.gz ??? what, how?

[David Miles]

I need to read information in manual.txt

when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that
resembled this was Manual.txt.gz

This is not readable by an editor.  Is there something special about the
.gz??




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Re: terminology/concept questions

[David Miles]

I appreciate your response.

Another question or so:

1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a
shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program
generation capabilities?  another perhaps for graphics of some sort?


On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:

> Shells are command interperters to the kernel.  Users can execute commands
> from a shell at the prompt, like: ls, uptime, cp, rm...
> 
> The shell in returns takes our input, parses it, and hands instructions to
> the kernel to execute.  
> 
> user --> shell --> kernel
> 
> Much like a graphical interface (windows) interperts to shell commands:
> 
> user --> gui --> shell --> kernel
> 
> Different shells have different features to offer the end user, but in the
> end they all do the same thing, interpert user input.  If you want to
> learn more about them, csh ( or tcsh ) and bash are fairly easy to learn
> and have some nice features like command/filename completion using the tab
> key and up-arrow history.  You can learn this from the man pages, by
> typing man bash, man tcsh at your SHELL prompt :)
> 
> This is just a simple, brief explanation of what they do however.  Shells
> are very powerful and have a lot of features that can take a years to
> expertise.   Hope this helps.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 07:13:52 -0600 (MDT)
> > From: David Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: terminology/concept questions
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> > 
> > C shell, borne shell, ?? shell, etc.  
> > 
> > in simple terms, would someone briefly explain to me what these terms
> > mean, please?
> > 
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terminology/concept questions

[David Miles]

C shell, borne shell, ?? shell, etc.  

in simple terms, would someone briefly explain to me what these terms
mean, please?


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DOS partition with linux

[David Miles]

I created the following partitions on my PC with debian: linux, linux
swap space, and DOS 16bit >32MB on my PC.  I made the DOS partition
the bootable one.  Linux seemed to have continued to install
correctly. 

When I rebooted the computer, the computer did not start into 
eithe.

How do I install MSDOS in the DOS partition?  

How do I select the OS of choice for booting up?
  
Thanks ahead



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couldn't get a free page

[David Miles]

I installed debian on my computer last week.   I left it sitting for the
weekend.  When I returned, I found the following message updating every so
often on my screen:  "couldn't get a free page"

When I hit enter, I get the following statement "Out of memory for bash" a
few seconds later "Out of memory for init appeared"

I am not sure what is going on.  I have 6MB of Ram and at least 16 MB of
swapping space on my HD for the program.

Please help

dblm


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