Community Support for Software And Products at Fermilab

Much of the software provided by the Computing Division is "freeware" or "shareware" from outside of the lab. We make these utilities available on fnkits so that they are installable in a standardized fashion across all FUE-compliant systems using ups and upd.

However, much of this software is provided "as-is". Additionally, while we are able to make these utilities available for your convenience, in many cases we do not have technical expertise within the Division to answer questions on usage, bugs, workarounds, etc.

Therefore, in the spirit of community involvement and communication, the following email aliases (and their corresponding listserv archives) have been created. Hopefully, our user community will be better able to "help each other" by communicating with other users of these software packages.

To subscribe to any of these lists, send mail:

        To: listserv@fnal.gov
The body of the mail message should contain:
   subscribe name-of-list your-first-name your-last-name
or, if you do not wish to share your real name,
   subscribe name-of-list Anonymous

Product/Utility Description Mail List Name ListServ Archive of the Mailing List
apache Apache web server (and related) products apache-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/apache-users/
bash Bourne Again shell bash-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/bash-users/
buildmanager Fermi tool for building products on multiple platforms buildmanager-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/buildmanager-users/
c C programming language topics and debugging c-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/c-users/
corba Common Object Request Broker Architecture corba-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/corba-users/
cxx C++ programming language topics and debugging cxx-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/cxx-users/
cygwin Cygnus Solutions' Unix O/S API for Win32 systems cygwin-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/cygwin-users/
exmh X-Windows mail reader, and line-oriented mh utility exmh-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/exmh-users/
flint FORTRAN lint, commercial debug utility flint-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/flint-users/
flpr Fermi print queuing interface flpr-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/flpr-users/
fmb Fermi modular backup tool fmb-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/fmb-users/
fortran FORTRAN programming language topics and debugging fortran-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/fortran-users/
java Java programming language topics and debugging java-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/java-users/
juke Fermi control software for robotic media handlers juke-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/juke-users/
lynx Character cell terminal web browser lynx-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/lynx-users/
netscape Internet web browser from Netscape/AOL netscape-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/netscape-users/
pdf Portable Document Format tools, including Acrobat Reader and xpdf pdf-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/pdf-users/
perl Perl scripting language topics perl-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/perl-users/
pine Line-oriented mail and news reader pine-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/pine-users/
postscript Postscript document tools, including ghostscript, ghostview, and pstools postscript-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/postscript-users/
python Python programming language topics python-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/python-users/
rbio Fermi Raw Buffered I/O Library for FORTRAN and c. rbio-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/rbio-users/
ssh Secure Shell ssh-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/ssh-users/
systools Fermi system management package supporting the 'cmd' commands systools-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/systools-users/
tcl Tcl/Tk programming language, including blt, expect, ical, and rolodex tcl-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/tcl-users/
tcsh Turbo C shell tcsh-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/tcsh-users/
tex TeX/LaTeX document formatting tools tex-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/tex-users/
tpu Unix file editor based on the DEC VMS tpu/eve editor tpu-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/tpu-users/
wrq WRQ product discussion list wrq-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/wrq-users/
xemacs X-Windows and character cell terminal Emacs Editor xemacs-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/xemacs-users/
ximagetools X-Windows image manipulation tools, including imagemagick (display), xanim, xfig ximagetools-users@fnal.gov http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/ximagetools-users/

This page created 7 September 1999 by llc.
Updated: 14 March 2000 by dmr (add doc links).
Updated: 19 April 2000 by llc (add description paragraph at the top, update subscription instructions).
Updated: 7 February 2001 by dmr (add links to new listserv archives).
Updated: 25 July 2001 by dmr (removed links to old hypermail archives).