UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Perderabo and Hoghunter, Thanks. It appears that I have niether Minicom or Kall now on my computer, but I've got something to look for.
Sonshyne5

Hi,

I think you are a unix starter. You seem to miss some info. It's ok, but we might be able to help you a bit more.
Depended on what Unix/Linux version you work with applications might be on your systembox or not. Linux (especialy Red Hat) is mostly full equiped and has lots of "tools"already installed.

By typing the command (applikation) from a shell box the shell start searching internal (like commands cd, etc) and else in you PATH variable. You can see where it starts searching doing the follwoing :
echo $PATH
This will display the contents of your PATH variable, and therefor your search-path for commands. You can add commands to this using (ksh/bash/sh)
export PATH=$PATH:/new/path/to/add

For finding a command you know it's on your system just type :

find / -name <name of program> -print

The minus print option might be optional in some OS-types. In this case you will find the executables full-patch and can start it f.e. as :

/usr/local/bin/cu <number to dial>

Also adding it to the machine search path can help :

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
cu <number to dial>

Best Regs David

Your right I am new to Linux. I'm using Suse 8.1

The "find" command entered as you suggest returns an error "find: invalid predicate `-cu'"
Sonshyne5

It's
find / -name cu -print
not
find / -cu -print