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HELP WITH YOUR ACCOUNT

To get the most out of your Linux shell account you should learn how to use the man pages, an editor such as pico, pine for E-mailing and lynx the world wide web browser included in Linux.

What are man pages you ask? Man pages are the Linux help pages to find how to use a particular command type man followed by the command. (i.e. man pine) To see more of the help pages scroll using your arrow keys. Press q to quit the main page.

Once you have mastered the help pages you will need to master a editor such as pico, which is the editor used in pine, quite easy to use, and has a lot of standard features such as cutting and pasting. To use pico you type pico myfile, myfile being the name of the file you want to look at. Use pico's built in help feature type ctrl g. which will list the standard commands of this editor.

To use pine you just type pine and you will be able to check and send E-mail to other people. Pine unlike mail has its own editor and is a lot easier to use, so we will not discuss mail here (for information on mail type: man mail.) Pine is menu driven which means to use pine just look at the screen and move the bar where you want to do what you want to do.

Lynx is the world wide web browser common on most Unix systems and has been ported to work with Linux. To use lynx to access the local homepage, type lynx and press enter your current screen will disappear and be replaced by the browser to move around your current screen use the up and down arrow keys.

To use the links in lynx move your cursor in front of the highlighted link and press enter. Your current document will be replaced by another document. To go to a web page without using the links press g for go, then enter the pages address usually something like: http://www.example.com.

To properly use the web you need a search engine to help you find information. A popular one is yahoo. To get to yahoo in your browser press g and type http://www.yahoo.ca and then press enter. Follow the information on screen at the site remember to use a link or to type in text your cursor has to be in front of the highlighted item.

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