Walt Mankowski on Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:01:45 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] socf: questions


On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 07:20:13AM -0500, socf wrote:
> I'm linux beginner, i started touching it  about two month ago, however i
> want to just ask a few questions.
> 1) In dos, to edit some text file we use the command "edit", like "edit
> hello.txt" Is there something like "edit" in linux?

The most popular Linux editors are emacs, vi.  They almost certainly
were installed with your distribution.

> 2) How do i change my hostname?

I *think* this may depend on your distribution.  On Red Hat you use
linuxconf.

> 3) what's the command that have the same funtion as " dir /p " in linux?

ls -l | less


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