View an html file or browse the net from the text mode.
• pine
A good text-mode mail reader. Another good and standard
one is elm. Your Netscape mail will read the mail from your Internet account.
pine will let you read the "local" mail, e.g. the mail your son or a cron
process sends to you from a computer on your home network. The command
mail could also be used for reading/composing mail, but it would be inconvenient--it
is meant to be used in scripts for automation.
• elm
A good tex-mode mail reader. See the previous command.
• mutt
A really basic but extremally useful and fast mail reader.
• mail
A basic operating system tool for e-mail. Look at the
previous commands for a better e-mail reader. mail is good if you wanted
to send an e-mail from a shell script.
• licq
(in X term) An icq "instant messaging" client. Another
good one is kxicq. Older distributions don't have an icq client installed,
you have to do download one and install it.
• talk username1
Talk to another user currently logged on your machine
(or use "talk username1@machinename" to talk to a user on a different computer)
. To accept the invitation to the conversation, type the command "talk
username2". If somebody is trying to talk to you and it disrupts your work,
your may use the command "mesg n" to refuse accepting messages. You may
want to use "who" or "rwho" to determine the users who are currently logged-in.
• mc
Launch the "Midnight Commander" file manager (looks like
"Norton Commander" for Linux).
• telnet server
Connect to another machine using the TELNET protocol.
Use a remote machine name or IP address. You will be prompted for your
login name and password--you must have an account on the remote machine
to login. Telnet will connect you to another machine and let you operate
on it as if you were sitting at its keyboard (almost). Telnet is not very
secure--everything you type goes in open text, even your password!
• rlogin server
(=remote login) Connect to another machine. The login
name/password from your current session is used; if it fails you are prompted
for a password.
• rsh server
(=remote shell) Yet another way to connect to a remote
machine. The login name/password from your current session is used; if
it fails you are prompted for a password.
• ftp server
Ftp another machine. (There is also ncftp which adds
extra features and gftp for GUI .) Ftp is good for copying files to/from
a remote machine. Try user "anonymous" if you don't have an account on
the remote server. After connection, use "?" to see the list of available
ftp commands. The essential ftp command are: ls (see the files on
the remote system), ASCII, binary (set the file transfer mode to either
text or binary, important that you select the proper one ), get (copy a
file from the remote system to the local system), mget (get many files
at once), put (copy a file from the local system to the remote system),
mput (put many files at once), bye (disconnect). For automation in a script,
you may want to use ncftpput and ncftpget, for example:
ncftpput -u my_user_name -p my_password -a remote.host.domain
remote_dir *local.html
• minicom
Minicom program (looks like "Procomm for Linux").
