Q&A

Q1:Are there any reasons for preferring the elinks command-line web browser over the more widely known Lynx command-line Web browser?
A1: The most important reason that elinks is covered here rather than Lynx is that Fedora Core 4 includes the former rather than the latter. In practice, both are powerful text-mode web browsers that should serve you well.
Q2:Rather than using Pine, I'd like to use the mutt command-line email program that comes with Fedora Core 4. Can you give me any pointers?
A2: Although mutt is a powerful and flexible email client in its own right, it isn't nearly as user-friendly as Pine; details about mutt are therefore beyond the scope of this book. You may, however, wish to consult the manual pages for mutt and muttrc ...

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