On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Pete Theisen wrote:
> This doesn't work at a distance because the folks telling me what to do
> can't see the error messages. Sometimes you can copy/paste them, but,
> heck, the meeting is this week.
If you can, bring a printout showing your commands and the errors.
> Knoppix is interesting, but the (way old) version I have didn't work.
> There are most likely newer ones but on dial-up I have no prayer of
> getting them.
Sometimes they give away newer versions at the meetings.
> I used to work fine in DOS, but Linux commands run on and on and on like
> the energizer bunny.
If I find myself doing a sequence of commands several times, I make a
script or alias for it, and use that (much shorter) version.
> You get one letter the wrong case and the whole thing is toast.
Up arrow, edit, enter, until you get it right. I often misread numbers,
which is especially bad when I run 'ps' or 'top' and find that 12345 is
the process to kill, so I do it, and nothing (obvious) happens so I
re-read and its actual PID is 12354. Oops. (What did I kill instead?)
So typoes aren't a "newbie" thing necessarily.
You'll get familiar with how commonly-used commands are spelled. Make
liberal use of the "tab" key. Assume lower-case until proven wrong.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarHanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Derived from Robert Heinlein
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