On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Merideth Johnston wrote:

> I have to tell you, it felt like I'd fallen down the rabbit hole with
> Alice.

That's the whole fun! :) It's that moment of pure exploration that I love
best.

> Could somebody tell me what to do once I AM installed?

I'm just guessing, but it sounds like you are relatively new to Unix in
general, yes? Please don't be insulted if I'm mistaken. A good book to get
started with is *Unix for the Impatient* by Abrahams and Larson, published
by Addison Wesley. It's a good solid introduction, goal-oriented and
clearly written. There must also be an O'Reilly-published intro to Unix;
having never seen it, I can assure you that it is quite good. All O'Reilly
books are.

www.bookpool.com has good service and prices.

> ps - if anybody could tell me in general terms how to make a menu that
> will come up at startup, so I can associate descriptive items with
> commands rather than memorize coded giberish like crazy (something I
> never have done well) I'd appreciate that, too.  It will be my first
> project with this beast.  8-)

That's a great first project, and one that resources like the books
mentioned above are designed to help you with. The obvious way (to me) to
implement it would be as a shell script.


Hth,
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