# Base Tools

### Authors

Richard Frith-MacDonald
and various others...

Copyright: (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

The Base Tools are command line utilities that come with the GNUstep base distribution.

autogsdoc
  Parses Objective-C source to autogenerate GSDoc, and converts GSDoc to HTML.
cvtenc
  Converts text files between unicode and other encodings.
defaults
  Supports viewing/modification of GNUstep user defaults database.
gdnc
  GNUstep distributed notification center.
gdomap
  GNUstep distributed object mapper.
pldes
  Converts a binary serialized property list (class instance) to a text representation.
plmerge
  Merges text property lists into a single property list.
plparse
  Checks that each file contains a valid text representation of a property list.
plser
  Converts a text representation of a property list to a binary serialized representation..
sfparse
  Can verify strings-file format, and convert strings files between different encodings.
xmlparse
  A simple XML format verifier and DTD validator.