Utilities

Utilities and other tools and tool kits for programmers that are either language neutral or at the least support more than one programming language, utilities that are specific to a programming language or a tool are listed from the respective language page or the page for the tool that it targets.

Source code utilities

• AGREP - Approximate search inside text files - Open source - Current
• Dos2Unix - Converts Unix style text files to DOS/Windows/OS/2 style files and vice versa - Open source - Current
• Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of source files - Open source - Current.

Source comparison and merging tools

• GNU diffutils - Open source - Discontinued.
• Guiffy - Java based - Commercial - Current.

Automatic Document Generators

• DOC++ - C, C++, IDL and Java support - Open source - Discontinued.
• RexxLiterate - Automatic document generator in/for Object REXX - Open source - Semi current

See also: Configuration management

IDE's, extensions and template tools

• Pillarsoft Suite - Contains a code template tool extensible language support - Shareware - Discontinued
• VA Assist - Commercial - Discontinued

Pre-processors or macro processors

• ML/I - Text preprocessor - Freeware - Current.
• PPWizard - Text preprocessor for HTML or GML use - Sort of open source - Current.

Linker, DLL and exe utilities

• LxLite - Compresses executables - Open source - Current

DLL utilities

• Above 512 - Marks DLL's for use with high memory
• HighMem - Marks DLL's for use with high memory
• PMDLL - Shows all DLL's a exe or DLL will call

Resource editors etc.

• Dialog Editor

Binary editors

• |FlexEdit - Freeware - Current
• HT Editor

Porting aids

• The EMX Project - POSIX/UNIX compatibility layer - Open source - Discontinued
• WinIco - Icon converter - Open source - Current

Compiler generation, language translation and interpreters

Scanner generators

• flex
• Lex

Parser generators

• ANTLR - Parser generator - Runs on and generates Java code.
• YACC

Source code translators

• Ephedra - C/C++ to Java - Open source - Discontinued

See also XML (XML parsers)

Translation and internationalisation

• Gettext - Open source - Current.

Database related utilities

• CDBFLite - Text mode DBF editor - Commercial - Current
• DB-Fill Automatic fill of database tables - Commercial - Discontinued
• PhpMyAdmin - MySQL web administration - Open source - Current
• SQLite Browser - Visually edit & create SQLite databases - Open source - Current

System utilities

Document viewers

• Lucide (PDF, DjVu & JPEG)

INI file editors

• INIEdit
• INIEdit/2

Installers

• Feature Installer
• Installer/2
• InstallShield
• SFX Installer
• WarpIN
• WiseMachine
• YUM

Web browsers

• Firefox
• Netscape Navigator
• WebExplorer

Utility packages

• GNU shell utilities

File and archive related

• Info-Zip - Zip and UnZip file archivers/compressors

Hardware related utilities

• HWman

Passwords etc

• KeyRing/2
• Pillarsoft Suite - Contains Pocket PassWord Protector - Shareware - Discontinued