Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:44:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Happy <kuishin@singnet.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can be done in Command Line Interface? Message-ID: <20020324114447.C45519@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax> References: <000801c1d20d$a8791580$3a837dcb@ajax>
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[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
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