Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Greg Norris wrote: I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them? Thank you. try gzip -dc somefile.gz|less zless file.gz is a lot less

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them?

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-05 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500 From: Catouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reading HOWTO files Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Resent-Date: 4 Jan 1998 23:49:21 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-05 Thread John Spence
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Catouch) wrote: I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them? Thank you. If you intalled the Midnight

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-04 Thread Greg Norris
I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them? Thank you. try gzip -dc somefile.gz|less -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-04 Thread James Dietrich
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them? Thank you. zcat *-HOWTO.gz | less where '*' stands for the name of

Re: reading HOWTO files

1998-01-04 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote: I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. However, I cannot access the HOWTO files. They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are gz. How can I read them? Thank you. If you've installed less, the 'zless' command will view