Life on the Command Line

[Michael R. Head]

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
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
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