Software Package FAQs

The DCE FAQ contains information about DCE user support, application support, and data management.

The CDE FAQ covers commonly asked questions in the comp.unix.cde newsgroup, and covers desktop setup, application development, and trouble shooting.

The Elm FAQ, currently covering v2.4, details many aspects of user customization including using filters, multiple folders, encryption on the fly, mime decoding, printing, header munging, and much more. Also see the Mail FAQ section for FAQs about pine, mh, mime, mmdf, sendmail, and other mail related information.

The GNU Emacs FAQ covers online help, manuals, emacs project status, porting/building and installing emacs, personal configuration, reporting bugs and problems, writing elisp, using alternate character sets and changing key bindings, using mail and news within emacs, and other topics.

The Fax FAQs talk about fax standards various different fax programs for various different operating systems.

The Firewalls FAQ covers what a firewall is, what they are used for, and how to design and implement different kinds of firewalls.

The Gnus FAQ details how to use the GNU newsreader and mail agent and covers such topics as installation, customization, reading news, and reading mail.

The PPP FAQ and the HTMLized version discuss PPP software and hardware, and how to configure PPP on various types of UNIX systems.

The VI FAQ contains general information about the vi editor, novice questions, command mode operational questions, the vi quick reference, and lists of set commands.

Software Development FAQs

The C FAQ and C++ FAQ cover the C and C++ programming languages including structures, pointers, arrays, memory allocation, the preprocessor, library functions, classes and functions, constructors and destructors, i/o, inheritance, and inline functions.

The X86 Assembly FAQs discuss the assembly language for Microsoft, Borderland, and general x86 architecture. Some topics include how to determine the CPU type, IRQ assignments, using various graphics modes, shareware ASM libraries, books and web sites with further documentation, debugging, .obj format, and disassemblers, and optimization.

The Cobol FAQ covers where to get compilers for various platforms, cobol tools, cobol to C converters, and how to contact various compiler vendors.

The Compilers FAQ includes information about C, Modula-2, Pascal, Ada, and SQL grammars and languages as well as notes about yacc, lex, gcc, and other GNU tools.

The Databases FAQs contain information about Sybase, bus objects, filemaker, approach, progress, and many other free databases.

The Fortran FAQ details the history of Fortran, how to learn Fortran and it's formatting, tools, packages and libraries, mixing Fortran with other languages, system differences, and language extensions.

The Perl FAQ includes information on perl compilation and installation, general programming practices, programming aids, perl and shell interactions, and other misc questions about perl4 and perl5.

The Python FAQ details how to build and install python, python programs in the real world, programming style and debugging, python on non UNIX platforms, extended python, and python's design.

The Realtime Computing FAQ covers the definition of realtime computing as well as discussing polemic topics, conferences, vendors, research and free products, and standards. This FAQ also has a pointer to other books, magazines, newsgroups, mailing lists, and other web sites dealing with realtime topics.

TCL and Tk FAQs covers building tcl/tk source, programming tcl/tk applications, tcl/tk training material, porting information, mixing tcl/tk with other languages, and where to report bugs.

FAQ.org contains most FAQs known to man. If it's not listed here, it's probably listed there.