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3.0 KiB
HTML
223 lines
3.0 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<HTML
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><TITLE
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>Mail and Internet Tools </TITLE
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><META
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="From VMS to Linux HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Graphics "
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HREF="graphics.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Advanced Topics "
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HREF="advanced-topics.html"></HEAD
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><BODY
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BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
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TEXT="#000000"
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LINK="#0000FF"
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VLINK="#840084"
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><TR
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><TH
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COLSPAN="3"
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ALIGN="center"
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>From VMS to Linux HOWTO</TH
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>Prev</A
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>Next</A
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><H1
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CLASS="SECT1"
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><A
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NAME="MAIL-AND-INTERNET-TOOLS"
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>7. Mail and Internet Tools</H1
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><P
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>Since Internet was born on UNIX machines, you find plenty of nice and
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easy-to-use applications under Linux. Here are just some:</P
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><P
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> <P
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></P
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><UL
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><LI
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><P
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> <EM
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>Mail</EM
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>: use <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>elm</TT
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> or <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>pine</TT
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> to handle your email; both
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programs have on-line help. For short messages, you could use <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>mail</TT
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>, as
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in <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>mail -s "hello mate" user@somewhere < msg.txt</TT
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>. You may like programs
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like <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>xmail</TT
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> or some such. </P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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> <EM
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>Newsgroups</EM
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>: use <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>tin</TT
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> or <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>slrn</TT
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>, both very intuitive and
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self-explanatory. </P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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> <EM
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>ftp</EM
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>: apart from the usual character-based <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>ftp</TT
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>, ask your
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sysadm to install the full-screen <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>ncftp</TT
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> or a graphical ftp client like
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<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>xftp</TT
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>. </P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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> <EM
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>WWW</EM
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>: the ubiquitous <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>netscape</TT
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>, or <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>xmosaic</TT
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>,
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<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>chimera</TT
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>, and <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>arena</TT
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> are graphical web browsers; a character-based
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one is <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>lynx</TT
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>, quick and effective. </P
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></LI
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> </P
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="graphics.html"
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ACCESSKEY="P"
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>Prev</A
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="index.html"
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ACCESSKEY="H"
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>Home</A
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><TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="right"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="advanced-topics.html"
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>Next</A
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><TR
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="top"
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>Graphics</TD
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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> </TD
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><TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="right"
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>Advanced Topics</TD
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