Marc Abramowitz

GNU screen is an awesome program that allows you to have several sessions open at the same time that you can switch between. Furthermore, all of the state is stored on the server, so if you lose the connection, you can simply...

Here is the lsof program which displays the files, sockets, etc... opened by programs; very useful for debugging and for getting clues about how an existing system works, where the configuration and logs files are, what port a...

libtermcap for TiVo Series 2 libncurses for TiVo Series 2

This package contains the "dialog" program which allows you to create several kinds of ncurses-based dialogs. I thought it might be useful for writing friendly, interactive scripts. dialog for TiVo Series 2...

This package contains the "ldd" program which identifies the shared libraries that a program or library depends on. ldd for TiVo Series 2

This package contains the "file" utility and the associated "magic" database that allows you to identify the type of data in files. file for TiVo Series 2

rgrep is a recursive grep program, written by the same author as the "most" pager and the jed text editor (in fact, it's included in the jed distribution and source code). It does recursive greps and also highlighting (on an ANSI...