help w/ modem

[J. Kyllo]

A brief note about locate.  I don't know about other distros but I know
that Redhat updates the loccate database once a day.  More specifically,
at 4am.  This is very annoying when you're sleeping 4 feet away from it!
It's run through cron, however, and can be changed pretty easily.  Thanks
for listening...

-Jeff K.

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Parker Thompson wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Robyn wrote:
> 
> :Thanks for the info, and the consolation (I needed that!).  I have one other
> :question (just to point out how new I am, heh) -- how do you get to minicom?
> :I keep seeing references to it, but I don't know how to start it.  On the
> :terminal, what directory is it in?
> 
> Mincom is a lot like hyperterminal in windows.  You can dial with it but
> won't be able to establish a ppp connection, so all you can do is shell
> stuff.  But it's nice for a quick setup, or to test things like your
> modem.
> 
> I'm not actually in linux and can't remember the path for it off the top
> of my head buy you should be able to type "locate minicom" from the shell
> prompt and find it.  ex:
> 
>  parkert at vger > locate minicom
> 
> locate keeps a database of all the files on your comp and should be able
> to track it down since it was probably installed when you installed linux.
> To digress for a moment from ppp, locate is really fast and great, but
> only updates itself when you tell it to, so it can tell you a file doesn't
> exist when it does.
> 
> It's a good idea to run "updatedb" once in a while to make sure that
> you're seeing a pretty accurate report of what's on your drive.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Parker
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