Re: linux command question

I remember my first time at an AS/400 terminal. a friend ran a (vocational and technical) school, and he had one of the first AS/400 to teach with in South Florida (outside IBM I guess).

He was busy, told me go ahead and get on and "play" with it, and gave me a manual. I had experience with the S/36. The AS/400 was powered off. The manual page on IPL was full of stuff about those front panel codes, booting with A or B, and other stuff. But nothing clear on what happens when you power up.

Sure, but what happens, what's on the Sign-On screen, all that?? Any caveats? Finally he came over from the other room, and he told me just press the Power button.

Alan


On 7/1/18 11:47 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:

Jim, I appreciate your concern for the emotional context.

I did answer Tim's question fully, and was happy to parade my expertise :)

And I smiley'd the RTFM.

Tim thanked me offline.

I gave him the classic Unix sysadmin's answer, the one I was given, lo,
these 35 years ago.

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, teach a user to man :)

The man pages are thick, but so are the IBM i docs.

If one uses the system, one learns to read them.

"If I don't help myself, who will help me? And if not now, when?" asks the
Talmud.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:
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RTFM ... 'man find' :)
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