Needing to find a basic How-To.

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Anna,
You might want to try something like locate howto|more.  That'll cause 
you to get a screenful of data at a time.  It functions the same way as 
the more in MSDOS if you are familiar with that.  You just press the 
spacebar to see the next screen.

     Jim Wantz
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi,Anna:
> 
> There's a HOWTO file expressly written for people who have DOS and Windows 
> backgrounds. If that's you, that's a great place to start. Just look for 
> the word 
> DOS in the index of HOWTO files.
> 
> The Red Hat Getting Started manual is also a great resource for beginners. 
> It's very well written, and it gives keyboard commands as well as mouse 
> clicks, so don't worry if you start hearing about clicking a mouse. The 
> keyboard help will follow shortly.
> 
> Let me point out that all of these are probably already on your hard 
> drive. Do:
> 
> 	locate HOWTO
> 
> and you'll see your screen fill up with all the different HOWTO files you 
> have. The reason to do it this way is that, on the very left of the 
> screen, it will tell you exactly where these HOWTO files are.
> Do a locate like this:
> 
> locate rhl-gsg
> 
> to see if the compressed file is on your hard disk. If it is, do
> 
> tar xzpf rhl-gsg
> 
> and the rest of the file name, which you can get by tapping on the tab 
> key. This last thing, tapping on the tab key, is a very very useful trick 
> to learn. It's called command completion, and it will save you both typing 
> effort and frustration.
> 
> PS: You should have this file on your Red Hat Documentation CD ROM, if you 
> got CDROM's.
> 
> You can also find it on the Red Hat web site all decompressed and ready to 
> read online. Goto:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/
> 
> Last, but very definitely not least, you can read all of these using lynx
> on your new computer,but only if you make certain changes in the lynx
> configuration file that turn it into a friendly tool for blind users. I
> humbly offer my lynx.cfg file to help you do that. You might want to save
> it to /etc/lynx.cfg. That way,it will just always be used whenever you
> launch lynx. If you want to play it safe, first copy your existing lynx to
> another name, so it won't be written over like this:
> 
> cp /etc/lynx.cfg /etc/lynx.cfg.bk
> 
> You need to be root to do this.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I need a basic How-To or faq of some sort.  Something that defines various 
> > Linux terms and tells me what to do the first time I turn the machine on.  
> > My computer arrived today and I've been procrastinating doing more 
> > research on what to do with a Linux system and now I can procrastinate no 
> > longer.
> > 
> > I just wandered around the Linux documentation project, and I found lots 
> > of How-Tos on lots of things, and I wrote a list of the ones I will visit 
> > soon, but I just want a beginner one right now.  Does such a thing exist 
> > on the web in text because I can't access it any other way right now?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Anna
> > 
> > 
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