[svlug] commands

[Rafael Skodlar]

I did not pay attention to previous replies in this thread so others
might have answered this before in a similar way. However, for the record

Stephen Cilley wrote:
> http://www.indiana.edu/~uitspubs/b017/b017.pdf
> http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/refcard-en-a4.pdf
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jbattat/computer/linuxReferenceCard.pdf
> Just some things I googled up.

Good but not exact IMO. Google is not always right but of course cannot
correct or catch most common misuse of terms in it's own wisdom.
Technically, these are not terminal commands. They are OS commands, Unix
and Linux specifically. Just because you enter them trough a terminal it
doesn't make them terminal commands. You could use voice to issue the
same commands without a terminal connection. Of course you have to use
other means for input and output. Blind people do that often.

Most commands can start or run from a command line in a terminal so GUI
is not always necessary to start other, not OS specific, GUI programs.

> 
> Stephen
> 
> --- Kelly Williams <kwilliams at nethtc.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Where on the internet can I find a guide on pdf
>>where I can learn all the
>>terminal commands..

Terminal commands are those that control or manipulate terminal
behavior: background, cursor, and text color, font type and size,
special characters, graphics, etc. That of course depends on type of
terminal. DEC VT-100 is most often emulated in one form or another in
Unix world, but other types of terminals can also be used to connect to
other systems. TN3270 is most suitable for connecting to IBM systems for
example.

Here is more on terminal commands:
http://catb.org/terminfo
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO

Interestingly, when googling for TN3270 you can easily see that people
still make money selling terminal emulators to unfortunate users of lame
proprietary OS. tn3270 was available in Linux distributions in 1994 when
I used it to connect to IBM mainframe computer at work. It was more
stable than a commercial version for Windows users which were paying
about $300 for a terminal emulator in those days.

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>>Kbw
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-- 
Rafael
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