I know there is a program that allows me to use standard UNIX commands in the Win2k command prompt. I remember a program called cygnus or something but I can't find it using search engines. If anyone ...

Maybe you're married to Microsoft Exchange, but you secretly pine for open-source e-mail tools like SpamAssassin or fetchmail. Or maybe you're using Unix-based applications for some network services, ...

The stty (set the options for a terminal) command can be very useful once you get the knack of using it. Stty can give you quick manual control over the characteristics of your terminal. If ever you ...

In last week’s column, we looked at a script that extracts data from a web site and adds it to a log file. There is no limit to the number of things you can do with a script that queries the web and ...