Hi: Well, yeah. Dos is kinda badly modeled on unix shells, so if you were once at home in dos then you will probably get on just fine in linux. Most commands are a bit different and do much more than their dos equivalents, but they'll look familiar. For example, cp instead of copy, cat instead of type, rm instead of del, ls instead of dir. You can pipe and redirect output (e.g. "ls |more" or "ls >filelist.txt"). Directories are seperated with slashes (/) not backslashes, and you don't have drive letters, just mount points. For example, I have the windows drives on the network mounted under /windows, but I could have them anywhere I wanted, really. I could go on a bit, but instead you might want to read the dos-to-linux howto or the win95 to linux howto. I've not read either, but they might be of some help in transposing certain concepts. Actually, the howtos are a great place to start, I read a lot there when I got started. You can find them at http://www.linuxdocs.org. Just be aware of how old they are and try to get the most recent one before you read it. If it's really old (like at least a year) then chances are it's quite out of date, depending on the subject, so you might want to ask around for a more up-to-date source of information. Geoff.
