talk command, 226–227 tape backups, 317–318 tar command, 318, 319–320 tar files, 194–196 Technical Stuff icon, 4 telnet , 230–233, 301 Temp directory, 97–98 Terminal program (Macintosh), 42 terminal programs, 51. See also xterm program terminal windows, 51–52, 200 terminals computer doesn’t respond, 308–309 computer won’t turn on, 305–306 dumb terminals, 10, 11–12 job control and, 209 name, 13 Pine e-mail program and, 249 in ps command output, 202, 203, 204 real-time communication, 223–227 setting terminal type, 231 telnet and, 231, 232–233 terminal output stop mode, 210 terminal-control characters, 116–117 X terminals, 12 TeX text formatter, 150, 151 text editors clobbering files, 315 commonly used programs, 150, 167 ed , 168–173, 187–188 emacs , 158–164, 210, 315 overview, 150 pico , 164–168 redirection and, 104 uses for, 150, 152 vi or view , 153–158, 210, 315 text files, 83–84, 125 text formatters, 142–145, 150. See also specific programs text-only Web browsers, 267 themes, 67–68, 71–72 three-button versus two-button mouse, 52 three-digit error messages, 341 three-digit numbers with FTP, 284 time finding, 178 in ps command output, 202, 203, 204 scheduling tasks, 178–179 Tip icon, 4 titles, printing, 140–141 Tittle, Ed (HTML For Dummies), 268 Too many links message, 340 Torvalds, Linus (Linux creator), 33, 34 Trash tool (CDE), 66 tree-structured directories, 93, 94 Tridgell, Andrew (Samba creator), 242 troff program, 142–143, 145, 150 troubleshooting. See also missing files; specific error messages calling for help, 309 common mistakes, 345–349 computer doesn’t respond, 308–309 computer won’t turn on, 305–306 emacs text editor, 161 killing processes, 209, 327–329 Motif or other X Window system, 308 mouse problems, 306 networks, 307 returning to home directory, 307 stopping processes, 326–327 turning off the computer, avoiding, 30, 348 X Window system, 308, 329–330 Turbolinux Linux distribution, 215 turning on and off. See also starting or running; stopping avoiding turning off the computer, 30, 348 computer won’t turn on, 305–306 Linux computers, 214 sounds in KDE, 68 terminals, 12 workstations, 10–11 TWM window manager, 46, 47 two-button versus three-button mouse, 52