Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:33, Peter Hindrichs wrote: On 11-Feb-08, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:07, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:07, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded Macports 1.6.0. I have also read that there is an issue with 1.6.0 in setting up the .profile, my

Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Hindrichs
I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded Macports 1.6.0. I have also read that there is an issue with 1.6.0 in setting up the .profile, my question is that I don't know where to go from

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Don't forget to Reply All so your message goes to the list too, not just to me. On Feb 11, 2008, at 19:08, Peter Hindrichs wrote: I did as you suggested and that has worked fine. My MANPATH Line now looks like this: MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/

Re: Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Sending this back to the list. Please remember to use Reply All so your reply goes to the list too. On Feb 11, 2008, at 21:49, Esteban Barahona wrote: El feb 11, 2551 BE, a las 16:43, Ryan Schmidt escribió: On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:33, Peter Hindrichs wrote: On 11-Feb-08, at 5:19 PM, Ryan

Re: Re; Unix Newbie

2008-02-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 11, 2008, at 17:58, Peter Hindrichs wrote: Thanks to all for your advise. What I did for now, (until I get some better understanding of Unix) is I followed Ryan Schmidts advise, and used $ touch ~/.profile open -e ~/.profile. That worked out just fine, Do I understand what I did