Yeah - the installfest forgot one thing - ongoing guidence for the new
users. Being on this list is a brilliant way to get help, but sometimes
it takes a few hours to get them. This web site will help you with
specific commands.
http://rute.sourceforge.net/
You can download the PDF or html versions too if you want, but its 600+
pages (I printed one copy out for the school library :)
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:08, Peter Cornelius wrote:
>
> As a Mandrake newbie from Saturday I believe the first thing I need to do
> is to come to terms with some of the new expressions, commands and
> abbreviations. I was advised from whence to download some documentation.
> The downloaded file came with a .gz extension, which had I the
> documentation (!) might have told me was a zip file.
> However, I discovered this and more by luck than knowledge managed to unzip
> into `archive'. However, when trying to open in Star Office or an editor I
> simply ended up with a blank page of that file name.
> I feel like a 3 year old who has been given a book entitled 'How to Learn
> to Read'.
> As one who wishes to USE Linux, as opposed to 'playing' with it I realise
> that I could be unique, but I could just start a trend.
>
> Help! (or whatever commands are used to say the word in Linux.)
>
> Peter.
