On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 09:41, Michael Lake wrote: > Bill Taylor wrote: > > > > I was installing. last thing before this it set VGA16 as default. > > when it does manage to start x it locks the system up, the only way out > > is to cut the power. > > cat didn't work last night, unless I did somthing wrong. the particular > > readme's are .gz .does that make a difference? > > You probably have lynx on your system. It's a text based browser which > will automatically uncompress the giz zipped files and show you the > README inside. That way you dont have to use gunzip to uncompress them. > Just change to the directory where the readme is and type "lynx ." > The dot stands for the current directory. You can then scroll to the > README.gz line and hit enter and it will display it.
Power users use vim which will automatically unzip when it opens for edit. It will then zip when you save automatically. You just have to be deranged to understand the command set. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
