Files in this bin directory, publicly usable:

.newsrctidy - tidies up your .newsrc file.
              Useful if you have recently unsubscribed to several groups.

background - Uses "xv" to alter the background to a bitmap of your choice
             Options as "xv".

bar - Creates a screen background based on bars of colour of your choice.

      Usage : bar colour
        e.g.: bar blue

ewc2 - Word count facility. Provides more info than wc.

       Usage: ewc2 pathname

fade - Another background generator

       Usage: fade angle [colour]...
         With no colours, fades from white to black
         With one colour, fades from white to colour to black
         With more than one colour, fades through all colours
         Rainbow: fade red orange yellow green blue purple

NOTE: Background generators are memory hungry!!!

free - displays free disk space on your account.

       Usage: free [-k]
         Displays as a percentage unless -k flag is used

population - Gives stats on people using your machine / server.

split - takes a file and splits it into the specified number of pieces.
        Handy if you want to split that large executable onto more than
        one disk...

        NB.: It would be wise to uuencode binary files first!

	WARNING!: If the size of each split equates to over 64K, it throws
	          a wobbly and truncates the filesizes to 64K.
	          Something to do with the UNIX programs it uses... :(

        Usage: split filename into #pieces
          filename - Filename of file you want to split
              into - just there to make it make more sense!
           #pieces - Number of pieces to split it into
                     Must be a number not a word!
        e.g. split large.exe.uu into 5
          will create 5 files named large.exe.uu.[1 to 5].

        To port files to DOS, just get rig of the .exe.uu section
        giving filenames large.1, large.2 etc.        

        To reform files:
          in UNIX: cat large.exe.uu.* > large.exe.uu
           in DOS: copy large.* large.uu

talk2 - Works in a similar fashion to the normal talk command, but will 
        not interrupt the other party if they haven't got a free window.
        talk2 will tell you what they are doing if it cannot contact them.
        NOTE: You can't talk properly to yourself with it! ;)

        Usage: talk2 username

tt - Timetable program for Second year Computer Science, compilers option.

     Usage: tt [Ddd Tt]
       Ddd - Three letter abbreviation of day required (e.g. Mon, Fri)
        Tt - Two digit representation of the hour (e.g. 09 or 13)
       With no options, gives timetable for current time.

uptime2 - Slower but more effective version of uptime. (36 times slower!)

users2 - better version of the users command.

         Usage: users2 [-1]
         The -1 flag arranges the names in a vertical list

uu - easy way to uuencode a file.

     Usage: uu filename [output_filename]
     with no output_filename uu uses the original filename with a suffix
     of .uu

wh - more descriptive who or w command.

     Usage: wh [username]
     With username, gives information on user only.

when - gives last time a user was logged on.

       Usage: when username

xquit - prompts to exit OpenWindows

xt - custom "xterm"inal.