= Miscelaneous Useful links http://www.rt.com/man/ A comprehensive set of unix 'man' pages, formatted in html. These pages print very well (large margins, justifies text). This is oriented towards traditional unix and does not contain pages for many linux/unix utilities (for example: wget) http://validator.w3.org This is the w3c (world wide web consortium) html validator. It seems to use a strict sgml syntax in its parsing. (It always seems to have some problem with my pages). It also produces a line-numbered listing of the html source code. Is an online service. http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy/ Cleans up html generated by wysiwyg editors, ms word, editing mistakes, bad indenting. Online service. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ some documentation for html tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ executables and source for html tidy (many OS's supported, including DOS 386) http://tidy.sourceforge.net/other/tidy04aug00.exe Old but stable win32 executable for html tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/other/tidy.zip New win32 executable for html tidy http://validator.w3.org/checklink/ The w3c html hyper-link checker. really good. This link-checker takes the url of the page to be checked and puts it into an (encoded) querystring. It then returns the results in a simple format. It should lend it-self to automatic scripted checking of a web-site for valid links (For example: a reasonably simple shell script could be constructed using wget, at, sed and grep to automatically check a web-site for valid links on a regular basis. Online service. http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html Native (not requiring a 'cygwin' style unix emulator) ports of many Gnu utilities to win32 with a simple shell. Useful if you only need a specific unix tool (perhaps not very likely). http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm or http://www.jim.spath.com/lynx_win32/ A native win32 port of the Lynx text browser. This Lynx does not render html tables as tables and does not seem to support https. Its -dump option is useful for turning html into (sort-of) formatted text (with no images): For example, to create a formatted text file of this page: lynx -dump http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/links/links.html http://arachne.browser.org The Arachne browser This is a DOS-based graphical browser (that is, it does not need any windowing system to run, but still displays images and renders tables etc. It does not appear to support https (at the moment- may 2002). It has a good graphical 'set-up' program which attempts to cofigure ppp and your modem for you. (It seems to contain its own ppp program). This browser is very useful for getting old computers running dos connected to the internet. http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat194.zip blat, a command line SMTP e-mail sending tool for win32 http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.zip getmail, a win32 tool for retrieving e-mail from a pop3 mail box using only the command line. This is not an interactive program, but one designed by use by scripts etc. http://dsl.org/cookbook/ http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/cookbook/ The text of the Linux Cookbook (M. Stutz) with many linux command line examples. Oriented towards practical home usage of Debian linux with chapters on sound, images, text etc. It contains a good simple explanation of setting up a dial-up (ppp) internet connection on (debian) linux. http://www.cmdtools.com/ Command line tools for dos. Including a command line sound file player (wav, mp3) and a 'tree' programme. The sound file player is freeware but not open source. http://www.sysinternals.com/ A site for command line tools for dos/win. spanish.allinfo-about.com/vocabulary/ Good .wav sound files of spanish (~500) words being spoken by a (castillian ?) woman. A recursive wget seems to retrieve most of them. The files are generally named in accordance with the words that are spoken within them. eg: wget -nd -Awav -m spanish.allinfo-about.com/vocabulary/ spanishdict.com/ A good two way spanish/english dictionary with sound files (wav) for many words, approximately 10,000. spanishdict.com/AS.cfm?e=spanishword This url and querystring can be used to automate the retrieval process www.june29.com/IDP/IDPsearch.html Various online dictionaries wordreference.com/es/en/ A comprehensive spanish/english dictionary. This is the online version of the Harper Collins dictionary. The site also contains French German ... dictionaries. www.ilovelanguages.com Guide to internet language resources. french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiolab.htm This url can be used to extract the wav files from the site for example: wget -nd -Awav -I/library/vocab,/library/media french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiolab.htm www.puzzlers.org/secure/wordlists/dictinfo.html This page contains a list of internet based english wordlists (as opposed to dictionaries). It includes the standard unix english wordlist (about 20,000 words). www.opus.co.tt/dave This is a very good site for free-ware dos programs, and Windows programs that run in a Dos box. It includes a good section on sound programs. Muy bien. developer.irt.org/script Good javascript example programs covering all aspects of client side programming user.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm A good html stripping program for windows (command line). This does essentially what lynx -dump or linx --dump does but the program is much smaller, because it is not a browser. http://www.geocities.com/bishopalexander/ This contains some examples of paintings by Alexander Bishop http://pacling.anu.edu.au/for_authors/guide_for_PL_dictionaries.pdf A page dealing with how a bilingual dictionary should be formatted and how the data should be stored. It includes information on back-slash codes and their meanings Title Image: http://www.geocities.com/bishopalexander/scan/praderas-slice1.jpg