sinope
that was BRILLIANT it worked a treat, thanks to every bodys input for now im sorted
thanks nige

ok now i can see these programmes and files how do i access them i thought i could just
"cd " this is the list i get
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C # find . -iname nigel
./Documents and Settings/nigel stanley/Desktop/nigel
i want to access the folder above caled "nigel" i tried
" cd ./Documents and Settings/nigel stanley/Desktop/nigel"
it returned the error
"x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C # cd ./Documents and Settings/nigel stanley/Desktop/nigel
bash: cd: ./Documents: No such file or directory
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C #"
any more help going please

Because the path has spaces you will need to surround the path in quotes or escape the spaces with backslashes. If you use tab completion then bash will escape things for you.

hello david do you think it would be possible to give me a written example please

Either:
cd "./Documents and Settings/nigel stanley/Desktop/nigel"

or:
cd ./Documents\ and\ Settings/nigel\ stanley/Desktop/nigel

oh think iv done it this is my example i wanted to find a programme called "limewire" so 1st i went to where windows was located
"cd /mnt/windows
i then typed "ls" this brought up a list of that directory
i noticed in this list some thing called windows so i type
"cd windows"
then i typed
"find . -iname limewire"
it found this programme
"./Program Files/LimeWire"
because there is a space after the word programme i put in a backslash so it now looks like this
"./Program\ Files/LimeWire"
i then use the cd command
"cd ./Program\ Files/LimeWire"
im now where i want to be for now thanks folks

hello david can you tell me what you mean by "tab completion" i dont understand and thanks for your example

Just start typing a command or path then press tab to complete it without typing the whole thing.

ok cheers
my next task is this iv gone in to my windows directory iv then gone to a folder called "nigelslinux" which contains a zip file called"masternige1.zip" iv typed
"unzip masternige1.zip" that has now created a pdf file can you tell me how to read it please just to show you this is what i have done
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C # find . -iname nigelslinux
./windows/Desktop/nigelslinux
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C # cd ./windows/Desktop/nigelslinux
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/windows/Desktop/nigelslinux # ls
. .. 117-101.pdf masternige1.zip masternige2.zip
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/windows/Desktop/nigelslinux # unzip masternige2.zip
Archive: masternige2.zip
inflating: 117-102.pdf
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/windows/Desktop/nigelslinux # ls
. .. 117-101.pdf 117-102.pdf masternige1.zip masternige2.zip
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/windows/Desktop/nigelslinux #
thanks for your help
nige

If you have an xserver then you can use xpdf, ggv or acrobat reader. If you need to read it on the cli then pdftotext can extract the text for you.

hello what i did was type "pdftotext 117-101.pdf"
the error message i got was"this document is not allowed"
this was my complete path
masternige@x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/unzipped/masternige1> pdftotext 117-101.pdf
Error: Copying of text from this document is not allowed.
masternige@x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/unzipped/masternige1>
any more help please

hello to resolve this problem i typed "acroread 117-101.pdf"
that command opend acrobat reader and i was away thanks again for your help

oh i would still like to know why i got the error regarding "pdftotext" thanks

hello again i have a couple of pdf files i want to look at the command i am using is "acroread 117-201.pdf"
the error message im getting is
"Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)
Error: Can't open display: :0.0"
can any body put me right on this please

hello iv allso used the command "pdftotext 117-201.pdf"
the error message i get from that is
"x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/Documents and Settings/carms/Desktop/nigelslinux # pdftotext 117-101.pdf
Error: Copying of text from this document is not allowed.
x1-6-00-10-dc-a7-f1-8f:/windows/C/Documents and Settings/carms/Desktop/nigelslinux #
any way im stuck now thanks for any replies