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Actually, here's UNIX find:
$ find / -name filepattern
or
$ find . | grep filename
and here's DOS find:
C:\>DIR /S FILENAME.EXT
:-)
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to David Johnson: While burning my CPU.
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> > >According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> > >>
> > >> > Actualy if i may say so without showing any disrespect, 90% of questions
> > >> > would be answered IF the asker read the flipping manuals, as per RTFM.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, but WHICH manual? That's a question that often frustrates a newbie. I
> > >> can't blame someone for not knowing what something is called (like IP
> > >> masquerading) and then asking about it.
> > >
> > >That question is quite easy to find an answer to, in ALL linux distro's,
> > >there is a complete directory absolutly full of documentation files, namely
> > >/usr/doc, there is further more the "info" system (when installed) and then
> > >the man pages, aside all that there are normaly README files in archives
> > >like the one you picked as an example.
> >
> > The average users of Dos95 or Mac have absolutely no knowledge of Unix
> > or Unix-like operating systems. It's going to take them a while to
> > figure out that "dir" does not list a directory. It's going to take
> > them even longer to find out where /usr/doc is. Then once they find it,
> > they'll spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out how to display
> > it. It matters not whether there are gigabytes of essential, useful and
> > lucid information in /usr/doc if the new user can't find it.
>
> If i may say so, the average user of Win9x does not even know how that
> system works, all they are told is that, all they need to do is "click"
> upon an icon and Bill Gates does the rest, of course that is sales talk.
>
> There is of course commands like 'find' 'help' on DOS systems, so with a
> little thought a necommer to *NIX has a flying start, its just that he
> does not know that fact.
>
> Anyway, i must agree with your comments, however if one reads the
> INSTALL.TXT file (or its equalent) which comes with every distribution
> then they would know where to look for information, i must admit even that
> file does not tell folks to look into /usr/doc but "always" has a referance
> to 'sunsite' which is now of course metalab.
> I suppose thats because installing the documentation is up to the user,
> who possably would not install that package because of disk-space etc.
>
> >
> > New users will appreciate easy-to-find and understand documentation
> > that will give them enough to get started with. Whether this
> > information is in the form of a "readme" file in their home directory,
> > or a two page pamphlet in their distribution's box matters not.
>
> Now that is a good idea.
>
> >
> > David Johnson
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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