From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 17:15: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D358D37B417 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5A4F578307; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:44:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:44:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Happy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can be done in Command Line Interface? Message-ID: <20020324114447.C45519@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] One line per paragraph On Saturday, 23 March 2002 at 9:54:24 +0800, Happy wrote: > Hi, > I am a new user of freebsd 4.0. I have installed the OS but can > only use the command line interface because of graphics card > incompatibility. But I decided to learn using the command line > interface anyway. Can the things which can be done in GUI be > done in command line ? There are two distinctions here: 1. Graphics display (X) vs. pure text display. 2. GUI interfaces and command line interfaces. You can have a command line interface with either X or the terminal emulators. You can only have a meaningful GUI interface under X. > e.g, can we email,surf the net,install new software,browse our > hard-disk in command line? Yes. I do it all the time, though I wouldn't call looking at files "browsing the hard disk". You can browse the contents of a small system, but it becomes completely inappropriate on a system with several million files. There are other tools for that. > Also,what are the editors and programming software which we can > open and use in command line interface ? I don't know many real GUI editors. Despite what others say, I would strongly recommend using Emacs. I have done this in the past with visitors with no UNIX experience at all who wanted to access their (remote) mail and send mail messages. None had any trouble, though I did need to show them a couple of things. I can't use pico myself, and it doesn't have a menu interface. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message