From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 6 10:26:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22274 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 10:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-27.airnet.net [207.242.81.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22268 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 10:26:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04692; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 12:23:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <366ACB8A.5D6DEE81@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 12:23:06 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I run my useful linux utilities? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] Jason C. Wells wrote: > >Red Hat Linux had "Midnight Commander" - a linux version of the DOS > >"Norton Commander"... I can't imagine using DOS or linux without > >that! > > I use unix tools to do administration on my machine. I find them far more > flexible and powerful than even the Norton Commander that I loved in DOS > land. In DOS, my favorite was List. But it had limits: no network drives. So that put CDROMs out of the question. Quite annoying. In BSD, I favor fd. Has most if not all of the functions and benefits of list without the limits. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message