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From: Who's that on the balcony with Geoff? <count@netc.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  What the hell is goin on?
Date: 29 Sep 1995 06:39:31 GMT
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erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch) wrote:
>Problem 1:
>Where the hell is "adduser"...

/usr/sbin......

>Problem 2:
>the games there by typing its name at the prompt and pressing enter.  All
>I get once again is "Command not found" or some such BS.  Wus up with
>that???

No BS. Your current directory is not in your path (nor should it be!).
Try putting ./ in front of your command name eg. ./rogue

>Problem 3:
>For some reason everytime I tryed to install XFree86 from the CD from the

Exactly what did it say ?  Are you sure you waited long enough before ^C ?

Geoff.