RE: [newbie] Does any body know where i can download manuals for linux

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Bowley
Brett Have you tried http://63.209.80.231/en/72doc.php3 which is Mandrakes own documentation page. Alternatively try http://www.linuxdoc.org/ which is the home of the Linux Documentation Project and contains load of useful stuff. Mike -Original Message- From: Penndragon [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Thread Mike Bowley
The trouble with having spaces in directory or file names is that the shell interprets each bit of the name as a separate command line parameter and thinks "hang on , cd (or whatever) can only have one parameter. I'd better report an error" The answer is to type cd "my dir name thats got spaces

RE: [newbie] man select is pulling up the wrong man page

2000-08-31 Thread Mike Bowley
Or try "man a select" to get the man page for every version of "select" that the system knows about Mike -Original Message- From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 August 2000 07:52 To: Mark Johnson Cc: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] "man select" is pulling up the