Free ascii software for linux

TWS-ASCII is TuxWordSmith (TWS) for the console. TWS is very similar to Scrabble. The game has been made to be accessible for the blind. The game runs in any console through a Python interpreter.

INSTALLATION:

Just unzip the package wherever you like, cd into the TWS-ASCII directory, and run the file TWS.py through your python interpreter from either a DOS terminal (Windows) or a shell terminal (Linux/Mac).

USAGE:

python TWS.py

Asciiquarium project is an aquarium in ASCII art.

It includes multicolored fish, a whale, and a fish-eating shark.

Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

Asciiquarium is a single perl script, so all you have to do is make sure its executable and put it somewhere convenient, like /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/games.

Convert::ASCII::Armor is a Perl module that can convert binary octets into ASCII armoured messages.

SYNOPSIS

See SYNOPSIS in Convert::ASCII::Armour.

Empty subclass of Convert::ASCII::Armour for American English speakers.

Convert::ASCIInames is a Perl module that includes ASCII names for control characters.

SYNOPSIS

use Convert::ASCIInames;

Convert::ASCIInames::Configure(fallthrough => 1);
$name = ASCIIname($character_ordinal);
$name = ASCIIaltname($character_ordinal);
$name = ASCIIdescription($character_ordinal);
$name = ASCIIaltdescription($character_ordinal);
$character_ordinal = ASCIIordinal($name);

Most if not all of the non-printing characters of the ASCII character set had special significance in the days of teletypes and paper tapes. For example, the character code 0x00 would be sent repeatedly in order to give the receiving end a chance to catch up; it signified "no action" and so was named NUL. The sending end might follow each line of text with a number of NUL bytes in order to give the receiving end a chance to return its print carriage to the left margin.

The control characters (so-called because they were used to control aspects of communication or receiving devices) were given short 2-to-4 letter names, like CR, EOT, ACK, and NAK.

Some of these special purposes have become obsolete, but some of them are still in use. For example, character 0x07 (BEL) is used to ring the feeper; 0x05 (ENQ) is recognised by many terminals as a trigger to report their status; and 0x08 (BS) still means "move the cursor back one space".

This module will return the ASCII name for specified characters, or the character code if given an ASCII name. In addition, the full descriptive name ("Start of Heading" instead of SOH) is available, although reverse translation of the descriptions isnt provided.

Some control characters have altername names. Character 0x13 is named DC3 ("Device Control 3"), but is probably better known by its alternate name of XOFF. These alternate names are also available through this modules functions.

GNU enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. GNU enscript includes features for "pretty-printing" (language sensitive code highlighting) in several programming languages.

It supports ten different input encodings, Adobe Font Metrics files, and user defined fancy headers. AFM files for the most common PostScript fonts are included in the distribution; the program itself can download PostScript fonts.

Other features include language sensitive highlighting, N-up printing, inlined EPS images, comments, and the ability to change body color and font on the fly.

Supported Character Sets

Enscript supports following character sets:

- ISO-8859-1 ISO Latin1 (default)
- ISO-8859-2 ISO Latin2
- ISO-8859-3 ISO Latin3
- ISO-8859-4 ISO Latin4
- ISO-8859-5 ISO Cyrillic
- ISO-8859-7 ISO Greek
- ascii 7 bit ascii
- ascii fi se 7 bit ascii with following encodings:
{ = �(adieresis)
| = �(odieresis)
} = �(aring)
[ = �(Adieresis)
= �(Odieresis)
] = �(Aring)
- ascii dk no 7 bit ascii with following encodings:
{ = �(ae)
| = (oslash)
} = �(aring)
[ = �(AE)
= �(Oslash)
] = �(Aring)
- IBM/PC standard PC/DOS character set
- Mac Macintosh character set
- VMS VMS multinational charset
- hp8 HP Roman-8 charset
- koi8 Adobe Standard Cyrillic Font KOI8 charset
- ps PostScript fonts default encoding
- pslatin1 PostScript interpreters `ISOLatin1Encoding

Nast is a packet sniffer and a LAN analyzer based on Libnet and Libpcap.
It can sniff in normal mode or in promiscuos mode the packets on a network interface and log it. It dumps the headers of packets and the payload in ascii or ascii-hex format. You can apply a filter. The sniffed data can be captured in a separate file.
Main features:
- Build LAN hosts list
- Follow a TCP-DATA stream
- Find LAN internet gateways
- Discorver promiscous nodes
- Reset an established connection
- Perform a single half-open portscanner
- Perform a multi half-open portscanner
- Find link type (hub or switch)
- Catch daemon banner of LAN nodes
- Control arp answers to discover possible arp-spoofings
- Byte couting with an optional filter
- Write reports logging

Winzig is a suite of PIM style applications written in Python/GTK. Winzig is small in code size and screen real estate usage which make it suitable for use on regular computers and PDAs.
The following applications are available: Contact Manager, Calculator, Calendar Manager, Todo List Manager , ASCII/Unicode Browser, X11 color viewer, Notebook
All applications can be used standalone or from within the winzig shell.
Main features:
- small program size (6000 LOC)
- little screen real estate use
- simple database engine providing a common infrastructure
- very customizable
- tooltips based help info
- works with linux ipaqs (familiar 7.2 + pypaq)