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gnome-utils-1.4.1.2: description + notes

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This package contains a variety of GNOME utility programs, specifically:

• gcalc, a simple double precision calculator similar to xcalc
• gcharmap, a tool for generating any ASCII character.
• gcolorsel, a small utility to browser available X11 colors
• gdialog, which lets you display dialog boxes from shell scripts
• gdict, a tool for querying RFC2229 dictionary servers.
• gdiskfree, which shows the amount of free disk space using dials
• gnome-exe-handler, a mime-type hander
• gfontsel, an X11 font selection tool
• gless, a graphical file browser/pager
• gnome-run, a graphical shell for running commands
• grun, a simpler graphical shell for running commands
• gsearchtool, a frontend to find/grep/locate
• gshutdown, a graphical frontend to shutdown
• guname, a graphical monitor for system, disk, and memory information
• logview, a system log monitor (formerly in the fw_gnome-admin package)
• meat-grinder, a graphical front-end for tar
• splash and splac, which display xpm images as spash screens
• stripchart, which charts system performance parameters

Note: if you get an error message like "tar: z: unknown or illegal option" either make sure /usr/freeware/bin/tar appears on your PATH before /bin/tar or symlink /usr/freeware/bin/gtar to ./tar.

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