On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:08:21PM +, Lee Elliott wrote:
before having installed any flavour of Unix, I'm wondering if there is
a Debian equivilent of 'smit' or 'sysadm' - no don't tell me - this is
one I know I'll figure out eventually, but the point is, right _now_, I
just don't know
Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nathan On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
Nathan : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix
will
Nathan : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
Nathan : good idea to
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:08:21PM +, Lee Elliott wrote:
a single line man('xzy') reply direct to the poster (not via the list)
will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you
don't..
IMHO, it's okay to post a reply like that to the list as there could
be other people
Lee Elliott wrote:
Hello,
My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help
the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A
single line man('xzy') reply direct to the poster (not via the list)
will get the message across if you want to help -
Rather sounds like a dessert...
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Subject: Flaming Debian Newbies
Date: Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:08:21PM +
In reply to:Lee Elliott
Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello,
Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for
installing slink on my platform and finally got
Ed Cogburn wrote:
The man package is far to large to fit on the base system. I had
exactly the same problem when I installed Linux for the first
time. 'man' was one of the few unix commands that I knew (thanks
to a book I bought), but after installing it wasn't there. Ouch.
You're
Lee Elliott wrote:
[...]
Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for
installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged
in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and
figuring out the various things dselect was telling
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will
: be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
: good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that
: prints a message explaining
Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nathan On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
Nathan : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will
Nathan : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
Nathan : good idea to include a
Hello E.L.,
On 27-Jul-99, LeeE wrote:
[snip...]
Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will
be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that
prints a message explaining that
Subject: Re: Flaming Debian Newbies
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:38:52AM -0500
In reply to:Nathan E Norman
Quoting Nathan E Norman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix
Hello,
My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help
the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A
single line man('xzy') reply direct to the poster (not via the list)
will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you
don't..
Having
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