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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:14:09 +0000
From:      Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3 simple bsd questions (man, ~ and moused)
Message-ID:  <00256873.005EBB85.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk>

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Hi,

** 1.  What is the man command that explains man commands, i.e. what (1),
** (2), etc. are in the manual?  I saw it somewhere, now i can't find it.

try 'man man' for help here

** 2.  What does the '~' after a filename mean?  Is this a deleted file
** that can be undeleted?  I tried man file, filename, ~, undelete, and
** whiteout.  No dice.

These are backups of files.  If you want to retore it just copy it back to
whatever it was.  You can't undelete anything.  Once it's been rm'd it's
gone permanently.

** 3.  SOmetimes when i boot up my laptop, the mouse doesn't work.  dmesg
** says /dev/psm0 not configured.  Rebooting works, but takes too
** long.  GOing to single user mode then back to multi doesn't do it.  Is
** there a simple way to configure psm0 once i am up and running?  Is
** this a bug?

Try turning Plug-n-pray off and doing a 'Reset PNP memory'/'Reset PNP
configuration' in the BIOS.  If it's a Compaq, throw it out of the Window.
That normally solves lots of problems.

**  -=> jm <=-
**
** If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does anybody
** care?

I certainly don't :-)

Hope this helps.

Chris Smith
Raytheon Systems Limited




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