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Yeap nothing comes back. I will search a source to download it good exercise for me, thanks a lot spinynorman TheNovice

I did try as root too but no to avail. I guess that they are not installed. Any way to check that? Thanks TheNovice

I am going through the RUTE manual and I was trying the bc command (or dc after some search) but it is not working. Anyone knows why? Thanks TheNovice

Yes you are right ianw1974, I don't know what I did but I have must have done something wrong in the first place. Did you guys found the move (if any) from Windows very difficult or not, to be honest I am struggling with it, but nevertheless enjoying it as well and happy to use my brain a bit more instead of just clicking on some buttons. TheNovice

Bill thanks for your post. The rute link looks pretty good and i will study that. I found the move from XP to Linux pretty difficult to be honest. But at the same time very interesting. I was confused with the cp command because I was following a tutorial and obviously it was not working. My Correspondance and Rubbish directories are under the same directory. I guess it is like anything else by just doing over and over I will get better. JC

Thanks Paul he did work now, but I still end up with a file called rubbish in the Correspondance directory. Strange no?? JC

OK, I am just starting with Linux so please bear with me and be patient. I am going though some beginner guides and HowTo for using Linux. I have created a directory "Correspondance" and another one called "rubbish". In the correspondance one I have an OpenOffice.writer file that I want to copy to the rubbish directory using the shell. So I enter the following command: cp myletter rubbish When I go to the rubbish directory there is nothing there. And under correspondance there is now something called rubish (but it is not a directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks JC