RE: [redux] Windows software that you can't live without

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From: Jeff Barr (jeff@vertexdev.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 16:59:18 PST


Here is my list:

        Win2K SP1
        Emacs
        Outlook
        Word
        IE5
        VB6
        WinCVS
        WinAmp
        CynWin
        XML Notepad
        Excel
        WinZip
        MSDN
        Visio
        Powerpoint
        Acrobat
        Headline Viewer
        Paint Shop Pro
        Calculator

Jeff;

-----Original Message-----
From: John Klassa [mailto:klassa@cisco.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 12:26 PM
To: fork@xent.com
Subject: [redux] Windows software that you can't live without

This was hastily assembled, so I take fully responsibility for errors or
omissions. About a half dozen of you asked for this summary, so I figured
I might as well post it to the list... My thanks to all who responded. I
had a goodly number of the recommendations already installed on my box,
but was delighted to find a couple of gems that I hadn't known about, and
which scratched some itches I'd had. :-)

Take care!
John

--%<--snip--%<--

Loosely collating what I received, with the caveat that some folks said
"yeah, what he said, plus these" :-), here are the recommendations in
descending order of popularity (sorted within popularity by alphabet):

5 x winzip
4 x winamp
4 x emacs
4 x cygwin
2 x vim
2 x securecrt
2 x python
2 x perl
2 x outlook express
2 x opera
2 x notetab
2 x ghostscript
2 x acrobat
2 x 4nt
1 x zope
1 x zonealarm

1 x yats32 time synchronizer
1 x xml spy
1 x windows scripting host
1 x windows media player
1 x wincvs
1 x wiki
1 x webwasher
1 x w2k sp1
1 x vnc
1 x textpad
1 x staroffice
1 x realplayer
1 x radio
1 x quicktime
1 x putty
1 x powerdvd
1 x pgp
1 x office
1 x o2k sp1
1 x norton anti-virus
1 x newbinpro
1 x netscape 4.7x
1 x napster
1 x ms vac++ v6.0
1 x mks shell
1 x miktex
1 x mcafee virusscan
1 x lynx
1 x leechftp
1 x jdk
1 x irfanview
1 x internet maniac
1 x ie 5.5
1 x html-kit
1 x graphic workshop
1 x gimp
1 x ftp voyager
1 x ftp explorer
1 x front page express
1 x flask
1 x fineprint
1 x eudora
1 x dreamweaver
1 x digiguide
1 x c compiler
1 x bookmark sync
1 x atomica
1 x agent

Broken out by the person who recommended it (and with most of the
descriptions removed, except where they indicate what something is),
roughly in the order received:

Greg Bolcer winzip

Yangkun Zhang 4nt
                        atomica (www.atomica.com)
                        bookmark sync (www.syncit.com)
                        cygwin
                        vim
                        winamp

Jay Gooby digiguide (fantastic uk tv listings software)
                        outlook express
                        winamp
                        winzip (or freeware equivalent powerarchive)

Bill Stoddard cygwin32 toolkit
                        emacs
                        ms vac++ v6.0
                        napster
                        securecrt
                        windows media player (v7)
                        winzip

Chris Olds 4nt (from jasc, a better shell for dos)
                        acrobat
                        c compiler
                        emacs
                        front page express
                        ghostscript
                        leechftp
                        mks shell (also good; includes some unix tools)
                        office
                        perl
                        pgp (nice email integration & systray applet)
                        python (including pythoncom & wxpython)
                        securecrt
                        vnc
                        winamp
                        wincvs
                        windows scripting host (javascript + components)
                        winzip

Dan Kohn adobe acrobat
                        ghostscript
                        html-kit
                        ie 5.5
                        norton anti-virus
                        o2k sp1
                        outlook 2000 sp1
                        powerdvd
                        quicktime
                        realplayer
                        w2k sp1
                        webwasher
                        winamp
                        winzip
                        xml spy

Joachim Feise fineprint
                        ftp voyager
                        graphic workshop
                        jdk
                        mcafee virusscan
                        netscape 4.7x
                        staroffice
                        textpad
                        yats32 time synchronizer

Tom Whore dreamweaver
                        flask (turns dvds into cd-sized nuggets of goodness)
                        gimp
                        lynx
                        newbinpro (usenet fishing that is amazingly bountiful)
                        notetab
                        opera
                        zonealarm (amazingly useful watchdog/mini firewall)
                        zope

Rahul Dave cygnus win32 tools
                        gvim or vim
                        miktex (tex)
                        perl
                        python with win32-com additions
                        radio (if you maintain a frontier weblog and such)
                        xemacs-win32 edition

Jeff Bone wiki (www.tinyted.net/eddie/wiki)

Udhay Shankar N agent (www.forteinc.com)
                        eudora (www.eudora.com)
                        ftp explorer (www.ftpx.com)
                        internet maniac (www.csee.usf.edu/~birla/)
                        irfanview (student.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474)
                        notetab (www.notetab.com)
                        opera (www.opera.com)

James Tauber cygwin
                        emacs

Joshua D. Baugher putty (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty)


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