[PLUG] Re: The command line hates me

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, John Jordan wrote:

> My main problem with the command line is that the error messages are hard
> to figure out. I assumed "must specify disk or filename" referred to the
> destination, not the source. That led me to assume that the USB disk was
> somehow not mounted, a common problem for me. (Don't get me started on
> mount problems.) It never occurred to me that it was the source that was
> missing. OK, it was late at night. :(

John,

   When you get a case of late-night indigestion from the command line, take
one 'man <command>' and see if that provides relief. Now, I don't have a
'dump' command in my shell, but I'm confident that if you have a command to
use then it is documented somewhere.

Rich

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