Life on the Command Line
Michael R. Head
burner at suppressingfire.org
Fri Dec 28 21:12:24 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:35 +0000, Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
>
> How far do others manage to get using text-based applications only? Any
> real hidden gems I should be aware of?
Anything that uses libaa:
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
burner at phoenix:~$ apt-cache rdepends libaa1 |grep -v lib |grep -v
"^Reverse Depends" |sort | uniq
aatv
asc
aview
bb
freej
gimp
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
hasciicam
mplayer
mplayer-nogui
sear
ttv
vlc
xaos
xine-ui
Once you get past the video players, you've got some webcam viewers, tv
players, image and fractal viewers... all in a terminal.
> Rosie
>
>
>
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
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