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from: ANDREW CLARKE
date: 2016-05-25 09:50:00
subject: Conversion

24 May 16 18:23, you wrote to me:

 ac>> You'll also find a lot of other GNU utilities you take for granted
 ac>> are missing, like grep, less, etc.

 MK> I didn't get that far but now that you mention it I'd have some real
 MK> issues with an OS that didn't provide likewise apps to grep and probably
 MK> less given the small amount of real estate provided by the usual
 MK> displays on those devices (tablets and especially smart phones).  UTF-8
 MK> support is good from what I read on one site.

ConnectBot works well to connect to Linux (and others) servers over SSH. On a
phone, half the screen is taken up by the onscreen keyboard. On a tablet it's
not as bad. Using an external (USB or Bluetooth) keyboard can help, especially
since it'll make the onscreen keyboard disappear. OTOH, the Ctrl key on Android
doesn't work the same as on Windows & Linux, unfortunately.

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