Translations by Michael Vogt

This package contains the internationalization files of for the util-linux package.

They are needed when you want the programs in util-linux to print their messages in other languages than English.

See RFC 4122 for more information.

run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state

vbetool uses lrmi in order to run code from the video BIOS. Currently, it is able to alter DPMS states, save/restore video card state and attempt to initialize the video card from scratch.

Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

This package contains a version of vim compiled with a rather standard set of features. This package does not provide a GUI version of Vim. See the other vim-* packages if you need more (or less).

Vi IMproved - Common files

This package contains files shared by all non GUI-enabled vim variants (vim and vim-tiny currently) available in Debian. Examples of such shared files are: manpages, common executables like xxd, and configuration files.

Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.

Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, folding, Unicode support, etc.

This package contains a minimal version of vim compiled with no GUI and a small subset of features in order to keep small the package size. This package does not depend on the vim-runtime package, but installing it you will get its additional benefits (online documentation, plugins, ...).

This package contains the development files.

lightweight, efficient FTP server written for security

This package provides the "Very Secure FTP Daemon", written from the ground up with security in mind.

It supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP access, PAM authentication, bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility.

WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support

w3m is a text-based World Wide Web browser with IPv6 support. It features excellent support for tables and frames. It can be used as a standalone file pager, too.

American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict

This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words with American spellings. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).

There are also -small, -large, and -huge versions of this word list, and there are wbritish* and wcanadian* packages as well.

The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist

The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) is a free spell-checking dictionary for Danish published by Skaane Sjaelland Linux User Group (SSLUG). One thing which makes this dictionary different from most other dictionaries is that it basically is the result of a vote among the proof-readers. The editorial group has _not_ proof-read all the words in the dictionary, but guides the proof-readers and keeps track of the overall status of the dictionary.

This is a flat list of Danish words and names. This can be used by spellcheckers or any other purpose needing a lot of words.

French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict

This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/french containing a list of French words. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).

retrieves files from the web

Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http(s) and ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites -- you can use wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the Web like a WWW robot.

Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both http and ftp) that support it. Both http and ftp retrievals can be time stamped, so wget can see if the remote file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has.

Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts

Whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses. It provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner.

an intelligent whois client

This is a new whois (RFC 3912) client rewritten from scratch. It is inspired from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries.