Linux's Witness Ministry The Personal Web Pages of Chris X. Edwards Listing of Chris' Linux Notes

Here are some of Chris' Linux notes.

Apologies in advance. These notes aren't formatted too well. Also, most of these notes were written a long time ago. A lot can change... YMMV.

ansicode.cxe - How to deal with keyboard mappings and information on how to reassign keys in DR-DOS

backuphelp.cxe - Helpful notes on making back-ups.

bashhelp.cxe - Notes on the bash shell. Includes what all the start up files do. It also contains a complete copy of my ~/.bash_profile file and ~/.bashrc file.

cdromhelp.cxe - How to deal with cd roms - mounting and other easy stuff

customizehelp.cxe - How to customize various little details in the Linux environ. Mostly focuses on stuff that I like to have the way I like to have it in the bash start up and window managers. Also covers the xdm login screen.

cxerox - This file is actually a very well documented one line bash program that turns your scanner/printer into a copy machine.

datehelp.cxe - How to deal with the time and date.

drivehelp.cxe - Info on mounting various drives etc.

emacshelp.cxe - My personal notes about emacs. Mostly command shortcuts.

fdiskhelp.cxe - Pretty much a printout of what the commands are.

floppyhelp.cxe - Everything I've ever had to do with a floppy, msdos, ext, and direct block transfers.

ftphelp.cxe - A list of the ftp commands and some notes on ftp.

graphicfilehelp.cxe - A list of the various grapic file formats and some information about each of them.

kernelhelp.cxe - How to recompile the kernel.

keyboardhelp.cxe - How to remap and deal with the keyboard.

linkhelp.cxe - How to make symbolic links for files, directories, and devices. I keep forgetting!

minicom.cxe - How to use minicom in various unpleasant situations, like over a telnet, and other fun aspects of this fine program.

modemhelp.cxe - Brief note that talks about the escape code problem and what to do about it.

mounthelp.cxe - Some notes about drives etc. Includes floppys, and NFS.

newshelp.cxe - Some notes about using trn to deal with news and some news group notes I may have.

nfshelp.cxe - Some details about how to make NFS happy.

rpmhelp.cxe - This used to be the entire Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) list of rpm packages with descriptions. But that was long and clumsy. Now I just have notes on how to use rpm to get whatever information you want out of your archives.

printhelp.cxe - Some notes on the painful and frightening task of setting up your own printer management, especially over a LAN.

remoteX.cxe - A little note on how to run X Windows over a telnet session and how to get a clock up.

sambahelp.cxe - Notes and info about SAMBA and what worked for me.

scanhelp.cxe - Very good notes on a very explicit scanner hardware solution.

tarhelp.cxe - How to use the tar command for ordinary purposes.

thumbhelp.cxe - How to create thumbnail galleries of many photos.

timehelp.cxe - It's the same as datehelp.cxe. Aren't symbolic links great?

trnhelp.cxe - Same as newshelp.cxe

vihelp.cxe - Notes on using the mighty vi (vim actually).

ziphelp.cxe - Info on making an internal ide zip drive happy.

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Chris X. Edwards ~ October 1999