[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|Dale Scheetz writes:
| Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but
| compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that less is more, is more
| than a cute word play, it is true for every context of more.
|
|less is better, but DOS users know about
This is an excellent document. Placing it on the CD would be
helpful, but, IMHO, it would be even better if it were posted on the
debian web site, and referred to in the CD's README file. Following
are some suggested additions/modifications.
Bob
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + Oliver
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 10:08:14PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
type [file]: says where to find [file] in your search path
type is a bash build-in and will not work with tsch logins . A
better choice is probably /usr/bin/which ( which is also a csh build-in).
Ioannis Tambouras
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I would just recommend only less.
more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will
choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead
Unices don't have less. So in the first time one
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
I attach a document that might serve as a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
wrote:
You have to log in (as with Windows) by entering a username and password.
^^^
You don't log in with Windows 3.x, and I don't think you
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Olivier THARAN wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I would just recommend only less.
more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will
choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead
Dale Scheetz writes:
Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but
compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that less is more, is more
than a cute word play, it is true for every context of more.
less is better, but DOS users know about more and the name is easier to
Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could
be added to the files on the CD. Would anyone like to suggest additions:
Content-Description: TO_BEGIN
[Attachment, skipping...]
Hi.
May be it is worth removing ':' after the commands?
Alex Y.
Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
PGP key from public servers;
more [textfile]: lists [textfile] to the screen in pages so that
you can read it
less [textfile]: like `more' but with more features and somewhat
different behaviour
I would just recommend only less.
ed [file]: the original line editor (not
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could
be added to the files on
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