modem

I have just installed Debian off of disks. During installation I did set up the basic loopback for my network even though my machine is not on a network. I want to get my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some Debian packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my modem to dial

man pages, etc.

I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure = compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work = however. I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man = executable I can't find it, all though I do have some gziped man pages. The "fil