Subject: Re: RTFM Resources Wanted
From: perry (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 11:47:13 MDT
Hi Ted,
If you need specific info on a command, from a terminal window you can
type "man xyz" (where xyz is the name of the command) to get the syntax
and options for commands about which you do know the name but little
else.
More detailed info about programs is available for all the programs
which you've installed. Click on the "lifesaver" icon. If Konqueror
takes you where you don't want to go, manuals for many programs are in
/usr/docs/ and you can truncate the browser location to get there and
bookmark that location within Konqueror.
The Linux info problem--too much, too little, not pertinant, etc. If
I've wanted to do something like transfer my bookmarks or addresses, my
1000+ page complete references have not been able to answer questions
concerning "transitioning", nor are such reference books much help in
YDL/Mac-specific issues.
Occasionally, I've found google searches helpful.
Printing out manuals and putting them into binders has worked well for
me.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/cpan.html was useful in
setting up the CPAN.pm module , but I would make changes to the
document. I mention it because you said you were doing development
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html is a collection
of HOWTOs
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/index.html is FAQs and answers
to common questions.
hope this is helpful,
perry
------------------------------------------------
Ted Goranson wrote:
> Friends--
>
> I am committed to YDL at this point. As a newbie, I need to learn a
> whole lot. As a responsible, motivated, not too dumb guy, I want to
> learn myself rather than burden the list or trigger a Terrasoft
> request which takes too long.
>
> So I bought a Red hat book: Ques "Red Hat Linux" by Hellums.at $40.
>
> This rather thorough book contains not a single useful fact in the
> myriad of problems or basic questions I have had. I'm sorry to say
> that unguided searches of the web have been similarly unfruitful.
>
> Can you recommend print and web resources for motivated newbies.
>
> My own goals are to install YDL with X as a system to do development
> in a strange language (Haskell). I'll be using Xemacs heavily, and
> may want to play with shell editors (like es). I did a "workstation"
> install and am working through several basic problems now: the triple
> boot problem, sound and 2.4 problem; getting network set up; building
> basic skills like finding misplaced docs and not installed needed
> packages.
>
> In particular, the ethernet setup is driving me crazy. Netconfig is
> impossible for me to grok. The help was not installed (it seems). The
> Red Hat crowd uses network.conf (I think it is) which I found a snap.
> No YDL or RHL on-line resource seems applicable.
>
> Best, Ted
>
> --
> _____________
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