In a terminal window, at a prompt, enter "man man" and read what gets shown. To learn some basics in a gentle way, just to have an idea what goes on in unix, my own suggestion would be Douglas Troy _Unix Systems_. I think the latest edition is like 1990, but for the basics (and unix hasn't changed specially a lot) it's fine still. On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Robert J. Fisher wrote: > That sounds safer....I don't know what "man" does!