Getting UNIX prompt ; easy questions

[David J Bell]

>< P.S.3:  To those people who continue flaming about frequent and repeated 
>< postings of elementary questions in this news group:  Short of starting
>< a comp.unix.questions.elementary, if the answer to the 

>The group comp.unix.questions was started *specifically* because there
>were a lot of questions being asked in comp.unix.wizards that weren't
>wizard-level questions - remember that new users need to learn  things,
>too, and (after we've reminded them to RTFM) there are a lot of things
>that are not obvious to an inexperienced user - even things that are in
>the manuals often need a lot of thought, especially because
><heretical statements follow>
>	some of the manual pages aren't all that well-written, and
>	sometimes you have to know where to look before you look there.

******* SOMETIMES???? *******

OFTEN the only way to find something is to have already RT<#!&*@$>FM,
and virtually MEMORIZED it... Thank the UNIX gods for online man! Now
if man were more like Hypertext...

Dave     dbell at cup.portal.com