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Copying the man pages to the floppy is no problem , but reading
the files from a windows pc is nearly impossible because hundreds of special characters are included in the output when I try to read...

Lynx shows webpages in a text only environment, so you don't see any graphics while surfing with Lynx.

I haven't used lynx in about 2 years so if i'm wrong just shoot me.

Checked the man pages and found some good stuff. Much better.

find / -name t* -name *.doc -print

Don't actually need to specify the
-print option. Assuming it is the default.At least on my...

Greetings all,

I couldn't figure out a way to find a filename that matches 2 wildcards using one command, so this works but there must be a better way. Hopefully someone will post it.

Anyway...

My basic Unix book does not include much info about the awk and sed commands, but i see now how they may be useful. Thanks for the replies.

As far as the Perl tute goes, you can find it by doing...

I have recently read in a Perl tutorial, that Perl can do anything that awk and/or sed can do and more. In fact it goes on to say that Perl was originally written by a systems admin who felt that he...

Yes, there is sound on Mandrake.
Can't help you much on configuring your soundcard though.

If you are using KDE, you can use HardDrake click on hardware then sound. It will try to configure...

Thanks, moving into the /mnt directory and working from there helped alot.

One strange thing though, the Linux book that i am reading specifically says to use
[cp file /dev/fd0 ] to copy a...

I mount the floppy with command:

mount /mnt/floppy

To see whats on the floppy i use:

cat /dev/fd0

It is mounted. I can copy a single file to the floppy, but can not copy multlple files to it.

Hello all.

I want to copy multiple files to a floppy. My distr. version is Mandrake 8.0.

If i use [ cp file /dev/fd0 ] , all is ok and the file is copied to disk

If i use
[ cp file1...