Tom Schneider's ToolKit

toolkit.zip: A directory containing many Unix tools that I use. Each tool is documented internally. Some major, very useful ones that I use all the time are:

• atchange - on-the-fly automation,
• calaround - like the Unix cal but gives the surrounding months
• fmti - format text paragraphs
• nowhere - jump to a directory directly by key name.
• slideshow - make a slide show
• yvp quickly get to a paper by Year, Volume and Page in PubMed

toolkit-packing-slip: a complete list of the components in the current toolkit.

The toolkit contains a script called unpacktoolkit that will unpack the tools and put them in a directory called ~/script for you. Once you have done that, you can use the script grabtoolkit to automate the whole process by obtaining the latest toolkit by ftp.

• This page is: http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/toolkit.html
• Macintosh. You can download the toolkit to a Mac and it will run fine there. (The automation of gpcc in 'program' is giving me some trouble though.)
• Linux. The tools should work under Linux, but I haven't tested it that much there.
• LaTeX. The toolkit has scripts associated with LaTeX
  • You can get the entire LaTeX system from the Tex User Group tug.org.
  • I became a member so I get their wonderful (literally full of wonder!) TUGboat publication
  • A subscription to TUGboat also gets one the yearly distribution Tex Collection DVD of the software. This makes installation easy.
  • You can get help with that from the texhax mailing list, http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo.
• Requests. If there are tools you would like to see (aside from individual information which is under patent) you can ask me to put them in the kit.

Schneider Lab
origin: 2002 Oct 10
updated: 2008 Dec 04