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authorAlan Hicks <alan@lizella.net>2011-04-13 20:25:31 -0400
committerAlan Hicks <alan@lizella.net>2011-04-13 20:25:31 -0400
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Chapter_02 - Finished the booting section and removed a couple of ugly
images, replacing them entirely with text. This should be the way to do things whenever possible as it increases the quality of the printed book.
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@@ -351,6 +351,37 @@ In this case we looked for an "A" record which returned an IPv4 address.
</section>
+<section><title>finger</title>
+
+<para>
+<application>finger</application>(1) isn't exactly a network diagnostic
+tool as much as it is a network-user diagnostic tool. Using
+<application>finger</application>, you can gather a handful of useful
+information about users on servers running the
+<application>fingerd</application>(8) daemon. Today very few servers
+still offer <application>fingerd</application>, but for those that do
+it can be a useful tool for keeping track of your friends and
+co-workers.
+</para>
+
+<screen><prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>finger alan@cardinal.lizella.net</userinput>
+[cardinal.lizella.net]
+Login: alan Name: Alan Hicks
+Directory: /home/alan Shell: /bin/bash
+Office: 478 808 9919, 478 935 8133
+On since Wed Apr 13 17:43 (UTC) on pts/9 from
+75-150-12-113-atlanta.hfc.comcastbusiness.net
+ 32 minutes 24 seconds idle
+ (messages off)
+On since Wed Apr 13 17:45 (UTC) on pts/10 from :pts/9:S.0
+ 48 minutes 56 seconds idle
+Mail forwarded to alan@lizella.net
+No mail.
+No Plan.
+</screen>
+
+</section>
+
</section>
<section><title>Web Browsers</title>
@@ -438,6 +469,110 @@ Length: 75306 (74K)
</section>
<section>
+<title>Mail Clients</title>
+
+<section><title>pine</title>
+
+<para>
+<application>pine</application> is one of the oldest command-line
+interface mail clients still in existance and remains one of the most
+user-friendly. <application>pine</application> was created by the
+University of Washington and carries with it both a trademark and a
+copyright license that are difficult to work with. Thankfully back in
+2005, the university saw fit to re-write it without the trademark and
+with a more open license, so <application>alpine</application>(1) was
+born. This is the pine-clone distributed with Slackware. To start using
+it, simply type <application>pine</application> at the command line.
+Using it is very simple due to its menu-driven system as well as the
+command referance neatly located at the bottom of the screen. See for
+yourself.
+</para>
+
+<screen>
+ ALPINE 2.00 MAIN MENU Folder: INBOX No
+Messages
+
+
+ ? HELP - Get help using Alpine
+
+ C COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send a message
+
+ I MESSAGE INDEX - View messages in current folder
+
+ L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view
+
+ A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book
+
+ S SETUP - Configure Alpine Options
+
+ Q QUIT - Leave the Alpine program
+
+
+ Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington
+ [Folder "INBOX" opened with 0 messages]
+? Help P PrevCmd R RelNotes
+O OTHER CMDS > [ListFldrs] N NextCmd K KBLock
+</screen>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>mutt</title>
+
+<para>
+Some people don't like <application>pine</application>. Some people
+want more control. Some people want a fully-configurable mail client
+with plugin support and a no-nonsense attitude. Those people use
+<application>mutt</application>(1). <application>mutt</application>
+isn't as user friendly as <application>pine</application>, but makes up
+for it with power. You won't find the user-friendly command referance
+at the bottom of the screen, <application>mutt</application> uses every
+last inch of real-estate for mail processing duty. It's feature support
+is extensive: threaded displays are no problem for the mighty
+mixed-breed! You can configure <application>mutt</application> with a
+<filename>.muttrc</filename> file in your home directory. With all the
+many different possible configuration options, there's even a man page
+for that, muttrc(5). You might want to read up on it.
+</para>
+
+<screen>
+3172 N Jan 17 Thomas Morper (2.8K) │ └─>Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Exim Sbo
+3173 N Jan 17 TuxaneMedia (2.5K) └─>Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Exim Sbo
+3174 N Jan 06 Uli Sch?fer (4.6K) [Slackbuilds-users] mrtg-2.15.2 breaks wi
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+3177 N Jan 06 Niels Horn (4.4K) └─>
+3178 N * Jan 09 King Beowulf (6.5K) [Slackbuilds-users] libreoffice (3.3.0rc
+3179 N * Jan 09 Niels Horn (4.8K) └─>Re: [Slackbuilds-users] libreoffice (3
+3180 * Jan 09 Niels Horn ( 73) └─>
+3181 N * Jan 09 King Beowulf (5.9K) └─>
+3182 N Jan 10 Robby Workman (7.8K) [Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20110110
+3183 N Jan 10 B Watson (3.6K) [Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: nted slackbuild
+3184 N Jan 11 SlackBuilds@cat (2.5K) [Slackbuilds-users] /usr/share/ package s
+3185 N Jan 11 Robby Workman (3.4K) └─>
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+3187 N Jan 11 Robby Workman (4.5K) └─>
+3188 N Jan 12 Robby Workman (2.3K) [Slackbuilds-users] Unavailability of mai
+3189 N Jan 13 Mr. B-o-B (3.7K) └─>
+3190 N Jan 13 Josiah Boothby (3.2K) [Slackbuilds-users] Ted's Word Processor
+3191 N Jan 14 Adam Swift (7.4K) [Slackbuilds-users] Web submission failur
+3192 N Jan 14 Rob McGee (3.5K) └─>
+</screen>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>mailx</title>
+
+<para>
+So those are great and everything, but what if you just want a mail
+client that isn't menu-driven? Thankfully
+<application>mailx</application> is here to save you.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section>
<title>FTP Clients</title>
<para>