Reference
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| elm {login-name} |
Runs a screen oriented mail reader. With a "login-name", starts elm to send mail to "login-name". Otherwise, it starts elm for an interactive session. |
| emacs {filename} |
Runs the most recent version of the text editor named EMACS ( produced by the GNU project ). If filename is present, it will start editing that file. Type "<CTRL>-x <CTRL>-h t" to start a tutorial. "<CTRL>-x <CTRL>-c" will exit from emacs. |
| env | Prints out the values for all the current environment variables. Some typical environment variables are "DISPLAY", "EDITOR", and "PRINTER". |
| xemacs {filename} | An X version of emacs. |
| f | |
| file filename(s) | Looks at "filename(s)" and tells what type of files they are. This is useful in checking a file to be sure that it is text before you "cat" it out ( using "cat" on binary files can be a bummer ). |
| find | Searches the named directory and it"s sub-directories for files. Most frequently called like this: find ./ -name "t*" -print |
| finger {login-name} | Without a "login-name", finger shows who is currently logged on the system, with limited information about them. With a "login-name" you get more detailed info, along with anything that is in that person"s ".plan" file. |
| ftp {address} | File Transfer Program. "ftp" transfers files to and from a remote network site. There are many ftp-sites that will let you log in as "anonymous" and get software/data/documents from them for free. After connecting, "ls" will print out the files in the current directory, and "get filename" will transfer the named file into your local directory. Be sure to type "binary" before transferring non-ascii ( executable, compressed, archived, etc ) files. To exit "ftp" type "bye". See also "xarchie". |