[wplug] ISPs, floppy, shebang and man questions

[Amy D]

Hi all.
I really appreciate all the help you're giving me. Each answered question, 
unfortunately, seems to lead to more. five follow.
Amy

1.) Thanks, Lance. I went in to try it again and it seemed to work. The 
first time I wasn't logged in as root. I'm assuming that was the problem?

>What is the filename?  Do the ls -la and paste the output into your reply.

--
Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>

2.) So now that the file has been enabled to run (I have no idea how you 
actually say this) and still doesn't, the first thing I want to check is the 
shebang line. The sample cgi file that James created for me had #!/bin/bash, 
so I'm figuring #!bin/perl ? I've tried several variants on that - 
#!/usr/bin/perl, #!/usr/local/bin/perl, but please don't hesitate to tell me 
that one of those should have worked. I've been changing other things too, 
and think I've been trying al possible combinations, but could have easily 
missed one.

3.) I don't yet have internet access from the linux side of my computer. I'm 
doing some searches to see which ISPs will work with Linux, but I wonder if 
any of you would be willing to share which ones you use (assuming it's 
something I can buy as an individual, and in fact one using a dial-up 
modem.) and what you like/don't like about them. Also cost. Brian has 
already told me some good things about telerama, including the static IP 
address it offers.

4.) Until I get that together, though, and as long as you guys are offering 
all this <gush>wonderful generous</gush> help, I might want to copy 
something into an email for feedback (as Lance had suggested earlier). With 
the setup I have now, I don't see any way of doing that but copying the 
stuff onto a floppy in linux and then grabbing it from windows. So here's a 
question I was really weirded out by the realization that I had to ask it.. 
Where is the floppy on the linux file system? I'm reading about the cp 
command, but don't know how to tell linux where to put the copy... It would 
also be good to know how to do this from the graphic interface, but to be 
able to do it from *somewhere* at this point would make my day.

5.) I tried the command "man vi" in the hope of learning some of the 
keystroke comands for vi, but what I got looks like the man page for an 
editor called vim. help?

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