Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:49:37 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now do I have to use Konqueror for this to work, or can I use Firefox? I'm really not growing attached to Konqueror, and I like being able to man:// seems just to be a konqueror-ism. It's still pretty good. For more GUI-like

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:56:47 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? Postscript files are essentially programs. But they're (usually) programs dedicated to

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:46:43 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as much as I'd love to have someone else to fix it all for me, I've got two things in the way of that. 1) I know no one local who uses where are you geographically? Secondly what type of hw do you have? Try

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Amy
Snapafun wrote: Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Amy
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I suspect it won't work for me,

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread SnapafunFrank
Amy wrote: Snapafun wrote: Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 16 August 2004 12:38 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Amy wrote: Snapafun wrote: Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 16 August 2004 02:21, Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:21, Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Seg, 2004-08-16 às 09:01, Stephen Kühn escreveu: On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:21, Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Amy
Stephen Kühn wrote: Then again, it might be the situation where (as in the case of my girlfriend) someone else takes care of whatever you need...just a matter of convincing... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Well, as much as I'd love to have someone else to fix it all for me, I've got two things in

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-16 Thread Amy
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages.

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Amy
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages.

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Amy
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Snapafun
Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages.

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 August 2004 01:16 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all

[newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-14 Thread Amy
Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a