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From: "Reinhard Stebner" <raydar@tamu.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:45:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301c1918a$a9332420$d5fafea9@reinhard3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112300716370.489-100000@hudson.mhonline.net>

Thank you so much for your help Chuck.  I will give that a try the next time
I log in to Unix/Linux.  I am looking forward to getting my box up.  I am
going to have to wait a few more days before I can get my feet web so to
say.  The box I am going to install Linux on is at school and I am home for
Christmas brake.  Once I get the os up, I am going to need help on how to
configure my network card.  Bye for now


are the square brackets these [] ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0


> Hi Reinhard -
>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Reinhard Stebner wrote:
>
> > regarding the man page, I do not understand how the screen is set up
with
> > all of the [] {} and <>.  This is why I wanted someone to explain how
the
> > page is set up for me with man.
> >
>
> All those funny punctuation marks you mention will appear on the
> line or lines called "synopsis", which is a summary of all the
> possible formats for the particular command. Basically anything
> enclosed in square brackets is optional - you can omit it if you
> wish. If an item is followed by ellipses (several dots) you can
> repeat it as often as you like. Items separated by the vertical
> bar (|) are alternatives - you choose one or the other of them.
> When a command talks about "options" it is essentially what DOS
> calls "switches" except you do not use the slash as the leading
> character, you use the dash instead.
>
> When you use the "man" command you are automatically placed in
> the "less" pager and can page through a command description with
> all the standard commands supported by less. The space bar pages
> forward by a full screenful, and the letter "q" exits the pager.
> Want more? Type "man less".
>
> Want to save a command description to a file? Use "redirection"
> to a filename you choose. For instance:
>
> man less > less.man
>
> The file "less.man" is your own creation and contains a plain
> text copy of the info on "less".
>
> HTH - Chuck
>
>
>
> Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> The Moon is Full
>
>
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Reinhard Stebner
 ` Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Thomas Ward
   ` Reinhard Stebner
     ` Keith Creasy
       ` Thomas Ward
         ` Reinhard Stebner
           ` Thomas Ward
           ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Reinhard Stebner
           ` Thomas Ward
             ` Reinhard Stebner
               ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Reinhard Stebner
               ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Reinhard Stebner
         ` Charles Hallenbeck
           ` Reinhard Stebner [this message]
             ` Reinhard Stebner
             ` Charles Hallenbeck
     ` Thomas Ward
       ` Jason
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Thomas Ward
             ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
         ` Reinhard Stebner
           ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Reinhard Stebner
         ` Thomas Ward
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Janina Sajka
               ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Reinhard Stebner
               ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Geoff Shang
         ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
           ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Shaun Oliver
             ` Kirk Wood
               ` Shaun Oliver
               ` Thomas Ward
             ` Thomas Ward

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