Any open source console mode accounts packages available for Linux?
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From: John Hasler on 20 Mar 2010 08:57 Mark writes: > I wrote an accounts package... Why not port it to Linux? -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Mark Hobley on 20 Mar 2010 10:08 John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > Why not port it to Linux? Unfortunately all of my old software was written using Microsoft Macro Assembler for real mode DOS, and utilizes operating system and hardware calls. This is so different to how Linux works that basically everything needs to be rewritten from scratch. I am still learning how to program on Linux at this time, and I am not yet proficient in C programming, so it is going to take some time for me to gain the momementum to produce large application programs. Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: Sidney Lambe on 6 Apr 2010 19:45 On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: [delete] > I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are > available on Linux. ????????!!!! Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor and create web pages and compile complex software and download music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with a system load average of 7%. I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them require a GUI. I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps easily available for free. I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ just for starters. Sid
From: Baho Utot on 6 Apr 2010 20:51 Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley > <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: > > [delete] > >> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are >> available on Linux. > > ????????!!!! > > Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with > a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript > (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do > mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web > server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF > files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor > and create web pages and compile complex software and download > music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a > superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present > -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far > exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) > > Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with > a system load average of 7%. > > I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them > require a GUI. > > I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps > easily available for free. > > I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ > just for starters. > > Sid Why?
From: Sidney Lambe on 6 Apr 2010 22:05
On comp.os.linux.misc, Baho Utot <baho-utot(a)invalid.com> wrote: > Sidney Lambe wrote: > >> On comp.os.linux.misc, Mark Hobley >> <markhobley(a)hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote: >> >> [delete] >> >>> I am quite surprised at how few console mode applications are >>> available on Linux. >> >> ????????!!!! >> >> Let's see. I don't run X on this box at all. I surf the web with >> a browser (links2) which displays images and does javascript >> (though I don't) and frames and so forth. I edit images. I do >> mail and news and ssh and telnet and IRC and IM and run a web >> server and an FTP server and display and edit and create PDF >> files and run a packet sniffer and have an excellent text editor >> and create web pages and compile complex software and download >> music from a certain well-known file-sharing network. I have a >> superb window manager (GNU screen -- 9 open windows at present >> -- no mouse involved and it has cut&paste capabilities that far >> exceed anything available in a GUI window manager.) >> >> Currently using 43MB of RAM and 2% of my CPU's capacity with >> a system load average of 7%. >> >> I have 964 executable binaries on my box, and none of them >> require a GUI. >> >> I'd guess that there are probably another 10,000+ console apps >> easily available for free. >> >> I suggest you check out sourceforge.net and ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ >> just for starters. >> >> Sid > > Why? Wow. Someone who is even stupider than the guy I responded to here. I wouldn't have thought that was possible. <plonk> Sid |