Re: gnokii: command not found

[Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan]

thanks i got it..

--- BORBELY Zoltan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:36:34AM -0800,
> Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan wrote:
> > thanks. But in the gnokii-0.6.0.txt file it is
> said
> > that we have to copy the gnokiirc file to home
> > directory. So i copied to /home directory and ran.
> > It said it coudn't find .gnokiirc file in root or
> /etc
> > directory. ( I build binaries..)
> > Then copied to /etc and changed to .gnokiirc
> 
> You have to copy it into your home as .gnokiirc
> (e.g. if you are root
> gnokii will search /root/.gnokiirc) or you can use
> /etc/gnokiirc.
> 
> > Why do we need to change the file to '.gnokiirc'
> > Sounds like a file with just an extension? duh!
> i'm
> > newbie to linux/unix...
> > Moreoever i cannot see the file from the konqueror
> in
> > that directory. why is it so? invisible???
> 
> Unices doesn't use file extensions, it's a DOS or
> VMS thing. But
> Unices treats files beginning with dot differently.
> It will be
> treated as a hidden file, so the ls command (and
> konqueror) won't
> show it (you have to use ls -a to see these files).
> If you look
> into your home directory (e.g. ls -a ~) you will see
> a lot of files
> and directories beginning with dot. This is for
> convenience.
> 
> Bye,
> Bozo
> 
> 
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