Erlkönig: Software

My software projects, both completed and ongoing

Z (Ζωιον), a distributed geometry service for multiuser, architecture-neutral spatial simulation through OpenGL-based interfaces.
Dynamic, hierarchic development arena based on GNU make, gcc/g++, and autoconf.
Heterogeneous, modular on-line software packages with automatic generation of paths for commands, libraries, and manual pages.
Library functions for arbitrary-length string acquisition.
Parser-based highlight / indentation packages for C, C++, and Objective C under the GNU Emacs editor using its native LISP.
Automated, remote maintenance and reconfiguration of Silicon Graphics workstations and supercomputers.
Program-location auto-discovery and security fixes to the GNU Emacs editor version 19.34 and successors.
A replacement for printf(3), named output(3), including floating point output in arbitrary bases, centering, etc.

A user-space driver for the SpaceTec Spaceball 4000 FLX.
A speech-synthesis gaim PERL plugin using the Festival system.
A sound enhancement to cbzone(6).
An access program for password-derived info named user(1).
A line-checksummed version of uuencode named uusafe(1).
The X animate cursor program, xancur(1).
An X menu program, xcmdmenu(1), previously named xcmdpanel.
The Talisman X11 Color Management System database, xcms (db file is rgb.xcmsdb).

A libCrack YP/NIS password setting program.
A 1.8 million entry dictionary for use with Crack and libCrack-based programs.
Simple X demonstration programs including xamples of a basic window, various bouncing primitives, bouncing clock widgets, and bouncing captured (reparented) windows which were already on the display.
A powerful, flexible program for doing set-id, named sid(8).
The in-netgroup administrative utility, innetgr (README).
A group-limited authentication program called logingr.
An X11 toroidal version of the oriental game Go.

(198?) A (now lost) major overhaul of the game XConq, with rewrites of a large percentage of the code to greatly enhance graphics and redisplay speed, allow more unit types, the carrying of units which are also carrying, and a long list of other changes.
(1989) The addition of the escher-style menus to the game XTank.
(19??) Wrote GNUchess' gnuchessn interface, originally with the option of displaying on each square gnuchess' current estimation of its value. Sadly, GNUchess' maintainers have since broken and lost most of the evaluation display code.