On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 18:49, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > I wanted to get an expert and informed consensus on what command line > interface tools are well suited to each of the following purposes which > may well mean what you use. My current choices have been entered but > please feel free to add your own with a comma in between. Also, if you > feel any categories are missing please add them! > > # Email: mutt, mutt > # Browser: lynx, lynx (haven't tried anyting else) > # IRC: bitchx, > # Sound mixer: alsamixer, alsamixer > # Editor: vim emacs > # Diff: colordiff, diff > # Read file: less, less > # Transfer file: scp, scp,curl,wget,ftp > # Compression: tar, tar,gzip > # PDF creation: ps2pdf(gs)
On a side note: I built a PDF server (samba/cups/ghostscript) for my office here in Houston. After the other techs in my company (which never ran linux before) found out, I ended up building 12 more of these PDF boxes in offices around the country. Saving company a crapload of money over a license for Acrobat Writer. > # Partitioning: cfdisk cfdisk,fdisk,parted -- Jimmie Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
