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BASH bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again shell, a complete implementation of the POSIX.2 shell specification with interactive command-line editing, job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features. Here is a short list of some of the features available in BASH.

OpenVMS distribution.

• http://www.openvms.compaq.com

• http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html

BZIP Is another Open Source ZIP. Net says it's better then GZIP.

• http://www.dlhoffman.com/publiclibrary/RPM/BByName.html

• http://www.ourservers.net/openvms_ports/bzip2/bzip2_contents.html

CircleMUD is a multiuser dungeon (MUD) game system written by Jeremy Elson, originally at Johns Hopkins University's Department of Computer Science (I graduated in May 1996). CircleMUD is a derivative of DikuMUD Gamma 0.0, which was written in 1990 at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, by Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer.

• http://www.circlemud.org/

• http://www.ourservers.net/openvms_ports/circlemud/circlemud_contents.html

Corba The OMG specification suite defines just the environment; CORBA enables natural interoperability regardless of platform, operating system, programming language, or network hardware and software (although CORBA defines a mandatory TCP/IP-based protocol for interoperability over the Internet and most intranets).

• http://www.corba.org

• http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/brochures/appdev/pages/PAGE7.HTM

Emacs

• http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/emacs.html

• http://vms.gnu.org/software/released1/

FreeCiv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal.

• http://www.freeciv.org/

• http://www.ourservers.net/openvms_ports/index.html

• http://www.ourservers.net/openvms_ports/freeciv/freeciv_contents.html

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely...