Drat provides an Object-Oriented (OO) interface to the curses library written in C++. Drat is not simply a C++ wrapper around the curses library. Drat is intended to allow OO programmers to quickly develop curses-based user interfaces (UI).

Useful links for console, serial line and other Linux hardware hacks.

A program that will monitor one or more log files, updating when more data is available ala 'tail -f' , within a common terminal window via a "split window". User can scroll up/down/left/right through all the windows. A header displays each frames file name, and number of lines in the file.

Several communication tools for Linux optimized for size in order to fit them on a floppy-based Linux distribution.

Linux dialer/terminal useful for establishing ppp and other console use.

Ncurses is software for controlling writing to the console screen under Unix, Linux and other operating systems.

Pip is a wrapper for programs that won't use stdin and stdout, but require filenames to be given on the command line.

SanTools is a set of utilities that includes a file manager Screen Shell, text editor Ned, binary editor EDX, Screen library and some other utilities. The only thing necessery is a web browser (Explorer or Netscape) and you will have a graphic user interface without X11.

Scroller is a replacement for the command "while true; do clear; xxx; sleep 10; done". It uses ncurses to redraw the new output much more smoothly, and truncates the output to the size of the screen, without causing the program to abort.

A console based X11 type windowing system.

Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based working environment for programmers. It lets you interact with your files, directories and other programs through mouse and keyboard operations on plain text.

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.