Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 12:23:06 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I run my useful linux utilities? Message-ID: <366ACB8A.5D6DEE81@airnet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812052324240.441-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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[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 <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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