From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 11:52:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02172 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02092 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.119.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/08/04 5.11)) id OAA05660; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:51:51 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from default (ts001d04.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.16]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.8.8) id OAA26878; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:51:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3619168B.4CFB@concentric.net> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 12:57:15 -0600 From: ML Duke Reply-To: mlduke@concentric.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CHARL CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First documentation References: <199810050745.JAA06210@wcpes.x-link.ml.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > what command to type in to shut me PC down. Haden't thought of that upon seeing the original message. sync; sync; sync; shutdown -r now came as a revelation. cat filename | more to read a file helped a great deal and ls -x* where x is any letter helped as well. also ls | more so as to not miss a file in a large directory. Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message