On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 18:49, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> # Email: mutt,
> # News: slrn,
> # Browser: lynx,

Check out links - it does tables and frames, and handles downloads
infinity better than lynx.

> # File manager: mc,
> # Games:

Cowsay!  Endless hours of ASCII entertainment.

And nethack, anyone?

> # Chat client: micq,

As I understand, centericq is more mature, although I've never used
micq.

> # IRC: bitchx,
> # Sound mixer: alsamixer,
> # Editor: vim,
> # Diff: colordiff,
> # Read file: less,
> # Transfer file: scp,
> # Compression: tar,

I use a combination of tar and rar.  At it's highest compression
setting, rar is noticeably better than gzip and bzip.  The two downsides
are that it's proprietary and that it doesn't preserve file
permissions.  It's freely available, though, and tar takes care of
permissions.

> # PDF creation: 

gs?

OpenOffice uses the following:

"/usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="(OUTFILE)" -"

I honestly can't see a need for that from the command line, though - if
you're using docbook or doxygen, that'll do it for you, but making a pdf
of something you wrote in vim is a bit of an overkill.

Also, ps2pdf will work.

> # txt2html: 
> # Term: eterm
> # Partitioning: cfdisk
> # System info: lhinv, procinfo, lsof,
> # CD writing: cdrtools,

burncenter

> # Gentoo: ufed, mirrorselect, portage, gentoo-stats, gentoolkit
> # Others: screen


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