On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: > 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.
man <command name> Or if you just have some file in man format nroff -man <filename> | less > > 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. > try latex filename.tex > Clearly I'm missing something. It can't be that hard to read a text file. > LaTeX files aren't text per se. When you run latex on it it's gonna spit out a dvi file, which you can view with the xdvi program or you can convert it to PostScript (or a number of other formats) and print it. > 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. > usermod should do it. Check the man page but I think the following will do it.. usermod -g <users primary group> -G <all of the other groups the user should be in> username l8r, Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett "Everyone is born right-handed, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] only the greatest overcome it." http://www.cse.msu.edu/~burnet26 -Slogan, Left-Handers' Club of Ireland ( ( (((In Stereo Where Available))) ) ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
