When I read the man pages, or any zip file that I have for that matter, I
use the command: 'zmore xxxx.tar.gz'. This obviously is not the right
command to view these files, in that the files have all sorts of control
characters in them.
Along the same lines, I downloaded a tar.gz file which was supposed to be in
"Latex" format. I unzipped it with 'tar zxvf filename.tar.gz' which gave me
numerous .tex files. Thinking I needed the Tetex package I downloaded and
installed this. 'tex filename.tex' however gets me the error message;
'undefined control sequence' or something like that.
Clearly I'm missing something. It can't be that hard to read a text file.
A second question is in reference to a previous problem of getting the 'pon'
command to work when logged in as user (not as root). I finally did solve
this, thanks to help from this mailing list, by:
adduser <username> dip
chown :dip ppp.chatscript
chown :dip ppp.options_out
chmod g+r ppp.chatscript
chmod g+r ppp.options_out
In the process however, I mistakenly gave the command 'adduser <username>
dialin', which added <username> to the dialin group in '/etc/group'. My
question is how do I reverse this? I don't want to delete the user, but
merely remove it from the dialin group. Possibly the 'groupmod' or
'usermod' commands? I couldn't figure out how to use these commands though.
Thanks for any help someone might have.
Dennis Dixon
P.O. Box 1896
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
(707) 964-2979
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http://www.dixonadvise.com
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