# OFFTOPIC: console text viewer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190 "2006-04-19T15:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/1 "2006-04-19T15:23:31Z")
Hi, I need TXT file viewer, like cat or type, that works with Win9x, XP and has a linux version too. Has anyone idea? regards, Daniel ---
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/2 "2006-04-19T15:29:42Z")
On 4/19/06, Dani [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > I need TXT file viewer, like cat or type, that works with Win9x, XP and > has a linux version too. Has anyone idea? > regards, Just use cat via msys. [http://www.mingw.org/](http://www.mingw.org/) ---
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/3 "2006-04-19T15:32:50Z")
Dani wrote: > Hi, > I need TXT file viewer, like cat or type, that works with Win9x, XP and > has a linux version too. Has anyone idea? > regards, > > Daniel Hello Daniel, What about emacs: [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/) Or vim: [http://www.vim.org/download.php](http://www.vim.org/download.php) Or did you have some more specific idea on your mind? HTH, Peter ---
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/4 "2006-04-19T19:16:59Z")
Cristi BALAN wrote: > [http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) > > – > Cristi BALAN > [http://evil.che.lu/](http://evil.che.lu/) GnuWin32 has things like this too: > **[GnuWin](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/)** > > Download GnuWin for free. Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities. GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern... ---
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/5 "2006-04-19T15:32:55Z")
On 4/19/06, Dani [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > I need TXT file viewer, like cat or type, that works with Win9x, XP and > has a linux version too. Has anyone idea? > regards, > > Daniel cat, less, tail and more… [http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) ---
**Author:** ![dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dani](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dani)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offtopic-console-text-viewer/58190/6 "2006-04-21T23:23:48Z")
Hi! At Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:21:43 +0900, Dani wrote: > I need TXT file viewer, like cat or type, that works with Win9x, XP > and has a linux version too. Has anyone idea? regards, lynx Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt