From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 4 02:52:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11636 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 02:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA11631 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 02:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-134 [207.14.72.134]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15859; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:48:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 01:40:38 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Dejan Djukic cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jules.winnfield@cableinet.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Basics In-Reply-To: <199706040636.GAA05562@circpc5.epfl.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Dejan Djukic wrote: > > I would like to know if there is a way I could find out about all the > > commands available to me, I have looked in the manual but it seems to go > > a bit in depth at this stage. > > (Nearly) all the commands have their descriptions as "man" (manual) > pages. Just type: > > man > > and you will get all you need to know about the command . > But, you will probably NEVER know ALL the commands available. > > For the time being, a Unix manual would be much more pedagogic than > the on-line manual pages. I cannot tell which one exactly, there are > plenty, perhaps one of the O'Reilly Editions manuals from "Nutshell" > series. Since you have your own Unix, you will need to do some > system administration, and you may also need a manual on Unix system > administration. > > > I would like to find out about the basic UNIX commands and how to use > > them for my needs. One inparticular problem I have is mounting my DOS > > partitions and reading from them in FreeBSD, I have a program I'd like > > to transfer onto my FreeBSD partition from my DOS partition. and don't forget the internet. there is plenty of info out there in all levels of experitise, from DOS user to stuff that scares me to look at :) -------------------------------------------------------------------- E0BD7BD2 625FC4D0 2ED52811 B1A18A42 http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x --------------------------------------------------------------------