Life on the Command Line

[anthony baldwin]

David Vincent wrote:
> Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
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>> Driven by a combination of curiosity, nostalgia (old enough to remember
>> being shown VisiCalc and thinking it a wonder) and natural
>> steampunkishness, I've been investigating ways of running everyday
>> applications from the command line in text sessions.  Using
>> Mutt/Fetchmail/Exim for email, slrn for Usenet, vim and emacs for
>> development, sc for financial work, that sort of thing.
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>> How far do others manage to get using text-based applications only?  Any
>> real hidden gems I should be aware of?
>>     
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> rtorrent is worth looking at imho.
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terminal tools I use
cmatrix - completely useless matrix emulator in the terminal, but looks 
cool.
igal - generates html image galleries from a directory full of images, 
with thumbnails
and stuff.
pdftohml - turns pdf documents to html

/tony

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