big sigh and many questions.

[Bear in SFO]

Thanks Thomas for doing this.  Your answers to Anna's questions solved some 
of the problems I was encountering with my linux box (resolving IP when telnet)
The question I have is this:  how can I 'export' the man pages?  It is 
kinda hard to read them with Speakup so I tried redirecting them into a 
file and then export the file.  No, doesn't work - instead of getting the 
word, say 'NAME', I get 'NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE'.  I tried nroff and groff but 
neither of them worked.  Any suggestion anyone?

Thanks :)

--David

At 01:45 AM 10/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Anna. It looks like these problems are simple, and easy to solve. I'll
>answer them one by one,and if you still have questions let me know.
>
>Question:
>"First, I did get a couple of tutorial, I think they are tutorial, Red Hat
>CD's with my system, but I don't know how to access them.  I have to do
>something with mount don't I, but I do I know what I'm mounting, and how
>do I know which device is designated as what, and once I get the CD
>writer/reader mounted, how do I read the information it has?"
>
>Answer:
>Yes, you will need to run the mount command to first mount the device, and
>then you can cd into that device and use it as you would any other
>directory. You can mount devices by mounting /mnt/floppy for the floppy
>drive and /mnt/cdrom for the cdrom drive. So if you want to mount the cdrom
>you would type:
>mount /mnt/cdrom
>Now to read the top level directory you would do a:
>cd /mnt/cdrom
>which opens the top level directory of the cdrom.  Then type:
>ls
>which will  show you a list of all the directories on the cdrom. You can
>proceed to open each directory in kind or open files, etc...
>One last note is before removing the cdrom it must be unmounted. To
>acomplish this I usually type:
>cd
>which takes me back to my home directory.
>Then, I would type:
>umount /mnt/cdrom
>which unmounts the drive, and you can  remove your disk.
>
>Question:
>"second, I'm still having modem problems.  I can dial in with ppp okay, but
>then I can't seem do telnet or ssh, and I don't know where their config
>files are, or their how-to files.  I means I've skimmed the info pages on
>them but it's all jibberish to me.  When I try ssh, I get something about
>host name resolution failure, and telnet just can't find the host.  Now,
>from my non-ppp account on Drizzle, I often telnet to the catalog ofr the
>Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and that works fine, but when
>I even tried doing that on my Linux machine, I couldn't.  It couldn't find
>it or something, but I'm wondering if it's actually a problem on my end."
>
>Answer:
>Well, telnet and ssh don't need any special configurations. You merely have
>to type:
>ssh domainname.com
>and then it will usually go where it is suppose to go. However, I suspect
>your problem is that Red Hat is not resolving  addresses.
> From your isp find out the ip address for there primary and secondary dns
>numbers, and place them in a file:
>/etc/resolv.conf
>After that Red hat should begin resolving these urls.
>You would add them like:
>servername 216.209.25.10
>of course, replacing the number with the actual ip address.
>As for getting information on telnet or ssh you would type:\
>man telnet
>man ssh
>
>Question:
>"This doesn't make any sense does it.  I can't do anything.  Every time I
>try I go backwards.  I don't understand the the info pages because they
>are so terminology ladend.  I can't find help on the things I need because
>I don't know where to look. Oh, and I can only access my moem as root, not
>as anther user and I can find where to change that because I don't know
>what to look for."
>
>Answer:
>Anna, you may be surprised  to know this all makes sense. I suffered the
>same trials with Linux, and was unsure where to look, where to go, or what
>to do.  Fortunately, over time you will become skilled and will pass on the
>information that I am imparting to you.
>Your number one resource for help should be the Linux man pages. You can
>type
>man commandname
>and it will give you a manual on that command.
>Let us say the issue was mount. You would type:
>man mount
>and you could read that page using the spacebar to advance through the
>document, and q to quit.
>As for logging in as another user you first need to create yourself a new
>user name and password, and after that you can login  as that user all the
>time.
>For demonstration I will assume you wanted the name anna as your username.
>So as root you would type:
>adduser anna
>Now, you have a user nnamed anna, but no password. So will we set a password
>for anna by typing:
>passwd anna
>and it will prompt you to enter a password.
>Now, you can type logout, and login as anna.
> From now on when your Linux box starts you can give the name anna and your
>password, and login as a regular user.
>
>Hth.
>
>
>
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