
Here's a few tips you can go a long time without finding out that will
make your unix experience better the sooner you find them out.



There is lots of documentation that doesn't wind up in manpages, HOWTO's
and so on in the source packages for things. For example, the X source
distrib has about 10 meg of docs that pick up where the usual manpages
leave off. Postscript mostly. With that stuff X is documented completely,
and only with that stuff. "Use the source, Luke." doesn't necessarily mean
you have to comprehend the code itself.


On a vt100 emulator like the one you're looking at know, shift&page_up
will scroll back a ways. If you haven't switched vt's. Or is it vt102? 

You can switch which of your 6 cLIeNUX vt's is currently displayed by
hitting  ctrl&alt&f1 f2 f3 etc. to go to a specific vt, or you can hit
left_alt&right_arrow to go to the "next" one. (The former method also will
go to a vt from X, if you have X.)  

The basic use of unix piping capability every unix user should know is
piping a command to a pager, .e.g.    ls / | more     .  

lynx has file management features for files that are on the box lynx is
running on. Directory editing and calling a text editor are only a
keystroke away. e for edit, m for modify a file's location, r for 
remove (with confirmation), etc. This is why Lynx in cLIeNUX Level 2. It's
a dessert topping AND a floorwax.   

ctrl&c is usually mapped to EOT, end_of_transmission, and will kill most
runaway commands. Not dd though.

ctrl&z will put a command in the background.  fg  will bring it back. 
Type   help   at a bash prompt for this and the   jobs    builtins.

The -a switch to cp does a nice job of copying directories intact.
cp -a dir/of/goodies  otherdir


When a vt gets garbled or set to the wrong geometry, type   reset  .
If that doesn`t get it type   setfont   or     setfont default8x16
. 

Any program compiled with C has a default stdin, stdout and stderr.
That means almost anything can be piped, redirected, scripted, etc.




