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Re: linux/unix?

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From: John Summerfield
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:00
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In <5gvrc7$sar$1@nargun.cc.uq.edu.au>, zzppham@dingo.cc.uq.edu.au (Robert Paul Pham) writes:

]I can't see why all the Unix gurus keeps saying that Unix is difficult, is
]it a conspiracy to keep a good thing all to themselves :-)??? The command
]line is much more flexible than dos, and man does an excellent job of
]telling me what each command does. grep is great btw, I now can not do
]without it :-).

True the man pages do a good job of describing the commands (thouhg the 
    number of descriptions that take half a page begining, "This document 
    descibes the GNU version of... waffle waffle," I find rather tedious.

What I've not found is a nice little list of the commands actually 
    available.

It took me a little while to find even the man command. "help" seems so 
    much more obvious.

My first experience of Linux was telnetting to my ISP's machine. I had no 
    books.

Now can someone tell me how to turn insert mode off at the commandline?



Cheers
John Summerfield
Warped & Connected
Perth, Western Australia
OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer/
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