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Grex Info Item 268: Research on GREXes coolest utilites...!
Entered by mta on Mon Jan 1 00:06:03 UTC 1996:

Hi, everyone.  The long promised Grex Handbook (Wizard in Training) has
gone to press.  Now I'm working on a new document.  I want to list
some of GREXes coolest utilities. 

What are ythe ones you can't live without, what do they do, and how do they
work?

Thanks for your help with my research!

11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by davel on Mon Jan 1 13:42:28 1996:

You mean aside from the standard Unix ones?

#2 of 11 by orinoco on Mon Jan 1 18:07:59 1996:

<orinoco steps aside and lets the unix-literate handle this>

#3 of 11 by mta on Mon Jan 1 20:25:35 1996:

Well, if you don't absolutely need it to GREX, but it adds to the experience,
I guess.  I'm not really sophisticated enough at this point to know whether
a neat trick was written by janc back in '83, has always been a part of UNIX,
or was written by some helpful grexer along the way.  Neither is the user this
booklet is aimed at, so actual origin doesn't matter.

I haven't got a name for it yet, but something to the effect that now that
you can use the GREX basics, here's some "tricks" it can do and hoops it can
jump through.

Things maybe, like personalizing the item and response headers you see, using
(Gate?) (Gateway?)  whatever that wonder ful critter is that lets me back up
over line breaks to make corrections.  Etc.

And lots of them that I don't know about.

#4 of 11 by scg on Mon Jan 1 21:38:28 1996:

Gate is definitely a cool utility.

#5 of 11 by srw on Tue Jan 2 02:45:39 1996:

Yeah, but I think everyone new is getting gate now automatically. If you want
to call it a utility, you can, I guess, but I think of gate as more of an
integral part of the conferencing system.

kermit is a nice utility. So is sz/rz and newmail.

#6 of 11 by popcorn on Tue Jan 2 05:12:59 1996:

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#7 of 11 by mta on Tue Jan 2 22:27:53 1996:

Cool, everyone gets Gate automatically now?  

Yes, Filebrowse was one I wanted to include ... what are kermit, sz and rz?

and could y'all either post howto here or mail it to me?  Thanks

M

#8 of 11 by srw on Wed Jan 3 02:48:37 1996:

kermit sz and rz are programs to upload and download files between grex and
one's home computer.

#9 of 11 by davel on Wed Jan 3 03:10:23 1996:

zip & unzip are PKZIP-compatible programs quite nice for anyone transferring
files to DOS boxes, or the other way.

I *hope* you're putting in man.

#10 of 11 by orinoco on Wed Jan 3 03:28:37 1996:

<orinoco wonders what this 
"gate" thing is>

#11 of 11 by popcorn on Thu Jan 4 13:57:13 1996:

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