Many administrators feel
that the Linux CLE is much more intuitive than the Windows version, even if the commands aren??™t
necessarily the same. If you work in both the Windows and Linux environments, you might want to use
these utilities to bring the two environments closer.
Working in a mixed environment can be difficult. Although this book doesn??™t provide much Linux information,
a few books on the market do. One of the best books for learning more about working in a mixed
environment is
Windows and Linux Integration
by Jeremy Moskowitz and Thomas Boutell (Sybex, 2005).
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have to rely on any external application to use it. You do need an SMTP server, which the send-
Email application assumes is on Localhost unless you specify otherwise. Make sure you download
the Windows version of the utility at
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
.
The really interesting feature of this product, though, is that you can use it to send an email to
anyone from the command prompt, a batch file, or a script (the Web page makes it appear that you
need to use Practical Extraction and Report Language or PERL, which also works of course, but
isn??™t a requirement).
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