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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:51:49 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

> You do not need mc to read a file.

_I_ don't but mc apparently does.

I was using mc to browse the system, and pressed F3 to view the file. mc
said it needed lynx.

> Does your local public library have any introductory linux books that you
> could read while waiting for yours to arrive?

Not any more. I borrowed Linux For Dummies several years ago to study.
It was good, but the CD-ROM was missing (why am I not surprised?).

Later I saw The Complete Idiot's Guide To Linux on sale at half price so
I bought it. But it is mainly concerned with a GUI version, in fact it
has only about a dozen pages or so on the commandline interface. 

But it does have the CD-ROM (naturally as I bought a shrinkwrapped copy)
which I may use one day.


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