Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For example on page 104 of Learning the Bash Shell O'reilly there is the

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:07:44PM -0400, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Pete Harlan
And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:05:21PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and install, and works well. Ctrl-\ is the escape character, but you have to follow it with another character to cause anything