Many users become very proficient at working from home using these and other applications. There are alternatives available for some applications. Because there are too few dialup lines available for the large number of users demanding access, people are not permitted to tie up the lines by playing games. Similarly, running very large and intricate programs that take up large amounts of CPU time are not recommended on dialup. In addition, some dialup machines restrict the number of processes users may have at any one time.
Every computer language has a method of compiling programs from the prompt.
As long as it does not require an X window to pop up, you should be able to compile and run programs without difficulty. The editor recommended for use over dialup is vi . The documentation for vi is too extensive to reproduce here, but some documentation is available in man vi . The non-X Windows News Reader program is rn . To use it, simply type rn at the prompt.