* henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Dear Nuck:
>
> I am the root , the file is as attached.
>
Henry,
1) What is your set-up. I don't understand why you write from Outlook.
2) Don't use `root'; create a user account, i.e.
adduser henry
You'll be asked to provide a password. Then logout from root and
login as henry.
Anything like installing software that needs root priviledges, you
can do from `henry' by typing `su' - you'll be asked for root's
password. When you've finished, type `su henry' and you'll be
yourself again.
If you get sick of that, install visudo. You'll need to learn how to
use vi or vim. For that install vi and vim, and to learn type
`vitutor'.
3) I opened the Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
just using gv. Also `less' works, though that shows all the
postscript markup as well.
If in doubt use `file Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz',
as in the attached script record, to see what kind of file you're
looking at. In this case it shows it to be a Postscript document.
No mentions of it being zipped.
4) I think you're downloading with Internet Explorer and then
transferring the files to your linux machine. IE is probably
unzipping the files for you without asking or telling, and without
removing the gz suffix
5) PLEASE, if you attach a 751k file, just send it to me, not the whole
slug list.
751 x 10 members =~ 7.5M
x 100 members =~ 75M
x 700 members =~ 525M
Somebody has to pay for this. Just letting you know: be careful with
attachments. It's better to put the file on your website and give the
location. Anyone interested can download it for themselves.
And apart from the slug-server paying to send out 525M of your email,
each member, if they got one email like that each day, after a month
would be paying to receive 21M. If they got 10 emails like that per
day, they'd be paying for over 200M a month. Etc etc ...
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Script started on Fri Mar 22 08:40:25 2002
nicko@debian:~/tmp$ gunzip Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
gunzip: Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz: not in gzip format
nicko@debian:~/tmp$ gv Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
nicko@debian:~/tmp$ unzip Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
Archive: Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of
Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz or
Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz.zip, and cannot find
Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz.ZIP,
period.
nicko@debian:~/tmp$ file Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz: PostScript document text conforming at level
2.0
nicko@debian:~/tmp$ less Linux_Kernel_Hackers_Guide.ps.gz
Script done on Fri Mar 22 08:45:51 2002
_______________________________________________________________________
Best wishes,
Nick
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