From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 16:25:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA05745 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:25:12 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA05739 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:25:10 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA57368; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 17:13:45 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 17:13:44 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <01HMYSELYEBM00005A@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Feb 1995, it was written: > I downloaded FreeBSD 2.0 from FTP.CDROM.COM and installed the following: > BINDIST, PROFILES, DICT, MANPAGES > I want start to learn UNIX and I was told FreeBSD was what I needed to start. > Problem is I don't know anything about this operating system. I just know how > to do a 'CD' and a 'LS'. So my question for you is this "How do I get to the > online manpages I installed?" I don't know how to find or view them. Will they > tell me enough to understand how to use UNIX? If not is there anyone place on > INTERNET which I can get documents to help learn UNIX? Otherwise is there a > book I can purchase at a book store that you would recommend? I've got thiss > operating system and I don't even know what to do with it? Please help. > Scott Sumner, > Can you issue the command: man ls for example, to display the page for ls? If you can, then you should be able access any of the man pages. However, the man pages are not a suitable way to learn UNIX. You need a tutorial. I've got a good start on "UNIX Unleashed" by Sams Publishing 1994, ISBN 0-672-30402-3 and so far it's very good. I chose it because it has tutorials for both the user and the system administrator. I am discovering that learning UNIX is a serious undertaking and that I will need to be patient and persistant to do so. However, so far it's not difficult if I take it a little at a time. If you can't access the man pages just by issuing the man command, then your installation of them is incomplete. My recent install from CD-ROM did this for me automatically, a good thing because I wouldn't have known how to do it manually. (Maybe the readme and install files would have helped. Did you get these with the files you FTPed?) I hope someone more knowledgeable will help you if needed. Best wishes. ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada