myspell-ve

The Venda dictionary for myspell

grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes.

pcregrep

grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes.

Perl-style regexps have many useful features that the standard POSIX ones don't; this is basically the same as grep but with the different regexp syntax.
Efficient rsh-like utility, for using hosts in parallel

pdsh

Efficient rsh-like utility, for using hosts in parallel

Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility, similar to dsh. It has built-in, thread-safe clients for rsh. Pdsh uses a "sliding window" parallel algorithm to conserve socket resources on the initiating node and to allow progress to continue while timeouts occur on some connections.
Chess playing program

phalanx

Chess playing program

Phalanx is a simple chess playing program of conventional design. It is xboard compatible. The main aim is to write a slow thinker with a lot of chess specific knowledge. Current version plays risky, active chess and shows quite good tactical performance.
transitional dummy package to migrate from pdksh to mksh

pdksh

transitional dummy package to migrate from pdksh to mksh