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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Is there a manual for BL I floundered around in my hard drive installation of 
> BL but could not locate a manual, It might be staring me in the face but I 
> don't see it (purblind :-) )
>
> A list of commands available in BL along with a brief description of usage

Read about shell commands, for bash (BL3 uses something similar).
ls (or dir in BL, to help beginners)
cd
rm
etc.

cd /
ls

Will list all the available directories in the main (root) directory,
including /root which is a directory in the 'root' directory which is'not 
the directory called 'root'.

ls /cd shows what is in the directory /cd.
If you have nothing mounted at that point there will be nothing in i.


BL is based on Slackware and has a similar structure.  Other linuxes
are a bit different.  Some have rpm packages or deb packages.  Slackware 
has tgz packages.  There are tools to convert them.

You can unpack a tgz with tar -zxvf package.tgz, or just look inside
with tar -ztvf package.tgz  (put | less after that command to keep it
all from scrolling by).

Feel free to ask here too.

I searched on 'intro to slackware' and got
http://www.slackbook.org
Try also 'slackware tutorial'.

> regards
> hg


Sindi Keesan