INX Is Not X - Apps (was Life on the Command Line)

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:40:13AM +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > Excellent program! There is also aspell, spell checker that does a
> > lot of neat stuff with "text" files like spell check html, xml,
> > and comments inside various program files. And the 'spell' script
> > wrapper, that checks individual words.
> 
> How much space would that take? The advantage of "dict" is that it
> is tiny and relies on dict.org , so no lists and dictionaries are
> needed on the disc.

For what you are doing, it probably would get messy, with the support
for various languages, etc. I would guess a full blown aspell package
with all the dictionaries could be hefty indeed. 

I mention it mostly for those delving into a text world and may not
know about some cool purely text based applications. 

Also, on the calendar/appointment/reminder front, there is the command
line tool 'remind' that does really neat things with scheduling and
reminders. It can run as command line tool (eg via cron), or in daemon
mode, and uses text config files for input and plain text for output.

-- 
Hal