On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 10:33 am, Tom R. no spam wrote: > Right. & to read a text file safely, including not breaking your > current terminal session if the "text" file turns out to be eg > binary with characters which would mess up your terminal window, > use the terminal command "less", eg here the command would be > "less /etc/rc.common". (Do "man less" to read the man page > for less, to see how to move around in the file.) Make a habit > of using this "less" instead of using an editor and you'll give > yourself some safety margin while you get familiar with these > unixy files. :-) very good advice less is your friend :) (less is more) :) T