NETCOMMANDS FOR UNIX SHELL
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This file is written by:
John Svendsen
P.O.Box 6765
Rodelokka
0503 OSLO
NORWAY

email:johnsv@powertech.no \ Your choice :)
      john@norconnect.no  /

First I would like to thank PowerTech Information Systems AS, for their nice 
manual received with the account. This is also where I found the commands, 
and, most of them are usable on other systems too. But as I felt that there 
is a demand for a quick doc on these commands, I have taken the liberty of 
typing them in from the manual.

Okay, here we go...

First some UNIX commands for you to play with:

The prompt in UNIX looks like this, or something similar:

                                lightning:~$

And it is after the $ you are typing your commands. And: UNIX is 
case-sensitive, so LS and ls does not mean the same thing.

In most cases you can also break any program that you are running on the 
server, with ctrl-c.

For listing files: 'ls' - gives just a short listing like dir on AMiga.
                   'ls -l' - same as 'dir'
                   'dir'- gives long listing like list on Amiga.

Change directory: 'cd dirname' takes you to that directory.
                  'cd ..' takes you to previous directory.
                  'cd / ' takes you to the root directory.

Show directoryname: 'pwd' - shows the directory you are in now.

Delete Files: 'rm filename' - Deletes the file.
              'rm * ' - Deletes ALL files in that directory. (Careful!)
              'rm -Rf dirname' Deletes the directory and subdirs.
              'rd dirname' - Deletes only emty dirs.

Make a new directory: 'md dirname' - Makes a new directory.

Show a file: 'more test.txt' - Shows the selected textfile, and prompts you
                               for next screen.

             'cat test.txt' - Shows the file, but scrolls away like hell :)
             When you are using more: 'Enter' - NExt line
                                      'Space' - Next screen
                                      'q'     - Quits more

Online Help - Just type 'man ls' and you will get all info about the 
              command.

Change Password: 'passwd' - Then you type your old password, and the new
                            one twice.

Change Filename/Move Files: 'mv dill.txt dall.txt' - In this case you just
                             changed the filename.

Copy a file: 'cp dall.txt dill.txt' - Nearly the same as over, but you keep
              both files intact.

Okay, that's was the UNIX commands for shell, now we go off to the

                             INTERNET COMMANDS

  For all of these commands, all you need is Ncomm or any similar program.

For World Wide Web Use:

	Here you can use a program called lynx, which is a text-based WWW 
browser on UNIX machines. The only thing missing out from here is the 
graphics/sound, but for a quick look, this program is just fine to use.

Internet Relay Chat:

	Here you can use a program called irc, but you need to have a 
terminal program supporting VT100 (i.e.NComm). 

Screen Based Editor:

	Here you can use a program called joe. This is nearly the same as 
FSE in ABBS, and supports most of the same commands.
You can also use pico or jed.

E-Mail:

	Here you have several to choose from: elm, pine or mail.
The one I use myself is pine. Just type pine on the command line, and off
you go. Very easy to use.

NewsGroups:

	Here you can use a program named tin. Also very easy to use, with 
it's VT100 support, just use arrowkeys etc.

Filetransfer:

	Here I will suggest that you use the following commands:
	ncftp ftp.sunet.se, as this is very easy to use.

Up/Downloads:

	to download files from your homedir: sz filename.
	to upload files to your homedir:     rz filename.

And for all of this commands, you can also use 'man command' to get online 
help.

Hope this is some help for you to get you started.

If you encounter any problems, contact your account provider, ususally at 
adress like this: post@powertech.no, or you can contact me by e-mail, or in 
post on the BBS you downloaded this file from.

John Svendsen