Hey guys, I am running Mandrake Linux 8.2 i just wanted to enquire is there and file or folders searching tool lyk windows has one! and wanted to know the command to go back to the console mode.i tried feeding init 3 and init 5 but it says:command not found! And i also wanted to know what are ".bin" files? Thanx in advance for helping me! nishant.

dropping to command? have fun you have alot more control at the expence of alot of commans/options this drop back to command mode - do you mean full cli (ie no X running) if so do you want it to boot to cli. if yes edit /etc/inittab and near the begining you should see id:5:initdefault: change the 5 to 3 to boot to cli by default if you mean switch to cli while running you can call "init 3" but you must have "su" in a command window. another way is to press CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to full screen cli (CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to X) But why don't you just stay in X and use Xterm/Gnome-terminal and su to root for power control? To find a file at cli use at /: #find | grep FILE where FILE is the file you want for directories try this #ls -l | grep ^d | grep DIR where DIR is the name of the dir you want if you have a file and you don't know what it is (remember extensions under linux are for the convinience of the user and not a key part - although X uses it to tie icons to certain files) the command #file FILE will read the first few bytes of the file FILE and tell you what it is ELF files are linux exe files .bin files are normally binary executables or script executables - use the "file" command to find out what hope this is of help J