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2009-11-19 05:26 |
Re: Can anyone tell me what is the function of X-terminal application in N900?
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Originally Posted by FatPhil
(Post 378735)
I also like to anagram in my spare time, and have written a console-based helper program for finding anagrams
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You wrote that? There are already tons of console-based anagram finder applications available. Used them for ages even on obscure platforms and architectures such as BSDi and SPARC so I'm pretty sure they compile on Linux/ARM too. Their usability differs depending on why anagram is required, how advanced the flags/options are (e.g. filtering), dictionaries used, and resources of host OS (good dictionary requires more resources hence using over SSH may be desired). AFAIK there is none which uses a ncurses or X frontend but with bit of flag fiddling served me well through ages, and a bit of scripting (e.g. awk) does the rest. Could be put in sh script, contain simple dialog, and export result in GUI hence user would never notice console. The power of UNIX nowadays is having the choice between your preferred client. Local, remote, whatever architecure or UNIX flavor, X11 (Qt, GTK, native, Maemoized or not, blah) or console (cli, ncurses) or remote protocol (http, webdav, ssl+whatever). (Microsoft realized that, hence Monad. :D) |
