Chapter23.Using the Network at the Command Line

Chapter 23. Using the Network at the Command Line

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

• How to browse the Web using the elinks browser

• How to use fetchmail to download your mail from a remote client

• How to download and install the Pine mailer

• How to read and respond to email with Pine

So far, you've learned how to do many things at the command line, including basic file management and housekeeping, high-quality document creation, mathematics, and simple database management. But, of course, the real order of the day in computing is networking, especially email and web browsing.

In this chapter, you learn how to use Linux and the command line to accomplish the web browsing and email tasks that are necessary to function in any office or productivity environment. As has been the case with the other chapters in Part IV, you can follow along either in a virtual console or in a Terminal application on the desktop.

Note that to make any use of this chapter, you must have your Linux system connected to a network or have dial-up access activated and ready for use (refer to Chapter 3, "Booting, Logging In, and Configuring," if you need help activating dial-up).

Before Starting This Chapter…

If you didn't choose the Workstation installation of Fedora Core 4 in Chapter 2, "Installing Fedora Core 4," you might not yet have the elinks web browser that this chapter discusses installed on your system. If this is true in your case, you should install elinks before proceeding with this chapter.

Refer to Chapter 31, "Installing Linux Software," for help installing additional Linux software from your CDs. To follow along with this chapter, you need to install the "Text-based Internet" package ground.