[Ti] Speed up

[Robert J. Fisher]

That sounds safer....I don't know what "man" does!
Boy have I got a lot to learn!
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Robert J. Fisher
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> From: "Tom R. no spam" <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 05:33:31 -0400 (EDT)
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Speed up
> 
> 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
> 
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