On Wednesday 30 August 2006 17:22, Alan wrote: > Well I dont know what the heck I did wrong last time but yes it > installed ok this time. > Now I had a look at the directory wiht ctrl A Z > > unfortunately I do need some guidance on how to drive it.... I did run > the initialize Modem command and that appeared to work ok. Ah. Therein the rub. Did the initialization characters appear on the screen absolutely instantaneously, or did they take a moment or two to become visible? This is covered in /usr/share/doc/minicom<tab-key>/minicom.FAQ.gz Use the less command to read it thus:
less /usr/share/doc/minicom<tab-key>/minicom.FAQ.gz We are talking about Q & A number 2. > Is there a file to access that tells me how to use it?? Let me say it again, _EVERY_ Linux command has a manual page. I agree that some are better, i.e. more understandable than others, but the minicom one seems pretty good. So, as I said before, either use the command line and input the command man minicom or put the characters man:/minicom into Konqueror's Location bar. Either of these actions will display the documentation for you. In some ways the use of Konqueror is to be recommended simply because the text is nicely set out like a web page. Also all commands also have a documentation directory in the /usr/share/doc area. For the version of minicom installed on my machine it's:- /usr/share/doc/minicom-2.1-r2 but you might have a different version from minicom-2.1-r2 in which case the version, release, and revision numbers will be different. The quality of the documentation in these folders / directories is very variable, but minicom has rather short, yet pertinent, README and FAQ files. > When is the next meeting, I could not make the last one but would like > to come along to the next one if possible. Oooops I just noticed on the > bottom of Christophers posting the date Tuesday 12 September. The main talk is going to be Volker talking about images, photographs, and computers, but I'm sure somebody will be able to find time to give you a bit of a lesson about how to use your Linux machine. btw, has anybody been successful installing the Festival [1]/ Mbrola [2] + ktts [3] suite on a Mepis machine? [1] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ [2] http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html [3] http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ I'm vaguely wondering if Alan would benefit from having access to this. I installed it on one person's KDE on Linux machine. It made his computer life a great deal easier for him. -- CS
