Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:55:38PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > To find new packages you don't know about look > > at the Debian homepage and > > use the search function. I like it very much > > and you also can search for > > words which are no packa

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)

2000-12-26 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:43:33PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > > --- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But just know that you do not have to reinstall > > Debian to tweak and > > reconfigure the system. And telling newbies to > > reinstall Debian to do > > that, no matter how many smilies

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:55:38PM -0800 or thereabouts, Xucaen wrote: > > > > > In doing so I found w3m as a .deb package ( as > > I knew before). > > w3m actually is a very light text browser which > > supports some functions > > lynx doesn't, like tables. > > > > HTH > > > > Stephan > > >

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)

2000-12-25 Thread Sebastiaan
> > I just wanted to mention (for anyone who didn't > know already) that I found an easy way to go thru > the documentation. (I don't have X installed. I > need to learn linux before I can begin playing > with X) > For anyone using the command line to navigate the > system, if you start lynx with

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:45:29PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > To answer the original question, mc is a good text-mode filesystem > navigation and management tool. As is dired mode in emacs. pgpr8DBNszlPX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Xucaen
--- Stephan Kulka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To find new packages you don't know about look > at the Debian homepage and > use the search function. I like it very much > and you also can search for > words which are no package names. I have not been able to find anything I have ever searched f

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread kmself
on Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:39:23AM -0800, Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > --- Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Instead of using lynx, I would suggest using w3m, which does really > > amazing things for a text-based browser. I personally never > > believed somebody could pul

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Stephan Kulka
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Xucaen wrote: > > --- Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Instead of using lynx, I would suggest using > > w3m, which does really > > amazing things for a text-based browser. I > > personally never believed > > somebody could pull it off until I saw it in > >

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Xucaen
--- Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of using lynx, I would suggest using > w3m, which does really > amazing things for a text-based browser. I > personally never believed > somebody could pull it off until I saw it in > action. Install w3m, > and point it to slashdot... and y

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For anyone using the command line to navigate the > system, if you start lynx with the parameter of > '/' (that is, a slash without the single quotes) > it points lynx to your root directory and lynx > becomes a file manager. Instead of using lynx, I would sugg

Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)

2000-12-23 Thread Xucaen
--- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, you are right about that. But check out the > package documentation in > /usr/doc/. If you don't have > manpages installed, you can > always look at the package docs in /usr/docs to I just wanted to mention (for anyone who didn't know already