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 co

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@l

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 r

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 lo

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 compr

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 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 "uns

reading HOWTO files

1998-01-04 Thread Catouch
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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl