[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|Dale Scheetz writes:
|> Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but
|> compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that "less is more", is more
|> than a cute word play, it is true for every context of "more".
|
|less is better, but DOS users know a
Dale Scheetz writes:
> Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but
> compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that "less is more", is more
> than a cute word play, it is true for every context of "more".
less is better, but DOS users know about more and the name is easie
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Olivier THARAN wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > I would just recommend only less.
>
> more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will
> choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + "Oliver Elphick"
> wrote:
>
> > You have to log in (as with Windows) by entering a username and password.
> ^^^
> You don't log in with Windows 3.x, and I don't think you do wi
robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
> > seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
> >
> > I attach a document that might ser
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> I would just recommend only less.
more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will
choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead
Unices don't have less. So in the first time one
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 10:08:14PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> type [file]: says where to find [file] in your search path
type is a bash build-in and will not work with tsch logins . A
better choice is probably /usr/bin/which ( "which" is also a csh build-in).
Ioannis Tambouras
This is an excellent document. Placing it on the CD would be
helpful, but, IMHO, it would be even better if it were posted on the
debian web site, and referred to in the CD's README file. Following
are some suggested additions/modifications.
Bob
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:08:14 + "Oliver E
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
> seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
>
> I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could
> be added to the files
> more [textfile]: lists [textfile] to the screen in pages so that
>you can read it
> less [textfile]: like `more' but with more features and somewhat
>different behaviour
I would just recommend only less.
> ed [file]: the original line editor
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Hi.
May be it is worth removing ':' after the commands?
Alex Y.
> Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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