One book that's been tremendously helpful to me is Linux System Commands,
by Patrick Volkerding and Kevin Reichard from M&T Books. It lets you look
up commands by function, name, or DOS equivalent, and gives pretty
thorough descriptions of the commands and their arguments/options.
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #19071
On 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> also what books do you recommend i will purchase or do almost anything
> to end having to use windows
> i hate being in the main stream being sent in a direction i don't want to go
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> > ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] commands
> > ** Original Sender: "Eugene C. Zesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ** Original Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:37:34 -0500 (EST)
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> > ** Original Message follows...
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > totally new in the old world i came from dos/widoze
> > > you would type cd/dir to change directories
> > > could some one please show me a type of directory change command
> > > i would be greatful
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> > God, man, get a book! Im sorry if that sounds rude, but why in the world
> > are you trying to use Linux if you wont put even the smallest effort
> > into it?
> > Yahoo search on 'DOS to Linux Primer' yields about 2580 matches.
> > Prominent in the first 20 are:
> >
> > http://www.superant.com/dostolinux/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html#toc1
> >
> > http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/y2k/60/primer/primer.html
> >
> > Search engines can be your friend! But you have to take the first step.
> >
> > Gene
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