How do a run a program via command line

yeah i'm like the ultra-loser-notsmart guy, so if i wanted to check out Xf86config, how would i open it? like what is the command? i'm running redhat 9.0

Check out? You mean, look at it?

Try

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I am not sure I understand your question.

i need to install x windows, but everytime i type in startx or xinit it gives me a whole load of error messages like "no screens found"

so to solve this i want to poke around and run the config file and stuff. if i type in view it'll give me the textcode in hexidecimal or something.

Er, no. 'view' is like vi, only you can't write to the file.

Did you ever set up X? If you did, it should work -- including the 'screen', which equates to the starting resolution, device, etc.

Judging from the thread subject, I think he's asking how to run the program XF86Config. Which would be just to type 'XF86Config'.

Remember that Linux / *nix commands are case sensitive.

i tried just typing in 'XF86Config' and it kept giving me error messages. so now i'm reinstalling linux with package "Everything."

[edit] i'm doing it right now. so i dont know if it'll fix it yet. we'll see