Hi Karen, On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:35:11 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi folks, > let me ask these two questions very very carefully. > The organization with whom I produce of my radio projects just got a > donated hosting package from dreamhost. > www.dreamhost.com > Actually the stuff it includes is rather allot. > One element is a shell structure that uses the totally text based shell of > debian. > I mean totally c text based too. > my questions are two. > first, > one of the packages they say can be used as a text based browser is emacs. > My support person says there are web modules that allow for this. He is > getting educated vast as to access though, so I wanted to ask here if > anyone has used emacs for browsing? > The second question comes from them. > is there a command line set of keystrokes that will produce a list of all > the packages that may be available on their shell? > Yes it is going to be allot, but apparently there is no category listing. > Since they really have chosen only purely text based tools, they want me to > have that list. Did you try "dpkg -l" (with a lowercase "l" - see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/dpkg.1.html ) or "aptitude ~s~i"? That will only work on Debian derivatives. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ Sometimes you don’t need to be familiar with a better alternative to know that something sucks. Take Microsoft Word for example. — Shlomi Fish’s friend. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list