Linux ss1346-laptop 2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux /home/ss1346/Desktop/scanModem.gz /home/ss1346 total 10848 -rw-r--r-- 1 ss1346 ss1346 112846 2007-02-25 16:17 2006 TaxReturn.pdf drwxr-xr-x 5 ss1346 ss1346 4096 2007-03-18 16:37 Desktop lrwxrwxrwx 1 ss1346 ss1346 26 2007-02-18 03:57 Examples -> /usr/share/example-content drwxr-xr-x 19 ss1346 ss1346 4096 2007-02-28 18:37 hplip-1.7.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 ss1346 ss1346 10883576 2007-02-27 17:36 hplip-1.7.1.run drwxr-xr-x 3 ss1346 ss1346 4096 2007-02-23 18:53 Lita Ford -rw-r--r-- 1 ss1346 ss1346 135 2007-03-18 16:43 myerror.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 ss1346 ss1346 61392 2007-02-27 18:07 output.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 ss1346 ss1346 0 2007-03-07 10:58 scanmodem drwxr-xr-x 3 ss1346 ss1346 4096 2007-03-05 11:07 websites I'm really new to linux. I have a book but it doesn't cover errors. Thank You for the help. On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 11:20 +0200, Jacques Goldberg wrote: > Steve, > > Would you please give the following commands typed EXACTLY as shown? > They will write a file named myerror.txt > Please send us the file myerror.txt > > > uname -a | tee myerror.txt > find /home/ss1346 -name scanModem.gz | tee -a myerror.txt > pwd | tee -a myerror.txt > ls -l | tee -a myerror.txt > gunzip scanModem.gz | tee -a myerror.txt > > In case you hesitate, | is usually above \ , and is broken in two parts > on most keyboards. Looks like : but bars instead of dots. > > Jacques > > Steve Spencer wrote: > > I downloaded scanmodem and this is what I get > > > > > > ss1346@ss1346-laptop:~$ gunzip scanModem.gz > > gunzip: scanModem.gz: No such file or directory > > > >
