Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:45:11 -0800 (PST) From: horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Eug-lug] Re: Walter's serv.req/o.office
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:23:49 +0000 From: walter fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Let me add more info for the purpose of re-evaluating points of reference:
I met Walter and his laptop at the 'Deutscher Stammtisch' (that's where I fixed the floppy mount issue). Walter is about 1.5 generations ahead of the average EugLUG member. He has many talents, and attacked and solved a variety of technical problems in his long professional life (micro processors,...youNameIt..., and non-electronic subjects).
He is just not (yet) familiar with Linux/Unix.
To improve communication I suggest
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Walter: add short *text* clips of your input and the OS/shell response to your questions.
LUG: don't just throw in a link or command --say why you are doing what, and how Walter can explore the subject, e.g. man page, cmd options, ...
For example: Walter, if you like to see what I did to get the floppy mounted:
su -
(that gets you into the root environment; enter 'man su' to see
documentation; use 'q' to quit the 'man' (=manual) environment)
history > floppy-issues.txt
(that creates a file of the previous 500(more or less) root commands;
the ' > ' means redirect screen output to file, like in DOS)
less floppy-issues.txt
(that lets you view the history; <space-key> to forward; <h enter> for
help with other commands; 'q' to quit)
There are various ways of cleaning up (editing) the file 'floppy-issues.txt' ; 'pico' may be the easiest to begin with --what happens if you enter 'pico floppy-issues.txt' ?
Another subject:
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I used the 'script fileName' command to document what I did on your laptop; since I also used 'vi' during the session the 'fileName' is full of control characters and hard to read. You can use
cat fileName | col -b > fileName.clean.txt
where 'fileName' is the name I used, but forgot.
((what's going on in that one line is the subject of another tutorial:
4 Unix 'thingies' as compact as it gets: 'cat', 'col', ' | ' (=pipe), ' > ' (=redirect)
It's a bit like slapping a bunch of 74xx TTL gates together --the input of the next gate understands the output of the previous gate; the limit is your imagination... and the resources of your box :-))
Hippie Holidays.................... Horst
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