Thank you James, March, Richard, Oliver and Jan for answering my questions. It seems indeed that the base system doesn't come with the man command. A bit strange, but who am I to comment on that :-)
I still haven't solved the script problem, though. - I have used ./telltime, but still no luck. - I have changed the mode to 0777 (or +u if you prefer). - I have checked the PATH and put the file in /bin and /usr/local/bin, both of which are in the path. BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime comes back with "bash: $: command not found." Bash is installed and in /bin. I have used a mini-Linux distribution (tomsrtbt 2.0.36 - the most Linux on a floppy. Never leave home without it) to boot and then change the mode according to the above. Still no result. A wild guess of mine is that I maybe did something wrong when I cfdisked the harddrive. As I said, when installing Debian 2.1 the installer didn't want to execute cfdisk and so I partitioned by hand and skipped that step. When booting now I see the following.... Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 20940 swap-space (priority -1) Exqueeze me, but what is VFS and is the fact that my Mounted root (hda1) is readonly correct? The reason why I need this problem solved is that I want to use paride to connect a parallel port CD-ROM and thus I need to make a /dev/pcd (which also doesn't come standard). Once I have the CD-ROM I can install the system in full, otherwise I will have to start thinking about buying some extra floppies and install it via that medium :-( I'm still having fun, though. Problem solving is the fastest way to become smart. Maybe that is street smart, but it'll come in handy sooner or later :-) At least I find Linux a lot more logical than MS-DOS, although I can't wait to install Moonlight Commander, because I really miss a commander like that. Should be standard in every distribution. >From a dark and gloomy Taipei (no wonder at 10:20 pm) greetings from, Hans
