Git is a version control system for tracking code changes in software development. Git for Windows allows users to work on existing Git projects and/or set up local repositories for their own projects.
Use cases: | git client version control |
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | %USERPROFILE%\.config |
Stealth: ? | No |
Path portability: | No |
License: | GNU GPLv2 FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the file prefixed with PortableGit. Launch the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch either git-bash.exe or git-cmd.exe. |
What's new? | See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/. |
Wget is a non-interactive utility for downloading files using the HTTPS, HTTP and FTP protocols. It can resume interrupted downloads, use file name wild cards, supports proxies and cookies, and convert absolute links in downloaded documents to relative links.
Wget is a popular tool with multiple ports/implementations for Windows.
Wget2 is being developed (see https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2).
Use cases: | download files download via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
How to extract: | See parent package(s) or port(s). |
What's new? | Latest upstream changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913. |
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Upstream v1.21 released 2021-01-09 (changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913). |
Yori is a collection of tools for Windows aimimg to replace the default (CMD) shell and many built-in and other commands.
It contains the following tools:
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License FOSS |
How to extract: |
Either run the installer or: Download the CAB files and extract them into one folder (for 32-bit version, replace "amd64" with "win32"): http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-core-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-typical-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-extra-amd64.cab |
What's new? |
See: http://malsmith.net/yori/changelog/ |
A MS-DOS emulator for Win32-x64 systems. 16bit MS-DOS compatible commands can be executed on a Win32-x64 environment.
This emulator inherits the environment variables from the host Windows, and a target command can access the host's file path directly.
Execute 16bit MS-DOS compatible commands on a 64bit Windows system without the need to copy any files to/from a virtual machine (VMware, Virtual PC, XP mode, or others).
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
License: | GPL FOSS |
Similar/alternative apps: | DOSBox |
PDFtk is a command-line tool for working with PDFs. It is commonly used for client-side scripting or server-side processing of PDFs. It does not require Adobe Acrobat or Reader, and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Dependencies: | libiconv2.dll |
License: | GPL FOSS |
How to extract: |
Uniextract the Installer, copy these two files: {app}\bin\pdftk.exe {app}\bin\libiconv2.dll |
Similar/alternative apps: | QPDF |