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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> 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
Thanks Sindi. I tried some of those shell commands and I am beginning to 
even remember some of them .  Almost back to DOS   :-)

I looked at one listing of shell commands. There are seven pages of 
them, closely typed yet. I will be learning those for the rest of my 
life. Thank goodness, I am not getting ready to apply for a job :-)

Regards
hg