On 8 Dec 99, at 11:38, Jennifer wrote:
< SNIPPITY >
> > I'm sure someone's got to be laughing at me for not having such basic
> > information (It's actually kind of embarrassing...I'm a network engineer
> for
> > a living, and I can't copy a bunch of files from a floppy disk.... *Sigh*)
>
> No, no one's laughing. We've all been there!
>
> from your command line, if you type the word man and then the command you're
> wanting information on, like this:
>
> man mv
>
> as an example, that will tell you information about that mv command. The man
> pages, as they're called, can be very useful, but occasionally overwhelming
> to the uninitiated.
< SNIP >
Errrk, flashback ! The keystrokes to *exit* a man page are:
SHIFT : Q
keyed in a fashion akin to CTRL ALT DEL on an MS-DOS box. If it
isn't obvious, it took some negative reinforcement for this MS baby
to absorb that key sequence :-)
HTH
Jeffrey R. Sunseri
Systems Analyst
Department of Information Technology
Mount Aloysius College
7373 William Penn Highway
Cresson PA 16630
(814)886-6479
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
- Sherlock Holmes, "Scandal in Bohemia" (1892)
