11-10-2001
Actually only a few commands like sed and grep use regular expressions. But the commands you type are read by a shell. And shells have a filename matching system built in. So if you type "ls *.c" the shell will lool in your current directory and find a list of files whose names end in ".c". The ls command doesn't do that. The shell did it. And because you use the shell to type all your commands and most commands do use lists of filenames, it kinda looks like everything is the same.
It's pretty easy to get a files in a directory, but it's much harder to get a list of hostnames.
As for reading news, this is always done with freeware that is added on to the system. Unix does not come with newsreaders. I have no way of knowing what is available to you. But they are all "full screen" like vi or emacs; if you can run vi, you can run them. My choice would be a program called "trn", but again you will need to ask your sysadmin to find out what's available to you.
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ansi_ctrlu
term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n) Terminal control term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
term::ansi::ctrl::unix - Control operations and queries
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4
package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix ?0.1?
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
WARNING: This package is unix-specific and depends on the availability of two unix system commands for terminal control, i.e. stty and
tput, both of which have to be found in the $PATH. If any of these two commands is missing the loading of the package will fail.
The package provides commands to switch the standard input of the current process between raw and cooked input modes, and to query the size
of terminals, i.e. the available number of columns and lines.
API
INTROSPECTION
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?
This command imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace ctrl. Note that this is
relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child of the current namespace. By default all commands are imported,
this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument.
OPERATIONS
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
This command switches the standard input of the current process to raw input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed
by the user are immediately reported to the application instead of waiting in the OS buffer until the Enter/Return key is received.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
This command switches the standard input of the current process to cooked input mode. This means that from then on all characters
typed by the user are kept in OS buffers for editing until the Enter/Return key is received.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns
This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of columns available for display.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows
This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of rows (aka lines) available for display.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category term of
the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
KEYWORDS
ansi, columns, control, cooked, input mode, lines, raw, rows, terminal
CATEGORY
Terminal control
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
term 0.1 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)