Source Code, Volume 2

Source Code, Volume 2 - Walnut Creek - Jewel Case - DOS/UNIX - $18.95

Shareware

April 1996

Source Code for C/C++ from the Usenet News Groups, from 1991-1993

Usenet is the newsgroup collection on the Internet. For years people have posted their source code to various source code newsgroups. Here is a complete collection of all that source code. You'll be able to browse through code, learn from experts, and borrow routines. Most of these programs run under Unix.

Volume 2 contains the newsgroups:

alt.sources: volume 91-93
comp.sources.games: volume 13-18
comp.sources.misc: volume 16-34
comp.sources.reviewed: volume 01-04
comp.sources.unix: volume 24-26
comp.sources.x: volume 12-18

A few sample packages include:

alt.sources: GCXBBX, unzip, MixView (sound editor), Word difference finder, ACS

comp.sources.games: dominion, gnuchess, scrabble, gbp (Galactic Bloodshed), xboing.

comp.sources.misc: perl, unzip, SC, pascal.

comp.sources.reviewed: ols - linear regression tool, linear problem solver, gnugrep.

comp.sources.unix: RCS, GNU Diff, trn, tsch.

comp.sources.x: acm, kterm, xtroff, Xclock

You get 53,320 files (8,881 news articles) in 641 megs of data. Most packages are unsharred. The CDROM is full-word indexed, which means you can find the files containing your search word in seconds. The CDROM also has HTML indexes.