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The mail command can be used under Linux or UNIX bash, ksh, csh shell to send an email. To send a message to one or more people, mail can be invoked with arguments which are the names of people to whom the mail will be sent. You are then expected to type in your message, followed by an <control-D> at the beginning of a line. However, using the following syntax one can send email easily: mail -s...

atktopbm [Command]

Command atktopbm atktopbm — Convert Andrew Toolkit raster object to portable bitmap Syntax atktopbm [atkfile] Description atktopbm reads an Andrew Toolkit raster object as input and produces a portable bitmap as output. See also pbmtoatk, pbm

asciitopgm [Command]

Command asciitopgm asciitopgm — Convert ASCII graphics into a portable graymap Syntax asciitopgm [-d divisor] height width [asciifile] Description Reads ASCII data as input. Produces a portable graymap with pixel values that are an approximation of the brightness of the ASCII characters, assuming black-on-white printing. In other words, a capital M is very dark, a period is very light, and a space is...

GNU as [Command]

Command GNU as GNU as — The portable GNU assembler Syntax as [ –a | –al | -as ][–D ][–f ][–I path ][–K ][–L ][–o objfile ][–R ][–v ][–w ][––\|\ files ...] i960-only options: [ –ACA| –ACA A | –ACB | –ACC| –AKA| –AKB | –AKC| –AMC][–b ][–no-relax ] m680x0-only options: [ –l ][–mc68000| –mc68010| –mc68020] Description GNU as is really a family of...

[Review] Gnome 3.4

Gnome 3.4, the third stable release in the 3.x series, is here. We couldn’t wait to try it out, since the last year has revealed Gnome 3 to be a desktop with a lot of potential, if a few rough edges. The first point to note is that Gnome 3.4 hasn’t set out to simply polish the rough edges, but has introduced a lot of welcome new features. The most significant is the work put in to the default...

Setup MAC address filterin...

To enable MAC address filtering in FreeBSD first you need get MAC addresses for all clients which you want to give internet access. To get MACs I suggest use FastResolver. You need to run it any computer located in your network. Also You can run # arp -a in your router. After that edit ethers file $ vi /etc/ethers and add ip and MAC address list...

arch [Command]

Command arch arch — Print architecture Syntax arch Description arch displays machine architecture type. See also uname