[Ti] Speed up

[Tom R. no spam]

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. :-)

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
 . . .
> On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 10:11  pm, Robert J. Fisher wrote:
>
> > I don't know WHAT the heck I am doing here.... I DID use the leading
 . . .
> It may be worth talking a step back and noting that typing stuff into
> unix shells without understanding exactly what the command can do can
> be dangerous...
>
> in a unix filesystem, the root directory is known as "/".
>
> so /etc a directory under this.
>
> /etc/rc.common is a file called rc.common in /etc
>
> I recommend "Unix in a Nutshell" and "Unix system administration"
> (O'Reilly) as good starting points