Hello Dave Lee, I checked in usr/bin and found that although there were a great number of commands there too, I could find no commands earlier in the alphabet than sun-audio-file.sigh*. I used the shift page up keys to get to the top of the usr/bin file. I tried to do a command "ls -la /usr/bin > bindir2.txt and it responded "permission denied". I then did an su and logged in as root and got another error message I can not clearly remember, but it was something like executive commands not in this shell or something like that. I will go into root and do it again to get the exact reading of the error message.
Regards, Michael Walters ======================================================================================== Dave Lee wrote: > > Michael Walters wrote: > > It looks like you are right, as my brother installed mandrake linux as > > mainly a desktop and internet platform, and he knew that I did not want > > to go deep into development. > > > > I did a command ls -ls /bin and got my executable command list in > > alphabetical order in green and strings* should have been between sort* > > and stty* and it was not there. > > I think it's more likely to be in /usr/bin so check there too. > > also, in your orginal msg you wrote > > "bash : Strings : command not found.", > > the "strings" command should be all lowercase, no capitals. > > Dave
