On Tuesday 29 August 2006 21:37, Alan wrote: > I am going to try and install minicom, at present I have it sitting in > the share folder which both windows and Linux can use, but there are > other programs in there too. > I was thinking of creating a sub directory in there such as Temp and > then putting the minicom file into it. > What I need to know are the commands for creating another directory... I > think it may be > mkdir but not certain but I basically need the structure of the command > so as to sure I tell the computer what it has to do. Do try to read the manual pages. Every command on your machine has a manual page which tell you how to use it. Either use the command man whatever-the-command-is or put a single hash sign followed by the command into the Konqueror location bar.
man mkdir is what you need. It will tell you that the command is:- mkdir -p /home/alan/full/name/of/the/directory/you/wish/to/make if you see what I mean? You can use the -p option flag to create parent directories, not otherwise. The above should work on your machine exactly as above. ( Use -p ) Try it out, you can't hurt anything, merely by making a directory. > Also can you tell me the structure for the mv command to move the file > into that directory. mv from to You can use Konqueror to do the above using the right-hand mouse button to make a directory, and drag and drop to move files. > The other thought was that I am assuming I need to use the command dpkg > -i* but was wondering > if instead of shifting it would I use something like dpkg -i /exact > file name for minicom and thereby select the file I wanted to work on?? Correct! > These commands etc are possibly somewhere in the literature I have but > as yet I havent stumbled upon it. Do use Konqueror or the man command. > Sorry to have taken up so much of the Groups time and space with the > Modem problem, I had > hoped that it might have been able to be sorted out a lot > easier......... I will definitely have an external hardware modem > shortly, maybe this week That's splendid news. > The ps -A command threw up a whole list of processes running, but > unfortunately at this time they mean very little to me. > > Regards Alan -- CS
