>Folks,
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>I am certain this question has been asked thousands of times, but I am a long-time Win/Fox hack who is trying to become proficient in Linux. Where do I find all of those FAQs that I'm sure have already been written, like "How do I Print?" "Why is Emacs so hard?" and so forth. Anybody point me in the right direction?
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>FWIW, I've successfully installed Win2 Server and Linux on a Laptop. I can boot to one or the other. I want to build up my basic skills in text mode, from editing text files, moving, copying, printing.
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>From there I'll try to get KDE going, but that could be (days/weeks/months/years)!
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>As always, TIA...

There is a standard source of Linux info: The Linux Documentation Project, http://www.linuxdoc.org

Assoicated with it are the Linux "HowTo's":
http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto


There is also the Linux "man" pages. "Man" is short for "Manual".
For most Linux commands and many apps you can issue "Man ". The is an XMan application for use under Xwindows. It is a lot easier to browse when you don't quite remember the name of the command or app, but have an "Approps", i.e., approximate idea.

Man is usually installed by default. SuSE has all of LDP and HowTO's on their CD set, and they can be installed as needed. That's probably true of other distros too.

If you are in the console mode, or an xterm, you can issue 'mc' to call the "Midnite Commander" clone. It also has edit modes for text files, will pop open tars and let you extract one or all files. I use mc to read the 'readme.txt' or the 'install.txt' in a tar before I actally untar it. I also use mc to edit my config files for times when I do things manually, which isn't very ofter any more, because I usually run KDE as both user and root.

Emacs is a pain in the nect and vi is command line driven. Unless you use them a lot their command sequences tend to remain foggy and they are, IMO, more trouble than they are worth. I tend to say away fromm them because I generally don't use command line for anything more than the "locate " command or to get mc going.

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