From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 08:38:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13373 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13365 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #3) id 0zkSDt-0004Ae-00; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:14:37 +0000 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:14:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ed Suchocki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrated with bsd Message-ID: <19981130121437.B15989@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000001be1c14$904de420$f6a08318@9zt3t.ce.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000001be1c14$904de420$f6a08318@9zt3t.ce.mediaone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ed Suchocki wrote: > A person must be completely familiar with FTP and Free BSD before > attempting to download and install it. Rubbish. True, I was familiar with FTP (which is piss easy anyway) when I downloaded FreeBSD, but I'm sure you can guess that since I'd never used it before I knew nothing about FreeBSD itself. > This operating system is only good to those who already > know it! Take out the word "already" and you're probably right. What I'm saying is that you don't need to know it (or even Unix at all) when you start using it. I didn't, but I've learnt now and it's a damn good system. > If you know of any sites or books that discuss the features of FreeBSD I've heard Greg Lehey's book is good, but I don't have the book myself. (I've read through some of the plain text version on the FreeBSD CDs, and it looks fairly good, the real version would probably be a lot better.) > I'm currently using MS Explorer 4.0 and I do not see any way of starting an > ftp file transfer (no reference in help). Well that's just typical of Microsoft help systems, isn't it? Get a proper FTP program for starters, Win95 does actually have a command line program called `ftp', which someone else has explained in a bit more depth. If you'd rather use a gui one (ugh), programs like ws_ftp and FTP explorer are available. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message