of smart cards, however, the system may give the user the challenge string, which the user then types into the smart card. The smart card then produces a response, which the user must type back into the system. In this way, the user validates that they have the smart card. Key point: Challenge-response systems are thought to be more secure because the challenge/response is different every time. This guards against replay attacks as well as making cracking more difficult. From Hacking-Lexicon

chameleon

Application for putting pictures or color in the root window Using GTK and Imlib, Chameleon allows the use to place a picture in any format or a color chosen from a color wheel in the root window of X (the background). It also can be run from the command line w/o using the GTK interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

change-control

An important security practice where changes to the systems are reviewed ahead of time to validate they are appropriate, then recorded in order to "roll back" in case they introduce a fault. A common use for change-control is validating that a firewall's ruleset doesn't degrade. Change-control is also used for maintaining system patches. From Hacking-Lexicon

changeaudiocddev

change the /dev/cdrom link From whatis

ChangeLog file

A specially formatted list containing a history of all changes ever done to the package, by whom, and on what date. Used to track work on the package. From Rute-Users-Guide

changetrack

Monitor (and recover from) changes to configuration files A program to monitor changes to a set of files. If files are modified one day, and the machine starts working incorrectly some days later, changetrack can provide information on which files were modified, and help locate the problem. Changetrack will also allow recovery of the files from any stage using RCS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chaos

Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI. Chaos is the latest branch of normally Semi-gnus. Semi-gnus is a replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI. It has all features of Gnus and gnus-mime, so there are no need to install Gnus to use it, and you must not use gnus-mime for SEMI. It requires SEMI package, so please get and install SEMI package before to install it. Chaos is one of Semi-gnus variants. Now, "Semi-gnus" is generic name of Gnus for SEMI. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CHAP

Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol - used to verify a user's name and password for PPP Internet connections. It is more secure than the other main authentication protocol (PAP).From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

CHAP

[PPP] Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP, RFC 1334/1994) From VERA

character

An object, such as a symbol, that is comprised of one byte of computer storage. From Redhat-9-Glossary

character device

System component or peripheral (such as an Ethernet card or printer) that is accessed without buffer cache memory. From Redhat-9-Glossary

charset

Set an ACM for use in one of the G0/G1 charset slots. From whatis

chase

Follow a symlink and print out its target file Chase is a small utility for tracking down the actual file that a symbolic link points to - chasing the symlink, if you will. The result of a successful run is guaranteed to be an existing file which is not a symbolic link. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chasen

a Japanese Morphological Analysis System ChaSen is a morphological analysys system. It can segment and tokenize Japanese text string, and can output with many additional informations (pronunciation, semantic information, and others). It will print the result of such an operation to the standard output, so that it can either written to a file or further processed. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chastity-list

blacklists for SquidGuard squidGuard is a free (GPL), flexible and ultra fast filter, redirector and access controller plugin for squid. It lets you define multiple access rules with different restrictions for different user groups on a squid cache. squidGuard uses squid's standard redirector interface. This package contains blacklists provided by the Chastity project. Chastity intends to make a maintained ACL-list for squid for use in public schools and other organizations. The projects is divided into a web-based adminstration tool, datastorage and client-tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chat

Online, realtime chatting is one of the more popular features of the Internet. There are many popular systems. Among the hacking community, services like IRC and ICQ are popular. Some popular commercial services include Yahoo messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and Microsoft Messenger. Key point: Favorite because it provides real-time anonymous communication. From Hacking-Lexicon

chattr

change file attributes on a Linux second extended file system From whatis

chbg

A tool for changing the desktop background image in X11 A GTK+ based program that lets you periodically change your X desktop. It has several random effects, a slideshow, and and may act as a xscreensaver hack or as a standalone screensaver. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chbg

ChBg is for changing desktop backgrounds in a given period. It can render images with 10 modes (such as tiled, centered, scaled, etc.). It uses Imlib1, Imlib2, or gdk_pixbuf for loading images, so it supports many image formats. This version uses gdk-pixbuf. ChBg has a windowed setup program, is able to load setup files, can be used as slideshow picture previewer in its own window or as adesktop background, and can be used as screensaver or as an xscreensaverhack. It has a dialog for fast previewing of pictures and very usablethumbnail previews. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

CHCP

CHange Code Page (DOS) From VERA

CHDL

Computer Hardware Description Language (HDL) From VERA

chdrvfont

Kuo Chiao 16x16 font for CHDRV Chinese console terminal This package contains the Kuo Chiao 16x16 Chinese bitmap font and the corresponding 8x16 ASCII font files (kcchin16.f00 and kctext16.f00) for the CHDRV Chinese console terminal for Linux. These fonts were part of the Kuo Chiao Chinese System generously donated to the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet). To the best of my knowledge, these fonts have since been widely distributed all over the world and are now in the public domain. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

check

A unit test framework for C Check features a simple interface for defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code errors that cause segmentation faults or other signals. The output from unit tests can be used within source code editors and IDEs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

checkbot

a WWW link verifier Checkbot is a perl5 script which can verify links within a region of the World Wide Web. It checks all pages within an identified region, and all links within that region. After checking all links within the region, it will also check all links which point outside of the region, and then stop. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

checkmp3

identify MP3s that do not follow the MP3 format mp3_check helps to identify in explicit detail MP3s that do not correctly follow the MP3 format. It also looks for invalid frame headers, missing frames, etc., and generates useful statistics. This can be useful when building a high-quality mp3 archive... From Debian 3.0r0 APT

checksecurity

check for changes to setuid programs From whatis

checkservice

Checks the status of services on (remote) hosts Checkservice is a simple and fast service checking perl script. It is able to show the results in many ways: by keeping logs, showing it on the PHP status page, output that MRTG can use or warning(plugins) if something is wrong. Checkservice features grouping of hosts, very easy configuration and thorough service checking using checkplugins. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

checksum

A number computed by adding together all the characters from an entire file in a special mathematical way. It is useful for ensuring a file has been transferred correctly. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

checksum

A technique for detecting if data inadvertently changes during transmission. The sender simply divides all the data up into two-character numbers, then adds all the numbers together. The receiver makes the same calculation, and checks the calculated checksum with the transmitted checksum. If they don't match, then the receiver knows the data was corrupted in transit. Key point: Checksums are not secure against intentional changes by hackers. For that, you need a cryptographic hash. From Hacking-Lexicon

Checksum

An acronym for SUMmation CHECK. In data communications, an error-checking technique in which the number of bits in a unit of data is summed, transmitted along with the data, and checked by the receiving computer. If the sum differs, an error probably occurred in transmission and the transmission is repeated. A commonly used personal computer communications protocol called XMODEM uses the checksum technique. In some virus scanning and file integrity software checksums are calculted for every file in a directory and the results are stoed in the directory. When the program is scanningm it compares the checksum information stored in the directory with the current checksum for each scanned file. A difference in the sum may indicate that the file has been infected by a virus that doesn't leave a recognised signature. From QUECID

cheesetracker

Sound Module Tracking Program (IT - Impulse Tracker Clone) This program is used to create what is called 'Sound Modules', files containing samples of, for instance, piano's and guitars, and a couple of play-patterns with notes, durations and effects. If these patterns are sequenced, a melody will play according to the notes and instruments you set in the pattern. This program is a direct clone of the MSDOS program called Impulse Tracker. It's not hard to learn, and very funny to play around with. This version is only capable of loading .IT type files (the original Impulse Tracker format). To start and find some cool pre-made tunes go to ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chemtool

GTK-based chemical structures drawing program Chemtool is a GTK+ based 2D chemical structure editor for X11. It supports many bond styles, most forms of text needed for chemical typesetting and splines/arcs/curved arrows. Drawings can be exported to MOL and PDB format, SVG or XFig format for further annotation, as a PiCTeX drawing, as a bitmap or as Postscript files (several of these through XFig's companion program transfig). The package also contains a helper program, cht, to calculate sum formula and (exact) molecular weight from a chemtool drawing file. Cht can either be called directly by Chemtool or on the console. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

cheops

Network swiss army knife Cheops is a combination of a variety of network tools to provide system adminstrators and users with a simple interface to managing and accessing their networks. Cheops aims to do for the network what the file manager did for the filesystem. Additionally, cheops has taken on the role of a network management system, in the same category as one might put HP Openview. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CHEST

Computers in Higher Education Software Team (org., UK) From VERA

Chew

A component of network lag, chew is the percentage of packets that are 'eaten' by the network connection. Ideally no packets should be lost, but the Internet is often anything but ideal. From KADOWKEV

chfn

change user name and information From whatis

chgrp

Changes the group ownership of each given file to group, which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

chicken

A simple Scheme-to-C compiler Why CHICKEN? - R5RS support. - SRFIs 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 23 - Syntax-case highlevel macros - Lightweight threads based on first-class continuations - Pattern matching with Andrew Wright's match package - Record structures - A simple and straightforward module system - An object system with multiple inheritance, multimethods and a meta-object protocol - Separated compilation poses no problem and full tail-recursion and first-class continuations are suported. - Extended comment- and string-literal syntaxes - Libraries for regular expressions, string handling, Common LISP style format, UNIX system calls and extended data structures - Create interpreted or compiled shell scripts written in Scheme - Compiled C files can be easily distributed - Generates quite portable C code and compiled files generated by it (including itself) should work without any change on DOS, Windows, most UNIX-like platforms, and with minor changes on other systems. - Linkage to C modules and C library functions is straightforward. Compiled programs can easily be embedded into existing C code. - Simple. It can be used as a pedagogical tool for anybody who is interested in the workings of a compiler. - Extendable, since its code generation scheme, runtime system, and garbage collector fit neatly into a C environment. - Offers better performance than nearly all interpreter based implementations, but still provides full Scheme semantics. - Probably is the first implementation of Scheme that uses Henry Baker's [Cheney on the M.T.A] concept. Usually, you will also need to install the chicken-dev package. The source files are not included since you could easily get them with the Debian source package. If you really feel the needs to get them under /usr/share/chicken/src, then please let me know. There are many Scheme implementations available in Debian, have a look at each of them! Have fun! From Debian 3.0r0 APT

child process

A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Linux, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

chilight

highlight a C source file From whatis

CHILL

CCITT HIgh Level programming Language (CCITT) From VERA

chill

The GNU CHILL compiler. This is the ITU CHILL compiler. CHILL is the "CCITT High-Level Language", where CCITT is the old name for what is now ITU, the International Telecommunications Union. It is a language in the Modula-2 family, and targets many of the same applications as Ada (especially large embedded systems). CHILL was never used much in the United States, but is still being used in Europe, Brazil, Korea, and other places. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU CHILL compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 2.95.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chimera2

Web browser for X Simple, fast, free web browser. This is an alpha-test version; some of the rendering routines are buggy. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

Chinese 2000 Linux

Chinese 2000 Linux comes from Hong Kong. From LWN Distribution List

Chinese Linux Extension

CLE is still there, mostly in Chinese, last update November 9, 2001. From LWN Distribution List

chipmunk

a circuit schematic capture tool and simulation environment. A circuit schematic capture tool and simulation environment. Log is a large circuit editing and simulation system. It has facilities for digital simulation (the original LOG), analog simulation (AnaLOG), network generation (LOGNTK), and plotting (LPLOT). Log is the most popular Chipmunk tool. This package contains analog, diglog and loged. For more information, please see the docs contained in log-doc package. Log needs the p-system emulation runtime libraries for Chipmunk tools to work, which are included in psys packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chkconfig

Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevelinformation for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc*.d, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

chkdupexe

find duplicate executables From whatis

chkfontpath

This is a simple terminal mode program for configuring the directories in the X font server's path. It is mostly intended to be used internally by RPM when packages with fonts are added or removed, butit may be useful as a standalone utility in some instances. From Redhat 8.0 RPM

chkfontpath

This is a simple terminal mode program for configuring the directories in the X font server's path. It is mostly intended to be used `internally' by RPM when packages with fonts are added or removed, butit may be useful as a stand-alone utility in some instances. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM

chkmail

check for new mail From whatis

chkrootkit

Checks for signs of rootkits on the local system chkrootkit identifies whether the target computer is infected with a rootkit. Some of the rootkits that chkrootkit identifies are: 1. lrk3, lrk4, lrk5, lrk6 (and some variants); 2. Solaris rootkit; 3. FreeBSD rootkit; 4. t0rn (including latest variant); 5. Ambient's Rootkit for Linux (ARK); 6. Ramen Worm; 7. rh[67]-shaper; 8. RSHA; 9. Romanian rootkit; 10. RK17; 11. Lion Worm; 12. Adore Worm. Please note that this is not a definitive test, it does not ensure that the target has not been cracked. In addition to running chkrootkit, one should perform more specific tests. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chktex

Finds typographic errors in LaTeX * Supports over 40 warnings. * Supports ``\input'' command; both TeX and LaTeX version. Actually includes the files. ``TEXINPUTS''-equivalent search path. * Intelligent warning/error handling. The user may promote/mute warnings to suit his preferences. You may also mute warnings in the header of a file; thus killing much unwanted garbage. * Supports both LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e. * Flexible output handling. Has some predefined formats and lets the user specify his own format. Uses a ``printf()'' similar syntax. ``lacheck'' compatible mode included for interfacing with the AUC-TeX Emacs mode. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chktri

check for trigraphs in C source code From whatis

chmod

changes the permissions for a file; permissions should include a letter designating who gets permissions (u for the user, g for the group, o for others, or a for all) followed by a + or - (to give or take away the permission) followed by the kind of permission (r for read access, w for write access, x for execute if the file is a program or script). From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

chording

The simultaneous pressing of two or more buttons or keys on an input device such as a keyboard or mouse that produces one set action. From Redhat-9-Glossary

chos

Easy Boot loader with a Boot-Menu Easy to use Boot-Loader for Linux / DOS / other Operating systems. It works like lilo but offers a simple menu on boot. No strange prompt anymore! Background images and more! Includes X interface to configure the boot screen and all parameters From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chown

changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file as specified by the first non-option argument as follows. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

chpasswd

update password file in batch From whatis

chpp

A powerful and simple preprocessor CHPP is a powerful preprocessor originally designed for, but not limited to, HTML. CHPP combines features of CPP, M4, Perl and Scheme. Among the features of CHPP are - CHPP is non-intrusive, i.e. you can take already existing text and just pipe it through CHPP and it is likely it won't change. - User-defined macros, which can be recursive - Complex data structures (lists and hashes) - Powerful looping constructs - Regular expression matching - Support for CGI scripting - An interface to SQL-Servers (at the moment mSQL and MySQL). From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chromium

Slick scrolling space shooter Chromium is a top down fast paced high action scrolling space shooter using sdl libs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chromium

You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.- Do not let ANY enemy ships get past your fighters! Each enemyship that makes it past the bottom of the screen will attackthe Chromium, and you lose a fighter.- Use your fighters as weapons! Crash into enemies to destroy thembefore they can get past you.- Strategic suicide is a powerful tactic! When the Chromium launches a new fighter, it releases a high energy burst which destroys all enemies in range.- Self-destruct to preserve your ammunition! A double-right-click will cause your current fighter to self-destruct. Before theship blows up, it ejects its ammunition so that the next fighter can pick it up. From Redhat 8.0 RPM

chrony

It sets your computer's clock from time servers on the Net. It consists of a pair of programs : `chronyd'. This is a daemon which runs in background on the system. It obtains measurements (e.g. via the network) of the system's offset relative to other systems, and adjusts the system time accordingly. For isolated systems, the user can periodically enter the correct time by hand (using `chronyc'). In either case, `chronyd' determines the rate at which the computer gains or loses time, and compensates for this. `chronyc'. This is a command-line driven control and monitoring program. An administrator can use this to fine-tune various parameters within the daemon, add or delete servers etc whilst the daemon is running. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

chroot

Makes the root directory (/) become something other than its default for the lifetime of the current process. It can only be run by privileged users and is used to give a process (commonly a network server such as FTP or HTTP) access to a restricted portion of the file system. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

chroot (jail)

A UNIX feature that creates a limited sandbox allowing a process to view only a single subtree of the filesystem. The jail call in BSD is a more advanced version for creating the same sort of sandbox. Point: In order for it to work properly, some common programs and libraries (e.g. /bin/sh, /usr/lib/libc.so.1, ...) need to be copied/linked to the appropriate locations in the new directory tree. Key point: A process running with root access can break out of a chrooted environment. Therefore, it should be used in conjunction with setuid. From Hacking-Lexicon

CHRP

Common Hardware Reference Platform (AIM) From VERA

chrpath

Tool to edit the rpath in ELF binaries rpath allows you to change the rpath (where the application looks for libraries) in an application. It does not (yet) allow you to add an rpath if there isn't one already. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CHS

Cylinder Head Sectors From VERA

CHS

stands for Cylinder/Head/Sector. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector)

Disk information required by FDISK during partitioning. From I-gloss

chsh

change login shell From whatis

CHSM

C Hardware Specific Module (NEST, MLID, Novell) From VERA

CHV

Card Holder Value [aka PIN] (ICC, PIN) From VERA

chvt

change foreground virtual terminal From whatis

CI

Check In (RCS) From VERA

ci

check in RCS revisions From whatis

CI

Coded Information From VERA

CI

Component Interface (DMI) From VERA

CI

Configuration Item (CM) From VERA

CI

Congestion Indicator From VERA

CIAC

Computer Incident Advisory Capability (org., LLNL, Internet) From VERA

CIB

Computer Integrated Business From VERA

CIC

Carrier Identification Code From VERA

CIC

Coordination and Information Center (CSNET) From VERA

CICA

Center of Innovative Computer Applications (org.) From VERA

CICS

Customer Information Control System (IBM, CICS) From VERA

CICSESA

Customer Information Control System/Enterprise Systems Architecture (IBM, CICS), "CICS/ESA" From VERA

CICSTS

Customer Information Control System / Transaction Server (IBM, VSE/ESA), "CICS/TS" From VERA

CICSVS

Customer Information Control System / Virtual Storage (IBM, CICS), "CICS/VS" From VERA

CID

Configuration - Installation - Distribution (IBM) From VERA

CIDF

Common Intrusion Detection Framework (CIDF, IDS) From VERA

CIDR

Classless Internet DOMAIN Routing [protocol] (RFC 1519) From VERA

CIE

Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (org.) From VERA

CIFS

Common Internet File System (TCP/IP) From VERA

CIFS

Common Internet File System: a protocol that defines a standard for remote file access using millions of computers at a time. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

cil

Chess In Lisp. A library for cmucl. This library is mainly intended as an example file. Not much useful stuff can be done yet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CIL

Computer Integration Laboratories (org., Apple, IBM, Novell, Sun, ...) From VERA

CILABS

Component Integration LABoratorieS (org.,, OpenDoc, Apple, IBM, Adobe, ...), CILabs From VERA

CIM

Cisco Interactive Mentor (Cisco) From VERA

CIM

Common Information Model (DMTF, XML, DMI) From VERA

CIM

Computer Integrated Manufacturing From VERA

cim

GNU Simula compiler GNU Cim is a compiler for the programming language Simula (except unspecified parameters to formal or virtual procedures (see the documentation for how portable code for formal procedures can be written)). It offers a class concept, separate compilation with full type checking, interface to external C routines, an application package for process simulation and a coroutine concept. The portability of the GNU Simula Compiler is based on the C programming language. The compiler and the run-time system is written in C, and the compiler produces C code, that is passed to a C compiler for further processing towards machine code. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CIMOM

CIM Object Model (CIM) From VERA

CIMOS

CIncinnati Milacron Operating System (OS), "CiMOS" From VERA

CIO

Cisco Information Online (Cisco, WWW) From VERA

CIP

Carrier Identification Parameter From VERA

CIP

Classical IP over ATM (IP, ATM, IETF) From VERA

CIP

Computer Integrated Processing From VERA

CIP

Computer-Investitions-Programm From VERA

CIPA

Children's Internet Protection Act (Internet, USA, COPA) From VERA

cipher (decipher)

In cryptography, the word cipher means an encryption algorithm. A cipher transforms the original data/message into pseudo-random data/message of the same length. In order to decipher the message, a reverse transformation must be applied. Key point: A block cipher is one that encrypts a block of data at a time. For example, DES uses a block size of 64-bits. Each input block must correspond to exactly one output block (like a codebook). A block-cipher suffers from the fact the same data repeated in a message would be encoded in the same way. Consider a block size of 8-bit encrypting English text; you could therefore figure out all the letter 'e's in the cipher text because they are the most common letter used. Therefore, block-ciphers are often used in a chaining mode such that the same pattern will indeed be decrypted differently. Key point: A stream cipher is essentially a chained block cipher with a block size of 1 (either 1-bit or 1-byte). It generates a keystream against which it XORs the plaintext, operating much like a one-time pad, though less secure in theory but more secure in practice. Example: Some popular ciphers are: DES The original widely-used computer-based encryption cipher that spawned the industry, but easily crackable today. triple DES A more secure form of DES whereby data is simply encrypted three different times. RC4 One of the most widely used ciphers today because of its prevalent use within web browsers and SSL. RC2 A cipher similar to RC4. IDEA Gained popularity because it was used as the default cipher for PGP. Blowfish Popular cipher because of its open source and non-patented status. CAST-128 Alternate cipher in PGP. Skipjack Controversal cipher designed for the Clipper chip, a government program to encourage key recovery for law enforcement. GOST 28147 Russian standard with 256-bit key. AES The new American standard for replacing DES. From Hacking-Lexicon

ciphertext

In cryptography, ciphertext describes the data after it has been encrypted. Contrast: clear-text, plaintext. From Hacking-Lexicon

CIR

Committed Information Rate (ATM) From VERA

CIRC

Cross Interleaved Reed-solomon Code (CD) From VERA

CIRCIT

Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technology (org., Australia) From VERA

Circle MUDLinux

MUDLinux is minidistribution of Linux containing a running Circle MUDServer. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. From LWN Distribution List

circlepack

creation and display of circle packings CirclePack is a C program for the creation, display, manipulation, and storage of circle packings using the X Window System. Computations may be done in either hyperbolic, Euclidean, or spherical geometry, though the routines for the latter are not yet complete. For the theory behind the package, one must consult the research literature. One of the author's primary interests concerns the parallels between the developing theory of circle packings and the classical theory of analytic functions. Home page: http://www.math.utk.edu/~kens/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT

circuslinux

The clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points! "Circus Linux!" is based on the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari" by Atari, released in 1980. Gameplay is similar to "Breakout" and "Arkanoid" - you slide a device left and right to bounce objects into the air which destroy a wall. From Debian 3.0r0 APT

CIS

Card Information Structure / Space (PCMCIA) From VERA

CIS

Command Information System (mil., USA) From VERA

CIS

Compuserve Information Systems (network) From VERA

CIS

Contact Image Sensor From VERA

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer (CPU) From