HELP WINDOWS XP

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:45 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote:

> I don't know if this will help me,  let alone anyone else, but I have 
> spent a couple hours and plan to spend more using Tom Boy notes.  I am 
> making notes of comands etc with very short memory joggers written 
> behind them.  I hope I can quickly refer to them when need be.  I find 
> it nearly impossible to remember them especially when I need them. The 
> big thing will be finding what I need among them. If you can't remember 
> the comand aphabetical order is not much help.  I'm thinking basic stuff 
> to start with to keep the list short, if it'd too long it's worthless.   
> Makeing the notes is helping me to remember. Maybe I would do well to 
> delete them several times and rewrite,my memory is pathetic :-)

Good idea.  When I am looking for a command I cannot remember I do
keyword searches of the manual pages with "apropos".

I also use the command completion in the shell to jog my memory. Try
typing an "a" followed by a tab character with no carriage return in the
shell sometime.  The Help system also has some basic stuff in it as well
about using the command line.  System->Help and Support.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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