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All you Unix/Terminal experts, take a lesson!
Authored by: jiclark on Jan 11, '04 03:29:19PM

If everyone would try to be just a little more explicit with the directions in their comments, as nvdingo added, we newbies and wannabes would be so much better off!

I can't tell you how many times I've wished there was just a little more of an explanation of some terminal command that somebody recommended trying. I realize that it's just second -nature to most of you, but to the rest of us it's a whole new language. A bit of translation would go a *long* ways towards making this site so much better than it already is!!!

Hope I'm not being over-the-top about this. Thanks again, nvdingo, for taking the time to help out those of us less knowledgable about shell command syntax!!

John-o



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Anyone asking for someone elses time, take a lesson!
Authored by: drc on Jan 11, '04 11:38:14PM

I suggest the following. The mind of those "experts" is nicely explored at the following webpage:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

For more information try running the " man " command before any cammand i.e. " ps " that you want to know what is does.
Good luck and always read the manual



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