Others can give you better answers to your questions but I'll point out a couple of sites, if you haven't found them yet, that might help. At least something to get you by for a few hours:)
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/LDP/gs/gs.html http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debian.org/doc/ Good luck, Kent Jerry Human wrote: > Could anyone tell a newbie the command to print a text file or a man > page item, like a file named "vi.1.gz" on a dot matrix printer? I have > installed the 'base' system from D/Led floppies (used the 'rescue' > disk and installed the drivers disk and the five 'base' disks). During > the install, I did install the 'lp' module for the parallel ports. At > this point, the 'man' program is either not available or not on the > disk. I have been reading some of the man pages using zmore but I > don't know how to print or do very much else. I don't have any docs > except for what was installed. I'm having a very rough time trying > learn how to do things in Debian, I'm good in DOS and Win95 but just > beginning to learn Linux. > > Apparently I have a lot to read and learn before I can get my install > to the point I can log onto the web and upgrade to a full system. The > few commands I can use I have learned by reading this ng. > > So far Debian seems to be a great OS with a lot more power than > anything I've used in the past, including OS/2 Warp. But the docs are > difficult to find and read for a newbie that doesn't have any Unix > experience. You could say that Debian is my Unix experience. Is there > a list of basic commands for navigation and operations available on > the web? The "Howto" pages are great for an in depth explanation of > lilo and fips but get a little bit tedious when all I want to do is > look at the current fstab or ppp.conf or list a dir. > > Also, using the 'ls' command, man6 dir doesn't exist and man7 is > empty. Is this normal? > > A Debian geek wannabe is anxious to learn. > > Thank you.
