On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: > Well I have decided to stick with Debian. Thanks for all the > suggestions and insightful comments I received to "Debian too difficult, > Red Hat?":) I still don't have X-windows. I do have my mouse working > now:) I am kind of starting over here. I have decided to try using > email. I have a connection to the internet. I used "ping" and verified > the connection. One problem, I can only use "pon" while signed in as > root. I saw a post for someone who had this problem and tried the > solution: "Do 'adduser user_name dip' but got "The command adduser does
I think the correct command is adduser the_username(you) dip > not exist." I also can't figure out how to bring up "Mailx." Under > dselect it says it is installed but when I type in mailx nothing > happens. I looked at the info page and couldn't see anything about how mailx is a set of BSD mail programs (mail,mailx,Mail) so typing mailx doesn't do any good. Try installing elm-me+ or pine (needs some basic development files) instead for interactive mail. > to get the program up. I have the latest Debian what is the easiest > way or programs to use, in order to use email? I also can't figure out > how to find clear documentation on my system. I went trough steps > outlined in a book I have, using "ghostscript" and "zcat", using either > one I get "Command doesn't exist." I put in "cd HOWTO" and then "ls" I > can see a "mail-HOWTO.gz" but can't figure out how to read it. Could zless | zcat will display the file correctly > someone point the way as to how to read files on my system? > Thanks, > Kent k e c h i e