Larry, something that while it might not help a lot, at least will provide a reason for whats happened. Unix/Linux is a different way of thinking to MS. It depends a lot on "knowing" where to go for documentation (i.e., standard places on the system) and be able to go from there. MS does a lot of handholding (which in my opinion is better for the user!, wake up Linuxworld, we need good help docs). Looking from the outside, your problems stem from expecting documentation/help to be presented in the MS way - sorry, but aint gonna happen here! For vmware, the install should have given you a set of (excellent) html docs accessable from the help button on the VM window. "man vmware" gives a good basic intro - a standard unix "thing", dont know something, so type "man keyword" or "man -K search_for_Keyword", and obviously to a unix person, "man man" for help on help. "/usr/doc/vmware" has some basic files including an excellent readme for problems, again a standard place for docs. If all else fails, do a "find / -name vmware\*" as root and check out all the obvious files it returns until you know how its structured. Its all very well for someone to say RTFM, but you do have to know where to find it first! BillK Larry Marshall wrote: > > Thanks to all who have helped me fumble my way into this. I still found > it a struggle to find the documentation on the website. It's unclear to > me why they don't just put the help point directly on the > documentation. They dump me onto the main page which has absolutely no > reference to it. In fact, I can't find a reference to the documentation > anywhere but in their site map. >
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