Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:40:11AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
> Since the dependencies for VIM and MC were on /usr, 
> I couldn't run them, either.  

I would think that plain vi would work without /usr; I'm sure I've done it
on some redhat boxes, in the course of swapping partitions around. 

> >     There we differ -- maybe because I don't (yet?) see the
> > commands as sentences. I spent a couple years trying to teach
> > myself linux out of manuals -- with RH 6 on the second hard drive
> > -- and getting nowhere. It was only when I broke down and started
> > using the GUI that I got far enough to be able to *do* anything
> > while I'm learning. Visual memory supplies a crutch that helps me.

I started off using the GUI to a degree as well. (that said, there wasn't
much of a GUI in RH5.1. it was useful for running a web browser, printtool,
managing xterms, and playing xbill) when I first installed
linux, I knew 'ls', 'man', 'cd', and 'ps', from some SunOS experience I'd
had years before. most of the rest I learned by going to the local Linux
Users Group meeting, and spending time on the mailing lists.

so you're off on a good start. :)

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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