Freeware

Several freeware tools and libraries are included in the Solaris 8 release. These tools include:

• bash - Sh- compatible command language interpreter

• bzip2 - Block-sorting file compressor

• gpatch - Used to apply patch files to originals

• gzip - GNU zip compression utility

• less - A pager, like more

• libz - Also known as 'zlib', this is a library that performs compression (specifically, RFCs 1950-1952)

• mkisofs - Builds a CD image using a iso9660 file system

• rpm2cpio - Transforms a package in RPM format (Red Hat Package Manager) to a cpio archive

• tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing

• zip - Compression and file packaging utility

• zsh - Command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor